Red Bull's Horner wants no regrets from 2012 season run-in

Red Bull boss Christian Horner says all he needs from his outfit within the final 3 races is not any regrets that it may have done a higher job.

With Sebastian Vettel and his team chasing a hat-trick of drivers' and constructors' titles, the squad is set to not ease off in its efforts that have already resulted in four straight victories.

Horner has reiterated that his team is maintaining its approach of addressing one race at a time, as he aforesaid things were too finely poised for the outfit to rule out being forced to require the fight to the season finale in Brazil.

"I assume it's therefore tough to predict that sort of factor," he said, once asked regarding his want to avoid the title battle being determined in a very potential lottery in Brazil.

"I would have likable it bound up at Silverstone, however the probabilities of that area unit zero. you've got simply ought to take every weekend as they are available.

"I assume it might are tough to create by mental act that we'd be coming back to national capital thirteen points earlier than Fernando once the summer break, once Sebastian was trailing by regarding forty points.

"So the very fact that we've worked exhausting to urge ourselves into this position is nice. it's currently the simplest of 3 effectively, we have a tendency to|and that we} ought to check that that we do not recollect once 3 races and say that we did not provides it our best possible. that's what we are going to be planning to do."

The form of the RB8 has left Red Bull as clear favourites for finish in national capital, however Horner insists that things area unit a lot of nearer heading in the right direction that the team's rivals claim.

"There is not any space for self-satisfaction at intervals the team, and there's not one individual World Health Organization are going to be thinking therein manner," he said. "We have seen F1 circumstances modification quickly this year and kind between cars, groups and drivers swings quickly.

"We area unit determined to urge the foremost we will out of this weekend however going into this weekend there's no necessity that this is often progressing to suit our automotive.

"Our determination is to undertake and check that we have a tendency to do everything we will. however that compares we are going to see on Sunday afternoon."

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Indian GP: Mark Webber expecting closer fight in race

Mark Webber believes the Indian Grand Prix are going to be nearer than qualifying was when his Red Bull team sweptback to its third consecutive front-row opposition.

The Australian can line up aboard place man Sebastian Vettel.

Webber, World Health Organization admitted he was stunned to be second on the grid having not been able to place a clean flying lap along in Q3, aforementioned afterward that whereas the team features a dominant advantage in qualifying trim he expects that to be cut back within the race.

"I suppose we tend to square measure pretty smart on Saturdays and we've shown that within the previous couple of events currently, and Sundays," aforementioned Webber.

"But tomorrow can be a decent race, i feel it's attending to be tighter between all folks, however I still suppose that we should always have enough."

Webber created an error on his 1st flying lap, however that also proven to be adequate for second, whereas his next try was ruined once he got caught behind the 2 McLarens on his out-lap.

The two groups had totally different approaches to tyre preparation on their out-laps and Webber found that he wasn't able to get enough heat into his Pirellis so as to possess enough grip for the beginning of his second flying lap.

"It wasn't the smoothest session on behalf of me," he said. "The lap wasn't regrettable, however I got on the Astroturf to a small degree on the last corner thus of course I did not have the cleanest run to the beginning finishing line. That was dissatisfactory, however i'm driving automotive. I did my best, it absolutely was shut.

"It was clearly a fairly tight run factor between staphylococcal enterotoxin B and that i did not get to try to to my last try.

"Obviously the McLarens were doing terribly slow out-laps to induce their tyres prepared for the lap - that is totally different to United States of America – and that i had no grip within the 1st sector attributable to the build-up lap, thus I did not get to try to to my second try which might are nice. however anyway i used to be stunned to finish up second and that i can take that."

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Indian GP: Sebastian Vettel insists victory not guaranteed

Sebastian Vettel insists he has not achieved something nevertheless throughout the Indian Grand Prix weekend, insistence it's still all to play for despite securing another position.

The Red Bull driver secured his fifth pole of the 2012 season to line himself up absolutely to get a fourth consecutive conclusion following those in Singapore, Japan and peninsula.

