The subject of a major TV network news magazine story, actor Mark Webber was raised by his single mother in the slums of North Philadelphia, where they spent a great deal of time homeless, living in cars and abandoned buildings, and struggling to survive during the harsh winters. Mark and his mother have been outspoken homeless advocates for many years and continue to be, walking in protests, helping to educate voters, and volunteering to help provide food and shelter to the urban poor in Philadelphia and elsewhere.
name | Mark Webber |
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nationality | n |
birth date | August 27, 1976 |
2011 team | Red Bull Racing |
2011 car number | 2 |
races | 171 (169 starts) |
championships | 0 |
wins | 6 |
podiums | 27 |
points | 578.5 |
poles | 9 |
fastest laps | 11 |
first race | 2002 Australian Grand Prix |
first win | 2009 German Grand Prix |
last win | 2010 Hungarian Grand Prix |
last race | |
last season | 2010 |
last position | 3rd (242 pts) }} |
years | – |
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team(s) | AMG-Mercedes |
class wins | }} |
After some racing success in Australia, 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.
Webber made his Formula One debut in , 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 with Red Bull Racing in 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 compares to only two podiums in the first seven years of his career. He has since added ten more podiums in , including victories in Spain, Monaco, Britain and Hungary. Webber finished the 2010 season in third place having led for a long period, losing out to teammate Sebastian Vettel.
Webber was also a long-term director of the Grand Prix Drivers' Association, the Formula One drivers' union.
Webber took victory in just his fourth ever F3 race, at Brands Hatch, leading from start to finish and setting a new lap record in the process. He took a further four podium finishes, including a second place in the support race for the 1997 British Grand Prix, and finished the season in fourth overall. Webber also took strong finishes in the Marlboro Masters at Zandvoort (3rd) and the Macau Grand Prix (4th), both times making his circuit debut.
During the 1997 season, Webber was approached by Mercedes-AMG to compete in a sports car race. Although he initially declined the offer he was persuaded at the end of the year when invited to participate in a test session for the team at the A1-Ring in Austria. AMG were suitably impressed with Webber, and he was signed as the official Mercedes works junior driver for the 1998 FIA GT Championship, alongside reigning champion Bernd Schneider. Travelling around the world, including the United States, Japan and Europe, the pair won five of the ten rounds on their way to second in the overall standings, beaten to the Championship by teammates Klaus Ludwig and Ricardo Zonta by just eight seconds in the final race at Laguna Seca. Webber remained with the AMG team for 1999, and was promoted to his own race car for the season. However, his sportscar career came to an early end after he flipped twice on the Mulsanne straight during practice for the 1999 24 Hours of Le Mans race. An aerodynamic fault on the team's Mercedes-Benz CLRs caused Webber to spectacularly become airborne during both practice and race-day warm up, with the same fate befalling teammate Peter Dumbreck five hours into the race. Both drivers escaped uninjured, but the crashes forced Mercedes to shelve their sportscar program for the year and Webber to reconsider a return to open wheel racing.
Webber was signed as test driver for the Arrows F1 team for 2000, and also gained sponsorship from Australian beer company Foster's whilst competing in Formula 3000. Webber took victory in round two of the season at Silverstone, and finished the series with two fastest laps and three podiums on his way to third overall—the highest position of any rookie that year. Contract issues meant that Webber was never able to drive the Arrows A21 car, and rejected a full contract offer for 2001 in July. However, he was offered a three day evaluation test for Benetton at the end of the year, outpacing F1 drivers Ralf Schumacher and Giancarlo Fisichella at Estoril. The results were good enough to earn him the test driver role with the team for 2001, and he also agreed to take on team boss Flavio Briatore as manager in return for finance for a further F3000 season. Webber joined the championship-winning Super Nova Racing team, and despite winning at Imola, Monaco and Magny-Cours, he finished second overall to British driver Justin Wilson. Webber was replaced as test driver for Benetton for 2002 by Fernando Alonso, but Briatore managed to secure Webber a contract to race alongside Alex Yoong in the Stoddart-owned Minardi team, making him the first Australian in Formula One since David Brabham in 1994.
Webber was forced into retirement in the , before picking up consecutive 11th-place finishes in the following two races. He, along with Yoong, was forced to pull out of the due to potentially dangerous wing failures during the weekend.
Webber picked up two more 11th place finishes, but was unable to score points for the remainder of the year, his next best result coming in France, where he finished 8th. In the , Webber lost two kilograms in weight over the length of the race as he was forced to drive without a drink after his water bottle broke. Webber was able to outqualify Yoong (and Anthony Davidson, who replaced Yoong for the Hungarian and Belgian Grands Prix) in every race, and his two points in Australia were the only points that Minardi scored all season, helping them to 9th in the Constructors' Championship, ahead of Toyota and Arrows. Webber's results earned him the "Rookie of the Year" award in ''F1 Racing'' magazine's annual Man of the Year awards (receiving 53.70% of public votes), the Autosport.com "Rookie of the Year" award and "F1 Newcomer of the Year" at the annual Grand Prix Party "Bernie" Awards. In light of his season, notable Formula One journalist Peter Windsor related Webber to World Champion Nigel Mansell, saying they had similar amounts of "raw talent". In November 2002 it was announced that Webber would join Jaguar Racing for the following season alongside Brazilian Williams test driver Antônio Pizzonia.
Webber took provisional pole position in Friday qualifying of the , out-qualifying local driver Rubens Barrichello by 0.138 seconds during a rain-affected session. He continued his good performance in the Saturday session taking a career-best 3rd on the grid, Jaguar Racing's best qualifying performance in their four-year Formula One history. In the race, which was hit heavily by rain, Webber was in seventh place when he attempted to cool his tyres by driving through a puddle lying off-line in the final corner. The resultant lack of grip caused Webber to crash heavily into the pit straight walls, leaving debris on the track which caused a second major crash; Fernando Alonso hitting a stray tyre. The race was subsequently red-flagged, and although Webber was originally classified in 7th, an FIA investigation found a timekeeping error which meant that Webber was placed 9th in the re-classification.
Webber's good qualifying form continued into the but at the start of the race he had dropped from 5th to 11th by the first corner due to a launch control failure that affected both Jaguars. He retired from the race after 54 laps with a driveshaft failure, his fourth consecutive non-finish for the year. His luck improved in the following races though, taking his first points in Spain and signing a new 2-year contract with the team reportedly worth $US6 million per season.
He then went on to score points in five of the next six races on his way to moving into the top 10 in the World Drivers' Championship, the run of results interrupted only by an engine failure in Monaco. One of his best races came in Austria where despite starting from the pitlane and suffering a drive-through penalty he set the race's third fastest lap, behind only the Ferraris of Michael Schumacher and Rubens Barrichello, finishing in 7th place.
At the , as the procession of cars exited the Becketts corner onto the Hangar straight on lap 11, now-defrocked priest Neil Horan cleared the fence wearing a kilt whilst waving banners with the statements "Read the Bible" and "The Bible is always right". Horan ran towards the sequence of cars forcing several cars to swerve to avoid him. Webber came closest to hitting Horan in a terrifying parallel to the accident at the 1977 South African Grand Prix where volunteer track marshal, Jansen Van Vuuren, ran across the main straight to aid a car and was hit at by Welsh driver Tom Pryce. The safety car was deployed to remove Horan from the track, and Webber eventually finished 14th.
After Silverstone, Webber had scored 12 Championship points, compared to Pizzonia's 0, and after much speculation it was announced that Minardi driver Justin Wilson would replace the Brazilian for the remainder of the year. The saw Webber's sixth retirement of the season after he made a last lap lunge on Jenson Button in an attempt to salvage a point from the weekend.
Consecutive points finishes in Hungary and Italy saw Webber climb to ninth in the drivers' standings with a 5 point margin over Button. He was unable to hold onto this position however, after one too many laps on dry tyres saw him spin out from the lead of the , and a disappointing 11th-place result in Japan. These meant that he had finished on equal points with Button but lost out on a countback.
