Horner to hold Webber talks

Red Bull team principal Christian Horner is set for showdown talks with Mark Webber following the Australian's flagrant disregard for team orders in Sunday's British Grand Prix.

Webber was told on at least four occasions to maintain the gap to Sebastian Vettel as he closed in on his second-placed team-mate over the closing stages at Silverstone. The 34-year-old, however, ignored the calls and instead hounded the reigning champion up until the final lap when Horner ordered him to back off.

At the finish, Horner was left far from impressed, and said: "I'm surprised at what he did, so it's something he and I will talk about in private. At the end of the day the team is the biggest thing. No individual is bigger than the team."

He added: "I can understand Mark's frustration in that, but had it been the other way round, it would have been exactly the same.

"From a team point of view, there was a big haul of points on the table and it made absolutely no sense to risk seeing both cars in the fence and coming back on a tow truck.

"His engineer asked him to maintain the gap a lap or two before my intervention. It was pretty clear Mark had chosen to ignore that.

"There comes a point in a race where it would be absolute stupidity to allow them to jeopardise it. We'd have looked pretty stupid if they'd crashed.

"Both drivers are now first and second in the world championship, and we're not going to do anything to jeopardise that."

Immediately after the race Horner remarked that Webber "should be fine" with his decision, but that was far from the case as he put his argument forward for his actions.

"I'm not fine with it, no," responded Webber. "If Fernando had retired on the last lap then we would have been fighting for victory. I was fighting until the end. I ignored the team because I wanted to try and get another place. Seb was doing his best, I was doing my best."