Category: Mark Webber

Mark Webber has said that the new generation of F1 drivers bear little resemblance to the older ones.

At the presumably accepted risk of sounding like Victor Meldrew, Webber said that the younger drivers were mollycoddled because they had power steering and semi-automatic gearboxes.  Read more... (263 words, estimated 1:03 mins reading time)

Dietrich Mateschitz believes that his team must fight for both world titles this season, to confirm its place amongst the sport’s front runners.

Red Bull Racing finished runners up in both the drivers and constructors championship last year, after just missing out to Jenson Button and Brawn GP.  Read more... (344 words, estimated 1:23 mins reading time)

Mark Webber upset the perceived form book today at the Circuit de Catalunya with a series of extremely quick laps that put his closest rivals more than a second behind him.

The Australian pushed his new Red Bull RB6 to new heights over a series of qualifying simulations, the evaluation of which will hopefully give some indication of the teams’ relative pace in the coming days.  Read more... (289 words, estimated 1:09 mins reading time)

Jenson Button ended the final day of testing at Jerez on top, as the team’s enjoyed their first rain-free session of the week.  Read more... (341 words, estimated 1:22 mins reading time)

Red Bull Racing has signalled its intent to win both Formula One world championships after Mark Webber set a blistering time to top the third day of testing in Jerez.

Making use of the first dry day of event, Webber demonstrated some of Red Bull’s potential with a lap time of 1:19.299 – 0.284s quicker than any F1 driver at Jerez this year.  Read more... (370 words, estimated 1:29 mins reading time)

Mark Webber has said that a lack of consistency is to blame for Red Bull’s failure to win either the drivers’ or the constructors’ world titles this season.

Writing in his BBC website column, the Australian who was victorious on Sunday in Brazil blamed the little errors that his team made for the lack of silverware in 2009.  Read more... (258 words, estimated 1:02 mins reading time)

Button knows he must take the fight to Red Bull in Budapest.

This week the F1 circus trooped into Budapest for the latest instalment of a remarkable championship. The Hungarian Grand Prix this weekend will be interesting for what it says about the rest of the season; it will go some way to telling the world how well-prepared Brawn are to fight off the increasingly impressive Red Bull challenge.  Read more... (559 words, 1 image, estimated 2:14 mins reading time)

Mark Webber has had his contract extended by Red Bull Racing to the end of next year, on the back of his superb recovery from serious injury.

The Milton Keynes-based team’s hierarchy have been strongly impressed by the way Webber has fought back from his pre-season cycling accident into contention for the world championship.  Read more... (239 words, 1 image, estimated 57 secs reading time)

Mark Webber has laid down the gauntlet to his team-mate Sebastian Vettel by blaming his cycling injury for early season lack of form.

The Australian, who took his first win on Sunday at the Nurburgring, accepted Vettel had been quicker in the first part of the season but attributed it to recovering from his pre-season accident in Tasmania.  Read more... (238 words, estimated 57 secs reading time)

1980 world champion Alan Jones has backed his fellow Australian Mark Webber to take the world title – but in 2010.

The ex-Williams man says Webber has now learned how to win, but that Jenson Button will probably still take the title by virtue of the Englishman’s still-comfy points advantage.  Read more... (262 words, estimated 1:03 mins reading time)