Eighteen years ago, a Formula Ford grid of F1 hopefuls sat in torrential conditions at the Phillip Island Grand Prix circuit. In one lap a young Queanbeyan kid scythed his way from eighth to first in a display that… Well one nobody saw. Commentators couldn’t see that track let alone the drivers and yet Mark Webber somehow found his way through the spray to lead and then dominate the race as if he was in a completely different category to the opposition. The only evidence of his tour de force being a frighteningly brave side-by-side pass on the leader through one of the track’s trickiest corners. The mystery and conjecture of how Mark achieved that lap seems to have stayed with him...
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