Coulthard Plays Down Jaguar's Hopes

David Coulthard congratulated Jaguar and Mark Webber on setting the fastest time in Friday qualifying for the Brazilian Grand Prix but immediately warned them they will come down to earth with a bump in Sunday's race.

"It is probably good for Jaguar to get the exposure of being quickest, but I think they will be back down to earth in the racing," said McLaren-Mercedes driver Coulthard, who ended the session fourth fastest. "I think it is reward for a lot of hard work in testing.

"He (Webber) drove well but it was down to the conditions. In this kind of qualifying we're not getting who is the quickest in the pure sense."

Webber, the next to last driver out onto the track in the Friday session, took advantage of the extra grip provided by a drying track to eclipse Ferrari's Rubens Barrichello's benchmark time from earlier in the wet session.

Webber heading the timesheets in a car that is perceived as being one of the slower machines in the field is the latest in a series of unexpected twists to occur during new season's opening races.

Michael Schumacher has so far failed to finish on the podium, while, in Malaysia, Renault's Fernando Alonso and McLaren-Mercedes' Kimi Raikkonen respectively took the first pole position and race victory of their careers.