{"id":2511,"date":"2010-02-17T11:01:43","date_gmt":"2010-02-17T16:01:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=2511"},"modified":"2010-02-17T10:50:08","modified_gmt":"2010-02-17T15:50:08","slug":"2009-could-have-been-webbers-last-in-f1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/2009-could-have-been-webbers-last-in-f1\/","title":{"rendered":"2009 could have been Webber&#8217;s last in F1"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Mark Webber has revealed he might have quit formula one if last year&#8217;s Red Bull car was a &#8220;shit box&#8221;.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He told The Australian newspaper that, with a broken leg and an expiring contract early last year, he was beginning to experience waning motivation.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Ultimately, the RB5 powered Webber, 33, to his first two grand prix wins, two fastest laps and eight podiums, putting into history his less successful seven previous seasons.<\/p>\n<p>Asked if 2009 would have been his last season had he not driven to the front of the F1 field, Webber answered: &#8220;I don&#8217;t know.\u00a0 If we had a total shit box last year, maybe.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was a very tough start to the year for me mentally with the (mountain bike) accident and if that was coupled with a tough season result-wise, it might have been enough to put water on the flame, but fortunately, it was enough to put petrol on it,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>Webber joined Red Bull from Williams at the end of 2006, having previously also driven for Jaguar in the wake of his 2002 debut for Minardi.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Two or three years ago, I wasn&#8217;t particularly enjoying it a huge amount and I wasn&#8217;t a million miles away (from retirement) then,&#8221; he explained.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You have to be enjoying it and you have to be motivated.\u00a0 That fire has to keep going.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Last year was very, very important in terms of the outlook on my whole career,&#8221; Webber said.\u00a0 &#8220;The fire is burning now, I am getting up each day and I care and I am taking responsibility for myself.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #999999;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Webber has revealed he might have quit formula one if last year&#8217;s Red Bull car was a &#8220;shit box&#8221;. \u00a0 He told The Australian newspaper that, with a broken leg and an expiring contract early last year, he was beginning to experience waning motivation.<\/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":[3],"tags":[5262,165,129],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2511"}],"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=2511"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2512,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2511\/revisions\/2512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}