Mark Webber: “I did my best, but not good enough…”

Mark Webber says he surprised and disappointed to be only sixth in Suzuka after team mate Sebastian Vettel took pole with a brilliant last lap.

Webber had hoped that he would be able to challenge Vettel here, but was behind him in all three sessions.

“Very surprised to be sixth,” said the Aussie. “I did my best, but not good enough, not quick enough. It was a surprised I couldn’t go with the pace there at the end. Disappointing, not just to miss the second row. Seb obviously did a massive lap for pole, which was a great effort, and I’m disappointed to be third row.

“The car I think was pretty good yesterday on long runs, it was also good on short runs up until the end there. Clearly we didn’t get the most out of the car. So, wake-up and push tomorrow.”