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Mark Alan Webber (natural August 27, 1976) is an Australian Formula One driver.
He was natural inside Queanbeyan, New South Wales and currently sleep in Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, England with his girlfriend/manager, Ann Neal. By having wins in the 1996 Formula Ford festival and a 2001 Monaco F3000 race to his credit, Webber signed with Mercedes and made his Formula 1 debut inside Melbourne with Minardi in 2002, finishing with the Fifth place effect. He has got many top Pentad performances in a 1-lap qualifying throughout the 2003 season.
Webber began his relationship by owning sport young. He spent instance as a tyke as a ball-son for the premiership winning rugby league team, the Canberra Raiders, of the late 1980s. Such as virtually all Formula A single drivers, Mark Webber's journeying to the pinnacle of the sport began within karting. Various wins at Australian state level prompted a enter Formulthe Ford, inside which Webber scored many triumph, including a win in the Formula Ford trend lines race at the final Adelaide Grand Prix in 1995 and third in the 1995 Duckhams Formula Ford Festival at Brands Hatch on his international racing debut.
His possible apparent, Webber was quickly snapped higher per globe's leading Formula Ford manufacturer, Van Diemen, to race in the 1996 British Formula Ford Championship – but not before he won a Formula Holden trend lines race at a initiatory Melbourne Grand Prix.
Webber's number 1 month of European racing was successful. He finished 2nd in a British Formula Ford Championship by owning quaternity wins & ended a year by winning a prestigious Duckhams Formula Ford Festival at Brands Hatch, joining the likes of Johnny Herbert, Eddie Irvine, Jan Magnussen and Jenson Button in the winners' circle.
Times when his Festival triumph, Webber completed a successful line 1 text using a Alan Docking Formula 3 racing team & was asked to spearhead the team for the 1997 season. He win his for ever F3 race at Brands Hatch on his way to for in the championship. He besides finished third in the annual Marlboro Masters at Zandvoort and fourth in the category's other blue ribbon event, a Macau F3 Grand Prix.
His Formulthe 3 successes preceded a cause for AMG in the 1998 FIA GT Championship; Webber partnering reigning GT globe champion Bernd Schneider in the #1 AMG Mercedes CLK GTR to five triumph, losing call at the championship by upright eight seconds when the thrilling final spherical at Laguna Seca in California.
Left by using a AMG Mercedes sports car team, Webber began a 1999 season with first driver status & his have car. A team's race programme for a year was severely reduced, even so, prior to a season began while the FIA GT Championship was cancelled across want of entries, allowing Mercedes to concentrate their efforts into a 5 race programme, including the 24 hours of Le Mans and selected rounds of the U.s. Le Mans series. However a programme collapsed inside outstanding fashion after Webber's CLR became airborne during Thursday's drill at Le Mans, somersaulting many days prior to coming to rest.
The recently car was built eventually for Saturday's race however in Webber's foremost lap away from a pits in a morning caring-higher session, exactly the equivalent tool happened once more—this period fully learn from of TV cameras, drivers & spectators. Webber was once again fortunate to escape unscathed however 5 hours into a race, his team-mate, Peter Dumbreck, had an monovular flip & Mercedes withdrew its remaining car immediately. A rest of the season's programme was shelved & a cars were never raced once more.
In the wake up of his Le Mans personal experience, Webber pushed stiff for the go to to only-seater racing, parthian company by owning AMG & Mercedes. An introduction to fellow Australian Paul Stoddart by Eddie Jordan heralded a cause for European Formula Racing in the F3000 Championship. Despite his rawness, Webber quickly surged into an unexpected early lead in a championship prior to yet finishing third—the greatest situated cub in the 2000 series.
Fallowing declining a locate the Arrows team around July '00, Webber completed the triad-day F1 end line text for Benetton at Estoril, topping the days ahead of Giancarlo Fisichella and Ralf Schumacher. His telling performances for Benetton secured Webber a role of official trial & reserve driver for 2001, a year that also saw him finish runner-second best in the 2001 FIA International Formula 3000 Championship for Supernova.
By using the move as much as Formula Of these firmly within his sights, Webber's management sustaining success negotiated the cause with Paul Stoddart's KL Minardi Asiatech team for 2002. It proved to become a breakthrough month, Webber arguably proving to become the right of this year's quadruplet cub drivers despite his underpowered car.
within his Grand Prix debut in front yard soil in Melbourne, Webber finished a todays fifth rendering the Italian phoxinus phoxinus their number one championship points since 1999. Within doing and so, he be just a 4th Australian driver to ever score globe championship points. He likewise comprehensively outqualified team-mate Alex Yoong & Anthony Davidson within each race of the year.
Inside 2003, Webber was the lead driver for the revitalized Jaguar Racing. Webber was remarkable inside his 1st year sustaining a team, scoring Xvii of their Eighteen points, & placing 10th in the Drivers' Championship, although historically a Jagaur team (& a Stewart Grand Prix team it bought out) had merely ran 1 competitory car. His team-mate Antonio Pizzonia and Justin Wilson have subsequently impressed several.
Webber mass produced a great begin to his 2004 F1 season, qualifying Sixth & 2d severally around the number one 2 races, though he was unable to finish either, & his nasty run in Malaysia proved average. At a middle of a year it was announced that Ford were merchandising the team & that Webber would exist as moving to Williams-BMW after which he made little impression & managed to prevent his final race by owning Felis onca by strike his have team mate Christian Klien
Webber has joined a Williams-BMW team for 2005. Originally opposite to cause using Jenson Button his final team mate, determined under a controversial gunfight sustaining eventual trial driver Antonio Pizzonia, is the German Nick Heidfeld. Webber acheived his number one F1 stump by finishing third at a 2005 Monaco Grand Prix., although Heidfeld was second therein race, & in the 2005 European Grand Prix, in which Mark crashed on the number one lap, & is in the lead in the championship. Using a announcement that BMW & Williams come to section company Webber's new profits is undecipherable.
Season by season results
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2002: Minardi-Asiatech - 2 pts, 16th around Championship
2003: Jaguar-Cosworth - 17 pts, 10th in Championship
2004: Jaguar-Cosworth - 7 pts, 13th within Championship
2005: Williams-BMW - 36 pts, 10th in Championship
Complete Formula One results
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