Last year, when Sebastian Vettel won his first world championship title, he also earned his racing car. Indeed, Dietrich Mateschitz, the owner of Red Bull, ensured that he had a copy of the RB6 at his home in Switzerland. And Mateschitz confirmed that his young prot\u00e9g\u00e9 would receive his car\u2014which he named “Kinky Kylie”\u2014if he won the title this season.<\/p>\n
\u00ab Like last year. (If he wins the title), he will receive the world champion car \u00bb,” Dietrich Mateschitz told the DPA<\/i> news agency.<\/p>\n
This kind of gift is quite rare in Formula 1, as a chassis is expensive. According to Bild<\/i>, the chassis of the RB7 – without the Renault engine – is worth the tidy sum of one million euros. Jenson Button received a similar gift from the Mercedes GP team (formerly Brawn GP) for his title won in 2009.<\/p>\n
Sebastian Vettel has not yet wished to react to this gift, preferring to focus on the Singapore Grand Prix this weekend, where he intends to play a leading role and not be content with acting “like a shopkeeper,” at least that’s what Adrian Newey, the designer of the RB7, suggested to the British newspaper The Sun: \u00abSeb doesn’t want to quietly clinch the world champion title; he wants to earn it.\u00bb<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
While some rumors suggest that Red Bull is making preparations to celebrate Sebastian Vettel’s title win as early as this weekend in Singapore, Dietrich Mateschitz stated that in the event of a title win\u2014whether this weekend or later\u2014Sebastian Vettel will receive the same gift as last season: the car with which he won the title.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":42256,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,1749],"tags":[1334,1430],"class_list":["post-21072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-f1","category-news","tag-red-bull","tag-vettel"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n