Although Wilson scored a point in the United States Grand Prix, Webber had still never been outqualified by a team-mate and, late in the year, Jaguar announced that rookie Christian Klien would team up with Webber for the 2004 season. Webber's results again earned him plaudits in the press, winning the 2003 "Driver of the Year" award from ''Autocar'' magazine.
The situation improved for the following race in Bahrain though, as Webber picked up his first point for the season despite a small mistake in qualifying which left him starting 14th and marked the first time he had been outqualified by his team-mate in F1. He was unable to continue his point scoring form, however, as intermittent electrical problems in San Marino and a lack of grip in Spain meant that he could do no better than 13th and 12th in those races.
Webber suffered two engine failures in practice for the , the first of which forced Webber to extinguish it himself after being unable to find a track-side marshal willing to help. In the race, Webber was forced to retire due to a loss of engine power. He was able to pick up two Championship points in the following race with a seventh place finish in the . Webber had lined up 14th on the grid, after being handed a one-second penalty for yellow flag infringements during Friday practice, but was able to move through the field to take his points tally to 3. After the race, he was criticised by Michael Schumacher for refusing to yield when Webber had emerged from his pit stop slightly ahead of (but one lap behind) Schumacher. Upon hearing the comments, Webber said he "would do exactly the same again" in the same situation.
There were consecutive retirements in Canada, where he was hit by Klien, and the United States where he suffered an oil leak. A change of luck gained him a 9th place finish in the and preceded a further championship point in the ; although his total of 4 points compared unfavourably to his 12 scored by the same time in the previous season. It was at this stage that former team-mate Pizzonia returned to racing as a replacement for the injured Ralf Schumacher and accused Jaguar of favouritism towards Webber during their time as team-mates saying that Webber received new car parts one or two races before Pizzonia. The claims were categorically denied by Jaguar boss David Pitchforth, and whilst Webber did not publicly comment on the situation at the time he had his best result of the season finishing sixth in the , running ahead of Pizzonia for the entire race. Meanwhile, reports emerged that Jaguar could not guarantee that they would compete in Formula One for the 2005 season and on 28 July, it was announced that Webber would drive for WilliamsF1 for 2005 and beyond. He would later admit this was the team that his "heart was always set on". Webber was unable to build on his points tally, however, and 10th place in Hungary followed by a first-lap accident in Belgium with 9th in Italy and 10th in China saw him sitting 13th in the Championship.
The penultimate race of the season, the saw Webber produce another good qualifying effort as he set the third fastest time. His race ended prematurely though when he suffered from a badly overheating cockpit, the cause of which could not be determined by Jaguar. The marked both Webber's last race for Jaguar and Jaguar's last race in Formula One, ending sadly for the team, as Klien turned in to a corner colliding with Webber as the Australian attempted to make up for a pit stop delay earlier in the race. Webber was forced to retire due to the damage and watched the remainder of the race from the grass on the outside of turn 1 as Klien finished 14th.
Heidfeld was finally announced as Webber's 2005 team-mate at the Williams season launch on 31 January, with Webber admitting he was pleased with the eventual decision. Webber's move to Williams brought about comparisons to Alan Jones, Australia's last F1 World Champion, also in a Williams. Expectations were high as Webber's former team boss Paul Stoddart predicted Webber would take his first victory in 2005 while Williams technical director Sam Michael said Webber would eventually win the World Championship with Williams.
After qualifying fifth in Bahrain, Webber had been as high as third place in the race but he ultimately finished sixth, taking his points tally to 7 for the season. He followed this up by qualifying fourth and finishing a disappointing 10th after twice running wide off the track in the , although his position was revised to 7th after the disqualification of the BAR team and a resulting penalty to Ralf Schumacher. The race was a poor one for Williams (Heidfeld was 9th before the reclassification), but Webber hit back at the , qualifying 2nd and finishing 6th – his fourth points scoring finish in the first five races.
The following race in Monaco saw Webber take third place, the first podium finish of his career. On the rostrum Webber looked noticeably disappointed with the result after losing second place to team-mate Heidfeld due to the Williams team pitting Heidfeld before Webber causing Webber to lose time behind the slow Alonso. Webber had been ahead of Heidfeld for most of the race and would probably still have been second had the team pitted them in the more regular sequence. This best result of Webber's career was followed by one of his worst at the when, after qualifying third, he locked his brakes in the very first corner of the race and collided with Juan Pablo Montoya, forcing him to retire. Heidfeld started from pole position to finish in second place overtaking Webber in championship points in the process.
The race in Canada was affected by this previous result, as Webber was only able to qualify 14th, but he was pleased with an eventual 5th-place finish and a further 4 Championship points. The was the beginning of a lean streak for Webber with just one point-scoring finish in the next seven races, a seventh in Hungary, and by this stage he had slipped from 6th to 10th in the World Championship. Webber had another poor race in Turkey where he collided with Michael Schumacher after the German changed lines in the braking area, causing extensive damage to both cars.
With Heidfeld injured, Webber's former Jaguar team-mate Antônio Pizzonia stepped into the second Williams seat adding pressure on Webber to perform well given the public argument the pair had towards the end of 2004. The saw Pizzonia driving to seventh whilst Webber was caught up in a first-corner incident which led to him finishing 14th. The roles were reversed for the following race in Belgium as Webber finished in fourth place and Pizzonia retired after a collision with Juan Pablo Montoya in the closing laps. With rumours spreading that Heidfeld had in fact signed with BMW Sauber for the 2006 season, Pizzonia continued in the race seat, and in the , was clipped by David Coulthard in turn one. The contact caused Pizzonia to spin into the path of Webber forcing extensive repairs to the Australian's car. Webber took 17th place, setting the 8th fastest lap of the race, but was not classified as a finisher.
The final two races of the season saw Webber take 4th and 7th to consolidate his 10th place in the Drivers' Championship. Webber described the 2005 season as "frustrating" and acknowledged that his reputation had somewhat diminished but opted to stay on with Williams despite an offer from BMW Sauber. Webber's team-mate for 2006 would be German Nico Rosberg, becoming the seventh driver to partner Webber since 2002.
Webber was awarded the Lorenzo Bandini Trophy in 2006 for his 2005 season.
Webber's two following races in Malaysia and Australia were cut short due to mechanical problems. In Malaysia, Webber started 4th on the grid and was still running in that position before a hydraulics failure ended his race on lap 14. In his home race, Webber qualified seventh and was leading the race before his gearbox failed on lap 22. A sixth-place finish in San Marino saw Webber move up to 9th in the Championship. In the , hydraulics failure struck again ending his race after he had fought his way back to 12th from his 19th place start on the grid due to a mid-weekend engine change.
The marked the first time Webber failed to make the top 10 cut-off in the new qualifying system and he struggled during the race finishing ninth. Monaco, however, saw a huge improvement with Webber qualifying on the front row, after Michael Schumacher's grid penalty, holding third for a large part of the race before retiring when his exhaust burned a wiring loom. Webber's car was not as disadvantaged as at most other venues, as aerodynamic efficiency is not as important at Monaco.
At the , Webber was taken out on the first lap after an incident with Ralf Schumacher and Scott Speed. In France, Webber suffered a spectacular tyre blowout at maximum speed which he managed to control and return to the pits, parking in the garage. Germany was one of Webber's strongest races of the year where he was on target for a podium finish until mechanical failure stopped him with only 9 laps to go. The was another retirement for Webber as he slid into a barrier in the wet conditions and crushed his front wing under the chassis of the Williams. He finished only 10th in Turkey, where despite running fourth after a first-lap accident, he struggled from then on.