Championship rival Fernando Alonso qualified down in fifth position, boosting Vettel's possibilities of accelerating his gap within the standings on Sunday.

"Tomorrow is that the race. nowadays is qualifying," same a cautious Vettel. "There aren't any points scored nowadays. It's higher to possess him behind than before.

"Tomorrow goes to be a protracted race and what variety of race it's, we tend to ar getting to decide. that's why we tend to ar wanting forward to the race. i'm happy to be within the position we tend to ar however we tend to go from there tomorrow."

Vettel took pole once having to abort his 1st run in Q3 following a slip-up underneath braking at flip four.

His next run, however, was adequate to beat team-mate Mark Webber.

"I had to abort the lap and specialize in the second try, that was fine," Vettel supplementary. "I was happy, braking to a small degree early for flip four. bushed all a awfully sensible session for USA, the automobile was fantastic.

"The support we tend to had from Milton John Maynard Keynes and also the plant was unimaginable and an enormous many thanks to the blokes there. we tend to took another success.

Today could be a sensible result for USA, however tomorrow is that the main exercise. The McLarens were terribly fast on long runs and also the Ferrari strategy may be a surprise, therefore we are going to see what happens."

Vettel reiterated that he wouldn't look into wherever Alonso is and instead simply specialize in his own race.

"We got to specialize in the beginning tomorrow and specialize in ourselves. What the others do we tend to cannot influence.

"Fernando might are a second faster nowadays than anyone and there's nothing we tend to might have done aside from mind our business and obtain the quickest lap we will.

"It could be a long race tomorrow, there ar plenty of things which will happen. If we tend to ar ahead it's higher than being behind."

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Indian GP: Alonso says he is 'fighting Newey', not just Vettel

Fernando Alonso believes he's having to subsume the genius of Red Bull's chief technical officer Adrian Newey even as very much like he's the brilliance of Sebastian Vettel.

While Red Bull sealed its third straight front-row opposition in qualifying for the Indian auto race - at that Vettel is additionally chasing a fourth consecutive triumph - Alonso may solely manage fifth.

Alonso reckons Red Bull's recent run, throughout which era Vettel has turned a 42-point deficit to the European into a six-point lead, owes the maximum amount to Newey because it will to Vettel.

"At the instant we tend to don't seem to be fighting against Sebastian solely," Alonso same following qualifying. "We are fighting against Newey parenthetically - [the team] has finished initial or second within the last four races.

"It isn't very easy to fight, particularly on Sabbatum, however on Sunday we tend to area unit usually a lot of competitive.

"Tomorrow we want to overtake McLaren as presently as doable and place pressure on Red Bull to attend for a bit mistake, a pit stop drawback, responsibleness or one thing.

"If they [Red Bull] will begin, escape and have a simple race, that is the worst news for United States of America."

Despite Alonso facing the prospect of surrendering nonetheless a lot of ground to Vettel within the 2012 title fight, he insisted he wasn't discouraged by his third row grid slot.

"I suppose its our traditional position behind Red Bull and McLaren," he said. "I am not involved nor demotivated, as a result of i do know that things will modification terribly quickly which elation on Sabbatum will simply address unhappiness on Sunday.

"Even if it's unsatisfactory i feel its our traditional position and at the tip of the day we've got to [make] it - Force Asian nation and Kimi were quite quick thus you'll find yourself eighth or ninth terribly quickly.

"Fifth is our position and a decent begin position for tomorrow."

Team-mate Felipe Massa, WHO starts directly aboard Alonso in sixth, echoed the Spaniard's thoughts.

"I suppose thus," he replied once asked if sixth was truthful. "Red Bull showed they're terribly robust, McLaren area unit to a small degree faster than United States of America then we tend to area unit there behind them.

"I hope the automotive is stronger within the race than in qualifying thus we are able to fight with guys before.

"I lost few tenths on my lap, however do not suppose it'd modification plenty."(dm/)

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