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  • Aussie Grit

  • My Formula One Journey
  • By: Mark Webber
  • Narrated by: Nicholas Osmond
  • Length: 11 hrs and 27 mins
  • 4.7 out of 5 stars (484 ratings)
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Aussie Grit

By: Mark Webber
Narrated by: Nicholas Osmond
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Summary

Mark Webber was at the centre of one of the most captivating chapters in the history of Formula One. In 2010, while racing for Red Bull, he and his teammate, Sebastian Vettel, went head to head for the world championship. There could be only one winner.

Since retiring from Formula One, Mark has concentrated on endurance racing, including the legendary Le Mans 24-hour race. He hit the front pages of newspapers around the world in December 2014 when he slammed into the barricades in the final round of the FIA World Endurance Championship in South America and was lucky to escape with his life.

But the controversy of his relationship on and off the track with Vettel, who went on to win multiple world titles, has never been far beneath the surface. Here, for the first time, Webber tells the inside story of one of Formula One's most intriguing battles - it is a story that goes to the heart of why the sport is loved by millions of fans around the world.

In his trademark straight-talking, no-nonsense style, Mark reveals his amazing life on and off the Formula One racetrack, from his first taste of karting to his F1 debut in 2002, from scoring Minardi's first points in three years at the Australian Grand Prix through to his first win with Red Bull at the 2009 German Grand Prix and the year he should have been crowned world champion. Mark Webber's journey to the top of Formula One was every bit as determined and committed as his racing. Aussie Grit is his searingly honest story.

Includes a foreword by Formula One legend Sir Jackie Stewart.

©2016 Mark Webber (P)2016 Pan Macmillan Publishers Ltd.

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Aussie grit

I Really enjoyed the book, a true legend and a gentleman to the racing world.

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Somewhat disappointing

I love F1 and always liked Webber. It is a shame that he didn't narrate his own book because Osmond does not have the charisma of a racer and his delivery is pedestrian. I assume this is why Webber's story was a bit more of a yawn that it might have been. Certainly Mark would not gave mispronounced so many, mainly French, names and places wrong.

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Very entertaining listen if you're into F1 racing

Very entertaining listen if you're into F1 racing. Mark Webber not being much of a "politician" driver reveals some interesting stories

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Team Webber

Interesting to hear about Webbers difficult route to F1, plus RBR politics, good listening, recommended

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This Audi book is great for annoying the neighbours

I found the narrator’s voice so grating, I couldn’t complete the book. Shame. Just wish Webber could have been bothered to read out his own book!

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Heartfelt and honest just needs the man himself

Mark has his unique style of delivery that we have become accustomed to as F1 fans. The content is interesting but the delivery lacks the witt and charm of the man himself… Audio books are always best by the author themselves.

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A Great F1 Journey

Great book narrated by a fellow aussie. It goes back to Mark's early days wanting to be an F1 driver right up to his Porsche days with all the details in between including his Red Bull career. Very highly recommended for F1 fans and general autobiography readers alike.

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Nessie

As someone who works with Mark in two team (Jaguar the RBR) I can honestly say he is exactly what he says he is. A dink di fair dinkum Aussie lad. You’d never work with a more committed, loyal or honest driver. He’s a ton bloke and this is a brilliant account of his journey to F1 and beyond. As he wrote on his helmet visor when I finished at RBR (To Nessie) “Good Working with you mate” …Nessie 🏎️🏁

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Brilliant story of a great man and F1 driver.

Entertaining and educating, Mark put his brilliant racing career into 10 hours of good listening

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"Swimming with the sharks."

As a committed fan of Formula I for more than three decades, I very much enjoy the autobiographies of those special few whose lives have been consumed, sometimes literally, by the exciting and apparently glamourous sport which still has the power to claim lives.. Books by the stars off track and on: David Coultard, Jenson Button, Damon Hill, Frank Williams, Ross Braun and Adrian Newey. So I was delighted to add the recollections of the driver who was teamed with world champion Sebastian Vettel in the relatively newly formed Red Bull, Mark Webber.
Webber's book is interesting especially to those other readers remembering Mark's numerous races, many of which are recalled in great detail, but perhaps not so enthralling for newcomers to the sport or those fascinated more by the man than the race. His is not a light hearted look back over his life so far, instead detailing his often dashed expectations, hopes and fears and the struggle to get started and stay near the top. The book is performed by Nicholas Osmond, whose voice is similar to that of the author but with a slightly less pronounced Australian accent.
Of all of the F.I. accounts that I have read so far, this is my least favourite. But still a fascinating glimpse into the life of the man who admits to being addicted by the time he was ten.

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