{"id":10004,"date":"2010-12-06T19:28:45","date_gmt":"2010-12-07T00:28:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=10004"},"modified":"2010-12-06T19:28:45","modified_gmt":"2010-12-07T00:28:45","slug":"webber-confirms-he-broke-shoulder-with-four-races-to-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/webber-confirms-he-broke-shoulder-with-four-races-to-go\/","title":{"rendered":"Webber confirms he broke shoulder with four races to go"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More details about Mark Webber&#8217;s recently broken shoulder are emerging.<\/p>\n<p>The Australian&#8217;s new book &#8216;Up front: a season to remember&#8221; claims that separate from his 2009 pre-season crash that broke his leg and left shoulder, the Red Bull driver broke his right shoulder in another mountain bike crash whilst he led the 2010 championship.<\/p>\n<p>It is believed surgery on the &#8220;skier&#8217;s fracture&#8221;, sustained while on holiday in Australia prior to the Japanese grand prix at Suzuka, was the reason Webber missed the recent Pirelli test in Abu Dhabi.<\/p>\n<p>He confirmed: &#8220;I was riding with a great friend of mine.\u00a0 Suddenly, he crashed right in front of me and I had nowhere to go but straight through the ears of the horse!<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Suzuka is a brutal track so it was a blessing that the Japanese weather gave me an enforced rest day on the Saturday, and a pre-race (cortisone) injection helped too.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In the end, we got through the weekend all right,&#8221; said Webber, who finished second at Suzuka behind his teammate and eventual champion Sebastian Vettel.<\/p>\n<p>In Korea, Webber&#8217;s hopes took a major hit with his crash on the slippery track, before he finished second &#8211; again behind Vettel &#8211; in Brazil.<\/p>\n<p>And at the Abu Dhabi finale last month, Webber was uncompetitive whilst Vettel won the race and title from pole position.<\/p>\n<p>But Webber said in his official book that he does not attribute losing the title to his shoulder injury.<br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #888888;\">\u00a0\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More details about Mark Webber&#8217;s recently broken shoulder are emerging. The Australian&#8217;s new book &#8216;Up front: a season to remember&#8221; claims that separate from his 2009 pre-season crash that broke his leg and left shoulder, the Red Bull driver broke his right shoulder in another mountain bike crash whilst he led the 2010 championship. It &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[2120,3],"tags":[5262,5340,165,129],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10004"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10004"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10004\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10005,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10004\/revisions\/10005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}