After another disappointing qualifying session at the where he qualified 19th, he finished in tenth place. In China, Webber scored Williams' first point since Rosberg's 7th in the European Grand Prix by finishing eighth, after passing the struggling David Coulthard in the closing stages of the race, after qualifying 14th. He qualified in the same position in Japan, but a lack of grip from his Bridgestone tyres saw him crash out of the race after 39 laps. His last race for Williams and the final race of 2006 at the ended in disappointment. After starting 11th, he contrived to collide with his team-mate Rosberg on the first lap and suffered terminal damage to the rear of the car. As a result, Rosberg had a big shunt at the end of the lap. Overall, it was a generally dismal season for Webber, scoring only 7 points to finish 14th overall in the drivers championship.
After some speculation of Webber joining the Renault team, which was run by Briatore, it was announced on 7 August 2006 that Webber would join Red Bull Racing for to partner David Coulthard, replacing former Jaguar Racing team mate Christian Klien. It is rumoured that Briatore arranged an agreement with Red Bull that, if they offered Webber a race seat, Renault would supply them with engines. On 26 January 2007 the new Red Bull RB3 challenger was unveiled in Spain, and Webber drove the car in a shakedown in Barcelona on the same day. The car featured heavy revisions to the team's previous cars and looked very much like designer Adrian Newey's previous cars which had either won or come close to the World Title. The car was fitted with a Renault RS27 engine.
The potential of both the car and Webber, who had certainly worked well to out-qualify his vastly more experienced team-mate, was highlighted by the closeness they had to other teams which ran the Renault engine and although the Adrian Newey-designed car had flaws which contributed to Webber's scoreless season to that point. Though the pace of the car seemed to be picking up, with Coulthard qualifying in the top-10 for the , Webber was unable to convert his early weekend pace into a competitive grid position due to hydraulic problems. His race was much the same with a similar hydraulic problem leading to him retiring early in the race whilst team-mate Coulthard notched up the team's first points with a fifth place finish.
Webber finally recorded the second podium of his career at the after qualifying in 6th position. A rain spiced race and the retirement of Kimi Räikkönen, who was running third at the time, allowed Webber to claim third on the podium despite almost losing the position on the penultimate corner as he battled with Alexander Wurz.
His best chance at winning a race occurred at the where, in the wet conditions, Webber ran in 2nd place, setting the 3rd fastest lap of the race after the two McLarens. Towards the end of the race, Webber was running 2nd behind Lewis Hamilton, with no further pit stops to make, when Sebastian Vettel, driver for sister team Scuderia Toro Rosso, ran into the back of him when Hamilton suddenly reduced his speed in poor visibility and heavy rain under a safety car, taking both cars out of the race. He had been lapping faster than Hamilton due to damage on the McLaren's sidepod from contact with Robert Kubica. Out of the current Formula One drivers, until his win at the 2009 German Grand Prix, Webber has had the second highest number of starts without a win, and is often referred to as the "unluckiest man in modern Formula One", a title that was reinforced in Japan as Webber started the race suffering from food poisoning and vomited inside his helmet during the first safety car period. When questioned by ITV's Louise Goodman about the race ending collision Webber commented: "Well it's kids, isn't it. Kids with not enough experience, doing a good job then they fuck it all up," Webber was particularly critical of Hamilton's driving that led to the accident, describing his antics as "shit". Webber also stated the British press attacked him for criticizing their "golden boy" Hamilton.
Webber again looked strong at the final race of the season in Brazil. Webber qualified fifth in front of both BMW Saubers and behind only the Ferraris and McLarens. Webber looked strong in the race, running as high as fourth, before yet another mechanical failure brought an end to a disappointing but promising season for the Australian.
As per his contract, Webber started the year in Melbourne with Red Bull Racing. He recorded top-six lap times in each of the three practice sessions, and was on his way to the top ten in the qualifying session when the front right brake disc in his car failed going into turn 6 during Q2, sending him spinning off into the sand trap ending his qualifying session, and resulting in 15th position on the grid. Although starting well, he momentarily went off the track at turn 1 to avoid being involved in contact that had already erupted. Webber made several positions by turn 3 but an incident involving himself, Kazuki Nakajima and Anthony Davidson when he was slightly contacted by Davidson whilst trying to avoid the struggle between the other two drivers, ended his race.
Despite the retirement in Australia, the next 5 rounds saw a string of point-scoring positions, including a 4th at Monaco in the wet, one of the few finishers not to have made a mistake and subsequent pit-in, however his performance was overshadowed by Hamilton's win. Until 2009, this was Webber's best start to an F1 season since 2005 with Williams, managing five consecutive points scoring races.
On the Thursday of the weekend, it was announced that Webber had agreed to a one year extension to his contract at Red Bull Racing, leaving him contracted there until the end of the season. During qualifying for the Grand Prix, Webber equalled his best qualifying position with 2nd position on the grid, in front of Kimi Räikkönen and behind pole position-holder Heikki Kovalainen. As a result of Timo Glock's penalty from the for illegally passing Webber under yellow flags in the final lap(s) of the race, Webber was awarded 8th place and the point that came with it.
At the first night race in Formula One, the , Webber qualified in 13th position. Red Bull pulled in both Webber and David Coulthard for their pit stops as soon as they could when the safety car came on track, due to Nelson Piquet, Jr. crashing, giving them both great track position. This led to Webber running in 2nd place before a gearbox issue put him out of the race on lap 29.
Webber qualified 13th at the . After some first corner incidents he was stranded in last place; from there he progressed up the order, at one point in time sitting in fourth. Following his pit stop he emerged in 10th, with Nick Heidfeld and Nico Rosberg yet to pit, from where he continued to push, regained 8th once the two drivers in 8th and 9th both went in for their final pit stops. With two laps to go, Webber's tyres were close to bald – being compared to slicks. Losing almost 3 seconds a lap to the chasing Ferrari of Felipe Massa, who was on fresh tyres, he defended his point vigorously. Pressured by the Ferrari, he was out-powered by the superior engine of Massa and although great attempts at saving his place were shown, he finished in a hard-fought 9th position, on a one stop strategy which was then upgraded to 8th position after a post-race penalty to Sébastien Bourdais.
In China, Webber's engine failed on the home straight during the final practice session leaving him with a ten-place grid penalty. During qualifying on Saturday afternoon, he ended in 6th after Heidfeld was demoted for impeding Webber's team-mate Coulthard, and so Webber had to start from 16th after his penalty. Webber was on the grid in 16th and managed to end the first lap up four places in 12th before taking the 11th position off Glock on the second lap. By the first pit stop, Webber had overtaken Rubens Barrichello and Piquet Jr. for 9th place, but inevitably dropped back once he had entered the pits. The two-stop strategy that the team had adopted was not successful and Webber finished in 14th place. The was team-mate Coulthard's last race before his retirement from F1. Practice was close with the leading seven cars, including Webber in 7th, being less than a second apart. In Saturday afternoon qualifying, Webber managed 10th on the grid, and finished the race in 9th position.
Webber finished the season in 11th place in the Drivers' Championship with a total of 21 points, his most successful season after at Williams at that point in time.
Webber remained with Red Bull for , where he was joined by Sebastian Vettel after David Coulthard's retirement at the end of 2008. After sustaining a broken leg in a road accident during his charity event in Tasmania in the off-season, he returned to testing on 11 February with steel rods in his leg.
At the opening round in Australia, an error in qualifying left him in 10th on the grid for the start of the race. On the second lap of the race, Webber crashed with Heikki Kovalainen, Adrian Sutil and Nick Heidfeld following their efforts to avoid a collision with Rubens Barrichello, causing all except Barrichello to pit.
The saw Webber qualify seventh and gain two positions due to penalties to other drivers. The race, which was halted early due to monsoonal rains, ended under the safety car with Webber in fourth. He was provisionally placed eighth, but further investigation brought his position up to sixth. He was awarded 1.5 points due to the half-points decision at the conclusion of the race. The proved a breakthrough for Webber. Starting in third position, the race began under the safety car due to heavy rain. Webber eventually brought his car home in second position, marking Webber's career-best finish and was also the first win (and 1–2 finish) for the Red Bull team.
