{"id":608,"date":"2009-07-12T16:45:03","date_gmt":"2009-07-12T20:45:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/?p=608"},"modified":"2009-07-12T16:46:07","modified_gmt":"2009-07-12T20:46:07","slug":"amen-mark-webber","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/?p=608","title":{"rendered":"Amen, Mark Webber!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.markwebber.com\/index.cfm\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-609\" title=\"webber1-lg\" src=\"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/webber1-lg.jpg\" alt=\"webber1-lg\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/webber1-lg.jpg 640w, http:\/\/mpomy.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/webber1-lg-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After seven years in the sport and over 132 races, Australian <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mark_Webber\">Mark Webber<\/a> has won his first ever Formula 1 race at the German Grand Prix.\u00a0 He qualified fastest yesterday for his first ever pole position and today he brought home the bacon.\u00a0 When I started following the sport in depth a few years ago, Webber was thought to be the unluckiest man on the grid, victimized mostly by a substandard ride &#8211; but not with today&#8217;s Red Bull.<\/p>\n<p>I have not yet\u00a0 seen the race, but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.grandprix.com\/race\/r812racenotes.html\">from the reports<\/a>, Webber really dropped the hammer in the last laps before his second pit stop.\u00a0 He would have been light on fuel and sensing his firs victotry was within grasp.\u00a0 Just need to stay cool and drive <em><strong>really<\/strong><\/em> fast.\u00a0 In the end, he outpaced his young teammate Sebastian Vettel (driving identical hardware) by nearly ten seconds, and Vettel finished in second place!\u00a0 That&#8217;s a strong statement from the 33 year-old Aussie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After seven years in the sport and over 132 races, Australian Mark Webber has won his first ever Formula 1 race at the German Grand Prix.\u00a0 He qualified fastest yesterday for his first ever pole position and today he brought &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/?p=608\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[1481,232,554,549,550,553],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=608"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":611,"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608\/revisions\/611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mpomy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}