(CNN) -- Mark Webber insists he never had a problem with Red Bull teammate Sebastian Vettel -- who beat him to the Formula One world drivers' championship.
The pair were part of a four-way scrap for the title at Sunday's season-ending Abu Dhabi Grand Prix along with Ferrari's Fernando Alonso and Lewis Hamilton of McLaren, and there had been tension between the two drivers all season.
Their rivalry boiled over at May's Turkish Grand Prix when a crash between them forced Vettel out of the race and cost Webber vital track position, but the Australian said he never had a personal issue with the German.
"I never actually had a problem with Sebastian," the 34-year-old, who finished third overall behind Alonso, told journalists at his team's headquarters in Milton Keynes, England.
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