Continuing in the series in 1995, Webber scored several victories, including a win in the support race for the Australian Grand Prix at Adelaide. Working as a driving instructor at Sydney's Oran Park Raceway between races, Webber finished 14th overall in his debut season. He won the New South Wales state championship in 1993, and moved straight into the Australian Formula Ford Championship after his father bought him an ex- Craig Lowndes Van Diemen FF1600. Starting out racing motorcycles, Webber moved to four wheels in 1991, taking up karting at the relatively late age of 15. However, motorsport was where his interest lay, later listing Formula One World Champion Alain Prost and Grand Prix motorcycle racer Kevin Schwantz as his childhood heroes. He started his relationship with sport young, working as a ball-boy for premiership winning rugby league team the Canberra Raiders during the late 1980s. Mark Webber was born in Queanbeyan, New South Wales, son of Alan, the local motorcycle dealer. He has won the annual F1 Pro-Am tennis tournament in Barcelona three times and has recently set up the 'Mark Webber Pure Tasmania Challenge' trek across Tasmania to raise funds for cancer charities.
Webber is a keen sportsman away from the track. He joined the former championship winning Williams team in 2005, for whom he achieved his best finish in Formula One to date a third place at the 2005 Monaco Grand Prix. During two years with the generally uncompetitive team Webber several times qualified on the front two rows of the grid and outperformed his team mates. After an impressive first season, Jaguar Racing took him on as lead driver. Webber made an emotional debut in Formula One in 2002, scoring Minardi's first points in three years at his and Stoddart's home race. After Mercedes' withdrawal from the race, Webber began a partnership with fellow Australian Paul Stoddart, at that time owner of the European racing Formula 3000 team, which eventually took them both into Formula One when Stoddart bought the Minardi team. He continued to win, although he gained his biggest headlines while driving for the Mercedes-Benz sports car squad at Le Mans in 1999 where he had two spectacular accidents during practice and warmup in which an aerodynamic fault caused the car to somersault off the Mulsanne straight. He is the first Australian to race in Formula One since David Brabham in 1994.Īfter some racing success in Australia, Webber moved to the UK in 1995 to further his motorsports career. He was born in Queanbeyan, New South Wales, son of Alan, the local motorcycle dealer. Mark Alan Webber (born August 27, 1976) is an Australian Formula One driver. Webber in Sydney before the start of the 2005 season Related subjects: Sports and games people Mark Webber
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