Mark Webber's title hopes could rest on Sebastian Vettel being willing to hand him victory in Abu Dhabi. With the team saying it's all up to the drivers, Jonathan Noble assess the Webber/Vettel dynamic

Will he? Won't he? The big question buzzing around the paddock, almost before the two Red Bull Racing cars had crossed the finish line in Brazil, was whether Sebastian Vettel would be willing to move over for team-mate Mark Webber in this weekend's Abu Dhabi Grand Prix if it helped the Australian to the world title.

The whole Interlagos weekend was dominated by talk about the team orders situation at Red Bull ahead of the championship showdown – with Webber obviously keen for the outfit to throw all its weight behind him in its fight with Fernando Alonso.

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