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Webber not panicking over Vettel
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April 15, 2011, Friday
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MARK Webber reacted with typical bluntness yesterday to a suggestion he had been unsettled by Red Bull team mate Sebastian Vettel's winning streak.
World champion Vettel has won the last four races and the young German would be gunning for his seventh victory in a row in China this weekend had his car's engine not failed him in Korea last year.
With a maximum 50 points from this season's two races, Vettel is already 28 clear of his 34-year-old Australian teammate.
"I'm fine mate. I think if you were much, much younger then obviously you'd be panicking," Webber said in Shanghai when asked about his state of mind after the opening races in Australia and Malaysia.
"But I'm not panicking at all. I've been around the block."
Vettel, who has had to bear comparisons with seven-time champion and compatriot Michael Schumacher from an early age, has also been on pole for the past three races.
Schumacher, the most successful driver in the history of Formula One, remains the last to win the opening three races of a season - with Ferrari in 2004 - but Vettel could match that on Sunday.
Such dominance was likened famously by Schumacher's former teammate Eddie Irvine to being beaten regularly around the head with a baseball bat but Webber was not entertaining any comparison to that unhappy situation.
"Absolutely... ludicrous question, mate. You've known me long enough," he said. "Five wins in a row? He has not just beaten me, he has beaten everyone," added the Australian, who complained last year that he was being treated like a No. 2 at the team and now has that number on his car.
"Nothing lasts forever. That's the way it goes. Like I said mate, he's doing a good job. Malaysia was close between us. Tough first lap, but that's what happens. We come here, we'll see how we go... I'll stop there."
World champion Vettel has won the last four races and the young German would be gunning for his seventh victory in a row in China this weekend had his car's engine not failed him in Korea last year.
With a maximum 50 points from this season's two races, Vettel is already 28 clear of his 34-year-old Australian teammate.
"I'm fine mate. I think if you were much, much younger then obviously you'd be panicking," Webber said in Shanghai when asked about his state of mind after the opening races in Australia and Malaysia.
"But I'm not panicking at all. I've been around the block."
Vettel, who has had to bear comparisons with seven-time champion and compatriot Michael Schumacher from an early age, has also been on pole for the past three races.
Schumacher, the most successful driver in the history of Formula One, remains the last to win the opening three races of a season - with Ferrari in 2004 - but Vettel could match that on Sunday.
Such dominance was likened famously by Schumacher's former teammate Eddie Irvine to being beaten regularly around the head with a baseball bat but Webber was not entertaining any comparison to that unhappy situation.
"Absolutely... ludicrous question, mate. You've known me long enough," he said. "Five wins in a row? He has not just beaten me, he has beaten everyone," added the Australian, who complained last year that he was being treated like a No. 2 at the team and now has that number on his car.
"Nothing lasts forever. That's the way it goes. Like I said mate, he's doing a good job. Malaysia was close between us. Tough first lap, but that's what happens. We come here, we'll see how we go... I'll stop there."
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