{"id":5772,"date":"2010-05-27T06:58:35","date_gmt":"2010-05-27T10:58:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=5772"},"modified":"2010-05-27T06:58:35","modified_gmt":"2010-05-27T10:58:35","slug":"red-bull-ready-to-extend-webbers-contract","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/red-bull-ready-to-extend-webbers-contract\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Bull ready to extend Webber&#8217;s contract"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Red Bull Racing has given the strongest indication yet that it is ready to renew Mark Webber&#8217;s contract for 2011.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->In the wake of his dominance in Spain and Monaco, chiefs of the Austrian-owned team indicated they are keen to keep the 33-year-old Australian alongside Sebastian Vettel next year.<\/p>\n<p>But Red Bull&#8217;s motor sport advisor Dr Helmut Marko signalled recently that joint championship leader Webber&#8217;s back-to-back wins could have an effect on the &#8220;salary negotiations&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Ahead of the Turkish grand prix, team principal Christian Horner hinted to Germany&#8217;s Bild-Zeitung newspaper that Red Bull is ready to simply extend Webber&#8217;s current deal.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If we sat down together on the subject of a contract extension, it would be a pretty short conversation,&#8221; said the Briton.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Red Bull Racing has given the strongest indication yet that it is ready to renew Mark Webber&#8217;s contract for 2011.<\/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":[5262,5261,5340,641,165,129],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5772"}],"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=5772"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5773,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5772\/revisions\/5773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}