Mark Webber wants unity with Red Bull team-mate Vettel 
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Vettel and Webber's catastrophic collision
Championship leader Mark Webber has called on Red Bull to be united as they look to recover from the disastrous finale to the Turkish Grand Prix.
The team were on course for a one-two finish when Sebastian Vettel attempted an overtaking move, collided with Webber and crashed out of the race.
The drivers blamed each other for the crash, but Webber is now keen for the team to put the incident behind them.
"We need to bounce back and be united as a team, and keep going," he said.
Sunday's incident occurred on lap 40 and left Webber requiring a new front wing before resuming to finish third behind the McLarens of Lewis Hamilton and Jenson Button.
Vettel emerged from his car pointing his finger to his head in a manner suggesting that he thought Webber had pulled off a crazy move.
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The public recriminations continued with team principal Christian Horner criticising both drivers and Red Bull's motorsport adviser Helmut Marko fuelling talk of favouritism by putting the blame firmly at Webber's door.
The Australian, who now leads the standings by only five points, said the team could have dealt with the fallout from the crash better.
"If you look back obviously, after it all happens, you of course want to handle things a lot more differently," he said.
"The team, collectively with the drivers, all of us have to learn how to deal with these situations maybe better in the future."
Webber's comments came as Horner insisted that both drivers will continue to receive equal billing within the team.
Horner said Webber and Vettel had learned a "costly lesson" and plans to sit down with the duo for clear-the-air talks before the Canadian Grand Prix.
"Both drivers, as has always been the case, will continue to be given equal treatment," he said.
"The Turkish Grand Prix has been a costly lesson for both of them and we are confident this situation won't happen again.
"The drivers are both intelligent individuals and this issue will be resolved prior to the Canadian Grand Prix."
Mark Webber says he will seek clear-the-air talks with team-mate Sebastian Vettel following the crash at the Turkish Grand Prix, which cost Red Bull a one-two finish. In his column for the Australian Daily Telegraph, Webber wrote: "Seb and I will sit down and have a chat about it because we need to avoid costly slip-ups like this in the future. We'll probably have a difference of opinion about what happened on Sunday [night] until we go to our graves, but we're both adults and we need to find a way of racing together that doesn't compromise the team."
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Jenson Button says any animosity between Vettel and Webber could work in McLaren's favour. "I don't know what's going to happen between [Vettel and Webber]," Button said. "Whether they will kiss and make up before the next race in Canada. But if they don't it normally means that they won't be sharing information as much. Possibly, I don't know how it works there."
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Insiders at Red Bull believe they have acted fast enough to limit any bad feeling between their two drivers. Nether Webber nor Vettel was allowed to leave a team meeting on Sunday until the matter had been talked out.
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Meanwhile, Button and team-mate Lewis Hamilton have insisted that they won't allow their rivalry to wreck either of their seasons. While Button said the duo would continue to challenge each other in a "hard, but fair" style of racing, Hamilton said: "We don't do moves that jeopardise our own results."
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Williams will use their re-modelled front wing in the Canadian Grand Prix on 13 June. Drivers Rubens Barrichello and Nico Hulkenberg had been required to revert to an older version of the car in Turkey after crashes in Monaco had left both vehicles requiring new parts.
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Renault team boss Eric Boullier says the team are getting close to rolling out their very own F-duct. Boullier said Renault's version of the rear wing-stalling device, used by several rivals including McLaren, Mercedes and Sauber, would be tested soon. "We are going to use it soon but we want to make sure it works 100% before we put it into a race," he said.
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Mercedes motorsport boss Norbert Haug says the team is hungry to carry on improving this season after an encouraging performance in Turkey. Haug said the fourth and fifth places achieved by Michael Schumacher and Nico Rosberg were "still not good enough" for Mercedes GP and challenged his outfit to become "a winning team".
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Lotus Racing boss Tony Fernandes is convinced the team will one day grace the Formula 1 winners' podium. Despite both of the team's drivers failing to finish the last two races, Fernandes thinks the team has a bright future and can "one day be victorious".
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