Christian Horner Q&A: The Red Bull boss reflects on the Indian GP and another title

The full transcript of Christian Horner's press briefing following the Indian GP where Sebastian Vettel took victory and a fourth consecutive Drivers' Championship, whilst unreliability struck Mark Webber again.

No evidence of him being hard on the machinery?
CH: "I don't think so. Mark was driving a strong race today and for sure he would have been second and it is our objective to have both cars there at the finish. It was desperately disappointing to see a DNF for Mark." What was the thinking behind putting Mark on the softs in the middle stint rather than keeping them until the end?
CH: "We looked at it before the race because basically we managed to have a window of a free stop and the exposure with Mark's strategy was that if there was a safety car at the end, there was a huge risk that if it came out with 15 laps to go, you have to take it and put the tyre and those tyres wouldn't do that amount of time. "So it was the most risk-free way of running the race and giving him three or four hard laps on the new option tyre - go for it in clean air - then get back onto the hard tyre. That was the logic behind it." Did you always plan to stop after just two laps with Vettel or was it when you saw Alonso had the problem?
CH: "No, we always planned to stop after two laps." Just to be clear was there an alternator problem with Seb's car or was it precautionary?
CH: "It was precautionary - we had a bit of noise on a sensor that was giving us some spurious readings that were only adding to the tension on the pitwall. "Thankfully it was only a sensor problem and as a precaution we started shutting things down to reduce the draw on the alternator and again Sebastian managed that incredibly well." Sebastian has won four titles now and made no mistakes this year. Does he still have any weak points?
CH: "I think Sebastian has grown this year. The way he has driven and the level, it has been his best ever year and he has raised the bar continually. "The exciting thing about him is that he is still only 26, he has still only done 117 grands prix, he's won 36 of them now and he is a four-time World Champion. He doesn't win by mistake, he hasn't achieved these results by accident, he has achieved them by having an enormous about of natural ability, having an enormous amount of commitment, a fantastic work ethic where he continuously looks at his own performances and critics himself and he encourages and inspires the people around him." Do you think he will go on to win more titles than Michael Schumacher now?
CH: "I think that is impossible to predict. At this stage of his career his win record is quite incredible, but there are so many things in this sport that determine that. It depends in being in the right machinery as well, but from a skill point of view there is absolutely no reason why not." Were you surprised at how quickly he made up ground after his first-stop? He was flying through the traffic.
CH: "Well Sebastian knew that the stop was going to be aggressive and he would come out at the back of the field and he would have to go through the traffic and he would have to be decisive and quick in the way that he did that. "He knew he needed to keep the gap to the lead car to less than 22 seconds and his passing and the way he executed that was quite phenomenal - he actually gained on the leader whilst going through the traffic which was quite remarkable. And then of course as the strategy started to unfold, he got himself back into the lead and managed the race extremely well from