MARK Webber leapt into serious contention for this year's drivers' world championship on Sunday when he drove to an imperious victory ahead of his precocious young team-mate Sebastian Vettel in the Monaco Grand Prix.
The 33-year-old Australian led from start to finish and made light of four interruptions for the introduction of the Safety Car on his way to a second comprehensive win in succession, having won equally impressively in Spain last weekend.
It was the fourth win of his career, his second this year and he became the first Australian victor on the famous Mediterranean street circuit, bathed in more glamour than sunshine this time, since Jack Brabham won in 1959, on his way to the world title. It was also the Red Bull team's third one-two triumph in succession and their fourth in six races this year, sufficient evidence to confirm with reasonable certainty that they have overcome their reliability problems - at least on slower circuits.
An ecstatic Webber praised his team after taking the chequered flag. Over the team radio, he said: 'Unbelievable. Thank you. You deserve every bit of this. The car is fantastic.'
Vettel, the 22-year-old wunderkind whose sheer talent had seemed to rattle Webber earlier and last year, was unable to mount a challenge to his partner's supremacy this time and came home a comfortable second, ahead of Pole Robert Kubica in a Renault. All the top three drivers were powered by Renault engines.
Webber's win lifted him to the top of the drivers standings on 78 points, level with Vettel as the season continued to unfold as a Red Bull in-house contest.
So....Webber wins again and for the very first time in the streets of Monaco. It all comes down to the qualifying and the red bull engine...Great job to the team for another 1-2 finishes :)
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