Red Bull’s Mark Webber tired of the media probing - Formula 1
Red Bull driver, Mark Webber has proclaimed that media should now stop digging out the long buried issues. For months now, the reporters have been repeatedly, and annoyingly, asking the driver about his personal relationship with his team-mate and the reigning
World Champion, Sebastian Vettel. This time, he expressed a lot of impatience at the question, exclaiming that it was ‘a stuck record’ now.
The two drivers have faced a tormented relationship last season. Despite the fact that Webber conquered the points’ tally for most part of the last season, yet, he kept complaining all through the season that the team was supporting Vettel more.
At many of the instances last year, the rivalry between the two was clearly visible on the tracks. The team lost some crucial points and a certain 1-2 finish to McLaren, at the Turkish Grand Prix, owing to the rivalry of the two.
Later, at the British Grand Prix, Webber was really offended by the team’s decision of handing over the new front wing of his car to Vettel. As he ended the race at the podium, he proclaimed, that the finish was ‘not bad for the No.2 driver’.
However, as the season came to an end both the team drivers, Webber and Vettel, announced that all the differences have been worked out and that the two were getting along well. Still, the media believes that same deteriorated relationship between the two
will be witnessed again next season.
When the 34-year-old was asked about this, he stated, "We have learnt a lot, us two since last season. Even if it is becoming a bit like a stuck record. People continue to talk a lot about it, but it is a stuck record. I hope that when I am 70 years old,
people will not still be asking me whether I like Sebastian."
Webber was talking to the reporters soon after the Tuesday practice session at Barcelona, where he stamped the fastest lap of the day.
Although, many predict to see the team topping the charts again this season, Webber said, "Yes, we have a good car. But we are not going to be hostages to fortune and say that we are going to destroy everybody in the first race. That would be naive. There
will be a lot of people at the same rhythm. Ferrari are there, McLaren aren't holding back either. I will be able to say a lot more after the Australian Grand Prix (in Melbourne on March 27)."
He believes that the qualifying on Saturday, the 26th of March, will reveal about ‘60 percent’ of the team’s strength while the other ‘40 percent’ will be known after the first race of the season in Australia.
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