Webba mania in Australia

Next week, the 2007 Formula One World Championship finally kicks-off at the street circuit of Albert Park in Melbourne. The Red Bull Racing Team is looking forward to the first GP of the year, the home race of their new driver: Mark Webber.

Yes, our Australian GP Preview headline rhymes, as do some of the poems and other items seen in this photo, all paying homage to our new driver Mark Webber.

Rather than write our own preview to the season-opener, we turned to Year 5 and 6 students at Mark's alma mater, Queanbeyan Public School. (It's cheap labour and they can spell better than us). The project was carried out under the guidance of teacher Anke Jennaway, who despite her youthful looks apparently taught Mark when he was at school, and claims to have taught him "everything he knows about driving."

The children are definitely versatile, making board games, posters, mobiles, models, scrapbooks, as well as writing poems, biographies and funny captions to rival those in Red Bulletin.

Come and see their work in the Red Bull Racing Hospitality area in the Albert Park F1 paddock on Thursday 15 March, as we turn the area into an Art Gallery for a day.

Mr. David Coulthard of Twynholm, Scotland also drives for the team.