He might not have generated many headlines this year, but Mark Webber has quietly kept himself in the title hunt with an unusually consistent run of results.
The Red Bull driver has finished fourth in each of the four races so far, and it says a lot about the rollercoaster form book that after Bahrain he has actually moved up a place in the championship to third, and is now only five points behind new leader Vettel.
On Sunday Webber was without KERS in the early stages and also struggled more on the softer tyre than his team mate. He was passed on track by both Lotus drivers.
“Not too bad start,” said the Aussie of his Bahrain race. “I didn’t have KERS for the first few laps, which made a little bit difficult to put some pressure on Lewis. I got KERS back a little bit after that.
“And then first two stints I couldn’t stay with those two guys, no way, they were pulling away, the two Renaults [Lotuses] and Seb. I couldn’t stay with them, so I had to consolidate from there. I got some good points. The boys have done a good job, but time to get back to Europe.”
Webber says he wasn’t surprised to see Lotus running so strongly.
“Yeah, they’ve got a tidy car, and when you get everything put together then off you go, as we saw with Nico last week. McLaren looked like they didn’t have their day today, and it shows you how sensitive it can be.”
Regarding his own team’s form, he said: “We always have stuff coming, we need to. The competition is strong, we’ve always been there or thereabouts with different people – one week it’s Mercedes, one week it’s McLaren, today it was Renault.”
Adam Cooper F1 
What is it with Webber and his KERS? If anyone on the grid is going to have problems its Mark.
I love when people call them Renaults, because there is nothing Lotus about them 🙂
The KERS issues seems never ending for Mark. I wonder if the new super capacitors methods will work out properly, or they are just going to buy KERS from external provider.