Lewis Hamilton led a McLaren Mercedes one-two podium finish at the Turkish Grand Prix on Sunday after a dramatic collision between Red Bull team mates Mark Webber (AUS) and Sebastian Vettel (GER) denied the Red Bull team the one-two sweep and Webber a third straight victory.
The Red Bull team-mates collided as Vettel attempted an ambitious overtaking manoeuvre along the Istanbul Park Circuit's fastest section, leaving the pair blaming each other when the incident caused the German driver to spin out of the race with a punctured rear right tire while Webber, who had been in the lead for the entire 40 laps to that point recovered to take third behind McLaren drivers Lewis Hamilton and Jenson Button.
The Red Bull's pit-lane team looked on in astonishment and dismay as their two drivers touched. Red Bull team principal Christian Horner expressed his disappointment in his two drivers, saying they both deserved part of the blame.
"They're big boys and if you look at the McLaren drivers they gave each other room, they raced each other hard and I didn't see two McLarens in the fence," Horner said. "From a team point-of-view, it's the worst possible thing you can see. We gave it to them on a plate today."
Both Webber and Vettel maintain that the other is to blame with Vettel insisting he had the right of way as he moved up the inside, and Webber arguing that his teammate closed too quickly.
"Seb (Vettel) had a good top-speed advantage and he went down the inside," said the Australian. "We were side by side and then it looks like he turned pretty quickly to the right and we made contact. I was just holding my line...it was a good race between all four of us until then"
"Obviously, I think if you look at the pictures it was clear I had the inside," said Vettel. "I went on the inside, I was ahead and just going down to focus on the braking point and honestly, you can see he touched my right rear wheel and I went off."
Webber still leads the drivers' standings with 93 points, while Button moved into second with 88 points, four more than team-mate Hamilton. Fernando Alonso of Ferrari finished eighth to improve to 79 points and Vettel stayed on 78. McLaren moved one point ahead of Red Bull in the constructors' standings.
Perhaps if these two ambitious drivers had read Philippians 2:3-4 their actions might have reflected better upon themselves and bought victory to their team.
Paul reminds the church in Philippi that they should "Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, but in humility consider others better than yourselves. Each of you should look not only to your own interests, but also to the interests of others." Philippians 2:3-4