{"id":18518,"date":"2013-06-13T07:02:35","date_gmt":"2013-06-13T11:02:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=18518"},"modified":"2013-06-13T07:02:35","modified_gmt":"2013-06-13T11:02:35","slug":"red-bull-set-for-webber-contract-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/red-bull-set-for-webber-contract-talks\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Bull set for Webber contract talks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Christian Horner has moved to calm speculation about Red Bull&#8217;s driver plans for 2014 by saying he will hold talks with Mark Webber &#8220;later in the summer&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-left alignleft\" style=\"margin: 5px 10px;\" alt=\"Christian-Horner-4\" src=\"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/gallery\/f1-2013-rif-images\/f1-2013-persons\/Christian-Horner-4.jpg\" width=\"384\" height=\"256\" \/>As the team extended its contract with Sebastian Vettel to include 2015, speculation ramped up that Australian Webber, 36, will not get a new deal beyond his contract that expires this year.<\/p>\n<p>The early favourite to succeed him was Kimi Raikkonen, but the latest talk has been about the solid progress of Red Bull&#8217;s Toro Rosso duo, Daniel Ricciardo and Jean-Eric Vergne.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think they&#8217;re doing a good job so far,&#8221; Horner is quoted by Speed Week.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Both have shown they have the speed, now it&#8217;s about adding the final touches to build on their experience and run regularly in the points.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Asked when Red Bull will make a decision about Vettel&#8217;s teammate for 2014, Horner insisted that Webber is still very much a contender.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our driver pairing is one of the most successful in formula one history,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We stand behind this team and will be having a conversation with Mark later in the summer.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christian Horner has moved to calm speculation about Red Bull&#8217;s driver plans for 2014 by saying he will hold talks with Mark Webber &#8220;later in the summer&#8221;. As the team extended its contract with Sebastian Vettel to include 2015, speculation ramped up that Australian Webber, 36, will not get a new deal beyond his contract &#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":[128,5262,5340,152,165,129,164],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18518"}],"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=18518"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18519,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18518\/revisions\/18519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}