What a way to put the 2008 built 5.419 km Spanish street circuit around Valencia Harbour on the map, a spectacular F1 crash in the European Grand Prix, from Mark Webber in the Red Bull.
The Aussie provided high drama when his ride slipped over onto the back wheel of Kovalainen’s Lotus on lap 11 becoming airborne before flipping upside down and landing on the roll cage, bouncing across the circuit into the gravel trap and ending sideways on the tyre barrier.
This type of incident was not new to Webber as the 33-year-old, the 400 kilometer per hour high-speed multi over-ender flips when he totaled a prototype Mercedes AMG sports car at Le Mans in 1999.
In a race that had ten drivers penalised between 5 and 20 seconds to their finishing times for breaching safety car rules after the crash, the race was won by Red Bull teammate Sebastian Vettel with Lewis Hamilton and Jensen Button finishing second and third respectively for McLaren Mercedes.
The good thing about last Sunday’s crash, Mark walked out of the wreck unscathed and ready to do it all again in British Grand Prix at Silverstone in England on 11th July.
Although he didn’t score any points this round, he still remains as one of the favourites to take out the 2010 World Championship.