🇦🇺 Mark Webber

Mark Webber is an elite professional racing driver whose career centred on twelve seasons in Formula 1, where he compiled 217 starts with 9 wins and 42 podiums. His Racer Rating of 7,446 places him among the strongest drivers of his era, a tier occupied by race-winning professionals at the very top. Webber spent the majority of his career with Red Bull, accumulating 129 starts for the team alongside fellow driver Max Verstappen. His competitive record against the era's leading drivers tells a mixed story; he regularly outpaced Felipe Massa and Rubens Barrichello over sustained campaigns but finished behind Fernando Alonso and, particularly, Lewis Hamilton more often than ahead. Against Nico Rosberg, a generational talent, Webber won their head-to-head 75 times across 102 encounters; he also beat Kimi Räikkönen in 102 races. His average finishing position across all single-seater racing was P6.2, reflecting consistency in a field dominated by championship contenders rather than outright dominance.[1]

Webber's career shifted to endurance racing in 2014, joining Porsche's World Endurance Championship assault. The transition proved successful. Over three seasons he contested 25 WEC rounds, winning 8 of them and taking 15 podiums. In 2016, his final season, Webber won four races and secured six podiums across nine rounds to finish first overall. The sum of his endurance efforts yielded the 2015 FIA World Endurance Championship, contested against a field that included Fernando Alonso, the 2018 WEC LMP1 champion. Webber retired at the end of 2016, closing a 19-year competitive racing career that spanned from Formula 3 Macau in 1997 through to his championship-winning season in the WEC.[2]