RED BULL'S MATESCHITZ: Many Team's Now Trying To Hire Vettel

Half the teams on the Formula One grid are 'chasing' Sebastian Vettel's services following his Italian Grand Prix victory last month.

That is according to Red Bull boss Dietrich Mateschitz, who will promote the 21-year-old German from Scuderia Toro Rosso to the Red Bull Racing team next season.

Mateschitz is also reconsidering the sale of Toro Rosso following Vettel's successes.

Vettel became Formula One's youngest ever polesitter and race winner at Monza, lies eighth in the championship, and has carried Toro Rosso ahead of Red Bull Racing in the constructors' standings.

Mateschitz says there has been a lot of interest in Vettel and accepts that Red Bull will have to produce a car capable of winning races in order to keep him on board in the long term.

"Half of the F1 grid is chasing him," Mateschitz told Austrian newspaper Salzburger Nachrichten. "But Sebastian does not have any thoughts of moving out of Red Bull, nor have I. He is part of our family.

"We would be disappointed if he would propose to leave. However, he has earned a right for one of the best cars in one of the best teams, so we are obliged to offer him this at Red Bull Racing next season."

Mateschitz added that he expects next year's Red Bull, the RBR5, to be able to fight at the front.

"Yes, (I think we can do that). It will be a completely new car and Adrian (Newey) is a guarantee that the probability of this being a top car is very high."