Red Bull look to have the edge over Mercedes at Spa, with Max Verstappen topping the practice times on Friday ahead of team-mate Daniel Ricciardo, with a buffer of one second to the highest placed Mercedes of Nico Rosberg in sixth.
Whilst team principal Christian Horner knows it's unlikely they'll find themselves ahead when it comes to qualifying on Saturday, he insists it would be wrong for them to interfere if Daniel Ricciardo and Max Verstappen found themselves in a battle for the lead.
"We talk about these things beforehand, you discuss tactics, you try and come up with set rules in certain situations and then the race starts and everything gets forgotten," he said on Friday evening.
"The guys are racers at the end of the day and if we were in a fortunate enough position to be racing for a victory and you’ve got a driver racing in front of – well, I think half of Holland is coming here this weekend by the looks of things – I can’t imagine that he [Verstappen] wouldn’t go for it.
"I think it would be wrong for us to interfere with a race like that."
Horner says all he would demand of his drivers is for them to race sensibly and consider what goes on behind the scenes to get them into such a position.
"All we ask of the drivers is give each other enough space to work with," he added. "If you’re going to race each other, race fairly and remember you’re carrying the aspirations of the 750-odd people that you represent when you’re driving those cars. It’s not just about the drivers."
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