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Webber still regrets passing up Renault move

Mark Webber admits that perhaps the biggest regret of his F1 career is accepting an offer from the Williams team just as Renault rose to become the sport's dominant force. Having impressed with both Minardi and Jaguar, despite each team's own lack of performance, Webber was in line to move to Enstone for 2005, but spurned the advances of manager Flavio Briatore – who ran the Renault operation – to take up a similar offer from Williams, on the basis that the Grove squad was already successful. “[The only thing I would change] "would be to have gone to Renault rather than Williams [in 2005],” he told Britain's Guardian newspaper as he reflected on his career with six races left...
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