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Red Bull rubbishes Raikkonen rumours
Red Bull boss Dietrich Mateschitz has denied rumours Kimi Raikkonen is in line for a race seat at his team in 2011.
Raikkonen left Ferrari last year and chose to take on a season in the World Rally Championship with the Red Bull-backed Citroen team. The move sparked rumours that he might return to F1 with Red Bull next year to replace Mark Webber, whose contract runs out in 2011. However, Mateschitz said that the story had been completely manufactured by the press.
"This is pure speculation, nothing more," Mateschitz told Austrian newspaper Salzburger Nachrichten. "We do not know what Kimi wants and will do in a year. We have a close relationship and this opens up speculation. But to say that Raikkonen drives in F1 for us in 2011 is dishonest. If Webber is fast and sufficiently motivated, we cannot thank him for his top performance by giving Raikkonen his cockpit."
Mateschitz also moved to dispel rumours that Red Bull's engine manufacturer Renault, which sold off the majority of its F1 operation to investment company Genii this winter, will become a works partner.
"I doubt it, because I suspect Renault does not intend to be in Formula One for so long," he said. "That Renault does not have a long-term connection is, for us, a little bit of an uncertainty."
He also said that he expects his team to fight for the title this year after it finished runner-up in 2009.
© ESPN Sports Media Ltd.
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