I think Lewis will be strong finishing the year, to be fair - the car is strong and the circuits might suit them. I’m fifth now, but I’ve got Kimi and Lewis within striking distance.

“To get as much silverware as I can before the year is out - obviously some wins would be nice, and there’s even a chance for me to move up the championship quite a bit. What are your aims for the rest of the season? He’s yet to secure his maiden win of the season, which would be his tenth in F1, but his powers have barely diminished with age - as demonstrated by a battling podium in Monza a fortnight ago. With seven races left in his final season, Webber has unfinished business before his move to Porsche. I want to stop while I’m still driving very well at the front, still hanging out with Fernando and Seb and those boys.”

The category has big changes coming next year - and I thought I’d do all those changes where my future is going to be, instead of taking another year in F1, where I do think I’m starting to run out of a little bit of puff.

Webber was typically outspoken then, and didn’t disappoint when we caught up with him. The Australian’s frustration at the preferential treatment enjoyed by the younger driver came to a head at the Malaysian Grand Prix in March, when Vettel ignored team orders and overtook his teammate to claim victory. The 37-year-old announced back in June that this will be his final year in the sport, his imminent move to join Porsche’s new LMP1 sports car programme in the World Endurance Championship perhaps hastened by tensions with Sebastian Vettel, the triple world champion and Webber’s Red Bull team-mate.

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