Following Helmut Marko’s controversial comments earlier this year saying that Mark Webber can’t handle pressure, Red Bull owner Dietrich Mateschitz has assured Webber he’ll be treated equally.
Speaking to Gazzetta dello Sport, Mateschitz was asked if Webber would be given a fair shake of the sauce bottle and he replied, “I absolutely believe that and I’m certain that it will be so.”
The billionaire added, “Mark is at the same time a strong and charismatic character and an exceptional racing driver. It’s a fact that competition begins inside your own team. That means that the environment is tough but friendly, and that’s how it’s supposed to be.”
We suspect this will be Webber’s last year in F1 and if Mateschitz is true to his word, we hope Mark can leave the sport on a high.
[Source: Autosport | Pic: Red Bull/Getty Images]
One reply on “You’ll be treated equally Mark, promise”
Does anybody get the feeling that Helmut Marko is a bit of an old fart who nobody outside the media pays any attention to? The number of times that Horner, Newey and now even Mateschitz have had to clarify, explain or refute Marko’s strange utterances is astonishing.
At least it’s not as bad as Martin Brundle’s perpetual soiling of his commentary with his whinging about how crap his F1 career was and how it was alway’s somebody else’s fault.