Did anybody notice when Jeremy says he would be 4 seconds faster in the dry and mark laughed it of. When mark came back and did it again in the dry he went exactly 4 seconds faster
Mark is such a legend disappointed he missed out on the championship, can't think of anyone else who would drive with a broken shoulder then not blame it for losing the championship
Replying to a 12 year old comment but Mark was unlucky to get a championship winning car too late in his career. I think he could've been another Button or Rosberg if he was a few years younger. Old Mark vs Prime Seb was never gonna end well for the former.
He's like Dale Earnhardt. He never missed a race in his entire career outside of one in his first season in nascar. He would drive with broken legs, broken arms, broken sternums, etc. Nothing, no injury at all, could ever stop him from racing or slow him down. Eventually he ended up dying in a crash in a race, the only thing that could stop him was death itself. But yeah if you break your hand and you're a normal driver, you probably would miss a few races while it heals. But Dale Earnhardt wouldn't, he'd find a way to race, race through the pain, and actually be very fast still, and would often win while severely injured. F1 drivers are more careful about that sort of thing. But Mark Webber feels like more of a traditional ballsy earnhardt style driver.
I think you can give Mark Webber the credit for starting the trend of current F1 drivers wanting to have a go round that track. He threw down the challenge to everyone else, and they couldn't resist!
The amount of stuff into this that was carried on future shots is frightening Mark being 4 seconds faster on drys, having an “audition” for The Grand Tour, Michael “being” the Stig...
lol not sure about last Corner but definitely at Hammerhead 2:49. Get's so wide then on throttle, off throttle, then back on. Then the long, long straight losing time further as his exit was compromised.
@raymondu99 If you mean the date this was first broadcast, it's 31 July 2005. Series 06, Episode 10. Davina McCall was on the same episode. And Hammond drove over a lake in Iceland.
Funny how he knew who the stig was as he stepped in the room with him. They used to be team mates. (check out stigs interview on british morning tv) on
@Dasd Da I did watch. If you read my comment, it said Raik passed Ham and when he came out of pits he was slowly gaining before he retired. I'm not saying Raik only passed him because he retired, just he didn't have a challenge once Ham retired. You're right, Alonso benefits from others retiring. An does Raik, Vettel, Ham, Webber, Button, Schumi, all of them. Again, you missed the point...
@TheArthur1 BMW started this decade in Formula One with the Williams Team in 2000 and Mark Webber went to Williams in 2005 after Jaguar pulled out of Formula One. BMW left Williams in 2006 for Sauber. Jaguar was rebadged Red Bull Racing in 2005 and Mark returned in 2007 after a miserable year with the Williams Cosworth . BMW had raced in Formula One back in the 1980's with Brabham, Arrows, and Benetton with turbocharged 4 cylinder engines producing 1,200+ HP.
@mallamoozoo I have to admit that he is not the fastest driver out there(which is Alonso)but he has got tons of experience and rarely makes the tiniest mistake.
all the F1 drivers on top gear have seemed to be really down to earth, including schumi and seb. i hope top gear don't screw up and bring kimi in for the f1 lap thing
I find Webber a rather sympathetic guy; one of my favourite F1 drivers indeed. But- didn´t they ever call Eddie Irvine to the program, considering that he also belongs (supposedly) to the Commonwealth and that it´s basically English-speaking F1 drivers who visit Top Gear (with the only exception of Vettel, as far as I know)?
Well now days a British F3 season drive will cost 200,000-400,000 Euro in the 90s things were a bit different. Webber though he came 4th in Australia FF (In a second hand Van Dieman I might add and they were nothing special back then) he did win the F3 round of the Adelaide GP which is the highest profile F3 round in Aus hence all the sponsorship. What got him into British F3 though was he won the international Festival of Formula ford. Even drivers now who do get drives straight to F3.
I'am so disappointed that eventually the unloader isn't "Top Gear" This is just another Failblog tat i've come across... Bty: Great Interview and Lap between... Top Gear's Jeremy Clarkson & F1's: Mark Webber on BBC !!! ^_^
@mallamoozoo True, tough i must say that nyck is doing quite good at the moment (having multiple karting world championships) but there are others who can now drive at high level just because they've got sponsers and a big bag of money. If I had those, i'd probably not sit here writing this, but racing in an open wheel car somewhere. It sucks because normal people like us, who do have talent will never get the chance to show it just because we don't have the money.
@flipsidedogchop DIdnt read that bit, my bad. You cant really compare Webbers time to a dry time, but looking at it compared to both Buttons and Hamiltons only does bring dissapointment, as they got 1:44's on a wet track as well. If Webber didnt push wide in a few of those corners, he could have made it into a 1:45 at least.
@mallamoozoo yep. Thats the sad side of racing at high level. It's more about the money then the skill. (yamamoto, albers, chandock.) The money finding you is partly true. But only with loads of luck. One in a million kart racers get approached by sponsers and get the bag of money. However, they only do that at high level karting championships. Wich ofcourse, you can't enter without a bag of money...
Schumacher is still hugely involved in develpoment and testing though, so maybe he was the stig but for less of the time than he "may" be now ? Anyway what jeremy said went way over my head back then when i wasnt a massive F1 fan. 9 days to go WEHEY
@dennis12225 i didn't say he'd be a bad driver, i said the F1 drivers so far have been 'down to earth' as in cool to chat to, Kimi doesn't seem to me like he's a cool person to talk to, he'd be quite dull
