{"id":13215,"date":"2011-07-25T07:05:10","date_gmt":"2011-07-25T11:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=13215"},"modified":"2011-07-25T07:05:10","modified_gmt":"2011-07-25T11:05:10","slug":"webber-signs-2012-red-bull-deal-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/webber-signs-2012-red-bull-deal-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Webber signs 2012 Red Bull deal &#8211; report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Webber has now signed a one-year extension to his Red Bull contract.<\/p>\n<p>The Finnish newspaper Turun Sanomat said the 34-year-old Australian&#8217;s 2012 deal will be announced in Hungary this week.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, it was rumoured that another driver, perhaps Lewis Hamilton, might be drafted in to replace Webber as Sebastian Vettel&#8217;s teammate.<\/p>\n<p>But team owner Dietrich Mateschitz said recently that Webber, who achieved pole at the Nurburgring and outperformed Vettel all weekend, is staying put.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I always said that I expect our 2012 driver lineup to be the same,&#8221; team boss Christian Horner told F1&#8217;s official website, adding that the news becoming official is a &#8220;formality&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am very happy with the two drivers we have.\u00a0 They push each other hard and I can&#8217;t imagine any other driver in our car, or Mark Webber in any other team&#8217;s car next year,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Webber has now signed a one-year extension to his Red Bull contract. The Finnish newspaper Turun Sanomat said the 34-year-old Australian&#8217;s 2012 deal will be announced in Hungary this week. Earlier, it was rumoured that another driver, perhaps Lewis Hamilton, might be drafted in to replace Webber as Sebastian Vettel&#8217;s teammate. But team owner &#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":[5262,5340,165,129],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13215"}],"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=13215"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13216,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13215\/revisions\/13216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}