Mark Webber has hit out at drivers claiming to have made “bull***t” sacrifices to be in Method 1.
As has been proven on reveals equivalent to Drive To Survive, the narrative round drivers making it to F1 can usually be centred across the the calls for placed on younger drivers placing hours of follow in and households spending a lot of cash.
However the Australian, who manages upcoming expertise Oscar Piastri, spoke on the Efficiency Hackers podcast about drivers making complaints being already on the “again foot” if they’ve that mindset.
“Let’s not beat across the bush, you are being paid a good-looking sum of cash to do a really, very phenomenal job and that isn’t a burden,” he mentioned.
“I by no means spoke about sacrifices, folks speaking about sacrifices and ‘I gave rather a lot up’ – I believe that is an absolute load of bull***t.
“These younger drivers which have come from Australia and [they say] ‘I’ve all these sacrifices’ – Nicely they don’t seem to be. If it is a sacrifice already, then I believe you are on the again foot.
“It is all upside for me by way of exposing your self and dealing with the very best folks and getting the very best out of your self.”
Webber: My first contract in F1 was for 2 races, are you able to consider that?
Webber was famously solely on a one-year contract within the latter years of his Crimson Bull profession because the workforce lined up his alternative to accomplice Sebastian Vettel on the time, which he says “lit a hearth behind me” to proceed to ship.
He continued: “Even the final three years of my profession, I used to be on a one-year contract, as a result of I used to be proper on the bubble of being changed.
“In fact there is a hearth proper behind me to proceed to ship and say ‘Nicely I’m going to be renewed if I convey worth to this operation, I convey worth to myself and the folks round me, my workforce, and I’ve obtained pleasure in how I’m going about it.’
“The stopwatch doesn’t know that I’ve obtained a five-year contract, or a five-month contract. My first contract in F1 was for 2 races, are you able to consider that? It was three weeks. Brutal!
“However I had no playing cards on the desk, that’s the way it was. So what am I going to do, spill milk or step up? There will be another person that can need to have a crack at that, as a result of there’s all the time another person.”