{"id":15231,"date":"2012-02-15T06:53:06","date_gmt":"2012-02-15T11:53:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=15231"},"modified":"2012-02-15T06:53:06","modified_gmt":"2012-02-15T11:53:06","slug":"mateschitz-not-ruling-out-webber-for-2013-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/mateschitz-not-ruling-out-webber-for-2013-contract\/","title":{"rendered":"Mateschitz not ruling out Webber for 2013 contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dietrich Mateschitz has left open the door to Mark Webber receiving a new contract to keep racing with Red Bull beyond 2012.<\/p>\n<p>The Australian is the only significant member of the championship-winning team who is not yet already signed up for the 2013 season.<\/p>\n<p>But billionaire team owner Mateschitz this week backed Webber, 35, to return to Sebastian Vettel&#8217;s pace this year, insisting the pair will receive no more or less than equality in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, however, Webber was utterly dominated by Vettel last season, causing some experts to predict that Red Bull will replace him for 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, Mateschitz said at the Jerez test last week that &#8220;Our primary goal is to put one of our juniors in the car&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>He told the German-language Speed Week magazine: &#8220;That&#8217;s one reason why we changed the drivers at Toro Rosso.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Both (Daniel Ricciardo and Jean-Eric Vergne) are highly talented and have great potential, but the question will only arise if, for example, Webber stops at the end of 2012.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dietrich Mateschitz has left open the door to Mark Webber receiving a new contract to keep racing with Red Bull beyond 2012. The Australian is the only significant member of the championship-winning team who is not yet already signed up for the 2013 season. But billionaire team owner Mateschitz this week backed Webber, 35, to &#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":[1096,262,5262,5340,1896,165,129,259],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15231"}],"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=15231"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15232,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15231\/revisions\/15232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}