Red Bull teammates Sebastian Vettel and Mark Webber are set to go to war again in the Chinese Grand Prix.
Sebastian Vettel says he won't apologise for winning.
Sebastian Vettel says he would defy team orders and overtake Mark Webber again if he gets the chance. Picture: Mark Thompson Source: Getty Images
SEBASTIAN Vettel has admitted his decision to defy team orders and overtake Mark Webber to win the Malaysian Grand Prix was motivated by revenge.
His astonishing comments came before he was outpaced by Webber in the first practice session today ahead of Sunday's Chinese Grand Prix in Shanghai.
In the interview, Vettel said his decision to snatch the victory from Webber in Malaysia amounted to payback.
Vettel said: "Being completely honest, I've never had support from his side. There has been more than one occasion when he could have helped the team, but didn't."
Vettel claimed he had not understood the order to hold behind Webber in the closing stages at Sepang.
But the three-time world champion effectively retracted the apology he issued to Webber three weeks ago, insisting that the Australian driver had been guilty of the same crime on a number of occasions.
"After all that has happened the past few years, Mark didn't deserve to win," Vettel said.
Asked if his actions had been payback for Webber harrying him in the British Grand Prix two years ago - despite being ordered not to by his team - and for tussling with him in last year's Brazilian Grand Prix as he strove to prevent Ferrari's Fernando Alonso taking the title, Vettel replied: "You could say it, indirectly."
"I got a call on the radio, which I heard, but I didn't understand it. I should have understood, which is why I apologised to the team because I put myself above the team."
Pushed on whether he would take the same ruthless action in the future, Vettel said there was every chance he would.
"It might be different, but I would probably do the same," he said.
John Watson, who drove for McLaren between 1979 and 1985, criticised Vettel's U-turn, saying: "It's as though Bambi has turned into a werewolf."
Webber outpaces Vettel in practice
Meanwhile, Webber has outpaced Vettel during a Mercedes-dominated opening practice session for the Chinese GP.
Mercedes pair Nico Rosberg and Lewis Hamilton set the fastest times in practice one today, ahead of Webber in third and Vettel in fourth.
Rosberg, who won in China last year for his sole F1 victory, set a time of 1 minute 36.717 seconds around the Shanghai International Circuit, putting him almost half a second ahead of teammate Hamilton, who is the only two-time winner of this grand prix.
Ferrari's Fernando Alonso and Felipe Massa were fifth and seventh, separated by the McLaren of Jenson Button.
Button's teammate Sergio Perez was the only notable casualty of the session, failing to negotiate the sharp left turn entering the road to pitlane and going nose first into a tyre wall.
He ended up in the same gravel trap that famously ended the championship challenge of his McLaren predecessor Hamilton in 2007.
Force India pair Adrian Sutil and Paul di Resta were eighth and 10th fastest respectively, with Lotus' Romain Grosjean between them. Lotus' Kimi Raikkonen, who won the season-opening Australian GP, was 11th.
The session was held in clear but cool conditions, with no rain forecast for the race weekend.
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