The four words that brought back the ultimate debate.

Turkey and Germany 2010.

Two races.
Two contrasting stories.

Turkey 2010
Sebastian Vettel and Mark Webber collide.
Forcing the debate. Should inter team racing be allowed?


Germany 2010
Felipe Massa is told.
"Fernando is faster then you. Can you confirm you understood this message?"

Two corners later Felipe Massa, lets through Fernando Alonso to win the race.
Forcing the debate. Should team orders be allowed?

We know after these races. Things changed.
Team orders were allowed in 2011 and several teams have gone on the record to say that their drivers will be allowed to race each other.

What the media don't report is what happened with fans after both races.
With the Turkey race. War broke out between Vettel fans, Webber fans and Red Bull fans. Vettel fans were saying it was Mark's fault. Webber fans were saying it was Vettel's fault and Red Bull fans were spilt into two camps. The Red Bull fans who wanted to see the drivers race each other and fight to the death (Not literally of course) and the other Red Bull fans who thought that team inter racing each other was pointless because it brought nothing to the team.

After the German race. What annoyed fans so much was not use of team orders. It was the blatancy of them.
The whole world could de-code that message.
There was no ambiguity about it.
It took the racing out Formula One and the politics back into it.

So here lies my point.

"Mark, maintain the gap""


Those four little words

Brought the Turkish race and German race debates back to the fore.
Even though ow team orders are legal.
Red Bull didn't do anything wrong.

It's the still moral of those four little words.
It's aftermath of those four words.

It's brought back the Vettel vs Webber debate.
In the past few days I have seen some extreme slanging matches between the fans. To the point where it is not about the F1 anymore. It is about being personal.

It's brought back the inter team racing vs protect the team debate.
Do you let drivers race against each other? Or do you protect the team and the points?

And it's also brought back the blantacy of the team orders.
Do we as fans. Want to know that drivers can't race each other? Do we need to hear the radio transmissions that confirm it.

If that radio message to Mark was never played. It would make us has fans oblivious and therefore we could make our own judgements as to whether Mark and Sebastian were really racing.
But do we want to be naive and not know what's being said.

I understand why the teams do what do but as a fan it starts to take the fun out of racing.

I am again sat back on the fence.

Watching the shit hit the fan.

And fans beat the shit out of each other.