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Webber: Fastest guy won the German GP

Thursday 29-July-2010 17:49

Mark Webber says he complete understands Ferrari's decision to allow Fernando Alonso to win the German GP, saying the "fastest guy" won.

Ferrari caused controversy last Sunday when Massa was ordered to move aside, allowing Alonso to take the victory and the extra seven World Championship points.

However, as team orders are banned in F1, the Scuderia were slapped with a $100,000 fine by the stewards and will now face the World Motor Sport Council.

Webber, though, reckons Massa had his chance but couldn't pull it off.

"They gave Felipe a good opportunity to win the grand prix as well," Webber told Autosport.

"They gave him the chance to win the race up to the point where he couldn't pull away from Fernando. Obviously they had a decision in the team where the fastest guy in the team wins the race. The fastest guy on that day won the race.

"I still believe (Massa) has a chance to win this race here (in Hungary) - a real chance to win. If he is fast enough to disappear, he will win the race. That was the opportunity he also had at Hockenheim.

"His first stint at Hockenheim was incredible, a very good first stint. The second stint obviously just wasn't quite fast enough to avoid the positions being moved around because they wanted the faster guy to win the grand prix."

As for team orders, the Aussie reckons as long as there is more than one car per team there will always be team orders.

"Very, very, very difficult to control team orders. They've been happening for 40 years in the sport and they'll happen in the future," he said.

"That's the way it is. If you have a two-car team, three-car team, four-car team, there's always going to be certain situations at certain tracks and certain points in Championships where one car is going to need to be in a definite position and the team can influence that - so they will.

"It's better than doing a deliberate bad pitstop, or whatever. You can do so many things to make it hard, so to try and have a rule which says that you cannot manipulate or have a team order in a grand prix is virtually impossible. I could (agree) something tonight between you and me in the hotel and it would be done.

"Much better to do something like (in Germany) than something that's hidden from everyone. In this case, this team got the maximum result. Obviously for the fans, you can understand it was a different thing.

"But it's happened so many times since '02. For the victory it's a different thing, but the people who think it's the first time it's happened are absolutely dreaming. It's not the only time."