Red Bull will have to keep delivering a top car to Sebastian Vettel, team owner Dietrich Mateschitz has admitted.<\/p>\n
The 23-year-old, groomed through the ranks by the energy drinks company, became F1’s youngest ever world champion against the odds in Abu Dhabi on Sunday.<\/p>\n
“He will be a world champion a few times more,” said Austrian billionaire Mateschitz on Austrian television ORG, “provided he is sitting in the right car.<\/p>\n
“We will do our best to give that car to him,” he added.<\/p>\n
“If we are not able to, we will have to let him go somewhere where he can be champion again,” said Mateschitz.<\/p>\n
Vettel’s current contract runs only to the end of next year, with an option for 2012, but Red Bull has expressed interest in extending the deal through 2015.<\/p>\n
His next agreement will be worth much more money, Willi Weber has warned.<\/p>\n
But he thinks Vettel has missed out on F1’s headiest days of driver earning power.<\/p>\n
“I have a feeling that Michael (Schumacher) and I had the best time in F1, with which you can no longer compare,” the famous driver manager told SID news agency.<\/p>\n
“Today there is less money available,” added Weber.<\/p>\n
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