Andy Lawson, owner of the Queanbeyan Kart Centre, has Webber received an old battered go-kart from his father in 1990 and raced it once a month at the Canberra Go-Kart Club and at meetings in and around Canberra. He developed himself at a local indoor go-kart center near his home. Around age 12 or 13, he turned to karting, buying a go-kart from a school friend’s father. Weber was not encouraged to take motorcycling seriously by his father, as he sponsored some local children who had been injured in motorcycle accidents.
Weber began riding motorbikes on weekends on his maternal grandfather’s 2,500-acre (1,000 ha) farm around the age of four or five. He lives in the small Buckinghamshire village of Aston Clinton with his wife, Ann Neill, and is stepfather to his son from a previous relationship.
Weber also worked as an apprentice plumber and woodcutter. At the age of 13, he was a ball boy for the rugby league team Canberra Raiders for a year and spent his post-school years earning money by delivering pizzas in the Canberra and Queanbeyan areas. Weber represented KHS in athletics and rugby league and did Australian rules football, cricket and swimming after his mother encouraged him to get involved in as many sports as possible. He was educated at nearby Isabella Street Primary School and Karbar High School (KHS). On the banks of the Queanbeyan River, near Canberra. On 27 August 1976, Weber was born in the small New South Wales town of Queanbeyan, in the Tablelands, to middle-class parents, motorcycle dealer and petrol station owner Alan Weber and his wife, Diane. Webber is an inductee of both the Australian Motor Sport Hall of Fame and the FIA Hall of Fame. Weber received the Australian Sports Medal in 2000 and was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) in the 2017 Australia Day Honours.
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He retired from motor sport in 2016, becoming a television pundit and a driver manager for Britain’s Channel 4 and Australia’s Network 10. The trio won eight races in the final two seasons and the 2015 World Endurance Drivers’ Championship.
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He left F1 after 2013 and moved to the WEC, sharing a Porsche 919 Hybrid with Bernhard and Hartley in the fully professional Le Mans Prototype 1 class from the 2014 to 2016 season. He won nine F1 Grands Prix, thirteen pole positions and finished third in the World Drivers’ Championship in the 2010, 20 seasons. Webber remained at Williams until the 2006 campaign, driving for the Red Bull squad for the rest of his F1 career. For the 2005 season, he was released early from his contract with Jaguar and joined the Williams team, scoring his first podium finish at the Monaco Grand Prix. He moved to the Jaguars team for the 20 championships. Webber made his F1 debut with the Minardi team in the 2002 season and finished fifth in his first race, the Australian Grand Prix. He competed opposite Bernd Schneider in the FIA GT Championship with the AMG Mercedes team for two years, finishing runner-up in the 1998 season with five wins in ten races, and finishing second to Super Nova Racing in the 2001 International Formula 3000 Championship. Webber began karting at the age of 12 or 13 and achieved early success by winning regional championships before moving on to car racing in the Australian Formula Ford Championship and the British Formula 3 Championship. Porsche with German Timo Bernhard and Brendan Hartley of New Zealand. Mark Alan Webber AO (born 27 August 1976) is an Australian retired professional racing driver who competed in Formula One from 2002 to 2013 and the FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC) between 20.
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