Formula One Breaking News – Red Bull’s Mark Webber ended the season with a broken shoulder
Mark Webber of the Red Bull Racing team could arguably be considered 'the one who let it slip away'. The Australian had a noticeable advantage heading into the latter stages of the 2010 Formula One season until fate took a turn for the worse and the 34 year
old saw his title hopes fall like a stack of cards.
It could be due to this relentless pressure that the Red Bull driver has finally lashed out and revealed that he participated in the last 4 Grand Prix of the season with a broken shoulder. Further explaining the origin of the injury, the Australian added
that it was due to a cycling incident in Tasmania. Interestingly, it has also been reported that the Formula One driver did not tell his team about the adventurous trip.
Webber still has a pin in his leg after breaking the limb and shoulder. The driver revealed in a book labeled ‘Up front – 2010, a season to remember’ published in his native country:
"I was riding with a great friend of mine. Suddenly he crashed right in front of me and I had nowhere to go but straight through the ears of the horse (over the handlebars) I suffered what they call a 'skier's fracture' to my right shoulder." were the words
of the Red Bull driver imprinted on paper.
At that time, if memory serves well, the driver was leading the championships and his post-cycling performance took a sharp dip that not only saw him lose place to Alonso in the next 3 races but also his own team mate, Vettel, in the final race of the season.
The Red Bull team principal expressed his deep disappointment and commented that he had no idea about the book, let alone the shoulder.
"It is obviously disappointing Mark said nothing. It was an injury that did not appear to have any effect on his performance but all the same it would have been nice to know about it” dismissed Christian Horner.
However, while the book is refutable evidence itself, Webber’s dip in performance and subsequently losing the Driver’s championship is still up for debate. Whether these are the ‘honest’ views of a man that had to race against pain or a mere desperate attempt
to salvaging some pride losing the title to a driver that was 11 years less experienced as him is still up for debate.
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