Red Bull has clipped Mark Webber’s wings as the Australian attends his regular outdoor adventure challenge in Tasmania this week.<\/p>\n
The event has not been run since 2008, when the now 35-year-old badly broke his leg on a mountain biking descent.<\/p>\n
It has returned for 2011, but the local Mercury newspaper reports: “Webber was grounded (on Wednesday) by a climb deemed too dangerous for the formula one star to tackle”.<\/p>\n
And his participation will be further shortened when he flies to India on Thursday ahead of the FIA prize-giving gala.<\/p>\n
“I’m disappointed,” Webber said.\u00a0 “I would have loved to have been here for more of it, but it’s not to be.”<\/p>\n
He insisted, however, that he does not allow his non-driving activities to be too controlled by his nervous F1 employer.<\/p>\n
“I’m not going to wrap myself in cotton wool,” he is quoted by The National newspaper.<\/p>\n
“Formula one rules my life for most of the year, but I am going to go away, train and have fun doing it and nobody is going to stop me.”<\/p>\n
Recently, Webber’s teammate Sebastian Vettel wanted to try German compatriot Stefan Bradl’s Moto2 motorcycle, but Red Bull disallowed it.<\/p>\n
“Not our champion, no,” Dr Helmut Marko said firmly on Austrian television Servus TV.<\/p>\n
Now, Volkswagen is said to be keen to get the back-to-back world champion at the wheel of its world rally car.<\/p>\n
“It would be great for the sport if it was possible,” the German carmaker’s spokesman Kris Nissen is quoted by Sport1, “but it’s not easy (to arrange).”<\/p>\n
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