The saw Webber qualify fifth fastest and finish third, and he took fifth in Monaco. He followed this up with his equal career best second place in Turkey, equalling this result in the subsequent at Silverstone.
Webber qualified on pole for the first time in Formula One at the Nürburgring for the . This was the first time an Australian driver had claimed pole position since Alan Jones in . He went on to achieve his first Formula One victory despite receiving a drive through penalty early in the race for causing an avoidable collision at the start when he hit the Brawn GP of Rubens Barrichello. Webber went on to dominate the race and win ahead of his teammate Vettel, heading a Red Bull 1–2 and closing the gap to the Brawns in the Constructors' Championship. Webber moved up to third in the drivers' championship after his win, at that time his best position in Formula One, passing Barrichello in the championship standings.
On 23 July, Webber signed a new contract committing him to the Red Bull team for the 2010 Formula One season. Three days later, he finished third in Hungary, moving into second place in the Drivers' Championship. Webber also set his first ever fastest lap in Formula One. On 21 September 2009 the FIA banned Webber's manager, Flavio Briatore, from all FIA related activities and announced that it would not renew the superlicence for any driver managed or otherwise associated with Briatore. Since then, Briatore has been reinstated into Formula One and negotiations concerning management has since been declared legal.
Following his podium at the Hungarian Grand Prix, two ninth placings, two retirements and an unlucky saw Webber drop to fourth in the Championship, collecting no points. However, he went on to win his second Formula One race in Brazil, starting from second position on the grid, securing fourth place in the 2009 Championship. In the final race of the season, Webber managed second behind teammate Vettel. The result was Red Bull Racing's fourth 1–2 result of the season.
At the , Webber crashed into the back of Heikki Kovalainen's Lotus, flipping his own car and crashing into the tyre barrier. Webber received only minor injuries, but retired from the race.
At season's end, Webber was third in the drivers' championship, behind Vettel and Alonso. He had led the championship until the , when he did not complete the race. Webber could still have won the championship if, in the final race at Abu Dhabi he had won the race and Alonso had finished no higher than third. Vettel won the race and the drivers' championship and Red Bull Racing the constructors' championship.
Webber drove the last four races of the season with a small fracture in his right shoulder, the result of a mountain bike accident.
At the 2011 British Grand Prix, Webber was presented with the Hawthorn Memorial Trophy for 2010.
Webber started the season with a fifth place finish at the , having started from third on the grid, after struggling to keep up with team mate Vettel due to a damaged chassis. In Malaysia, he qualified third but his KERS completely failed at the start and as a result, dropped down over 10 places but staged a strong recovery back to 4th, with fastest lap. In China he qualified eighteenth after another KERS failure, but passed 15 cars on track to finish third. In Turkey, Webber qualified second – his best qualifying result of the season at that point – but lost the position to Nico Rosberg at the start. After passing Rosberg and reclaiming second, he then spent the rest of the race battling with Fernando Alonso, ultimately finishing second after passing Alonso with 8 laps to go. In Spain, Webber secured pole, but lost ground at the start again and had to settle for fourth. Webber qualified third in Monaco but dropped a place at the start and later a pit stop delay dropped Webber outside the top ten, however he recovered to fourth by passing Kamui Kobayashi on the penultimate lap, and set his fourth fastest lap of the season.
Webber claimed pole position in a drying qualifying session at Silverstone, beating Vettel by 0.032 seconds. The race however did not go as well, as a slow start followed by slow pitstops meant that Webber found himself running fourth behind Alonso, Vettel and Lewis Hamilton. Towards the end of the race, a strong charge saw Webber pass Hamilton and then close the gap to Vettel's second position, when his team asked him to "maintain the gap" and not try to make a move on Vettel. Although Webber ignored his team's requests and tried to pass Vettel, Vettel was able to hold him off and finish second, with Webber taking third place.
On 27 August, it was announced that Webber would remain with Red Bull into the 2012 season, alongside team-mate Vettel.
With Webber's switch from Jaguar to Williams at the end of 2004, the challenge was postponed until 2006, when he was able to secure a three-year deal with the Tasmanian Government to hold the event. The 2006 event (now named the "Mark Webber Pure Tasmania Challenge") was held over six days and covered nearly 600 km. Twelve teams competed in the event, and it raised A$500,000 for children's charities.
The 2007 Mark Webber Pure Tasmania Challenge was launched at the 2007 Australian Grand Prix in Melbourne when Webber was joined by sports stars and Kylie Minogue, and Hollywood star Anthony Edwards. The trek was another gruelling physical and mental adventure race about Tasmania in aid of charity but albeit with a new format. Teams competed for honours in two unique categories: the Van Diemen Cup – designed exclusively for corporate teams of four people, and the 2theXtreme Cup – a two person elite team entry. Both categories trekked, kayaked and cycled alongside each other as they covered approximately 450 km through World Heritage wilderness and along the idyllic coast of the Freycinet National Park. It was held from 17–23 November, and for the first time, one of Webber's fellow Formula One drivers, Heikki Kovalainen, joined him in the challenge.
During the 2008 event, Webber broke his leg when his bike collided with a car. He did not suffer any other injuries, but had a pin inserted into his broken bone.
The event was not held in 2009 or 2010.
On 1 December 2010, it was announced that the Challenge would return in 2011. Tourism Tasmania, Mark Webber Challenge Management and Octagon Australia will partner to bring the Challenge back for 2011, 2012 and 2013.
