Mark Alan Webber (born 27 August 1976)is an Australian Formula One driver, and the only Australian to have won a Formula One race since Alan Jones in 1981.
After some racing success in Australia, Mark Webber moved to the United Kingdom in 1995 to further his motorsport career.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.
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Mark Webber made his Formula One debut in 2002, scoring Minardi's first points in three years at his and Stoddart's home race. After his first season Jaguar Racing took him on as lead driver. 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. His first F1 win was the 2009 German Grand Prix, which followed second places at the 2009 Chinese, Turkish, and British Grands Prix. By the end of 2009, Webber had scored eight podiums, including another victory in Brazil. His eight podiums in 2009 compares to only two podiums in the first seven years of his career. He has since added four more podiums in 2010 as of round seven at Turkey, including victories in Spain, Monaco, and Britain. Webber was also a long-term director of the Grand Prix Drivers' Association, the Formula One drivers' union.
In 2010, Webber continued to race with Red Bull. Scoring points in every race so far, he qualified for pole position in Malaysia, Spain, Monaco and Turkey, winning in Spain and Monaco and coming second and third in Malaysia and Turkey respectively. After the Turkish Grand Prix, Webber led the drivers' championship, the first Australian to lead a Formula One championship since Alan Jones in 1981. Mark Webberwon his third race of the 2010 season at the British Grand Prix.
In June 2010, Red Bull Racing announced that Webber had signed a one-year extension to his contract, meaning that he will remain with the team for the 2011 Formula One season.
At the European Grand Prix, Webber crashed into the back of Heikki Kovalainen's Lotus while approaching turn 12 on the ninth lap, flipping his car and crashing into the tyre barrier. Webber received only minor injuries, but retired from the race.
