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With Mark Webber approaching his 37th birthday, the end of his contract and amid a fractious relationship with Sebastian Vettel, it has been rumoured Daniel Ricciardo or Kimi Raikkonen are at the front of the queue to replace him.<\/p>\nRed Bull is not ready to announce its 2014 driver lineup, team boss Christian Horner insists.<\/p>\n
With Mark Webber approaching his 37th birthday, the end of his contract and amid a fractious relationship with Sebastian Vettel, it has been rumoured Daniel Ricciardo or Kimi Raikkonen are at the front of the queue to replace him.<\/p>\n
Australian Webber, however, sounds confident he will still be on the grid in 2014, as he is reportedly looking ahead to the radical new turbo V6 engine rules.<\/p>\n
“There will be so many new things that you’ll see many retirements in the first grands prix of the season,” he told Italy’s Autosprint magazine this week.<\/p>\n
“Even winter testing will be complicated because it won’t be like today, covering 400 kilometres a day — the cars will be in the pits a lot of the time.<\/p>\n
“I think that in the early races, it will be good enough to get to the end of the race and in the points,” added Webber.<\/p>\n
Horner, meanwhile, is not ready to talk about Red Bull’s 2014 lineup.<\/p>\n
Asked specifically about Raikkonen, the Briton said at Milton-Keynes this week: “There is only speculation.<\/p>\n
“We have not decided what we are going to do beyond Mark’s 2013 contract.\u00a0 But if we do have to announce the name of a driver, it certainly won’t be in the next week.”<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Red Bull designer Adrian Newey had an embarrassing moment while racing a Lamborghini in the ‘Super Trofeo’ race at Silverstone last week, losing control and smashing into the wall on the warm-up lap.<\/p>\n