Red Bull its paying its entire staff – about 550 people – a healthy championship bonus.<\/p>\n
Media reports say the bonus for the workers at the team’s Milton Keynes headquarters is 10,000 British pounds each.<\/p>\n
“I’ve had a load of texts saying ‘Thanks for the new kitchen’,” joked team boss Christian Horner.<\/p>\n
The bonuses, costing the team almost $9 million, will be paid out of Red Bull’s extra FOM prize-money for winning the constructors’ world championship.<\/p>\n
“Championship bonuses are in every contract,” Horner is quoted by The Independent.\u00a0 “I guess we can afford this.”<\/p>\n
The other piece of news emerging from the new F1 champions is the apparent thawing of relations between teammates Sebastian Vettel and Mark Webber.<\/p>\n
“He (Webber) came to congratulate me (after Abu Dhabi) and showed me a lot of respect which was one of the most important things that happened,” world champion Vettel revealed.<\/p>\n
“We talked about some things that got in our way a little bit this year.”<\/p>\n
Webber is quoted by Swiss newspaper Blick: “The rivalry was maybe a bit too much sometimes.\u00a0 It is important that you can shake hands afterwards.”<\/p>\n
Team boss turned 37 on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
“I got a message from Bernie which said ‘You’ve already had your gift from Ferrari so you won’t need anything else from me’,” he is quoted by the Telegraph.<\/p>\n
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