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F1: Valencia Update Made A Difference, Says Webber
Mark Webber is second in the F1 championship standings...
Mark Webber has enjoyed a strong 2012 season. (Photo: Getty Images)
Mark Webber says that Red Bull made a good call in rushing its major update kit to the European GP in Valencia.
Teammate Sebastian Vettel was dominating that race when he retired, while Webber won at Silverstone with it, underlining that it was a major step.
“Well, it’s two different venues and two different temperatures,” said Webber on Thursday in Hockenheim. “So it was important for us to get those parts to the track in Valencia to validate a few things and give us a direction. Yeah, it’s always nice when you get them a race earlier rather than later as you just learn so much earlier. I think ultimately it was a good decision.
“Very difficult to get the equipment to the track but the boys did a great job, and Valencia was the first step to understanding some new stuff with the RB8. But, as we’ve seen, it’s very, very tight. You need to pull everything together to win, and we want to be at the front again this weekend.”
Meanwhile, Webber emphasized that he’s happy with his decision to stay on next year at Red Bull.
“It’s been a long relationship and, yeah, we're going to be working together again next year, which is very exciting, to continue the challenge to stay at the front,” said the Australian. “This year’s obviously going pretty well and there’s a big reason to keep the focus on for that, as well, but the continuation of that moving on to next year is also helpful.”
He also made an interesting observation about why he’d been so vague to the media about his future plans just days before the 2013 announcement: “I'm not going to tell you guys I'm going to do it in two days, am I? Obviously, we get ready to announce things when we're ready, and there comes a date when, ‘Let's announce it. OK, done.’ For me to keep the situation calm, the tactic worked OK.
“We have to deal with this stuff in lots of different situations, on many different aspects of our stuff out of the car, and this was just one of them in contractual sense. Pretty straightforward, really: stay at Red Bull, move on.”
Adam Cooper notched up his 27th season as a racing journalist in 2011. He has written about F1 for SPEED.com since 2005. Follow him on Twitter.
Teammate Sebastian Vettel was dominating that race when he retired, while Webber won at Silverstone with it, underlining that it was a major step.
“Well, it’s two different venues and two different temperatures,” said Webber on Thursday in Hockenheim. “So it was important for us to get those parts to the track in Valencia to validate a few things and give us a direction. Yeah, it’s always nice when you get them a race earlier rather than later as you just learn so much earlier. I think ultimately it was a good decision.
“Very difficult to get the equipment to the track but the boys did a great job, and Valencia was the first step to understanding some new stuff with the RB8. But, as we’ve seen, it’s very, very tight. You need to pull everything together to win, and we want to be at the front again this weekend.”
Meanwhile, Webber emphasized that he’s happy with his decision to stay on next year at Red Bull.
“It’s been a long relationship and, yeah, we're going to be working together again next year, which is very exciting, to continue the challenge to stay at the front,” said the Australian. “This year’s obviously going pretty well and there’s a big reason to keep the focus on for that, as well, but the continuation of that moving on to next year is also helpful.”
He also made an interesting observation about why he’d been so vague to the media about his future plans just days before the 2013 announcement: “I'm not going to tell you guys I'm going to do it in two days, am I? Obviously, we get ready to announce things when we're ready, and there comes a date when, ‘Let's announce it. OK, done.’ For me to keep the situation calm, the tactic worked OK.
“We have to deal with this stuff in lots of different situations, on many different aspects of our stuff out of the car, and this was just one of them in contractual sense. Pretty straightforward, really: stay at Red Bull, move on.”
Adam Cooper notched up his 27th season as a racing journalist in 2011. He has written about F1 for SPEED.com since 2005. Follow him on Twitter.
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