Porsche's Mark Webber
took time out from his Porsche duties to sample the sites and sounds of Austin and answer a few questions with E-Racing's Danielle Crespo
some of which is a little bit of smoke and mirrors, but then it’s the top flight of motor sport – in Europe anyway! Obviously here you have NASCAR which is massive, but F1 is big on a world scale. After competing in that environment for a long time, you get here (in WEC) and it’s a calmer championship, but still super professional and very intense. The battles are strong, but again a calmer environment for me to do my work, which is perfect for me at this age.
Changes in racing line at Austin compared to F1
I’ve driven the 919 Hybrid on quite a few tracks and adapted reasonably quickly. The racing line here is reasonably similar. The car has four-wheel drive capabilities, so the exits of the corners are a little bit different compared to a Formula 1 car, but the racing lines around the world are within a tight tolerance between the two categories.