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Red Bull's team's owner, Dietrich Mateschitz, has decided what he will give Sebastian Vettel for winning the 2011 Formula 1 World championship.
"The same as last year. His championship-winning car," Mateschitz said in an interview with German news agency DPA.
In 2010, when German Vettel became F1's youngest title winner, Mateschitz delivered the Adrian Newey-inked RB6 to his home in Switzerland.
Red Bull's team management was coy over Vettel's chances of wrapping up a second consecutive championship in Singapore, but billionaire Mateschitz was more honest: "We anticipate that, once again, we will achieve both titles this year."
He had high praise for Vettel, who enters the weekend's Singapore night race with a lead so big that his only championship rivals have already given up the fight.
VETTEL PRAISED
"The fact that Sebastian is highly capable, we knew. That he would be able to deliver it so consistently over a long time has surprised many people," he said.
Bild newspaper said Vettel's championship present, the RB7 chassis that he has unofficially dubbed 'Kinky Kylie', minus a R2.1m Renault engine, is worth almost R10m.
"Slowly, his garage in Switzerland is becoming too small," confirmed Red Bull driver manager Helmut Marko.
So what does Vettel think about his championship present? "I'm not thinking about that because I haven't won anything yet," Vettel said.
He told Eurosport that he was not counting on celebrating his second title in Singapore.
"When it happens does not matter. As long as we are still first after the final race, that will be OK," he said.
The RB7's designer Newey insisted that Vettel would not be playing a points-counting game under the Singapore lights: "Seb doesn't want to cruise to the World championship, he really wants to earn it."
"The same as last year. His championship-winning car," Mateschitz said in an interview with German news agency DPA.
In 2010, when German Vettel became F1's youngest title winner, Mateschitz delivered the Adrian Newey-inked RB6 to his home in Switzerland.
Red Bull's team management was coy over Vettel's chances of wrapping up a second consecutive championship in Singapore, but billionaire Mateschitz was more honest: "We anticipate that, once again, we will achieve both titles this year."
He had high praise for Vettel, who enters the weekend's Singapore night race with a lead so big that his only championship rivals have already given up the fight.
VETTEL PRAISED
"The fact that Sebastian is highly capable, we knew. That he would be able to deliver it so consistently over a long time has surprised many people," he said.
Bild newspaper said Vettel's championship present, the RB7 chassis that he has unofficially dubbed 'Kinky Kylie', minus a R2.1m Renault engine, is worth almost R10m.
"Slowly, his garage in Switzerland is becoming too small," confirmed Red Bull driver manager Helmut Marko.
So what does Vettel think about his championship present? "I'm not thinking about that because I haven't won anything yet," Vettel said.
He told Eurosport that he was not counting on celebrating his second title in Singapore.
"When it happens does not matter. As long as we are still first after the final race, that will be OK," he said.
The RB7's designer Newey insisted that Vettel would not be playing a points-counting game under the Singapore lights: "Seb doesn't want to cruise to the World championship, he really wants to earn it."