Red Bull motorsport advisor Helmut Marko is backing his former prodigy Sebastian Vettel to win a fifth world championship this year.
Vettel leads Lewis Hamilton by 14 points at the summer break and has led the championship all season, the first time he has done so since winning a fourth consecutive title with Red Bull in 2013. The German, who left for Ferrari in 2015, is by far the most successful product of the Red Bull driver programme overseen by Marko since the late 1990s.
Marko is convinced Vettel will continue his good form when the season resumes at the Belgian Grand Prix at the end of August.