Mea Culpa: Interview with Mark Webber
In under two weeks, Mark Webber will step into a Ferrari-powered RB2 at Barcelona for his first run with Red Bull Racing. It will be the end of two years with the Williams team, which he defines as a mistake, and the start of a multi-year contract with an outfit that he believes will only get better and better. Sober but not sombre, the Australian tells Adam Cooper about his disappointments at Grove and his expectations from Milton Keynes
On November 28th, Mark Webber will begin a new chapter in his career when he will drive a Ferrari-powered Red Bull car for the first time at Barcelona. It will be a homecoming of sorts, because management aside, there are still a lot of guys in the Milton Keynes team who were there in the days of Jaguar Racing, and there are a few others he knew when he was a Renault test driver in 2001.
Webber left Jaguar at the end of 2004, having decided that Williams was where he wanted to be. It's easy to forget now that at one stage he had a chance of going to Renault, but he had his heart set on Williams. It's fascinating to speculate what might have happened had he - and not Giancarlo Fisichella - spent the last two years alongside Fernando Alonso.
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