2009 F1 Season

[SAM916]

awesome to finally see him get a result that he deserves! I had goosebumps after he won, simply amazing to watch the pictures of him winning and his sheer emotion, it was obvious he was genuinely relieved! Lets hope its the first of many more to come...

[TALBO]

You must be kidding right..... Mark unlucky for trying to run Rubens off the road!!!!

[Kozeyekan]

You must be kidding right..... Mark unlucky for trying to run Rubens off the road!!!!

Yeah, unlucky to get a penalty. Reubens is in his blind spot, with plenty of track to move over. The person behind can see the person in front so it's normally up to them to allow for that car, as F1 mirrors are little more than ornamentation.

Also, Webber LOST the position from the move. It's like cutting a corner and losing a position because of it, it's pretty much it's own penalty.

So, yeah, they could have penalised it, or considered it a racing incident where Mark already served a penalty by dropping a place.

When Lewis came through, Webber had no where to go, and did well to only just clip him. In the past, it would have been lewis who zoomed off unscathed, while webbers nose cone disintegrated, filling up his air vents and puncturing three tyres. He might have used ll his luck up there.

Fortunately, it's not another "If only" for Mark. After 8 years driving in cars with major issues he's done it. No first gear, a helmet full of vomit, cars doing back flips, cars hitting him while behind a safety car, down force issues..... all can be put behind him now as he looks for F1 win number 2, 3 or 4 this season.

[JUN`R32]

Good stuff webz

I knew it had to come soon he was in such good form.

things can only get better for the aussie

you never know he might end up in a better car in the yrs to come if he shows more brilliance like this.

[Beer Baron]

what a great race. a well deserved first win and he had to work hard for it. I hate to be akin to a english wanker comentator but it did remind me a little of schuey. people would write him off after an early penalty or problem and he would just punch out the laps and get the equivalent of hitting every green light on his run home while his opponents kept getting caught at ambers and reds...

webber is a dead set great guy and a great driver. how he managed to pull himself together and just get on with racing I don't know. but it's the reason he's paid what he is, and I'm paid what I am. cause i would be more likely to drive into the pits, hop out of the car, smash my helmet on the ground and then kick each of the stewards in the balls. he definitely fkced up but no way did he deserve a drive through for that. he was continuously moving right and he said he though rubens was going left. when they hit no damage was done and no advantage was gained, and rubens coming up from behind had a clear view of webber (webber didn't have one of rubes) and could have avoided it easily if he chose to.

I could hardly bare to watch the last 5 laps. I just sat with my eyes closed shitting my pants. only opened them back up with about half a lap to go and just willed him on.

so who else ponied up some dough on the boy. after he got pole I just had a feeling this was his race. I laid out some cash on him and got an ok return at 2.50:1. I was surprised that he was that short odds and he was the favourite! surprising considering he's a bloke who's never won a race and is notorious for bad starts surrounded by button, rubes and vets. but still thanks webber for earning me a nice little payday.

no half breed kids for you troy

eat your words duncan! can't beleive you doubted our boy webber. it's the aussie come from behind spirit! troy likes to come from behind too. just ask the unsuspecting indian chick he found last night...

What about legard's comments "that was a bit to aggresive by mark on Rubens, but he is an Aussie."

LOL

I did lol too. I think on the whole we have a fine world image!

Glad im watching BBC and not OneHD, probably would have kicked my samsung lcd in half now with the amount of 'Australia's Mark Webber' comments from Greg Rust.

if I had a 'samsung' LCD I'd kick it in half too... lol jk

Tonights drive was Webber-esque. He is his own man and will be making life for the RBR management even harder as the season rolls along

too true. he has proven he is a guy who can pull of those tough, gritty, determined drives when it counts. he just has not had shit go his way before in F1. but he's shown it in other categories. and the fact that he's managed nearly 8 years in F1 with some ok teams means they must know it too. they will be thinking hard now about do they bank on the experience of webber or go with the raw pace but loose driving of vettel. the points gap between them is practically non-existent now.

Funny to see webber still must have a leg problem too as he was wearing some kind of brace/pad on his right knee and looked a bit stiff out of the car. he could drive with his face on fire I reckon and just about has in the past.

[Beer Baron]

I'm going to frame this farken TAB slip!

[Beer Baron]

and yes the daily smellograph article was crap. I like how they said. "...webber who only joined red bull this season..." ummm wtf? retards.

[Beer Baron]

Yeah, unlucky to get a penalty. Reubens is in his blind spot, with plenty of track to move over. The person behind can see the person in front so it's normally up to them to allow for that car, as F1 mirrors are little more than ornamentation.

Also, Webber LOST the position from the move. It's like cutting a corner and losing a position because of it, it's pretty much it's own penalty.

So, yeah, they could have penalised it, or considered it a racing incident where Mark already served a penalty by dropping a place.

When Lewis came through, Webber had no where to go, and did well to only just clip him. In the past, it would have been lewis who zoomed off unscathed, while webbers nose cone disintegrated, filling up his air vents and puncturing three tyres. He might have used ll his luck up there.

