Red Bull’s Mark Webber in 196mph F1 crash in Valencia, Spain

Video of Red Bull’s Mark Webber in F1 crash going 196mph

A huge crash in the Valencia arm of the Formula 1 season on Sunday marred the triumphant win of Red Bull’s Sebastian Vettel after his teammate, Mark Webber was involved in a 196mph crash.

The Australian driver was in 19th position after an early pit stop on the 10th lap and was racing through the Spanish track in Valencia when his car was catapulted into the air after clipping the back of Lotus’ Heikki Kovalainen going 193mph.

Webber’s car was seen flying through the air, spinning before landing on the ground upside down. The F1 car was then seen flipping back to the upright position before smashing into the crash barriers made out of tires.

The 33-year-old Red Bull driver walked away from the sight of the crash reportedly with no injuries other than being a little shaken.

The Aussie was taken to have checkups to make sure there were no injuries where he was stormed by reporters.

Webber said “Going down the back straight he went a little bit to the left, so I thought maybe he’s going to let me go,”

“I wasn’t sure what he was thinking, whether he was going to release me, because sometimes it’s happened before that when you catch those guys they don’t put a fight up.”

“Then he went back to the right, so I thought okay, he’s going to fight. I was in the slipstream, I looked to the left, then he went back left, and then as soon as I looked right, he braked. It was so far before the braking point, it was 80 metres earlier than my previous lap – I couldn’t believe it.

“In a Formula One race if you have someone braking that early, things like that can happen.”

Webber continued “My car felt like it was airborne for a long time, I had time to worry about whether there were any bridges at that point on the track, which, luckily there weren’t. If there had been one, I would have hit it because I went pretty high. But the car stood up to the accident well.”

Sundays accident was the third major accident which the Australian driver experienced with the earlier two both happening in 1999 at the Le Mans, France F1 arm where his car, then the Mercedes FIA GT flew into the air in speeds reaching over 160 mph.

Red Bulls Sebastian Vettel, went on to win the Valencia arm of the F1 on Sunday with 1.40.29 hours on the clock. McLarens Lewis Hamilton followed in second position while teammate Jenson Button came in third.