...will not be in the NHRA.
Mark shouldn't feel any resentment toward Vettel for being the clear #1. He knows very well that Vettel deserves his praise, and that Mark can't start to save his life. I'd be shocked if Webber is still at RB next year.
This weekend the Aussies inaugurated two bronze statues honoring Jack Brabham and Alan Jones. I doubt there will ever be a third statue for Webber.
He may make a good commentator after he retires. He's intelligent and seems to have a good personality when he's not frustrated with being walked over by Vettel. Mark
Whilst accepting that Webber has not been a great starter in recent years, today's poor start was not really his fault: (From: Mark Webber suffers ECU glitch | Australian Grand Prix | Formula 1 news, live F1 | ESPN.co.uk ) : Red Bull team principal Christian Horner revealed that the McLaren-supplied ECU had stopped telemetry getting back to the race engineers and as a result Webber wasn't given an ideal clutch bite point and then suffered a KERS failure. "Mark's problems were hugely frustrating because it was an ECU issue and that is supplied by a third party," Horner said. "We lost all telemetry on the formation lap and then you can't do the preparation you need to at the start. That meant he was blind for the start and that ECU issue shut the KERS down as well. By the time we reset the whole system he'd lost the ground at the start. It's something that they need to get on top of because there has been a lot of issues during testing." It's a bit like taking the p:censored:s out of a drag racer for a poor quarter mile time when his supercharger blew up at the lights!
Which is why F1 sucks. You barely even drive anymore, all you do is command what a computer does for you.
With all due respect, complete & utter nonsense IMESHO. They've banned pretty much all "driver aids" like we have in road cars. No TC, ABS etc. It is very much an engineering (design it, build it) and drivers championship. The 'puters are just a part of that. And if you happen to be Mark, Crazy-Helmut will ensure you moonwalk at the start. Has he *ever* had a good "bite point" set in his clutch?....... Cheers, Ian
Oz was not Web's fault as he had technical issues from before the start. Clutch bite was wrong, telemetry was off, tires weren't working, kers out. Just a bad weekend for Webbo.
LOL!! There is not a single instance of Webber getting a bad start that he hasn't come out with an excuse afterwards. -My tires were shot -There was dirt on the track -I couldn't see the lights for the sun -Car problem -Engine seemed to develop a miss -ECU glitch -Traction control overreacted -Had to let off because of traffic and on and on. He is no different than any other racer I've ever met... whenever they mess up, you get a list of excuses that make it totally and completely not their fault. Isn't it funny how we always hear of how a wing was damaged and caused someone to be slow, or a hydraulic issue contributed to a bad lap time... but yet we see cars with damaged bodywork going just as fast as they were before the damage. So Mark didn't have "the ideal clutch bite point". That's why he got a bad start? And what about the dozens of other starts that were bad - those were all equipment problems too? I have a simpler answer... Webber flubbed the start, as he does all the starts, because he's not a good starter. Perhaps the lack of the perfect clutch bite point contributed 0.05% to his problem, but the other 99.5% was the guy in the cockpit's fault.
+1 I really did LOL at his onboard - Rewound it a few times just for the entertainment value! Cars passing him on all sides! "Moonwalking" doesn't even do him justice! Cheers, Ian
Remember Marks only good start?, at Silverstone a few years ago ... and how he pushed Vettel on to the grass. RB have an "ensure Webber gets a poor start button" IMO to ensure this does not happen again, or it is called remove his KERS. There is no way he would have got to F1 if he really was a poor starter, there must be another factor. Pete
Webbers race pace has proven that he is no match for Vettel... so all RBR would be doing by holding him back is costing themselves millions of dollars in constructors points. There's no way they would do that... the conspiracy theories are nuts... RBR wants to come in 1 and 2 in every race. Vettel is capable of doing that. Webber isn't. He's just way too slow.
Are you trying to tell us you don't think Redbull would sabotage Webber's whole season and the constructor's championship becuase he ONCE challenged Vettel at the start of a race??? Really??? That's just crazy talk. Mark
Not really! - Red Bull spend so much time making sure Vettel's car is bulletproof that they only have enough time left over to quickly cobble a car together for Webber!
