{"id":20122,"date":"2013-12-09T06:57:41","date_gmt":"2013-12-09T11:57:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=20122"},"modified":"2013-12-09T06:57:41","modified_gmt":"2013-12-09T11:57:41","slug":"vettel-factor-weighed-in-webbers-quit-decision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/vettel-factor-weighed-in-webbers-quit-decision\/","title":{"rendered":"Vettel factor weighed in Webber&#8217;s quit decision"},"content":{"rendered":"<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\/f1-2013-rif-images\/f1-2013-drivers\/Mark-Webber-3.jpg\" width=\"384\" height=\"256\" \/>Mark Webber has admitted Red Bull&#8217;s desire to please his former teammate Sebastian Vettel contributed to his decision to quit F1.<\/p>\n<p>The pair shared a fractious relationship at the team, where they duelled for the 2010 title before German Vettel began his four-title winning streak.<\/p>\n<p>This year, after the &#8216;Multi-21&#8217; team orders affair, 37-year-old Australian Webber decided to leave F1 and join Porsche&#8217;s new Le Mans foray for 2014, despite interest from other grand prix teams.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Teams like Lotus and Ferrari &#8211; and even Red Bull to a degree, once they couldn&#8217;t get Kimi (Raikkonen) &#8211; were on the radar so to speak,&#8221; Webber told BT Sport.<\/p>\n<p>But he admits that the Vettel factor ultimately coloured his decision to quit altogether.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The future has been Sebastian, they want to keep him happy as much as they can, and things come onto the radar and you think &#8216;this is probably not how I would like it&#8217;, so it does go into the decision,&#8221; said Webber.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Webber has admitted Red Bull&#8217;s desire to please his former teammate Sebastian Vettel contributed to his decision to quit F1. The pair shared a fractious relationship at the team, where they duelled for the 2010 title before German Vettel began his four-title winning streak. This year, after the &#8216;Multi-21&#8217; team orders affair, 37-year-old Australian &#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":[4384,5262,5340,165,129,164],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20122"}],"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=20122"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20123,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20122\/revisions\/20123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}