{"id":13068,"date":"2011-07-10T06:57:49","date_gmt":"2011-07-10T10:57:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=13068"},"modified":"2011-07-10T06:57:49","modified_gmt":"2011-07-10T10:57:49","slug":"mateschitz-confirms-webber-staying-in-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/mateschitz-confirms-webber-staying-in-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Mateschitz confirms Webber staying in 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dietrich Mateschitz has all but confirmed that Mark Webber is staying with the Red Bull team in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>There has been intense speculation about next year&#8217;s occupant of the seat alongside Sebastian Vettel, but team owner Mateschitz hinted strongly that the nominated driver will be a 34-year-old Australian.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In theory it&#8217;s still open, but it (Webber being re-signed) is probable.\u00a0 It&#8217;s just not confirmed yet,&#8221; the Austrian billionaire told Kronen Zeitung.<\/p>\n<p>Mateschitz said the speculation began because Webber was not sure if he wanted to stay.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But in the early summer, he (Webber) said &#8216;Definitely, I feel good, fast and strong.\u00a0 I will hang around for another year.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Webber is believed to have confirmed the news on Australian television after winning pole position for Sunday&#8217;s British grand prix.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dietrich Mateschitz has all but confirmed that Mark Webber is staying with the Red Bull team in 2012. There has been intense speculation about next year&#8217;s occupant of the seat alongside Sebastian Vettel, but team owner Mateschitz hinted strongly that the nominated driver will be a 34-year-old Australian. &#8220;In theory it&#8217;s still open, but it &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[3],"tags":[262,5262,5340,165,129],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13068"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13068"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13068\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13069,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13068\/revisions\/13069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}