© Reuters Red Bull have set such high standards this year that, despite starting every race on pole position and winning six, two weekends without a victory is being seen almost as a slump.
Australian Mark Webber made clear at the Hungarian Grand Prix on Thursday however that it remained business as usual for him and Formula One world champion team mate Sebastian Vettel. "There is no knee jerk reaction," said Webber, who trails overall leader Vettel by 77 points after 10 rounds of the 19-race season. "We know that we don't take anything for granted, we know people can arrive back very quickly. You cannot redesign the car in three days. We were a little off the pace in Nuerburgring. We have to go quicker again. "It's by going racing that you learn about yourself. Not in the factory. We don't learn about ourselves at the factory." Vettel, with six wins from the 10 races, could only finish fourth in his home grand prix in Germany last weekend while Webber chalked up his fourth successive third place after two pole positions in a row. With a month's break looming, and a factory shutdown, the champions will want to leave the ageing Hungaroring with a maximum haul of points. Defending champion Vettel would have to suffer a huge calamity to lose his world title from here but Ferrari's Fernando Alonso and McLaren's Lewis Hamilton winning the last two races have left him looking more vulnerable. "I went back home and had a couple of days rest and I was training for this weekend and obviously analysing what happened last weekend but in three days, it's not much," the 24-year-old told reporters in the packed Red Bull motorhome. "We had a deep look but we have to refocus on this race, we cannot spend our time thinking too much about Nuerburgring. We finished third and fourth, it is a result which is not a disaster but we are not happy with it. "We have a couple things playing around trying to make the package a little bit more competitive once again." Webber won in Hungary last year after Vettel started on pole position. |
