He shrugged it off and won the race anyway, finally tasting victory after a race wait — the longest any driver has taken to score his first win. It was a useful result for Webber who was facing the toughest team mate of his career to date in Sebastian Vettel.
But a series of missed opportunities, due to a combination of driver and team errors plus unreliability, saw Webber fall to fourh by the end of the season. However he ended the season well with a second win at Interlagos and a battling second place at Yas Marina, holding off an attack from newly-crowned champion Jenson Button on the final lap. But the pair collided while disputing the lead of the Turkish Grand Prix. Despite controversy over the incident, particularly as Red Bull management initially blamed Webber for a collision which was widely blamed on Vettel, Red Bull announced the following week Webber would be retained for Webber kept the pressure on Vettel with wins in Barcelona, Monaco, Silverstone and at the Hungaroring.
He took the lead in the championship but heading into the closing races of the season his title campaign went off the rails. A crash at Korea saw him lose the championship lead to Fernando Alonso.
He went into the final round still in contention for the championship he could only finish seventh while Vettel snatched the title with a win. Webber later revealed he had driven the last four races of the year with a shoulder fracture incurred during a mountain biking accident, but said it had not affected his performance in the final Grands Prix.
While Vettel scored a second consecutive championship victory in emphatic fashion, Webber often struggled to keep up with his young team mate. He generally qualified behind Vettel — although he did take a trio of pole positions — and often had trouble getting his RB7 off the line quickly. A typical race would see Vettel pulling away at the front while Webber fought his way onto the podium. He claimed a single win at Brazil, the final race of the year, after Vettel suffered a rare gearbox failure.
It was a similar situation the following year as Vettel picked up another championship title. In late , he teamed up with media officer Ann Neal who helped him get seven-year sponsorship with Australian Yellow Pages. In October , he flew to the UK and resided in Hainault. He finished the season bagging fourth place. He soon made a mark in Formula One. His first experience was in for the Arrows F1 team in a two-day test in Barcelona.
Likewise, in , he was offered a contract to race alongside Alex Young in the Paul Stoddart-owned Minardi team for which he became the first Australian in Formula One since David Brabham in He qualified 18 th for the season-opening Australian Grand Pix and finished in the fifth position.
Moreover, the Jaguar Racing team signed him for the racing event for which he raced alongside former British F3 champion, Antonio Pizzonia. In , he tied up with his dream team, William F1. Webber finished the year with 36 points being in tenth place. However, the year witnessed the worst performance by Webber and Nico Rosberg.
The season for Webber ended with the fourteenth position and seven points. The following year, his contract with Williams ended and had to sign up a contract with Red Bull Racing. Webber partnered with David Coulthard. Likewise, he ended the year with 10 points at the 12 th position.
During the British Formula Ford Championship, he took four victories on his way to second place overall, finishing a strong season with a win in the Formula Ford Festival. He also won the Spa-Francorchamps race of the Formula Ford Euro Cup, taking third in the series despite competing in only two of the three rounds. Two days after his Festival victory Webber completed a successful test for Alan Docking Racing, and was signed by the team to graduate to Formula Three in Although he initially declined the offer he was persuaded at the end of the year when invited to participate in a test session for the team at the A1-Ring in Austria.
Travelling around the world, including the United States, Japan and Europe, the pair won five of the ten rounds on their way to second in the overall standings, beaten to the Championship by teammates Klaus Ludwig and Ricardo Zonta by just eight seconds in the final race at Laguna Seca.
Webber remained with the Mercedes-AMG team for His sportscar career ended early after he flipped twice on the Mulsanne Straight during practice for the 24 Hours of Le Mans race. Both drivers escaped uninjured, but the crashes forced Mercedes to shelve their sportscar program for the year and Webber to reconsider a return to open wheel racing.
Webber took victory in his fourth F3 race from pole position at Brands Hatch. He took a further four podium finishes, including a second place in the support race for the British Grand Prix, and finished the season in fourth overall.
Without the financial backing he had enjoyed during his time in Formula Ford, Webber and his team struggled to find the money to fund their championship campaign. He was almost forced to quit halfway through the season, but was able to obtain significant financial and personal support from Australian rugby union player David Campese, which helped him to complete the year. Mark has since stated he has been able to pay back the money Campese gave him.
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