Thursday, June 27, 2013

F1 veteran Mark Webber 12 year’s career with Formula 1


In 12 years with F1, Webber has won nine grand’s prix, finished 36 podium finishes, 11 pole positions and 15 fastest laps and two times successively completed third in the World Championship.

Mark Webber made his Formula One first appearance in 2002 with Minardi, in his first result made Webber just the fourth Australian F1 driver to score World Championship points, and the first Minardi driver to score points since Marc Gené in 1999. But following 16 races finished with empty points.

After his first season, Jaguar Racing took him on as lead driver. During two years with the generally uncompetitive team, Webber qualified on the front two rows of the grid several times and outperformed his teammates. Following two year career with Jaguar Racing the Australian joins to Williams with two year deal.

In the second-half of the 2006 season that Webber would join Red Bull Racing for 2007 to partner David Coulthard. His first F1 win was with Red Bull Racing at the 2009 German Grand Prix

Webber's best season was 2010, when he led the championship for much of the year before faltering in the final three races, falling behind team-mate Sebastian Vettel and Ferrari's Fernando Alonso.

In 2010, Webber continued to race with Red Bull. He qualified for pole position five times in Malaysia, Spain, Monaco, Turkey and Belgium; won four races Spain, Monaco, Britain and Hungary finished second in Malaysia, Belgium, Japan and Brazil and third in Turkey and Singapore. After the Monaco Grand Prix, Webber led the drivers' championship, the first Australian to do so since Alan Jones in 1981.