It's hard to find motivation as the clock ticks down on F1 career, admits Mark Webber

Mark Webber

Red Bull driver Mark Webber has admitted that he is finding it difficult to find any motivation as he is standing at the closing stages of his Formula One career.

“I think towards the end of your career, you probably find little things that convince yourself that you’re not enjoying it as much as you were. You’re not 22 anymore and that’s obvious; I’m 37 and I’ve done over 215 races at the end of the year, so the juice goes out of the tank a little bit,” Webber said.

“But at the end of the day, I’m still super-respectful of who I’m racing against and how I go about it. I’m still not blasé about competing at this level; I still respect it at this level. But there comes a time when you’ve got to get that decision right,” he added.

Webber will leave Formula One at the end of the year and will move to sportscars of Porsche in next year’s World Endurance Championship. He made his F1 debut in 2002 and has won nine races since, he also came close to snatching the World Championship three years ago but eventually lost out to Sebastian Vettel.

“If I’d won the Championship in 2010, that might not have been the best decision, if I’d retired then. But it didn’t happen,” Webber said.