{"id":20966,"date":"2014-02-11T07:02:05","date_gmt":"2014-02-11T12:02:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=20966"},"modified":"2014-02-11T07:02:05","modified_gmt":"2014-02-11T12:02:05","slug":"webber-tips-ricciardo-to-go-well-against-vettel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/webber-tips-ricciardo-to-go-well-against-vettel\/","title":{"rendered":"Webber tips Ricciardo to &#8216;go well&#8217; against Vettel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Webber expects his replacement at Red Bull, countryman Daniel Ricciardo, to put up a competitive defense alongside Sebastian Vettel this year.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-left alignright\" style=\"margin: 5px 10px;\" alt=\"Mark-Webber-5\" src=\"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/gallery\/f1-2013-rif-images\/f1-2013-drivers\/Mark-Webber-5.jpg\" width=\"384\" height=\"256\" \/>By the end of the tense Webber-Vettel pairing, the duo were barely on speaking terms while Vettel was at the top of his game, winning a fourth consecutive championship in dominant style.<\/p>\n<p>Australian Webber, who has switched to Le Mans with Porsche, managed to outqualify Vettel only twice in 2013, but the 37-year-old thinks Ricciardo will put up a stout effort this season.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He&#8217;ll go well,&#8221; Webber told the March issue of Motor Sport magazine.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think he&#8217;ll give Seb a real hard time in qualifying &#8212; it&#8217;ll be 50:50 in the first year, I reckon.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He suggested that the bulk of Vettel&#8217;s advantage under the former regulations, his superiority in slow corners, was due to Adrian Newey&#8217;s famous &#8216;blown floor&#8217; cars.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I took a few off Seb last year &#8212; and the blown floor is gone now,&#8221; said Webber.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think Daniel will be fine, and it certainly won&#8217;t hurt him that he&#8217;s come through the Red Bull system.\u00a0 I just hope he gets better starts than I did!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Webber expects his replacement at Red Bull, countryman Daniel Ricciardo, to put up a competitive defense alongside Sebastian Vettel this year. By the end of the tense Webber-Vettel pairing, the duo were barely on speaking terms while Vettel was at the top of his game, winning a fourth consecutive championship in dominant style. 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":[1096,5262,5340,165,129,164],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20966"}],"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=20966"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20967,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20966\/revisions\/20967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}