{"id":18186,"date":"2013-05-01T07:07:26","date_gmt":"2013-05-01T11:07:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=18186"},"modified":"2013-05-01T07:07:26","modified_gmt":"2013-05-01T11:07:26","slug":"red-bull-hopeful-ricciardo-says-vettel-nice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/red-bull-hopeful-ricciardo-says-vettel-nice\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Bull hopeful Ricciardo says Vettel &#8216;nice&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Daniel Ricciardo insists he would get along well with Sebastian Vettel if he is signed by Red Bull for 2014.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-left alignleft\" style=\"margin: 5px 10px;\" alt=\"Daniel-Ricciardo-2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/gallery\/f1-2012-rif-images\/f1-12-drivers\/Daniel-Ricciardo-2.jpg\" width=\"384\" height=\"256\" \/>In the wake of the &#8216;Multi-21&#8217; team orders affair, many believe the relationship between teammates Vettel and Mark Webber is now untenable.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, with 36-year-old Webber&#8217;s contract expiring, Red Bull has already hinted that Kimi Raikkonen and Ricciardo are potential candidates to replace him.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Helmut Marko said this week that Red Bull has &#8220;two very good juniors&#8221; in training for the main team at Toro Rosso, &#8220;and Ricciardo is currently the better one&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Like Webber, 23-year-old Ricciardo is Australian, but he has suggested he will not similarly clash with German Vettel.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have been out for dinner a few times with Sebastian,&#8221; Ricciardo told Germany&#8217;s Sport Bild.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re both still young, and he&#8217;s pretty nice for a German,&#8221; the Australian joked.\u00a0 &#8220;Maybe it would be slightly different between us if we were teammates.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Another bone of contention between Webber and Vettel at present is the team orders issue, with Vettel saying after ignoring the team in Malaysia that his teammate didn&#8217;t &#8220;deserve&#8221; to win.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I also want to win, which is why I&#8217;m in formula one,&#8221; Ricciardo insisted.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I want to be the best.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;However, if a point comes in a season when he has clearly kicked my butt, then I would play by his rules.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daniel Ricciardo insists he would get along well with Sebastian Vettel if he is signed by Red Bull for 2014. In the wake of the &#8216;Multi-21&#8217; team orders affair, many believe the relationship between teammates Vettel and Mark Webber is now untenable. Indeed, with 36-year-old Webber&#8217;s contract expiring, Red Bull has already hinted that Kimi &#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":[1096,1628,5262,5340,165,129,164],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18186"}],"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=18186"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18187,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18186\/revisions\/18187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}