Webber Finally gets the win

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On Sunday at the Interlagos Circuit in Brazil, Red Bull’s Mark Webber finally won his first and only race in the 2011 calendar. After being beaten to the top spot so many times by his team mate Vettel or the McLaren drivers he put in a great performance to win. The win came under slightly fortuitous circumstances as Vettel nursed his car home in second, suffering from gear box problems for the majority of the race, which may have detracted from the Australian’s pleasure. “I think if Mark is slightly muted, I guess it is because he would have loved to beaten Seb in a fair straight fight,” team principal Horner commented. However, Webber still comprehensively outpaced third place Button and Alonso so the race wasn’t exactly gifted to him.

Webber also gained a place in the Drivers’ World Championship when Button passed Alonso near the end, giving Webber a single point advantage over the Ferrari driver in the standings. Mark finished strongly, completing the last two laps in style as he broke the lap record twice despite his team urging him to be cautious and just make sure he finished the race safely.

With Sebastian Vettel in imperious form in 2011, it looked as though Webber might not get a single win, but he fully deserves this one after such a consistent season and so many podium finishes. “It is great that Mark has won a race,” Horner explained. “I think it would have been very, very tough for him to have gone into the winter with Seb having won 11 races and Mark not having won a race.” Webber will now spend the time before his home Australian Grand Prix in 2012 training hard and hoping he can find something to allow him to regularly challenge his team mate next season. “Seb has been operating at such a high level this year, and that is what has compounded the issue for Mark,” said Horner. “He has been up against a team-mate in the most phenomenal form, operating at the most phenomenally high level, and this win will give a good confidence boost.

Mark Webber

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Mark Alan Webber is a professional motorsport racer from Australia and he is currently plying his trade for the constructors’ champions Red Bull racing in the Formula 1 circuit. He was born on the 27th of August, 1976 in a simple family where his father was a motorcycle dealer and his mother was just a simple housewife. Webber was interested in sports from his very childhood and he used to spend his afternoons as a ball boy for the Canberra Raiders that was the champion rugby team of the Australian premiership at that time. However, it was in motorsport that his heart truly lay and he has also listed the names of former Formula 1 world champion Alain Prost and Grand Prix motorcycle winner Kevin Schwantz as his idols. Webber started out his racing career with motorcycles and it was not until quite late in 1991, when he was 14 years old that he shifted to four wheels and go karts. He was crowned the champion in New South Wales State Championship in 1993 and from there, he moved up to the Australian Formula Ford championship. He finished in the 14th overall position in his first season and in his next season, he was able to achieve fourth position overall after a few podium finishes on the way.

Mark Alan Webber met championship coordinator Ann Neal during this time and she secured a seven year sponsorship deal with Australian Yellow Pages for him and became Webber’s manager as well. Webber moved to England and raced at the Formula Ford Festival at Brands Hatch and in 1996, at the British Formula Ford Championship as well. In 1997, he moved up to Formula Three but due to financial restraints, he almost had to quit midway through the season before he got significant held from Australian rugby legend David Campese. Mark Alan Webber signed for Minardi in the 2002 season and made his first foray into Formula 1bewfore switching to the Ford owned Jaguar in before the start of the 2003 season, where he stayed till the end of the 2004 season. He raced for the Williams team for the 2005 and 2006 seasons before joining his current team Red Bull Racing before the start of the 2007 season. It was with Red Bull Racing that Mark Alan Webber was able to achieve his dream of standing at the top of the podium and all 6 of his victories have come with Red Bull Racing.