MORE RED BULL RUMOURS...

Following his win in the Monaco Grand Prix Mark Webber, and his Red Bull team, were faced with speculation that the Australian driver was backing up the rest of the pack on purpose to help fellow Red Bull driver Sebastian Vettel. It was said that this was done during the period of the race when Sebastian was leading; his alternative tyre strategy meant that he could stay out longer on his first set of tyres when everyone else pitted. Such conspiracy theories are commonplace in Formula 1 and accusations of team orders are always rife. However, Mark Webber has since spoken about these claims in his column on the BBC Sport website. Here's what he had to say on the matter:

"That is absolute rubbish. You just cannot be that fancy around Monaco."

Well that should answer any doubts anyone may have had over Red Bull's strategy. He went on to say, and I'm paraphrasing, that there'd be no point to risk playing these games in Monaco as you put yourself under more pressure from the guys behind you and the mechanics could always "mess up Seb's stop". 

I think both of the Red Bull drivers, and indeed the team, deserve credit for their achievements in Monaco. Webber won, which is always special, and Vettel followed up a poor Qualifying with a nice batch of points. So, can we please stop with the accusations and conspiracy theories that always seem to surround this team whenever they do well? The answer is probably not! I'm sure we'll keep hearing more of them during the season.

Despite these claims the team still lead the Constructors' so they're definitely doing a good job; after all, they're the only team to have won twice so far in 2012!

Aqsa