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F1: Webber Upped Form With Performance ‘Coach’ – Horner

Webber upped form with performance 'coach' – Horner Quick Webber decision to stop rumours – Marko Whiting hints 'stepped noses' to go in 2013 Sources insist Coke eyeing McLaren sponsor deal F1 close to Concor


  • Webber upped form with performance 'coach' - Horner
  • Quick Webber decision to stop rumours - Marko
  • Whiting hints 'stepped noses' to go in 2013
  • Sources insist Coke eyeing McLaren sponsor deal
  • F1 close to Concorde Agreement deal now - Ecclestone
  • Schumacher not ready to retire again
  • Singapore insists no new GP deal yet

Webber upped form with performance 'coach' - Horner

Mark Webber enlisted some outside help to get him over the slump of 2011.

After narrowly losing the title to his teammate Sebastian Vettel in 2010, the Australian's form nosedived last season as Vettel utterly dominated in the sister Red Bull.

But Webber, 35, is back with a bang in 2012, winning two Grands Prix so far compared to Vettel's sole Bahrain victory and a new contract for 2013.

"Mark had a very difficult year in 2011," team boss Christian Horner told Bild newspaper, revealing the tall Australian is now working with a "coach".

Horner named the 'coach' as Webber's friend Bernie Shrosbree, who the winner of nine GPs met while he was a Renault test driver in 2001.

Back then, Shrosbree was Renault's 'performance training' chief.

"Seb found great momentum in 2011 and was unstoppable but it's easy to forget that Mark was never that far behind," said David Coulthard after Webber's British GP win.

"He was never being lapped," he wrote in the Telegraph. "Either way, he is in great form and right in the championship hunt."

(GMM)

Quick Webber decision to stop rumours - Marko

Red Bull made a snap decision to re-sign Mark Webber in order to stop the "constant rumours" about the Australian's future.

That is the claim of Dr Helmut Marko, who just hours before the team announced the 35-year-old Australian is staying in 2013 actually said Red Bull would only decide its next lineup "in August".

Why the rapid change of heart?

"Because we wanted to put an end to the constant rumours and the resulting unrest," the Austrian told Kleine Zeitung newspaper.

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