Red Bull announce Vettel as Webber's 2009 teammate - Vettel is signed up to the big team for next season
Published by Christine
Welcome to F1Minute for the 17th July 2008.
Another one of those stories that falls into the most unsurprising news ever category, is today’s announcement by Red Bull that they have signed Toro Rosso star Sebastian Vettel for next year. As predicted by pretty much everyone, Vettel will replace the retiring Coulthard and team up with Mark Webber for the 2009 season. Team boss Christian Horner says he knew Vettel was the one: “As he was already part of the Red Bull family, choosing Sebastian as Mark Webber’s team-mate was not a difficult decision.”
And the man himself, Vettel, is obviously happy with the announcement: “I am very proud to be joining Red Bull Racing and it’s always good to have an early decision on what you are doing next year. As a driver your target is always to be with the most competitive team possible and, over the past couple of years, Red Bull Racing has proved it has great potential…”
Finally, this puts pay to the rumours that Alonso will be joining the team. Horner says the timing just wasn’t right for that to happen, whilst Alonso says that doesn’t mean he will have to remain at Renault.
That’s all for today, please join me again tomorrow for another F1Minute.
