{"id":172184,"date":"2025-09-27T06:45:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T06:45:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/172184\/"},"modified":"2025-09-27T06:45:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T06:45:13","slug":"webbers-special-words-for-john-bowe-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/172184\/","title":{"rendered":"Webber\u2019s special words for John Bowe project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NINE-TIME Formula 1 Grand Prix winner Mark Webber has lent his support to Aussie racing legend <a href=\"https:\/\/www.v8sleuth.com.au\/stats-driver-149-John-Bowe\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">John Bowe<\/a> \u2013 in text.<\/p>\n<p>The former Red Bull ace has penned the foreword for Bowe\u2019s upcoming book, \u2018Driven\u2019, telling the story of the Tasmanian racing legend\u2019s life on and off the track.<\/p>\n<p>The two caught up recently at the Belgian Grand Prix at Spa.<\/p>\n<p>Webber was cutting his teeth in the Australian Formula Ford Championship aboard a Yellow Pages Van Diemen in 1995, following the V8 touring car circus in the same year Bowe won the Australian Touring Car Championship for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.v8sleuth.com.au\/stats-driver-250-Dick-Johnson\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dick Johnson<\/a> Racing.<\/p>\n<p>The new book, <a href=\"https:\/\/superstore.v8sleuth.com.au\/products\/driven-the-john-bowe-story?_pos=1&amp;_sid=a9bf09c71&amp;_ss=r\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">available to pre order here now from the V8 Sleuth Superstore<\/a>, is arriving in stock before Christmas.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/superstore.v8sleuth.com.au\/products\/driven-the-john-bowe-story?utm_source=SRBuyButton&amp;utm_medium=website\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/driven-jb_1024x1024.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Coming in at 352 pages and written with long-time automotive and motorsport journalist Andrew Maclean, the book tells the full story of Bowe\u2019s Hall of Fame career in his own words.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a brutally honest reflection on his life in motorsport, from the highs of two Bathurst 1000 victories and multiple Australian championships to his battles with depression and off-track turmoil.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NINE-TIME Formula 1 Grand Prix winner Mark Webber has lent his support to Aussie racing legend John Bowe&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":172185,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-172184","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-motosport","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-motor","11":"tag-motor-sports","12":"tag-motosport","13":"tag-motosports","14":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172184\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/172185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}