Red Bull Racing have confirmed Sebastian Vettel as Mark Webber’s team mate for next year, ending speculation that they’re after Spanish super villain Fernando Alonso. Let’s speculate wildly.

Vettel’s vacated Toro Rosso seat is an interesting one. Red Bull ultimately want to unload the team, but everything is in place for 2009, so there’s no immediate threat. What it does mean is that a one-year driver deal is perhaps most likely. Which all means that an established driver is probably out of the question – but then it always would have been.

Vitantonio Liuzzi has said that he wants to race in Formula 1 again, but would the team take him back? I’m sure Super Aguri refugees Davidson and Sato would jump at the chance.

Probably more likely is that a GP2 driver will step up from the Red Bull Junior Team. There’s Karun Chandhok, currently 8th in the GP2 standings; but I think the favourite is Sébastien Buemi, currently 3rd in GP2 and a Red Bull Racing test driver.

I’ll resist the temptation to second (or indeed third or fourth) guess what would happen in 2010 if Alonso moves to Ferrari. Except to say that the driver market would descend into mayhem.