Reigning Formula One World Championship Sebastian Vettel has revealed that he wants RedBull Racing to extend Mark Webber's contract. The Australian is out of contract at the end of the season and although Vettel has said that he and Mark are not friends he would like to see the team retain the Australian for at least another year. However he admits that any decision on his team mate for next year lies with Christian Horner and the team and not him.
His comments come as the Formula One circus heads to Silverstone for next weekend's British GrandPrix where last year he had a very clear lead to Mark Webber in the Championship when he and Mark were challenging for second place behind Fernando Alonso when Mark's engineer came over the radio to tell him 'Mark maintain the gap this allowed Vettel to finish second in the race and Webber third.
Fast forward twelve months and heading into this year's British GrandPrix it is Mark who has the advantage over Vettel the Aussie is in second place on 91 points while Vettel is in 4th place on 85 points. So we shall see what happens at next weekend's GrandPrix.
I believe that the reason Vettel wants Mark to stay at RedBull is because he see's him a massive threat were he to move to another team for 2013, as it has been suggested recently that Mark could move to Ferrari to replace Felipe Massa, but as he said himself that he is one of a number of driver's who has been linked to a Ferrari drive for 2013.
Mark has also stated any decision on his plans for 2013 will depend on his results this season. I believe it is far too early in the year to be talking about driver's for 2013 as we are only heading in to round nine of a twenty race season. Mark has a very good relationship with the team and I don't see any reason at the moment at least for him to be discussing his future in the sport as he is doing a great job for the team in this wide open 2012 F1 season.
The conclusion that I have come is why would Vettel want a new team mate coming into his team and establishing themselves in the team. For the moment at least Mark has the upper hand on Vettel in the championship so if it continues which I hope it does Vettel's view may change. I for one would love to see Mark beat Vettel this year, however, I REALLY want Kimi Raikkonen and Lotus to finish ahead of the RedBull team this year. I have a strong suspicion that Kimi and Lotus will be challenging for the win next weekend.
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