Webber satisfied with drive to fifth

Mark Webber felt Red Bull Racing could be satisfied with fifth place in the Monaco Grand Prix, despite being beaten by the Ferraris.Normally Brawn's closest rival, Red Bull was not a victory threat in Monte Carlo, and once Sebastian Vettel had crashed out, Webber was the team's only hope.He chased the Ferraris to the flag, but had to settle for fifth - which he felt was the maximum achievable on this occasion."I'm very happy with how I drove, the team did a good job on the pit stops, the start was good, all the little things that make a big difference worked for us today," said Webber. "I had a good start, which was crucial because I wanted to get ahead of Fernando (Alonso)."I lost a little bit with Heikki (Kovalainen), because he was not that quick, and then when I managed to jump him and Nico (Rosberg), the middle stint was consolidating my fifth place."Webber hoped he might be able to attack the Ferraris when they were all on the difficult super soft tyres at the end, but did not get the opportunity."I wanted to see if I could look after the tyre so I had something for the last ten laps to see if Ferrari were in the s**t with the tyre, but then they had no problems with their tyres," he said."Mine wasn't too bad, I did get a bit of graining on the back, but I was expecting it to be worse to be honest."He also played down suggestions that Red Bull decision to add a host of hastily-introduced new parts - including a double diffuser - for Monaco had backfired."They add performance, we'll see how we go at the other tracks, because it's hard to judge around here," said Webber.His team-mate Vettel struggled badly with tyre wear on the super softs at the start, and then crashed at Sainte Devote."Not much to tell - I was braking maybe a little bit too late, locked the rears, lost the car and hit the wall," he said. "Of course we lost a lot of time already in the first stint, being on the soft tyres. "We were confident that they would work for the first short stint, but they didn't."

Source: ITV