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Formula 1 Australian Grand Prix: Mark Webber and Daryl Beattie

2015

Formula 1 Australian Grand Prix: Mark Webber and Daryl Beattie

2015

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There's a particular kind of sportscasting that only really works when the person on screen has earned it, and this Network Ten piece featuring Mark Webber from the 2015 Australian Grand Prix is one of them. Webber, retired from F1 little more than a year, walks us through the Albert Park pit lane and shows us the small, unglamorous details of a Grand Prix weekend that a regular sports commentator would have no way of knowing about. The yellow markers painted on the concrete and what they mean for a pit crew. The choreography around the Mercedes garage as Lewis Hamilton's car is warmed up. The reason a particular tyre or angle matters.

For more than a decade, Webber was one of the faces who built F1's modern mythos in Australia, with nine Grand Prix wins, a long stint at Red Bull, and, of course, his famous feud with Sebastian Vettel. Seeing him share his expertise with the audience that used to cheer for him feels less like a champion retiring than returning, ready to pass on what only he could know.

There's a particular kind of sportscasting that only really works when the person on screen has earned it, and this Network Ten piece featuring Mark Webber from the 2015 Australian Grand Prix is one of them. Webber, retired from F1 little more than a year, walks us through the Albert Park pit lane and shows us the small, unglamorous details of a Grand Prix weekend that a regular sports commentator would have no way of knowing about. The yellow markers painted on the concrete and what they mean for a pit crew. The choreography around the Mercedes garage as Lewis Hamilton's car is warmed up. The reason a particular tyre or angle matters.

For more than a decade, Webber was one of the faces who built F1's modern mythos in Australia, with nine Grand Prix wins, a long stint at Red Bull, and, of course, his famous feud with Sebastian Vettel. Seeing him share his expertise with the audience that used to cheer for him feels less like a champion retiring than returning, ready to pass on what only he could know.

  • Commentators
    Daryl Beattie, Mark Webber
    Broadcaster
    Network Ten
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