! Season | ! Series | ! Team | ! Races | ! Wins | ! Poles | ! F/Laps | ! Podiums | ! Points | ! Position |
! 1994 | align=left | 16 | 0 | 0 | ? | ? | 30 | 13th | |
1995 | align=left | 16 | 3 | 3 | ? | ? | 158 | 4th | |
align=left | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 32 | 8th | ||
1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | N/A | ||||
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1997 | align=left | 16 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 127 | 4th | |
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1998 | align=left | align=left rowspan=2 | 10 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 69 | |
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! 1999 | align=left | align=left | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | N/A | DNS |
2000 | align=left | align=left | 10 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 21 | |
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! 2003 | align=left | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 17 | 10th | |
! 2004 | align=left | 18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 13th | |
! 2005 | align=left | align=left| BMW WilliamsF1 Team | 19 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 36 | 10th |
! 2006 | align=left | align=left | 18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 14th |
! 2007 | align=left | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 10 | 12th | |
! 2008 | align=left | 18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 21 | 11th | |
! 2009 | align=left | 17 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 69.5 | 4th | |
! 2010 | align=left | 19 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 10 | 242 | ||
! 2011 | align=left | 12 | 0 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 167* |
! Year | ! Entrant | ! 1 | ! 2 | ! 3 | ! 4 | ! 5 | ! 6 | ! 7 | ! 8 | ! 9 | ! 10 | ! 11 | ! 12 | ! DC | ! Points |
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! Year | ! Entrant | ! Chassis | ! Engine | ! 1 | ! 2 | ! 3 | ! 4 | ! 5 | ! 6 | ! 7 | ! 8 | ! 9 | ! 10 | ! 11 | ! 12 | ! 13 | ! 14 | ! 15 | ! 16 | ! 17 | ! 18 | ! 19 | ! WDC | List of Formula One World Championship points scoring systems>Points |
Kuala Lumpur>KL Minardi Asiatech | Minardi Minardi PS02>PS02 | Asiatech AT02 3.0 V10 engine>V10 | bgcolor=#DFFFDF | bgcolor=#EFCFFF | bgcolor=#CFCFFF | bgcolor=#CFCFFF | bgcolor=#FFFFFF | bgcolor=#CFCFFF | bgcolor=#CFCFFF | bgcolor=#CFCFFF | bgcolor=#CFCFFF | bgcolor=#EFCFFF | bgcolor=#CFCFFF | bgcolor=#EFCFFF | bgcolor=#CFCFFF | bgcolor=#EFCFFF | bgcolor=#EFCFFF | bgcolor=#EFCFFF | bgcolor=#CFCFFF | ! 16th | ! 2 | |||
! Jaguar Racing | ! Jaguar Racing | CR-5 3.0 V10 engine>V10 | bgcolor=#EFCFFF | bgcolor=#EFCFFF | bgcolor=#CFCFFF | bgcolor=#EFCFFF | bgcolor=#DFFFDF | bgcolor=#DFFFDF | bgcolor=#EFCFFF | bgcolor=#DFFFDF | bgcolor=#DFFFDF | bgcolor=#DFFFDF | bgcolor=#CFCFFF | bgcolor=#CFCFFF | bgcolor=#DFFFDF | bgcolor=#DFFFDF | bgcolor=#EFCFFF | bgcolor=#CFCFFF | ! 10th | ! 17 | ||||
! Jaguar Racing | ! Jaguar Racing | CR-6 3.0 V10 engine>V10 | bgcolor=#EFCFFF | bgcolor=#EFCFFF | bgcolor=#DFFFDF | bgcolor=#CFCFFF | bgcolor=#CFCFFF | bgcolor=#EFCFFF | bgcolor=#DFFFDF | bgcolor=#EFCFFF | bgcolor=#EFCFFF | bgcolor=#CFCFFF | bgcolor=#DFFFDF | bgcolor=#DFFFDF | bgcolor=#CFCFFF | bgcolor=#EFCFFF | bgcolor=#CFCFFF | bgcolor=#CFCFFF | bgcolor=#EFCFFF | bgcolor=#EFCFFF | ! 13th | ! 7 | ||
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name | Sebastian Vettel |
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nationality | German |
birth date | July 03, 1987 |
2011 team | Red Bull Racing |
2011 car number | 1 |
races | 74 |
championships | 1 () |
wins | 17 |
podiums | 30 |
points | 640 |
poles | 24 |
fastest laps | 7 |
first race | 2007 United States Grand Prix |
first win | 2008 Italian Grand Prix |
last win | 2011 Belgian Grand Prix |
last race | |
last season | 2010 |
last position | 1st (256 pts) }} |
In his first year driving for Red Bull in he finished the season as the youngest ever championship runner-up. Vettel also secured Red Bull's first pole position and race win in the team's history. The following year he went on to become the youngest driver ever to win the World Drivers' Championship. In the same year he helped Red Bull win the team's first World Constructors' Championship, along with teammate Mark Webber.
Vettel is the youngest Formula One driver to drive at a Grand Prix meeting, at 19 years and 53 days, and on his race debut at the 2007 United States Grand Prix he also became the youngest driver to score championship points. While racing for Toro Rosso, Vettel became the youngest driver to lead a race, at the 2007 Japanese Grand Prix. During qualifying for the 2008 Italian Grand Prix, Vettel became the youngest Formula One driver to secure pole position. He went on to win the race, making him the youngest F1 race winner by nearly a year. He also is the first and only driver to win a race, secure pole position, and reach the podium in the history of the Toro Rosso team, including the twenty years it was known as the Minardi team.
Vettel started racing karts in 1995, winning various titles such as the Junior Monaco Kart Cup (2001). In 2003, he upgraded to open-wheel cars, and won the 2004 German Formula BMW Championship with 18 victories from 20 races. In 2005 he drove for ASL Mucke Motorsport in the Formula Three Euroseries. He was placed fifth in the final standings with 64 points, winning the year's top rookie honours. He did not win any races, but this was largely due to the championship's domination by ASM Formule 3. Despite this, he tested the Williams FW27 Formula One car on 27 September as a reward for this Formula BMW success. He then went on to test for the BMW Sauber team.
Vettel finished as runner-up in the 2006 F3 Euroseries, behind series leader and team mate Paul di Resta. He also made his debut in the World Series by Renault at Misano, winning after Pastor Maldonado was disqualified. However, at the next round at Spa-Francorchamps, his finger was almost sliced off by flying débris in an accident, and he was expected to be out of racing for several weeks. Nevertheless, he managed to compete in the Ultimate Masters of F3 at Zandvoort the following weekend, finishing in sixth place. He also set third fastest lap time, and it surprised his ASM team boss Frédéric Vasseur. Vasseur said: "I was impressed for sure, because at the beginning of the week I was sure he wouldn't race! But he showed good pace from the first practice session. I can't imagine he's 100 per cent but at least we know we can be competitive in the next F3 Euroseries round at the Nürburgring next weekend – that's important."
Vettel competed in the World Series by Renault in 2007, and took his first win at the Nürburgring. He was leading the championship when he was called up to Formula One permanently, and his seat was taken by Michael Ammermüller.
Vettel impressed on his testing debut by setting fastest time in second Friday Free Practice before the race. The young German also impressed on his second testing session in the 2006 Italian Grand Prix, setting the fastest time in both Friday practice sessions, a race weekend in which all the BMW cars were quick, with his predecessor Robert Kubica finishing on the podium in the race.
Vettel struggled for his first couple of races while cutting his teeth with his new team, but managed two impressive drives in his 5th and 6th drives for Toro Rosso, a team that was averaging a little worse than 14th place in the 2007 season before Vettel's arrival. In the rain-hit at Fuji, Vettel worked his way up to third, behind Lewis Hamilton and Red Bull Racing's Mark Webber, and seemed to be on course for not only his but also Toro Rosso's maiden podium finish. However, Vettel crashed into Webber under safety car conditions taking them both out of the race and prompting Webber to say to ITV reporter Louise Goodman "It's kids isn't it... kids with not enough experience – they do a good job and then they fuck it all up." Webber also specifically criticized Lewis Hamilton's erratic behaviour in contributing to the accident, describing his antics behind the safety car as 'shit'." Vettel was initially punished with a ten-place grid penalty for the following race, but this was lifted after a spectator video on YouTube showed the incident may have been caused by Hamilton's behaviour behind the safety car. Vettel bounced back to finish a career-best fourth a week later at the having started 17th on the grid while in mixed conditions. He collected five championship points, making it both his and Toro Rosso's best race result.
Red Bull owner Dietrich Mateschitz stated his belief Vettel would be one of Formula One's big stars in the future. "Vettel is one of the young guys with extraordinary potential [...] He is fast, he is intelligent, and he is very interested in the technical side."
At the 2008 Italian Grand Prix, Vettel became the youngest driver in history to win a Formula One Grand Prix. Aged 21 years and 74 days, Vettel broke the record set by Fernando Alonso at the 2003 Hungarian Grand Prix by 317 days as he won in wet conditions at Monza. Vettel led for the majority of the Grand Prix and crossed the finish line 12.5 seconds ahead of McLaren's Heikki Kovalainen. It was the first podium and win for his Toro Rosso team. Earlier in the weekend, he had already become the youngest polesitter, after setting the fastest times in both Q2 and Q3 qualifying stages, and his win also gave him the record of youngest podium-finisher. Toro Rosso team boss Gerhard Berger said, "As he proved today, he can win races, but he's going to win world championships. He's a cool guy". Hamilton praised the German, stating that this victory showed "how good he is". The nature of the victory and the story of the 21 year old's fledgling career led the German media to dub him "baby Schumi", although Vettel was quick to downplay the expectation the result has brought, particularly the comparison with the seven-time World Champion: "To compare me with Michael Schumacher is just a bit ridiculous...It will be difficult in normal conditions for us to repeat this achievement". He then went on to finish fifth in Singapore. In Japan, he finished sixth after being promoted from seventh after team-mate Bourdais was penalised for contact with Felipe Massa.
