Mark Webber Retires

Calibre11

You may have seen that Mark Webber announced his retirement this week- since finishing up in Formula 1, he's been racing with Porsche in the WEC.

As an Australian, Webber was a relief! We'd gone years without an F1 driver, so I'd followed Mark's career in the F3000 days and then his testing roles with Benetton. He got the job with Minardi in 2002 and then finished fifth in his first Grand Prix in Melbourne..and was invited up onto the podium with Paul Stoddard. I was also lucky enough to be at Monaco in 2010 when he was his first Monaco GP (and Dan Ricciardo won the Formula Renault 3.5 warm-up race for Red Bull).

And...there is a TAG Heuer connection! Webber was a TAG Heuer Ambassador from 2007 for a couple of years, but had to drop the deal when Casio signed up with Red Bull. Here he is with the Aquaracer

All the best for a well-earned retirement @aussiegrit 😉

Calibre11

You may have seen that Mark Webber announced his retirement this week- since finishing up in Formula 1, he's been racing with Porsche in the WEC.

As an Australian, Webber was a relief! We'd gone years without an F1 driver, so I'd followed Mark's career in the F3000 days and then his testing roles with Benetton. He got the job with Minardi in 2002 and then finished fifth in his first Grand Prix in Melbourne..and was invited up onto the podium with Paul Stoddard. I was also lucky enough to be at Monaco in 2010 when he was his first Monaco GP (and Dan Ricciardo won the Formula Renault 3.5 warm-up race for Red Bull).

And...there is a TAG Heuer connection! Webber was a TAG Heuer Ambassador from 2007 for a couple of years, but had to drop the deal when Casio signed up with Red Bull. Here he is with the Aquaracer

All the best for a well-earned retirement @aussiegrit 😉

WernerBoeinck

Fernando Alonso is interested to go into Mark Webber's footsteps and would like to join Porsche in LMP1!