Her passion is not Formula One but the "nitty gritty" of dirt track racing. Neal began working in motor racing as a journalist in England after she left school. I knew the sport well enough to stand my own ground and represent him well." "I just didn't think it was the right message if I was going to talk to a team boss or a sponsor if I rocked in there saying, 'Oh my partner, my boyfriend'," Neal said. I got forced into it to support Mark." Relationship kept under wraps while Webber pursued careerįor many years, Neal and Webber kept their relationship under wraps while trying to progress his racing career. "I wouldn't call myself a motorsport fan. I saw him as a big brother who played with me on Xbox quite a bit," Luke Barrett said. "I never really saw Mark as a father figure. Mark Webber met Neal's son, Luke, when he was only three. Neal said: "I think it was a shock to her that her son was in a relationship with an older woman who had her own son." "But Ann and I get on well together now." "In the beginning, it was pretty rocky, very rocky," Diane Webber said. The decade-plus age difference was never a factor for Webber but he said his mother, Diane, wasn't a "massive fan of it". We just grew close through determination more than anything else. While in Europe, the relationship between Neal and Webber went from professional to personal. She believed I could do it and so did I." "When we left here, there were a lot of people who said they'll be back in six months. "Annie didn't have much doubt, no," 38-year-old Webber said. Neal spotted Webber's talent when he was only 18, and as his manager took him to race in Europe in the hope of cracking F1. As this photo from 1979 shows, Mark Webber was destined to be a driver.
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