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seems every car he gets into has a failure in some form,
resulting in a DNF 
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maybe people are too scared to have him as a driver in case he
jinxes their chances 
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Weber Walks Away
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He would have had a better season driving a Skoda than the Williams bucket he has been forced to drag around the track this year.
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Read a totally different story over at SMH, same result however: http://www.smh.com.au/news/... Mark's a pretty stand up guy, so i believe he was let go. He had said during the season that he was with Williams for the long term and wasn't going to jump ship. May even have a chance to land the ferrari drive if the Finn stays at McLaren.
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If shumi doesn't retire, kimi goes to renault and mclaren sign pedro...then what is mark left with...red bull? May have been better trying to hold off and see what Michael does.
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Well, Red Bull it is. Surely his manager must know something otherwise he would have held out longer for the Renault gig. I am not totally up with F1, so maybe somebody can "paint the picture" better than I can.
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yeah...uhhh his manager Flavio runs Renault F1. Well currently anyway. As Webber said. Flav didn't want him to go to Williams, yet Webber wanted too. This did his stock no favours, so this time Webber is doing what Flav. tells him. Wise move I think too.
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Apparently the Red Bull Team are potentially going to be on the pace so it may not be a stupid move.
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when has the car failed? from what i've witnessed, its been engine, or drive related in every case. am i wrong.
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Doesn't "engine or related failure" constitute a car failure.
I couldn't list all of the incidents but I can recall at
least the following so far this season:
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He has also had a couple of incidents with other cars, but not all of them were his fault. He has had bad luck/cars at every team he has gone to. If it still happens at Red bull (which is what his old jaguar team became isnt it?) then you gotta think that he is cursed and should never be allowed to drive again.
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hydraulics have gone a couple of times, tyre in france...
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It is funny you should say that because there are drivers that do tend to have lots of seemingly unrelated mechanical failures while their team mates don't have as many. Some drivers are very hard on their equipment and if anything is weak they will break it. Some drivers are very gentle on their equipment and yet can maintain the same pace. While I am not saying that MW is either one of those as I don't know enough about his driving style to comment it is certainly interesting that cars in three teams that he has driven for have not always been slow but have always had mechanical failures. His last race at Hungaroring was just a give-up. Other drivers were using the same tyres and didn't just pull off after one "lose". That kind of quitting is looked on very poorly at Williams. That said, Williams are far more concerned with the "team" results than they are with the drivers results. Or the drivers themselves for that matter.
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