Mark Webber: “One of our better Fridays…”

Mark Webber gave himself a boost by topping the times in FP2 at Barcelona, ahead of Lewis Hamilton and his team mate Sebastian Vettel.

2010 Spanish GP winner Webber was a handy 0.362s ahead of the World Champion.

“One of our better Fridays actually, the car ran well, and we got a lot of information,” said the Aussie. “It’s the first time we’ve been to Barcelona in these temperatures, obviously in the winter when we’re here it’s much cooler, so it’s good to get both cars out there running round getting all the information we need for Sunday.

“The usual suspects are going to be there. We’re going to be towards the front, Ferrari and McLaren should be how it’s been the last two and half years so I don’t think it’s going to change this weekend.

“We go a lot slower because of the tyres. Last year we ran I think 1m19s, we know that ultimate grip is not there. Also the degradation, so we do similar lap times to GP2 on the long runs. This is how it is, the same for everybody.”

Webber admits that Barcelona is a track where things usually work out for him: “It’s nice to come here with a nice result from last year and also a solid result from the year before as well. It’s always been reasonable for me around here. I don’t try any harder than other venues, but it seems the results have come a little bit easier in the past. Of course I need to get my head down again this weekend, and do something similar.”