Mark Alan Webber a.k.a Mark Webber is an Australian retired racing driver who last competed in the 2015 FIA World Endurance Championship as a Porsche works driver in LMP1, where he won the championship. Moreover, he won 9X Formula One Grands Prix as well as finished third in the championship in 2010, 2011, and 2013, driving for Red Bull Racing.
Queanbeyan, New South Wales, Australia native, Mark Webber was born on 17th August 1976, under the star sign Virgo. The forty-four years old holds an Australian nationality and belongs to the white ethnic background.
As of 2020, Mark Webber has an estimated net worth of $10 million. He is rumored to have a yearly salary of $1-$2 Million and brings in endorsement money from his racing sponsors.
Regarding his real estate portfolio, Webber’s 10-acre property in Buckinghamshire is a “Rookery House” with an elegant driveway and sculptured gardens for his dogs Shadow and Simba to run around in. He also owns a house in the beach town of Noosa, Australia which he purchased in 2011 for $5 million.
To begin with, Mark Webber and his spouse, Teresa Palmer, an Australian actress, met in 2012, after she contacted him via Twitter. That year, in September, the two started dating. The following year, Webber and Palmer became engaged in August. Later four months, on December 21, they tied the knot in Mexico.
In February 2014, Mark Webber and Teresa Palmer welcomed their first child, a son, Bodhi Rain. Their second son, Forest Sage was born in December 2016. On 12th April 2019, they had their first daughter, Poet Lake Palmer.
Also, Palmer is also the step-mother to Webber's other son Isaac Love, who he had with ex-girlfriend Frankie Shaw.
Mark Webber was born to Alan Webber, a local motorcycle dealer, and his wife Diane. He has an elder sister, Leanne, two nieces, and a nephew. For his secondary education, he enrolled at Karabar High School.
At a very young age, Webber started his relationship with sport, working as a ball boy for the rugby league team, the Canberra Raiders. However, motorsport was his main interest.
Following some racing success in Australia, Webber relocated to the United Kingdom in 1995 and began a partnership with fellow Australian Paul Stoddart, who bought the Minardi team. In 2002, Mark Webber made his Formula One debut, scoring Minardi\s first point in three years at his and Paul's home race.
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At the 2009 German Grand Prix, he won his first F1 with Red Bull, followed second places at the Chinese Grand Prix, Turkish Grand Prix, and British Grand Prix all in 2009.
On 27 June 2013, Webber retired from Formula One at the end of the season. The following year, he started to race for Porsche, signing a long-term deal, racing LMP1 Sportscars in the FIA World Endurance Championship.
On 13 October 2016, Webber retired from driving at the end of the 2016 season
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