Red Bull drivers with equal shot on the championship

Chris Horner has stated that within Red Bull there is still no reason for the team to concentrate its efforts on Mark Webber in the title chase. The Red Bull Racing boss says that the team will continue to give Sebastian Vettel an equal shot at becoming world champion.

After the race in Korea, where both Red Bulls retired - Webber following a crash and Vettel with an engine failure while leading – they now have go after the new championship leader Fernando Alonso. With two Grand Prix to go Webber is trailing by 11 points, while Vettel has a gap of 25 points between himself and the Spaniard.

Since the result in Korea many had been the suggestions that Red Bull would have to ask Vettel to act as Webber's number two in Brazil and Abu Dhabi. The German would than help Webber to try to grab the title from Alonso. After the race Horner said this was "something that we will look at pretty closely between now and Brazil."

Horner has now decided not to give any of his drivers a priority inside Red Bull as the season has already featured many ups and downs already. Red Bull’s boss considers that it wouldn’t be correct to rule out Vettel's title chances and make him support Webber, although the German's has a larger points deficit.

"We have two fantastic drivers and we will continue to support both equally in line with Red Bull's credible sporting ethos," said Horner in an interview with Red Bull's official website.

"As we saw in Korea it is impossible to predict what will happen with five drivers being so closely in contention. For example, with 10 laps to go Sebastian had moved into the lead of the championship, with Alonso then moving into the lead following our bad luck,” added Horner.

Although things didn’t go as well as planned in Korea, Horner still can find encouragement for his team.

"It was a track that people predicted wouldn't suit Red Bull, yet we qualified first and second and we allayed any doubts about the performance of our car in wet conditions," said Horner.