Monaco: As a race, Mark Webber loves Monaco. As a place, he would much rather be somewhere else.
Red Bull's gritty Australian racer has won the most glamorous event on the Formula One calendar twice in the last three years and counts doing so as one of the greatest thrills of his career.
The great outdoors remains his favourite surroundings, however, and unlike most other drivers he has shunned the Mediterranean millionaires' and tax exiles' playground for a more normal life with his dogs and partner in the English countryside.
"I think these guys if they had a choice they probably wouldn't be living here," he said of his rivals as he gestured out of the floating Red Bull hospitality centre, moored to the Monaco quayside....
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11:30 PM, May 22, 2013
Barcelona: Felipe Massa gave Ferrari a boost ahead of qualifying later on Saturday by posting the fastest time in the third and final practice session for the Spanish Grand Prix. The Brazilian driver left it very late in his run to clock a best time of 1 minute, 21.901 seconds in mostly sunny conditions, enough to edge out Lotus' Kimi Raikkonen by .006. Mark Webber was third quickest in his...
04:22 PM, May 11, 2013
Barcelona, Spain: Ferrari teammates Fernando Alonso and Felipe Massa posted the fastest times in the first practice session of the Spanish Grand Prix on Friday. After light rainfall early on, the track started to dry out midway through and times started tumbling towards the end of the session. Alonso clocked 1 minute, 25.252 seconds, making him 0.203 seconds quicker than Massa, who slowed down when he clipped a kerb late...
03:26 PM, May 10, 2013
New Delhi: Australian Formula 1 driver Mark Webber says he and Red Bull team-mate Sebastian Vettel share a great camaraderie despite what happened at the controversial Malaysian Grand Prix. On March 24 at the Sepang International Circuit, Webber led Vettel after the final pit stops and the drivers were told to hold position by team principal Christian Horner till the end of the race. But Vettel passed the Australian after...
03:43 PM, Apr 27, 2013
Sakhir: Ferrari driver Fernando Alonso recovered from a spin on Saturday to post the fastest lap in the third and final Formula One practice session for the Bahrain Grand Prix. Looking for his second consecutive victory after ending a 12-race drought in China last weekend, Alonso completed a lap in 1:33.247 to finish 0.101 head of three-time defending F1 champion Sebastian Vettel. Red Bull team-mate Mark Webber was third fastest,...
02:55 PM, Apr 20, 2013
Sakhir: Lotus driver Kimi Raikkonen drove the fastest time in the second practice for the Bahrain Grand Prix, followed by the Red Bulls of Mark Webber and Sebastian Vettel on Friday. Raikkonen, who won the season-opening Australian GP and lay second behind Vettel in the drivers' championship, was 0.03 seconds faster than Webber and 0.12 quicker than Vettel. Ferrari's Fernando Alonso was fourth while his teammate Felipe Massa, who topped...
06:56 PM, Apr 19, 2013
Bahrain: With just three days to go for the Bahrain Grand Prix, Red Bull driver Mark Webber is in a big dilemma ahead of his career's 200th appearance. The 2013 season has also brought many troubles for the Australian. This season, just two drivers have reached the milestone of hitting the circuit for the 200th time in their glorious career. Fernando Alonso of Ferrari achieved the feat at the Malaysian...
12:33 PM, Apr 19, 2013
Manama: Mark Webber left the big question unanswered at the Bahrain Grand Prix on Thursday: Who paid for his dinner with Fernando Alonso? Ferrari's Alonso, the race winner in China last Sunday, set the ball rolling earlier in the week when he posted a picture on Twitter of himself and Webber dining together in Dubai. Alonso then deleted the image but Webber had copied and 'retweeted' it. Formula One's conspiracy...
10:24 PM, Apr 18, 2013
Manama: Formula One's most controversial race, the Bahrain Grand Prix with its simmering backdrop of teargas and petrol bombs, might just give Mark Webber something to celebrate on Sunday. Red Bull's Australian has had a pretty thin time of it recently but Sunday's race, in a tiny Gulf kingdom troubled by civil unrest since a 2011 uprising, will be the 200th grand prix of his career. The 36-year-old has been...
08:48 PM, Apr 17, 2013
Manama: Pirelli are coming under pressure to make longer-lasting Formula One tyres after Sunday's Chinese Grand Prix saw drivers lifting off the throttle rather than go flat-out to the flag. Australian Mark Webber started from the Shanghai pit lane and pulled back in again after just one lap to get rid of his Red Bull's quick-wearing soft tyres as soon as he possibly could. After seven laps, there had been...
08:17 PM, Apr 15, 2013
Shanghai: Red Bull boss Christian Horner slammed Formula One conspiracy theorists on Sunday after Mark Webber's Chinese Grand Prix ended with a wheel coming off his car and a penalty for causing a collision. The Australian, barely on speaking terms with world champion team mate Sebastian Vettel after a 'team orders' row at the previous race in Malaysia, had started from the pitlane after Red Bull failed to put enough...
08:46 PM, Apr 14, 2013
Shanghai: First no fuel in qualifying, then without a wheel in the race, Mark Webber ended a dismal Chinese Grand Prix weekend with his Red Bull rolling into retirement while a rear tyre bounced down the track on Sunday. Starting from the pitlane after being sent to the back of the grid because Red Bull failed to put enough fuel in his car for Saturday's qualifying, the Australian lasted just...
03:58 PM, Apr 14, 2013
Shanghai: Red Bull principal Christian Horner denied on Friday that Sebastian Vettel had weakened the boss's position at the Formula One champions by ignoring orders in Malaysia last month. "Is my leadership undermined? I don't think so," the Briton told reporters at the Chinese Grand Prix, referring to his team's three successive drivers' and constructors' world championships. "I've led the team from the time that Red Bull entered the sport...
11:40 PM, Apr 12, 2013
Shanghai: Mark Webber recognised his mistake on Thursday after returning with a mean new look to a Formula One paddock buzzing with talk of war at Red Bull between the Australian and world champion team-mate Sebastian Vettel. "It was a little bit of a screw up," grinned the driver when asked whether the severe haircut was a reflection of his mood after Vettel ignored team orders and passed him to...
11:21 PM, Apr 11, 2013
London: Formula One drivers have a duty to obey team orders, Lotus principal Eric Boullier said on Friday as the after-shocks of Sebastian Vettel's controversial Malaysian Grand Prix win rumbled on. World champion Vettel triumphed for Red Bull in Sepang after ignoring instructions to stay in second place behind Australian team-mate Mark Webber. "Team orders are part of the sport," Boullier declared in a preview of next week's Chinese Grand...
10:26 PM, Apr 05, 2013
New Delhi: Has Sebastian Vettel's act of defying team orders in Malaysia diminished the accomplishments of the youngest Formula 1 triple world champion? Only time will tell whether Vettel ignoring Red Bull team boss Christian Horner's instructions to not overtake teammate Mark Webber made him a lesser legend. But F1 experts have raised questions over the sportsmanship the German displayed at the Sepang International Circuit to win the race March...
07:03 PM, Apr 04, 2013
After Malaysian Grand Prix Vettel has emerged as a ruthless, cunning driver who will do whatever it takes to win a race. ...
11:28 PM, Mar 29, 2013
Vettel had also apologised to Webber in a news conference after Sunday's race, saying he had made a mistake. ...
08:06 PM, Mar 28, 2013
Red Bull have dismissed reports that Australian Mark Webber is certain to leave at the end of the season. ...
11:38 PM, Mar 27, 2013
