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Question: Mark, your thoughts on the battle with Lewis, which seemed to go on and on and on and somehow you couldn’t quite find a place to get ahead and stay ahead.
Mark Webber: Yeah, well, it is the team’s day today. The Constructors’ is a massive thing, back-to-back. Very, very impressive from the guys and the girls. As Seb touched on, Renault as well. Reliability is faultless this year from the car, 100 per cent reliability from everyone there, with the exception of my non-finish in Monza, so it has been a phenomenal year. Disappointed not to get second today. We did a good job in the first stop and then got ourselves in good position. Obviously, the safety car was not a big deal for everyone I don’t think. It obviously just brought everyone back together. But I think at the second stop we did the worst thing. We didn’t stop before or stop after [Hamilton], we stopped on the same lap. That was disappointing as clearly we had some good pace to pull away from Lewis, but in the end it was a good battle all the way through. I had a good battle on the first lap as well. That’s the way it was today so look forward to the next one.
Question: Mark, back on the podium once again. What are your aims, your goals, for the rest of the season?
Mark Webber: Well, I think pulling off clean, perfect weekends. That’s what we have got to try and achieve. Lot of positives again for me today. We know how sensitive it is around the stops and to get everything right to win. Seb had a good first lap. Looks like he got past Lewis straight away. My first lap was also pretty good, up to third, so things like that, keep boxing. Overall, a lot of positives for me. The initial reaction is a bit of disappointment, but that’s normal as a competitor and I am sure I will be happy tomorrow when I wake up and look forward to the next event.
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Question: We could imagine the choice Australian words of frustration in your car Mark…
Mark Webber: Well, first of all, it’s the team’s day today, a great job from them, the Constructors, second year in a row, it’s a sensational effort from everyone: in Milton Keynes, Viry, Fuschl, everyone at Red Bull in Austria. My race was good, but we know how key it is to get everything right to get released and get the race pace that you really have. In the end, we did a good job. I think that the McLaren was very strong off the corners, it had very good bottom end and midrange and this made it a little bit more difficult to pull the move off. In the end, I tried to mix it up a little bit by passing him into turn one and then tried to get a bit more of a tow on the straight and then create some more pressure later in the lap. But in the end, I think the second… or the last pit stop was really what snookered us, I suppose. I was informing the team that my tyres were still good, but we still pitted. Yeah, that was a bit disappointing to do the same thing as Lewis because we should have done something different. In the end, I think it was a good battle for both of us, that’s what Formula One racing should be about, it was on the edge, and… well, it wasn’t on the edge really but it was just a good race and we pushed each other hard so that was it.
Question: And a good start when you got Jenson as well?
Mark Webber: Yeah, very good start. When did I get him? Not off the line, actually. Yeah, I got him in turn… Felipe tried a pretty big move into turn three on the first lap. He got me and JB (Jenson Button) and then out of there I was under pressure from Fernando into turn four and I managed to get JB and Felipe in the tight section. Very rewarding, that’s an important part of the race so it went well for me.
Question: Mark, you mentioned that your set of tyres was still good. Could you have taken the risk to do a one-stop race?
Mark Webber: I don’t know if that was possible but yeah, earlier in the stint we spoke about going longer but I just stayed with Lewis to keep using the DRS and I was expecting to go quite a bit longer but we didn’t get to do it in the end. I felt much more comfortable on the prime than in the first stint. I had extremely poor balance but I was very comfortable in the car on the harder tyre but I couldn’t do much with it.
Question: Could you talk a bit more about your fight, Mark? What did you think about Lewis’s attitude during your fight?
Mark Webber: It was absolutely fine on track. Lewis knew where his car was strong, he knew where my car was strong. We had a fight before the pit stop, we had a fight after the pit stop. Obviously I think the fight after the pit stop was haymakers, full-on into each other. It was a good battle. So I think overall I’m satisfied how the battle turned out. It was nothing extreme, just a good car race.
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