We now are close to precisely 12 months on from the Thursday on which the F1 fraternity gathered in the Silverstone paddock for the start of the 2013 British Grand Prix weekend. But no sooner had everyone got something like into position than news of considerable gravitas had broken. Mark Webber it was confirmed was off to drive sportscars for Porsche in LMP1 at the season’s end. That he was leaving Red Bull – following Malaysia, Multi 21 and all that – was no surprise. But this particular move as well as it being confirmed in the here and now was one that no one saw coming it seemed, least of all those in the Milton Keynes collective that he was part of. As you’d...
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