Come on, you're Vettel, on fresh tires, and you come into the first corner right on the gearbox of someone that just came out of the pits.
You're in it to win it.
Any red blooded race driver would make the utmost of that one lap of advantage he has, while the other driver still warms up his tires and go for it. And Webber did defend, no way that his engine was turned down during those two laps. Didn't exactly look like he let him past, to appease the team either. No, what Vettel gave us was a clean pass, and the only thing that made that race truly worth watching. I do hope Bernie comes around and gives him a little bonus for captivating the viewers.
And Horner is making it a bit easy on himself, saying that "oh, it's only 7 points for a driver, and 43 for a team". Well, the team championships were all won with a huge margin. Two of the three driver's championships that Vettel secured were done with much less than 7 points difference. And while we all do remember Istanbul 2010, taking that risk was what made, to me, Red Bull the more deserving team of a title, compared to, say, Ferrari.
Yes, I see that everyone is worried about the tire wear, but by the end of the GP, they had quite a lot more information on how they behaved, they had some safety margin to the Mercedes, so no reason not to go racing for a lap or two. Sure, Mark was comfortable with cruising home to a win, but how can you expect the second driver, in a faster car (due to the tire strategy) to accept that. I fully expected Rosberg to go for the podium on the last two laps. He could have probably gotten in with a simple DRS pass on the back straight, on the last lap.
Oh well, it will be interesting to see how this develops over the season.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=jbb3tYcyRvw