Webber drives new GP3 car in France

Mark Webber has added his scepticism to the progress of F1’s new teams for 2010. Campos, Manor, Lotus and USF1 are all scheduled to launch their start-up projects off the Bahrain grid next March.

“It would be good to have them,” Australian Webber, 33, said in an interview with the French language website toilef1.com, “but it is too early to say if they will all be there.

“We are in mid-November and the road to March (2010) is long,” the Red Bull driver added.

Webber drives new GP3 car in France

Mark Webber on Tuesday drove the new GP3 single seater at France’s Paul Ricard circuit.

The Australian, to run a team in the new F1 support series with his Red Bull boss Christian Horner, said: “It’s my first experience driving the car and I can honestly say it is like driving a small F1 car.”

Webber, 33, admitted that Horner had convinced him to get involved with the team, named MW Arden.

“I’m not at the beginning of the F1 career so it was a logical step for me,” he said.

source: GMM