Kimi Raikkonen is “a candidate” to replace Mark Webber at Red Bull, team owner Dietrich Mateschitz has admitted. In the wake of the ‘Multi-21’ team orders affair, Red Bull denied ...
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Sepang shows Red Bull ‘not united’ – Alonso
Fernando Alonso, who wears a giant Samurai tattoo on his back and neck, sounded disappointed to have missed Sunday’s war between Sebastian Vettel and Mark Webber. Beached in the gravel ...
Read More »Vettel ‘surprised by his own brutality’ – the fallout
The victim of Sebastian Vettel’s decision to ignore his team’s instructions, Mark Webber predicted on Sunday that Red Bull would “protect” its triple world champion “as usual”. But that might ...
Read More »Villeneuve, Coulthard, say Vettel not great
Two former drivers have questioned whether reigning triple world champion Sebastian Vettel weighs up against his highly rated rivals. David Coulthard, who made room for German Vettel’s Red Bull debut ...
Read More »Vettel quiet as contract extension reports gain speed
Yet another Austrian newspaper is reporting that Sebastian Vettel has extended his contract with Red Bull through 2016. From Melbourne last week, the Kleine Zeitung newspaper claimed the German driver ...
Read More »Vettel’s ‘Hungry Heidi ate the tyres’ – report
After a winter of disintegrating Pirellis, Lotus’ Kimi Raikkonen was the kindest to the tyres in Melbourne, and the Finn duly won. “For me, making two stops was impossible,” Ferrari’s ...
Read More »Vettel calls 2013 car ‘Hungry Heidi’
Sebastian Vettel and his mechanics have named the reigning world champion’s 2013 Red Bull ‘Hungry Heidi’. Giving his chassis a light-hearted female moniker is now among the German’s various superstitious ...
Read More »Webber not Vettel’s number 2 – Mateschitz
He might have won the last three world championships on the trot, but Sebastian Vettel is not Red Bull’s number 1 driver. That is the claim of team owner Dietrich ...
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