In the , after running second for much of the race on a one-stop strategy, Vettel overtook Lewis Hamilton in the rain for fifth place on the penultimate lap to contribute to a thrilling climax to the season. He nearly deprived the McLaren driver of the championship before Timo Glock slowed dramatically on the last lap (he was struggling with dry tyres in the ever increasing rain) enabling both Vettel and Hamilton to pass him, earning Hamilton the title, and Vettel fourth place.
After the season had finished Vettel was named Autosport Rookie of the Year.
In the , Vettel qualified in third, and finished second behind Jenson Button in the race. In Spain, he qualified in second but finished the race in fourth, behind his team-mate Mark Webber who finished in third. Vettel won the after claiming pole position in qualifying. At the he qualified fourth and finished second, behind Webber, who won his first Grand Prix. At the , Vettel qualified second after an eventful qualifying, but had to retire from the race on lap 30 after his car sustained damage from contact with Kimi Räikkönen's car on the first lap.
At the , he qualified fourth but had to retire from the race with an engine failure. It was the second engine failure for Vettel during the weekend, and the RB5's reliability issues began to show. He finished third at Spa-Francorchamps, and struggled for pace at Monza, finishing 8th at a race he previously won. He qualified 2nd at Singapore, but was given a drive-though penalty for speeding in the pit lane and damaged the diffuser on a kerb, struggling to 4th. He subsequently won the from pole position.
At the , Vettel qualified 16th in a rain-hit session, behind title rival Jenson Button (14th) and Rubens Barrichello (1st), while his team-mate Webber qualified second with Adrian Sutil in third. Vettel needed to score at least second place in the race to keep his title hopes alive. He finished fourth with Button behind, giving Button the Championship and moving Vettel up into second place. He officially claimed second place by winning the inaugural Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, again ahead of Webber with Button completing the podium. He also scored his third fastest lap of the year, drawing him level with team-mate Webber. However, as Vettel had more second fastest laps, he won the 2009 DHL Fastest Lap Award.
At the , Vettel was appointed as a director of the Grand Prix Drivers' Association. He took his second consecutive pole position in Australia, ahead of team-mate Mark Webber, but spun off when leading the race, due to a loose wheel nut. In Malaysia, he took his first win of the 2010 season with Webber coming in second place, having passed both him and Nico Rosberg at turn one.
Vettel qualified on pole at China alongside Webber. At the start of the wet race Fernando Alonso jump-started and Vettel was passed by Webber, dropping back to third. The increasing rain forced Vettel and Webber to pit at the same time for intermediate tyres that wore out after only a few laps and dropped them back into the midfield. Vettel slowly climbed back up to finish sixth, ahead of Webber. In Spain, Vettel was outqualified by team-mate Webber and claimed second on the grid. Despite having a major brake problem during the last eight laps, Vettel managed third place after Hamilton crashed on the penultimate lap.
In Monaco Vettel was again outqualified by Webber. In the race he passed Kubica at the start and stayed there for the remainder of the Grand Prix and made it a Red Bull 1–2. After the race the two Red Bull drivers were equal on points in the drivers' championship, with Webber championship leader based on total wins. At the he qualified third and was running second behind Webber when he made a passing move on the Australian. Vettel lost control of his car and the two collided, putting Vettel out of the race and dropping him to fifth in the drivers' championship, with neither driver accepting responsibility for causing the collision. He finished fourth at the , maintaining his position in the standings. He started the in pole position and led from start to finish to score his second win of the season.
At Silverstone, both Vettel and Webber's cars were fitted with a new design of front wing. Vettel's front wing was damaged in the third practice session, and Webber's sole surviving example was removed and given to Vettel. Vettel qualified in pole position ahead of his team-mate, but suffered a puncture caused by driving wide off the track on the first lap of the race and fell to the tail of the field. He fought back to finish seventh while Webber took the victory. At the he took pole by 0.002 seconds, and finished in third position in the race, behind the Ferraris of Alonso and Felipe Massa, after a poor start. He also finished third in Hungary after serving a drive-through penalty for exceeding ten lengths behind the previous car, team-mate Webber, under neutralised safety car conditions. In Belgium, he had a tough race, hitting Button's car whilst attempting to pass, causing Button to retire. Vettel pitted and carried on, but then suffered a puncture whilst passing Liuzzi at the same place, completing a whole lap with a puncture. He eventually finished 15th, which was (other than his retirements in Australia and Turkey) was his worst finish of the season. At Monza he finished fourth after an engine problem scare, and at the , Vettel qualified and finished second, sticking on Alonso's tail for most of the race. He passed Button for fourth place in the championship. At the , he dominated all practice sessions bar one, as it was postponed after heavy rain. He qualified on pole ahead of team mate Webber and went on to win with a lights-to-flag victory. Aged 23 years and 98 days, Vettel became the youngest Grand Prix driver to win at the same track on two occasions, having also won the Japanese Grand Prix at Suzuka in 2009. At the first , Vettel took pole and led the first 45 laps of the race before retiring with engine failure, handing victory to Alonso.
At the , Vettel qualified second but took the lead at the first corner and led for the entire race to victory. With Webber taking second place, and Alonso finishing third, Vettel went into the final race of the season with a 15-point deficit to Alonso, and a 7-point gap to Webber. With the one-two finish in Brazil, Vettel and Webber secured Red Bull Racing's first Formula One World Constructors' Championship. He won the from pole again, to take the drivers' championship lead for the first time in his career and became the youngest world champion in the sport's history. Following James Hunt in the 1976 season, this was also only the second time in Formula One history when the World Champion had not been championship leader at any earlier point in the season.
The started out poorly for Vettel, where he had very little practice time during the Friday free practice sessions, including a crash in the first session. Even with the limited practice, he claimed his fifth consecutive pole position and converted it into a win, extending his championship lead over Hamilton to 34 points. At the , his pole position streak ended as his KERS failed him during qualifying. His teammate Webber took pole, but Vettel went on to win the race by 0.6 seconds over Hamilton, despite having to deal with a frequently malfunctioning KERS. The following weekend, in the , he took pole with the second fastest qualifying time in Monaco's history. Vettel was leading the race with a 5 second gap to second placed Button. Due to a radio malfunction the Red Bull pit crew was not prepared for Vettel when he pitted. The net result was that the pitstop was slow, and that he was sent out on the wrong tyres, handing the lead to Button as well. Vettel switched to a one-stop strategy, and stuck with one set of soft tyres for 56 laps. He was caught by Alonso and Button as his tyres deteriorated, but neither were able to pass him. With a few laps remaining, the race was red-flagged after Vitaly Petrov required an ambulance after an accident. The suspended race allowed teams to change tyres and work on the cars, and when the race was restarted under the safety car, Vettel was able to retain the lead during the last few laps.
In Canada, he took his sixth pole position in seven races ahead of Fernando Alonso and Felipe Massa. Vettel kept his lead from the start of the race, and for the vast majority of the race he held on to it. The record six safety car periods due to the down-pouring rain and 2 hour race suspension profoundly hurt Vettel's chances of victory, however, as after every safety car restart Vettel would lose the gap he had previously built up on the other drivers. With much fresher tyres, Button caught Vettel and began to pressure him in the last lap. Vettel slid on a damp part of the track at Turn 6, and Button used the opportunity to slip past him to take the victory. Vettel finished second, extending his championship lead to 60 points ahead of Button.
At the , the FIA began enforcing a controversial ban on engine mappings. It was believed by many in the press that it was an attempt by the FIA to thwart Vettel's domination of the season. The changes appeared to do little to hinder Vettel, as he took pole with the fastest qualifying lap in the track's history. He dominated the race with his first triple of 2011 with pole, fastest lap, and won his sixth race out of eight races. It was the first time in Formula One history where, in the first eight races, a driver finished first in six or more races and second or better in the remaining races.
