Head-to-Head: Is Mark Webber a Better F1 Driver Than Felipe Massa?

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Published: September 19, 2013

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Felipe Massa and Mark Webber occupy seats in two of Formula One's greatest contemporary teams, both have come agonisingly close to becoming world champions and both have spent the last few seasons being comprehensively overshadowed by their teammates.

Webber, whose Red Bull Racing stablemate Sebastian Vettel is on the brink of a fourth consecutive title, has cried enough. He's off to sportscars next season to front Porsche's Le Mans campaign after yet another campaign of being made to look very ordinary indeed.

Despite a torrid record against Ferrari team leader Fernando Alonso, Massa's not yet reached the stage of wanting to quit F1. Perhaps he feels he has unfinished business in the sport, a consequence of narrowly missing out on the 2008 crown and being unable to reassert his authority within F1 since his near-fatal accident in 2009.

Given their careers have many parallels—beyond their lazy labeling as No. 2 drivers—it is interesting to consider they are the perfect pair to use as a case study in driver comparison. 

Webber's out of the sport next year, Massa is determined to stay in the frame. One easy argument would be that if one were to stay and the other to leave, the Brazilian should definitely be the latter. But is one driver better than the other?

 

Raw Speed



However you see the current-spec Felipe Massa, he's always been a very quick driver. The difference between him and Webber on this is that the latter is still very much capable of showing it.

For one reason or another, though, Webber's not been able to access the sort of performance which almost earned him 2010 world title.

At the peak of their powers, there is little to separate them. It's something you need to take a wider perspective over; Webber's one-lap talent is plain prodigious, but does he have raw racing speed? His maiden win in Germany '09, when he o...
Article Source: Bleacher Report - Formula 1

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