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Christian Horner furious over conspiracy theories after Mark Webber's troubled China

And Red Bull chief backs Australian to bounce back in Bahrain

Christian Horner Red Bull Racing Team Principal and Mark Webber  Red Bull Racing European Grand Prix, Qualifying Day Valencia, Saturday 23 June 2012.
Image: Christian Horner: Unhappy with allegations Red Bull would try to undermine Webber

Christian Horner has reacted angrily to wild suggestions of a conspiracy against Mark Webber at Red Bull in wake of the Australian's miserable Chinese GP.

With one wild allegation firmly batted away, Horner backed Webber to bounce back strongly from his frustrating Chinese weekend. "I think he'll be fine," Horner insisted. "He's a tough competitor, he's driving very well, and he was driving back through the field. "We made some big changes overnight to gear ratios, downforce levels and set-up to assist him to do that and as we see with these tyres at the moment the way his strategy was going it was working well for him. "He was back in the thick of it. The contact was unfortunate and then obviously to retire the car was even more unfortunate. Our objective is to get both cars to the finish as high as we can."

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