The second set of controversial mid-season changes were implemented at Silverstone, targeting the blown diffusers. Red Bull believed the changes cost them about half a second per lap. Webber just edged Vettel for pole position by 0.032 seconds in qualifying. On race day, Vettel made a better start, immediately took the lead and led the first half of the race. A delay at one of his pit stops gave the race lead to Alonso, who passed him in the pit lane, and dropped Vettel back to third, behind Hamilton. Despite a malfunctioning KERS unit, he was able to jump Hamilton in the stops and held off the faster Webber, who ignored a radio message from team principal Christian Horner to hold position, for second place, extending his lead in the championship.
Vettel's run of fourteen successive front-row starts and eleven successive top two finishes ended at his home race, where he qualified third and finished fourth. McLaren's mechanical grip outclassed Red Bull in the wet in Hungary, and despite leading into the first corner from pole, he was quickly passed by both Hamilton and Button. Vettel eventually finished second in the race, held in mixed conditions. In Belgium, Vettel qualified on pole and won the race, his seventh victory of the season and seventeenth of his career. In victory, Vettel extended his lead in the championship to 92 points and, even with seven races left, his 259 point haul surpassed his own record, from for the highest number of championship points accumulated in a season.
Vettel's helmet, like most Red Bull-backed drivers, is heavily influenced by the energy drink company logo.
New to Vettel's helmet since the start of 2008 has been the incorporation of the red cross of the Kreis Bergstraße coat of arms on the front, just underneath the visor, in honour of the region of his birthplace, Heppenheim.
During pre-season testing for 2010, Vettel debuted a helmet resembling a Red Bull drink can complete with graphics of a stay-tab opener on top—which would become a recurring element in his helmets for this season. During the 2010 season, Vettel has used three main helmet designs, although he made some minor changes to some in certain races: besides his standard black helmet, he has used one with the same design but in chrome colors. For the 2010 Japanese Grand Prix, Vettel had a special white-red helmet design, with black kanji and hiragana for "gives you wings". In 2011 he uses his traditional helmet, with some changes, like the black top and chin area with blue stylized dots, similar to his black helmet used in 2010.
Nevertheless, the similarities are marked. Like Schumacher, Vettel grew up in a small town with an everyday background—Schumacher's father a bricklayer and Vettel's a carpenter. Both had their first taste of racing at the Kerpen karting track near Cologne, not far from the Nürburgring. Vettel began driving in his garden lapping the garden many times, not even stopping to eat or shower, before he could legally take to the roads, and says his passion for cars was nurtured by watching Schumacher compete. He did not know that he would actually get to race his hero.
Both Schumacher and Vettel impressed in their debut races, both of which took place in the middle of a Formula One season. Neither would ever drive for their debut teams again. Instead, both immediately joined with non-manufacturer teams based upon selling non-automobile related products. Approximately a year after joining their new teams, as underdogs they would stun the Formula One world by winning races in cars few believed capable of winning. In their third full Formula One season and both driving cars numbered 5, both won their first World Drivers' Championship, at which point both drivers had 10 Grand Prix wins on their records. Vettel became the youngest ever driver to win the World Drivers' Championship, while Schumacher, by a little over a week, only narrowly missed out on achieving the very same feat. Both drivers won their non-manufacturer teams' maiden World Drivers' Championship as well as World Constructors' Championship.
After winning his first championship in 2010, and being hailed as the 'Next Schumacher', Vettel has stated he does not want to aim for Schumacher's record after learning how hard it was to get one championship under his belt, though he would like to win more.
! Season | ! Series | ! Team | ! Races | ! Wins | ! Poles | ! F/Laps | ! Podiums | ! Points | ! Position |
! 2003 | align=left | 19 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 12 | 216 | ||
! 2004 | align=left | align=left | 20 | 18 | 14 | 13 | 20 | 387 | |
2005 | align=left | align=left rowspan="2" | 20 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 57 | 5th |
align=left | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | N/A | 11th | ||
align=left | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 15th | ||
align=left | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | N/A | |||
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2006 | align=left | align=left rowspan="2" | 20 | 4 | 1 | 5 | 9 | 75 | |
1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | N/A | 23rd | |||
align=left | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 28 | 15th | ||
align=left | align=left | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | N/A | 6th | |
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2007 | align=left | 7 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 74 | 5th | |
align=left rowspan="2" | align=left | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||
! 2008 | align=left | 18 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 35 | 8th | |
! 2009 | align=left | 17 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 8 | 84 | ||
! 2010 | align=left | 19 | 5 | 10 | 3 | 10 | 256 | ||
! 2011 | align=left | 12 | 7 | 9 | 1 | 11 | 259* |
! Year | ! Entrant | ! Chassis | ! Engine | ! 1 | ! 2 | ! 3 | ! 4 | ! 5 | ! 6 | ! 7 | ! 8 | ! 9 | ! 10 | ! 11 | ! 12 | ! 13 | ! 14 | ! 15 | ! 16 | ! 17 | ! 18 | ! 19 | ! 20 | ! DC | ! Points |
Mücke Motorsport>ASL Mücke Motorsport | ! Dallara F305/011 | Mercedes-Benz in motorsport>Mercedes | bgcolor="#cfcfff" | bgcolor="#dfffdf" | bgcolor="#dfffdf" | bgcolor="#cfcfff" | style="background:#000; color:white;" | bgcolor="#cfcfff" | bgcolor="#cfcfff" | bgcolor="#cfcfff" | bgcolor="#dfffdf" | bgcolor="#dfffdf" | bgcolor="#dfdfdf" | bgcolor="#dfffdf" | bgcolor="#cfcfff" | bgcolor="#dfdfdf" | bgcolor="#dfdfdf" | bgcolor="#dfdfdf" | bgcolor="#ffdf9f" | bgcolor="#cfcfff" | bgcolor="#cfcfff" | bgcolor="#ffdf9f" | ! 5th | ! 57 | |
