A DIFFERENT JOURNEY is the long-awaited memoir of the popular Australian racing driver Mark Webber. Born in rural New South Wales, after some racing success in Australia, Webber moved to the UK in 1995 to further his motorsport career. He began a partnership with fellow Australian Paul Stoddart, which eventually took them both into Formula One when Stoddart bought the Minardi team. 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 for two years. His first F1 win was with Red Bull Racing at 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, compared to only two podiums in the first seven years of his career. Webber finished the 2010 season in third place having led for a long period, losing out to his brilliant but controversial teammate Sebastian Vettel in the final race of the season.
Webber added another race victory in the 2011 Brazilian Grand Prix, as he once again finished third behind champion Vettel and runner-up Jenson Button. Webber partnered Vettel again in the 2012 season, outperforming him in the early season and looked to be a major title contender but fell away with no wins in the second half of the season after two in the Monaco and British Grand Prix. Webber was also a long-term director of the Grand Prix Drivers' Association, the Formula One drivers' union, and in June last year he announced he would be retiring from Formula One racing at the conclusion of the season and subsequently joined Porsche on a long-term deal racing LMP1 Sportscars in the FIA World Endurance Championship. This is his story - no straight line but a roller-coaster ride going from Down Under to finish on top of the Formula One world.
- ISBN10 1409157806
- ISBN13 9781409157809
- Publish Date 18 June 2015
- Publish Status Cancelled
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Orion Publishing Co
- Imprint Orion (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 320
- Language English