Midseason Report: Grading the Performance of Red Bull’s Mark Webber

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Published: August 6, 2013

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Fans of Formula One will know that Mark Webber is a down-to-earth personality, universally recognised as one of the circuit's nice guys. This was also clear from his appearance BBC’s Top Gear program on Sunday night.

Having worked closely with Webber during his time at Jaguar Racing, I can confirm that all the above is true. And after his announcement that he will leave F1 at the end of the season to join the Porsche Sportscar programme, I for one will be sad to see him go.

So how to grade him on his season so far? Well to be honest, it hasn't been great although some awful luck during the first half of the season has a lot to do with his fifth place standing in the championship.

Aside from his stunning and unexpected fifth place finish for Minardi on his grand prix debut, Webber has surprisingly never fared too well at his home grand prix in Melbourne and 2013 was sadly to be no different.

He gave himself a good chance by qualifying on the front row of the grid alongside teammate Sebastian Vettel but made a poor start, Lewis Hamilton and the Ferraris sailing past him as he got bogged down off the grid.

From then on he was always playing catch up and his sixth place finish was a disappointing way to end his Australia swansong.



Then Malaysia and we all know what happened there. With tyre preservation in mind after the final pit stops on lap 43, Red Bull issued the order ‘Multi 21’ to the drivers to maintain position until the finish, effectively giving Webber the race win.

Vettel chose to disobey team orders and three laps later barged his way past a bemused but battling Webber into turn four and kept the lead to the end. Webber, understandably, was not amused and the incident rekindled a feud that had been burning since Turkey 2010.

Matters went from bad to worse in China where Webber’s chances effectively ended on Saturday when h...
Article Source: Bleacher Report - Formula 1

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