F1 HISTROY: SEBASTIAN VETTEL AND MARK WEBBER'S INFAMOUS MULTI-21 INCIDENT

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Like many F1 fans you may of heard of that infamous Multi-21 event between Infiniti Red Bull Racing Drivers Mark Webber and Sebastian Vettel at the Malaysian Grand Prix in 2013 and If you haven't I am here to tell you about it. 

The term "Multi-21" give the driver a order to maintain position there are in regardless of what that might be. 

Entering the second round of the 2013 F1 championship at the Malaysian Grand Prix, Sebastian started the race in Pole position [P1] whilst his teammate started Mark started P4. The Australian quickly took control of the race getting himself to P1. Being the start of the season Vettel was asked to follow the now-famous "Multi-21" instruction. This instruction asked him to keep his P2 position and let Webber win the race. However to everyone's surprise, Vettel attacked his teammate with 13 laps to go, disobeying orders, the German eventually overtook and went on to win the race.

Mark Webber obviously disappointed by the events of the race in Malaysia. He said some controversial things about Sebastian Vettel on the Podium, stating that the German had made his own decisions and that he would "have protection as usual" which implied that he would be free from any punishment for his actions. The next race of the season was in China at the Shanghai International Circuit where the drivers met for the first time since the event of Sunday. Webber revealed that Vettel said that he had no respect for the Aussie as a person for what he said on the podium that day.

"The ensuing conversation was the most disappointing moment of our entire relationship," Webber states." He said that he was pissed off by what I had said on the podium in Malaysia, that while he respected me as a person he had know respect for me as a person."



 


Christian Horner, the team principal of Infiniti Red Bull Racing, said later that the events of the race were Vettel's "own doing" and that it was payback for Silverstone 2011[Webber was asked to stay behind Vettel but attacked regardless] and Brazil 2012 [When Vettel believed he was compromised by his teammate down to turn 1 which made him crash with Bruno Senna, it was also the title-deciding race of the season.]

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