Webber won’t rule out move

Mark Webber has left the door open for a shock move to Ferrari next season despite denying a deal has already been made.

Mark Webber has left the door open for a shock move to Ferrari next season despite denying a deal has already been made.

Reports out of Spain suggested the Red Bull racer had agreed to a short-term stay with the Italian giants before making way for Mexican sensation Sergio Perez in 2014.

However, the Aussie, who is on a year-by-year rolling contract with the constructors’ champions, rubbished such suggestions, although he refused to draw a line under the matter completely by not ruling out a switch later in the year.

“Sergio was flavour of the month last week for the Ferrari drive; now it’s me,” Webber said. “I’m focusing 100 per cent on this season and doing the best job for myself and Red Bull Racing. I’m not putting any energy into anything else.

“There’s a whole season ahead of us before we need to think about the future. One day the talk is about Jenson [Button joining Ferrari], then it’s Sergio, now it’s me. I haven’t signed anything.

“My focus is on this team. We’ve had a good start to the season, we’re only four races down and the road is very, very, very long before we start talking about the future.”

Webber has been linked to the Scuderia in the past because of his close relationship with Ferrari flyer Fernando Alonso.

The Spaniard’s team-mate Felipe Massa is under huge pressure to retain his seat following a dismal start to the season and the 35-year-old Webber would provide the perfect stop-gap measure should the Perez reports be on the mark.

Webber, though, insists he’s happy at Red Bull following a solid first four Grands Prix, which have lifted him to third in the drivers’ championship heading into the opening European race in Barcelona on May 13.

“The grid is very close together,” he added. “Sebastian [Vettel] had a weekend without problems in Bahrain and won but he didn’t dominate, and that’s the same for everyone. No one will be dominant in the first half of the season, so to be third at the start of the European season is not bad.”