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'Vettel deliberately ignored team orders'
Christian Horner says Sebastian Vettel deliberately put his own agenda ahead of the team's as he overtook Mark Webber for the Malaysian GP win.
Running first and second after the final pitstops, it was Webber's race to win and Red Bull were perfectly content with the Aussie doing just that. So much so that team issues were ordered for the drivers to hold station.
Vettel, though, didn't.
With ten laps to go, the reigning World Champ attacked Webber with the duo almost touching as Vettel grabbed the lead from his team-mate.
Asked why Red Bull did not order Vettel to give the position back to Webber, Horner told Autosport: "Do you honestly think that if we had told him 'slow down and...
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