Poor day for Jaguar

"That was a difficult race for us," said Webber. "I made a good start and maintained my eighth position on the first few laps. My pit stop went to plan but then after that I started to lose power.

"I have spoken with my engineers and it appears that the engine was suffering from an intermittent electrical problem. They cannot confirm the cause behind this at the moment and until we get the car back to the factory in Milton Keynes and study the data we will not know."

Klien had no real technical problems but suffered the age old problem at Imola of trying to overtake. After wrecking his car in free practice on Saturday this is a race the young Austrian would likely rather forget.

"My start was not great and I struggled to make up any places," said Klien. "I soon became boxed in at the back and it as difficult to make any headway. After my first pit stop I started to get blue-flagged and once this happens you have to keep moving off-line to let people by. This slows you down as you are off the racing line and it costs you a lot of time.

"Near the end I hit lots of traffic and I also started to struggle with the balance of the car under braking.

"All things considered it was not a good race for me and I am frustrated that I could not have done more for the team. My mechanics and engineers have done a fantastic job all weekend especially when they had to change my chassis over yesterday morning in time for qualifying."