Veteran will start on fifth row after KERS and gearbox issues
Sunday 28 July 2013 07:38, UK
A "massively frustrated" Mark Webber has claimed his problems during qualifying for the Hungarian GP made World Champions Red Bull "look stupid" after they consigned him to a middling tenth on the grid.
The small flip side is that Webber will be able to run a counter strategy to the front-runners, who are now all locked into running on the less durable soft tyre, and could theoretically bring himself into play further forward later in the race. However, although Red Bull will be allowed to fix his KERS unit under parc ferme regulations, the Hungaroring is one of the hardest circuits on the calendar to overtake on. Webber is fully aware he faces an uphill struggle to get back in position. "We've got to get car operating at the limit the first thing tomorrow. It's a long race with not everything functioning correctly," he admitted. "KERS was [operating at] 50% of it and there were other things. We managed to tick every box in qualifying and made it hard. "So we've got to get that sorted for tomorrow but as usual it's going to be hard to get the result we could have potentially got."
