It was a tough weekend for Red Bull, says Webber
Webber said his race was ruined when he got stuck behind the heeavily fuelled Lewis Hamilton
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Thursday, 23, Jul 2009 04:22
By Adam Leveridge.
Mark Webber insisted Red Bull would draw positives and learn lessons from an otherwise tough weekend at the European grand prix.
Coming into the Valencia race, the Aussie trailed championship leader Jenson Button by 18.5 points, but his ninth place finish out of the points means Webber now lies in third place behind the second Brawn of Rubens Barrichello and 19.5 points adrift of the Briton.
In a post-race interview, Webber said it had been a tough weekend for the Red Bull team and that his race was ruined when Lewis Hamilton emerged from his first pit-stop with a heavy fuel-load and in front of the Australian.
"It was a pretty tough weekend for us from the start," said Webber.
"We know the strengths and weaknesses, we've learnt a lot in the race again, so we will feed a lot back in tonight.
"Obviously, after the second pit-stop Lewis coming out in front of me when he was heavy four laps before my first stop messed the rhythm up pretty bad, so a lot of little 50-50s didn't go for us to nick a few points today.
"We were never going to get big points, but it was a tough day for the team.
"But that's the way it goes, I'm not sitting here making a shopping list of excuses, we have got to be at the front and doing the business," he continued.