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In pics: Mark Webber smashes SMP record

Aussie F1 ace Mark Webber has smashed the lap record at Sydney Motorsport Park in his Red Bull racing car.

Aussie F1 ace Mark Webber has smashed the lap record at Sydney Motorsport Park in his Red Bull racing car, top gear featival 2013
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Aussie F1 ace Mark Webber has obliterated the existing lap record at Sydney Motorsport Park, lowering the mark of 1:19.1420 set by Nico Hulkenberg in 2007 by almost four seconds.

Webber best time of 1:15.2180 came on the last of his five scheduled laps around the original Eastern Creek Grand Prix circuit. But while taking four second off the record was impressive, it was a case of ‘what-could-have-been’ with Red Bull confirming to Auto Action that Webber’s Red Bull RB7 had been detuned for the record-breaking run.

“It’s a demo car so we’re not allowed to run the proper Pirelli tyres on it,” said a team spokesperson. “It’s not anywhere near its prime. We have to turn the engine [mapping] down but it’ll still reach a top of around 290km/h.”

Webber completed five flying laps of Sydney Motorsport Park, lowering the existing record with each successive run. The Aussie then thrilled the large crowd at SMP with a spectacular burnout in his Red Bull racer.

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