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Formula 1
F1: Grand Prix News Briefs (Update 4)
Mark Webber is confident in the new Red Bull car...
Mark Webber drives the Red Bull RB9 in preseason testing. (Photo: LAT Photographic)
Webber Says New Red Bull 'Very Strong' - Briatore: Flavio Briatore does not believe Red Bull will struggle in 2013. There have been reports the reigning World Champions had a difficult final test with the new RB9, struggling with the latest upgrades and finding a good setup. But former Renault chief Briatore, who still manages Mark Webber, said: "Webber tells me he will start very strongly. He said the tests have been fruitful and that the machine is very good," he told Italy's La Gazzetta dello Sport.
Pirelli's 2013 Approach 'Incomprehensible' - Berger: Gerhard Berger has slammed as "incomprehensible" F1 tire supplier Pirelli's approach to the 2013 season. "Last year, the tires were quite usable," the former McLaren and Ferrari driver, and ex Toro Rosso co-owner, told the Austrian news agency APA. "Probably they want to improve the show by providing for one more pit stop (per driver). But it cannot be that, having invested millions in the wind tunnels and the engines and the drivers, you go to the track and can't use the tire," said Berger, referring to the recently-concluded winter test season in chilly Spain. "It's an unfortunate situation," he added, acknowledging that the situation could be different at the actual races. He also acknowledged that tires have always been a major talking point in F1, but there was often a tire war, or as Berger described it, a "real game. Now that there is one tire, it cannot be that it (the tire factor) governs the entire field," he insisted. Berger's Austrian countryman, the Red Bull team owner Dietrich Mateschitz, agrees. "It would be good," he told Blick newspaper, "if we had tires that did not need to be analysed for days and days."
2013 Grid Youngest In F1 History - Report: This year's F1 grid is the very youngest in the history of the sport. That is the finding of Spain's AS sports newspaper, having calculated the average age of the drivers on the Melbourne grid this weekend at just over 27 years. The statistic has been boosted for 2013 by the retirement of 44-year-old Michael Schumacher, making 36-year-old Australian Mark Webber now the oldest driver in F1. Also helping is the arrival of youngsters including Esteban Gutierrez, Max Chilton (both 21) Valtteri Bottas and Jules Bianchi (both 22).
Ecclestone Told Mercedes To Sign Hamilton: Bernie Ecclestone has admitted he advised Mercedes to lure Lewis Hamilton from McLaren. Many were surprised when Hamilton decided to leave established top team McLaren for 2013 and beyond, but it now emerges that Paddy Lowe is set to follow suit. "I told Mercedes, 'If you get Lewis, you'll get all the right kind of people for the future,'" Ecclestone said in an interview with Bild newspaper. "They'll now get people who believe they are working on a winning team," he added. The downside, for McLaren, is having lost two of the most highly-rated figures — 2008 World Champion Hamilton and technical boss Lowe — in the paddock. "McLaren is not as strong now," agreed Gerhard Berger, in a preseason interview with Tiroler Tageszeitung newspaper. "Sergio Perez is not going to put Jenson Button under the same kind of pressure (as Hamilton did)," said the former McLaren driver. And former Renault boss Flavio Briatore told La Gazzetta dello Sport: "McLaren without Hamilton is a lot weaker."
Pirelli's 2013 Approach 'Incomprehensible' - Berger: Gerhard Berger has slammed as "incomprehensible" F1 tire supplier Pirelli's approach to the 2013 season. "Last year, the tires were quite usable," the former McLaren and Ferrari driver, and ex Toro Rosso co-owner, told the Austrian news agency APA. "Probably they want to improve the show by providing for one more pit stop (per driver). But it cannot be that, having invested millions in the wind tunnels and the engines and the drivers, you go to the track and can't use the tire," said Berger, referring to the recently-concluded winter test season in chilly Spain. "It's an unfortunate situation," he added, acknowledging that the situation could be different at the actual races. He also acknowledged that tires have always been a major talking point in F1, but there was often a tire war, or as Berger described it, a "real game. Now that there is one tire, it cannot be that it (the tire factor) governs the entire field," he insisted. Berger's Austrian countryman, the Red Bull team owner Dietrich Mateschitz, agrees. "It would be good," he told Blick newspaper, "if we had tires that did not need to be analysed for days and days."
2013 Grid Youngest In F1 History - Report: This year's F1 grid is the very youngest in the history of the sport. That is the finding of Spain's AS sports newspaper, having calculated the average age of the drivers on the Melbourne grid this weekend at just over 27 years. The statistic has been boosted for 2013 by the retirement of 44-year-old Michael Schumacher, making 36-year-old Australian Mark Webber now the oldest driver in F1. Also helping is the arrival of youngsters including Esteban Gutierrez, Max Chilton (both 21) Valtteri Bottas and Jules Bianchi (both 22).
Ecclestone Told Mercedes To Sign Hamilton: Bernie Ecclestone has admitted he advised Mercedes to lure Lewis Hamilton from McLaren. Many were surprised when Hamilton decided to leave established top team McLaren for 2013 and beyond, but it now emerges that Paddy Lowe is set to follow suit. "I told Mercedes, 'If you get Lewis, you'll get all the right kind of people for the future,'" Ecclestone said in an interview with Bild newspaper. "They'll now get people who believe they are working on a winning team," he added. The downside, for McLaren, is having lost two of the most highly-rated figures — 2008 World Champion Hamilton and technical boss Lowe — in the paddock. "McLaren is not as strong now," agreed Gerhard Berger, in a preseason interview with Tiroler Tageszeitung newspaper. "Sergio Perez is not going to put Jenson Button under the same kind of pressure (as Hamilton did)," said the former McLaren driver. And former Renault boss Flavio Briatore told La Gazzetta dello Sport: "McLaren without Hamilton is a lot weaker."
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