ART Grand Prix>ASM Formule 3 | ! Dallara F305/059 | Mercedes-Benz in motorsport>Mercedes | bgcolor="#dfffdf" | bgcolor="#ffffbf" | bgcolor="#ffdf9f" | bgcolor="#dfffdf" | bgcolor="#dfffdf" | bgcolor="#cfcfff" | bgcolor="#dfdfdf" | bgcolor="#dfffdf" | bgcolor="#dfdfdf" | bgcolor="#efcfff" | bgcolor="#ffffbf" | bgcolor="#ffffbf" | bgcolor="#cfcfff" | bgcolor="#cfcfff" | bgcolor="#ffffbf" | bgcolor="#efcfff" | bgcolor="#cfcfff" | bgcolor="#cfcfff" | bgcolor="#ffdf9f" | bgcolor="#cfcfff" |
! Year | ! Entrant | ! 1 | ! 2 | ! 3 | ! 4 | ! 5 | ! 6 | ! 7 | ! 8 | ! 9 | ! 10 | ! 11 | ! 12 | ! 13 | ! 14 | ! 15 | ! 16 | ! 17 | ! DC | ! Points |
! Carlin Motorsport | bgcolor="#ffffbf" | bgcolor="#dfdfdf" | bgcolor="#efcfff" | bgcolor="#ffffff" | ! 15th | ! 28 | ||||||||||||||
! Carlin Motorsport | bgcolor="#dfffdf" | bgcolor="#ffdf9f" | bgcolor="#ffffbf" | bgcolor="#dfffdf" | bgcolor="#dfdfdf" | bgcolor="#dfffdf" | bgcolor="#ffdf9f" | ! 5th | ! 74 |
! Year | ! Entrant | ! Chassis | ! Engine | ! 1 | ! 2 | ! 3 | ! 4 | ! 5 | ! 6 | ! 7 | ! 8 | ! 9 | ! 10 | ! 11 | ! 12 | ! 13 | ! 14 | ! 15 | ! 16 | ! 17 | ! 18 | ! 19 | ! WDC | List of Formula One World Championship points scoring systems>Points |
BMW Sauber>BMW Sauber F1 Team | BMW Sauber BMW Sauber F1.06>F1.06 | ! | bgcolor="#f0f8ff" | bgcolor="#f0f8ff" | bgcolor="#f0f8ff" | bgcolor="#f0f8ff" | ! – | ! – | ||||||||||||||||
BMW Sauber F1 Team">BMW in Formula One | bgcolor="#f0f8ff" | bgcolor="#f0f8ff" | bgcolor="#f0f8ff" | bgcolor="#f0f8ff" | bgcolor="#f0f8ff" | ! – | ! – | |||||||||||||||||
BMW Sauber F1 Team | BMW Sauber BMW Sauber F1.07>F1.07 | ! | bgcolor="#f0f8ff" | bgcolor="#dfffdf" | 14th | 6 | ||||||||||||||||||
! [[Scuderia Toro Rosso">BMW in Formula One | bgcolor="#f0f8ff" | bgcolor="#f0f8ff" | bgcolor="#dfffdf" | 14th | 6 | |||||||||||||||||||
! [[Scuderia Toro Rosso | ! | bgcolor="#cfcfff" | bgcolor="#cfcfff" | bgcolor="#efcfff" | bgcolor="#efcfff" | bgcolor="#dfffdf" | bgcolor="#efcfff" | |||||||||||||||||
[[Scuderia Toro Rosso">Scuderia Toro Rosso | ! [[Scuderia Ferrari | bgcolor="#cfcfff" | bgcolor="#cfcfff" | bgcolor="#cfcfff" | bgcolor="#efcfff" | bgcolor="#efcfff" | bgcolor="#dfffdf" | bgcolor="#efcfff" | ||||||||||||||||
[[Scuderia Toro Rosso | ! | bgcolor="#efcfff" | bgcolor="#efcfff" | bgcolor="#efcfff" | bgcolor="#cfcfff" | 8th | 35 | |||||||||||||||||
! [[Scuderia Toro Rosso | ! [[Scuderia Ferrari | bgcolor="#dfffdf" | bgcolor="#dfffdf" | bgcolor="#cfcfff" | bgcolor="#efcfff" | bgcolor="#dfffdf" | bgcolor="#efcfff" | bgcolor="#dfffdf" | bgcolor="#dfffdf" | bgcolor="#ffffbf" | bgcolor="#dfffdf" | bgcolor="#dfffdf" | bgcolor="#cfcfff" | bgcolor="#dfffdf" | ||||||||||
! [[Red Bull Racing">Scuderia Toro Rosso | ! [[Scuderia Ferrari | bgcolor="#efcfff" | bgcolor="#efcfff" | bgcolor="#efcfff" | bgcolor="#efcfff" | bgcolor="#cfcfff" | 8th | 35 | ||||||||||||||||
! [[Scuderia Toro Rosso | ! [[Scuderia Ferrari | bgcolor="#dfffdf" | bgcolor="#dfffdf" | bgcolor="#cfcfff" | bgcolor="#efcfff" | bgcolor="#dfffdf" | bgcolor="#efcfff" | bgcolor="#dfffdf" | bgcolor="#dfffdf" | bgcolor="#ffffbf" | bgcolor="#dfffdf" | bgcolor="#dfffdf" | bgcolor="#cfcfff" | bgcolor="#dfffdf" | ||||||||||
! [[Red Bull Racing | ! | bgcolor="#cfcfff" | bgcolor="#ffffbf" | bgcolor="#dfdfdf" | bgcolor="#dfffdf" | bgcolor="#efcfff" | bgcolor="#ffdf9f" | bgcolor="#ffffbf" | bgcolor="#dfdfdf" | bgcolor="#efcfff" | bgcolor="#efcfff" | bgcolor="#ffdf9f" | bgcolor="#dfffdf" | bgcolor="#dfffdf" | bgcolor="#ffffbf" | bgcolor="#dfffdf" | bgcolor="#ffffbf" | |||||||
! [[Red Bull Racing">Red Bull Racing | ! [[Renault F1 | bgcolor="#cfcfff" | bgcolor="#cfcfff" | bgcolor="#ffffbf" | bgcolor="#dfdfdf" | bgcolor="#dfffdf" | bgcolor="#efcfff" | bgcolor="#ffdf9f" | bgcolor="#ffffbf" | bgcolor="#dfdfdf" | bgcolor="#efcfff" | bgcolor="#efcfff" | bgcolor="#ffdf9f" | bgcolor="#dfffdf" | bgcolor="#dfffdf" | bgcolor="#ffffbf" | bgcolor="#dfffdf" | bgcolor="#ffffbf" | ||||||
! [[Red Bull Racing | ! | bgcolor="#efcfff" | bgcolor="#ffffbf" | bgcolor="#dfffdf" | bgcolor="#ffdf9f" | bgcolor="#dfdfdf" | bgcolor="#efcfff" | bgcolor="#dfffdf" | bgcolor="#ffffbf" | bgcolor="#dfffdf" | bgcolor="#ffdf9f" | bgcolor="#ffdf9f" | bgcolor="#CFCFFF" | bgcolor="#dfffdf" | bgcolor="#dfdfdf" | bgcolor="#ffffbf" | bgcolor="#efcfff" | bgcolor="#ffffbf" | bgcolor="#ffffbf" | |||||
! [[Red Bull Racing">Red Bull Racing | ! [[Renault F1 | bgcolor="#dfffdf" | bgcolor="#efcfff" | bgcolor="#ffffbf" | bgcolor="#dfffdf" | bgcolor="#ffdf9f" | bgcolor="#dfdfdf" | bgcolor="#efcfff" | bgcolor="#dfffdf" | bgcolor="#ffffbf" | bgcolor="#dfffdf" | bgcolor="#ffdf9f" | bgcolor="#ffdf9f" | bgcolor="#CFCFFF" | bgcolor="#dfffdf" | bgcolor="#dfdfdf" | bgcolor="#ffffbf" | bgcolor="#efcfff" | bgcolor="#ffffbf" | bgcolor="#ffffbf" | ||||
! [[Red Bull Racing | ! [[Red Bull Racing | ! [[Renault F1 | bgcolor="ffffbf" | bgcolor="ffffbf" | bgcolor="dfdfdf" | bgcolor="ffffbf" | bgcolor="ffffbf" | bgcolor="ffffbf" | bgcolor="dfdfdf" | bgcolor="ffffbf" | bgcolor="dfdfdf" | bgcolor="dfffdf" | bgcolor="dfdfdf" | bgcolor="ffffbf" |
Season in progress.
! Record | ! Achieved |
Most consecutive top two results (in both qualifying and race) | 11 results ([[2010 Brazilian Grand Prix |
Most consecutive top two results (in both qualifying and race), from the start of the season | 9 results ([[2011 Australian Grand Prix |
Most consecutive top two finishes from the start of the season | 9 finishes (Australia 2011 – 2011 Great Britain)(record shared with Fernando Alonso (Bahrain 2006 – Canada 2006)) |
2007 United States Grand Prix (17 June 2007, aged 19 years, 349 days) | |
2007 Japanese Grand Prix (30 September 2007, aged 20 years, 89 days) | |
2008 Italian Grand Prix (13 September 2008, aged 21 years, 72 days) | |
2009 British Grand Prix (aged 21 years, 353 days) |
Category:1987 births Category:Formula BMW ADAC drivers Category:Formula One World Drivers' Champions Category:Formula Renault 3.5 Series drivers Category:Formula Three Euroseries drivers Category:German Formula One drivers Category:Red Bull Racing Category:German racecar drivers Category:Kart racing drivers Category:Living people Category:People from Kreis Bergstraße Category:Spanish Formula Three Championship drivers Category:Monaco Grand Prix winners
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