Former Renault F1 boss Flavio Briatore has tipped Red Bull driver Mark Webber to win this year's Formula One world title.
Former Renault boss says Aussie is "on his way to win the title"
Former Renault F1 boss Flavio Briatore has tipped Red Bull driver Mark Webber to win this year's Formula One world title.
Webber, who is managed by the Italian, vaulted to the top of the championship standings after winning the Hungarian Grand Prix on Sunday - his fourth victory of the season.
Team-mate Sebastian Vettel had originally seemed destined to cross the line first, but a drive-through penalty for an infringement under the safety car thwarted his chances.
The Australian took advantage to build up enough of a cushion on Fernando Alonso to pit for hard tyres and emerge still in the lead.
Briatore says that Webber's racecraft and intelligence will lead him to the title at the end of the season.
Phenomenal
"Watch out, Webber is on his way to win the title: what he has done in Hungary on Sunday was phenomenal," Briatore told
Gazzetta dello Sport.
"But I'm not tipping Webber just because he is one of my drivers, I only state what everyone has seen from home.
"Mark is a driver capable of exceptional feats. He has now reached a maturity and inner calmness that can take him really far.
"In Hungary he was the first one understanding that he could take a risk in running for three-quarter distance on the soft tyres he had at the start.
"That was the winning move, but it also demonstrated how much he uses his brain, unlike many others."
