Before formula 1: Mark Webber, living a second youth

 Last season was for Mark Webber, by far, the best of his long career in formula one. He arrived with potential until the last quotation of the calendar, the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. He was the great alternative to Fernando Alonso, though ultimately the surprise he jumped and which took the cat to the water was teammate Sebastian Vettel.
As well, and everything, the veteran pilot, well into in thirty years, it is enjoying a second youth. It gave the impression that the aussie would be one of those pilots who, with more than a hundred runs behind him, would retire without having tasted the honey of the triumph. Luckily for him, when I leave the competition, you don't have that nailed Thorn.

Early in the great circus were not easy for Webber. Having passed by Williams, Williams BMW, Jaguar and Minardi, it seemed that in Red Bull their fate was not going to change. Accustomed to try barely scratching a few dots in the races, the first two years in the energy drink team were not different to the previous ones. A picture which reversed in 2009.
The good work of Adrian Newey, who landed at Red Bull Racing in early 2006 from McLaren, began to bear fruit. The Red Bull RB5 was shown as a single-seater extremely competitive. A detail that Webber took to their first victory in the Grand Prize of Germany of 2009.
That 2009 marked a turning point in the race for the Australian and Red Bull in general. The first because he realized that already not only could aspire to victories, could aim higher. The latter because they saw that they had the equipment needed to fight for everything. Their next target was to be the world, both pilots and builders.

Probably the main obstacle that had Webber has been his own teammate, Sebastian Vettel. The relationship with him has always been, how much less, tense. The first encounter between the two happened in the Grand Prize of Japan in 2007. A real downpour on Fuji was falling, and the Australian filming in second position, stalking the leader Lewis Hamilton. The German rolled in third position. In one incident to oblivion, Vettel butted Webber and both had to withdraw from the race.

The encounter of more serious and most recent among them was in the past Grand Prize of Turkey. Mark Webber came in head and Sebastian Vettel went unleashed and threatening from behind. In an arriesgadisima move, trying to get into an impossible gap, the young German and Australian veteran clashed. An accident that ended the first withdrawn, and the second losing several positions. Itis not clear who was responsible for such nonsense. There are opinions for all tastes, that if Vettel risked more than enough and got the nose where it could not be or if Webber sinned hard with his own partner. Red Bull had part of his star in the making, nothing something that did not sit well at the Australian. It failed to clear its disagreement with the conduct of the team in the Grand Prize of Great Britain. His words after achieving victory were "does is not bad for a second pilot, eh?".
At 34 years old and facing the final stretch of his career in formula one, Mark Webber again surely have options to fight for the title. Once again, his main rival is his own teammate, Sebastian Vettel. What I doubt is that finally the Australian withdrawal having achieved the title of world champion. This company has it very complicated, though, who knows if it will succeed?