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Mark Webber

He was born on August 27^th, 1976 in Queanbeyan in Australia. He is an Australian racing driver who raced for the Formula 1 world championship from the 2002 season to 2013. He is now dedicated to endurance with Porsche. Having started on two wheels.

Mark Webber started his driving carreer in karting in 1991. In 1994, at the age of 18, he competed in the Formula Ford Championship of Australia and had good results which allowed him to make the great leap towards England. In 1996 for his second season, he finished second in the British Formula 1 Ford championship and won the Formula 1 Ford Festival at Brands Hatch, a sort of unofficial world cup of the specialty. In 1997 Mark Webber accessed to the renowned British Championship Formula 3. Despite good results, he soon found himself confronted with the lack of budget. During the summer he was at the point of having to end his career, when he received a providential assistance from David Campese, the Australian rugby legend. This support allowed him to finish fourth in the overall standings and to be spotted by Mercedes making of him one of their official drivers in the FIA ​​GT Championship for the 1998 season. Associated with Bernd Shneider, Webber won five races but lost in the championship behind the other Mercedes duo consisting of Klaus Ludwig and Ricardo Zonta. In 1999, Mercedes withdrew from the FIA ​​GT championship to concentrate its efforts on the 24 Hours of the Mans. During his participation in Le Mans, Webber failed to conclude, due to an aerodynamic defect, the Mercedes Benz CLR ended in a series of loops, during practice on the Saturday morning.

During the race, the Scottish driver Peter Dumbreck experienced the same misadventure on another car brand. Webber came out every time without the slightest injury.

Cooled by his experience at Le Mans, Webber decided to return to the classic racing. In 2000, he joined the team Fomula 3000 Eurobet Arrows. He was regarded as the junior driver of the Arrows F1 team, led by his compatriot Paul Stoddart. Mark Webber took a little time to find his endurance place, after more than ten years of absence in the discipline.

After the Formula 1 (Red Bull) at WEC (Porsche) in 2014, he won three podiums with the help of Timo Bernhard and Brendon Hartley, he began the 2015 season quite brilliantly, he also made his first laps in Formula1 as a test driver.

Third in the final standings in his first season in the discipline, Mark Webber appears as the revelation of the championship and became a test driver for Benetton Formula 1 at the end of the year 2014. This position was not in question when, a few months later, Renault bought Benetton. Flavio Briatore even took him under his wing into signing a long-term management contract.

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