The rumor mill went into overdrive after the wheels literally came off Mark Webber’s Chinese Grand Prix campaign. Porsche denied reports it had signed the Formula One driver on a five-year enduro sports car deal from 2014 after the Australian’s wretched weekend in Shanghai was ended by a loose rear wheel. And Red Bull team principal Christian Horner furiously denied there was an ulterior motive behind Webber’s horror run, describing rumours of a conspiracy against the Australian as “complete rubbish.”

Wheel-and-deal rumours fly on Webber | The Age.