F1: Postponement The Right Decision, Says Horner

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F1: Postponement The Right Decision, Says Horner

Red Bull team boss Christian Horner believes not forcing drivers to qualify in the rain was a good call...

Adam Cooper | http://www.speedtv.com | Posted March 16, 2013 Melbourne (AUS)

Christian Horner was pleased with the decision to postpone Australian GP qualifying. (Photo: LAT Photographic)

Christian Horner says the FIA’s decision to postpone qualifying in Australia was inevitable after conditions failed to improve.

Mark Webber and Sebastian Vettel finished the Q1 session in fourth and seventh place, respectively.

“It was 100 percent the right decision,” Horner, team boss at Red Bull, told SPEED.com. “The conditions were constantly changing, there was an awful lot of water on the track, and the biggest problem was that the light was disappearing rapidly.

“Charlie Whiting (of the FIA) has plenty of experience, he kept us updated with what he was thinking. He obviously has to go through the motions as well to a degree, but at one stage it looked pretty inevitable that it would be postponed.

“Mark had a little excursion. They were navigating their way round, and those sessions are all about survival, not necessarily purple sectors. Our objective was quite clear, which was just to survive that session.”

Adam Cooper notched up his 28th season as a racing journalist in 2012. He has written about F1 for SPEED.com since 2005. Follow him on Twitter.