After Red Bull's dominance at Silverstone, the debate continues as to
whether the British Grand Prix will be remembered as the turning-point of
the 2009 season.
Brawn's Jenson Button won six of this year's first seven races, but was
just sixth at Silverstone while Sebastian Vettel and Mark Webber finished
one-two in the visibly updated RB5s.
Championship leader Button, and even Red Bull's car designer Adrian Newey,
said after the race that the situation was at least partly due to
characteristics of the Silverstone circuit and environmental factors.
But RBR chief Christian Horner insists: "We expected the Brawn to be
formidable in the last sector.
"But we managed to appear triple-top all weekend in some of the sector
times, in particular sector three which has slow speed changes of direction
and slow corners.
"That's very encouraging for the rest of the championship," he said.
Many observers believed Button's 32-point advantage over Vettel before
Silverstone was unassailable, but if the Silverstone trend was to continue,
the young German could easily mathematically win the title.
"We'll have to wait and see," said Brawn GP's Ross Brawn. "With all
due respect to them ... it was a combination of us under-performing and Red
Bull being very strong."
