{"id":18168,"date":"2013-04-29T07:15:39","date_gmt":"2013-04-29T11:15:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=18168"},"modified":"2013-04-29T07:15:39","modified_gmt":"2013-04-29T11:15:39","slug":"webber-can-race-vettel-freely-in-2013-mateschitz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/webber-can-race-vettel-freely-in-2013-mateschitz\/","title":{"rendered":"Webber can race Vettel &#8216;freely&#8217; in 2013 &#8211; Mateschitz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dietrich Mateschitz has confirmed reports Red Bull&#8217;s drivers will no longer be subjected to team orders in 2013.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-left alignleft\" style=\"margin: 5px 10px;\" alt=\"Mark-Webber-3\" src=\"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/gallery\/f1-2012-rif-images\/f1-12-drivers\/Mark-Webber-3.jpg\" width=\"384\" height=\"256\" \/>The Austrian billionaire was reportedly so enraged by the &#8216;Multi-21&#8242; affair that, during a phone call with Mercedes&#8217; Niki Lauda, he suggested pulling Red Bull out of F1 is even an option.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Helmut Marko has since rubbished that rumour, suggesting Lauda got the gist of Mateschitz&#8217;s comments wrong before they were leaked.<\/p>\n<p>But it does appear true that Mateschitz ordered that team orders be no longer deployed by the Christian Horner-led team.<\/p>\n<p>The 68-year-old confirmed: &#8220;Vettel and Webber can race freely to the end of the season.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The motto is &#8216;Go ahead of me if you can&#8217;,&#8221; he told Krone newspaper.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, Mateschitz said it is possible Webber will stay with Red Bull beyond 2013, amid talk the Australian may have been offered a Le Mans seat with Porsche.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It all depends on Webber himself,&#8221; he insisted.\u00a0 &#8220;How fast he is and what other offers he has.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dietrich Mateschitz has confirmed reports Red Bull&#8217;s drivers will no longer be subjected to team orders in 2013. The Austrian billionaire was reportedly so enraged by the &#8216;Multi-21&#8242; affair that, during a phone call with Mercedes&#8217; Niki Lauda, he suggested pulling Red Bull out of F1 is even an option. Dr Helmut Marko has since &#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":[128,262,5262,5340,165,129,164],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18168"}],"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=18168"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18169,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18168\/revisions\/18169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}