Fortunately, it's not another "If only" for Mark. After 8 years driving in cars with major issues he's done it. No first gear, a helmet full of vomit, cars doing back flips, cars hitting him while behind a safety car, down force issues..... all can be put behind him now as he looks for F1 win number 2, 3 or 4 this season.

yep absolutely spot on. you took the words right out of my mouth on all of those points. I was shit scared this nearly became another 'should have been but...." race. but he was on a mission this weekend you could see it in his face and in the way he drove that nothing was going to stand in his way. he could have flipped the car and vommited on the second flip landed it and still won this time. it was just his turn. he must have been a nasty wife basher in a previous life as the bad luck he's had is astounding. let's hope the bulk of it is behind him now and we can all laugh about it after he wins a WDC or 2.

[JAS-25T]

surely you put at least a green back on him?

[Beer Baron]

surely you put at least a green back on him?

I even foolishly put a couple bucks on button as he was 6 to 1 and I thought if webs has his usual luck button can get me some of my money back! now I feel guilty for ever doubting our man webber.

[Roy]

And no way he deserved a drive thru for that. I recall a certain Brawn driver smashing into the back of Webber, ruining his race, making mark collect Heikki etc in Australia. The guy didnt get penalised for trying to make up for a real bad start under brakes in the first corner. Hell he went on to finish 2nd in that GP....so as always the FIA are inconsistant....and i am so over all teh chronies at the FIA.

There is also talk that Bernie is in trouble with the powers to be who are the real owners of F1, who happened to be Jewish. I would lvoe if at the end of this year we are minus Berni and Max. Perhaps Bernie's daughter will be on skid row and then i can do terrible things in terrible places to her

[TurboX]

WEBBER! VINDICATED at LAST!

AND with a drive through penalty that was ridiculous given the circumstances!

But he still was able to keep his head together and stick it up the detractors at long last.

Can someone explain to me why all these years watching him that he never gets hardly any air time weather he is fighting out a mid field battle or leading and kicking ass?

EVERY other front runner gets many minutes of lone action out the front with the commentators bullshitting about how good the driver is to be so far out there while ignoring the close faught battle that Webber is probably having somewhwere mid-field.

Then when its Webber out the front he gets about two seconds of air play while they concentrate on the mid fielders.

We were even lucky to get about five seconds of the last winning lap and chequered flag.

Have these people got something against Aussies winning!?

Who else do they know who would have the balls to flip a AMG 208 Merc at 300 cliks TWICE (NOT his fault - shit, I wont drive mine at half the speed - its no Skyline)

and still get in a F1 car and keep trying against all his bad luck!?

[Marco-R34GTT]

Welll if there is ONE thing I'm relieved about... He now cannot possibly be compared to Chris Amon now... Thank F*CK!!!

[SimonR32]

that drive through was a disgrace!

WELL DONE WEBBER

hopefully the bad luck is now gone and he has a good season... he is still a chance at the championship

[TALBO]

I know there are obviously many Webber fans in here and I have absolutely nothing against that, but I'm trying to work out from an unbiased point of view how any of you guys think Mark was penalised too heavily????

I appreciate the patriotism, but c'mon guys get real... and no I'm not trying not start a flame war. Just think honestly for a moment about how different it would've been had Rubens been the Aussie in that near colossal accident, that's all I'm saying.

[Marco-R34GTT]

Schmacher got away with more than that... Some of the sh1t him and Montoya used to get up to... Anyone remember the move Michael pulled on Ralf at the start of the 2001 European GP??? Nearly put his own brother into the wall!

[Duncan]

I know there are obviously many Webber fans in here and I have absolutely nothing against that, but I'm trying to work out from an unbiased point of view how any of you guys think Mark was penalised too heavily????

I appreciate the patriotism, but c'mon guys get real... and no I'm not trying not start a flame war. Just think honestly for a moment about how different it would've been had Rubens been the Aussie in that near colossal accident, that's all I'm saying.

f**king a. if anyone hit me that hard they would be digging themselves out of the kitty litter on the next corner.

f1 has had a long and crap history of aggressively dangerous driving, its great to see a crack down on it. Bad luck for webber with the timing but I'm glad they ruled this way

[Marco-R34GTT]

Who can forget...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZpnWhM7JSE

[jase-r34]

I think that all anyone ever wants with these kinds of penalties is consistency. And that is something that we are not seeing from the stewards this year, or any other year for that matter. Even Coulthard thought Webs was penalised too harshly.

[TALBO]

Schumacher was also crucified and punished for his transgressions!

Reminds me how Schuey got the blame for the incident in Adelaide in 1994 with Damon.... Funny thing is though, Damon pulled the same ambitious move on Schuey not even a year later in Silverstone but this time it was somehow deemed Hill's fault. Of course.... this time it wasn't for the World title and this time the British commentators didn't feed horseshit down the throats of TV viewers!

Anyone remember what the Un-Australian Mark Webber did to Schuey in Monaco 2006..... and for what.... 1 grid position!!!! Just imagine had that been a British or Australian driver who avoided colliding with the wall at Rascasse in qualifying!!! They would've called that a great save or some shit....