Webber pleased with points finish

The British squad returned to the points after two disappointing races filled with reliability problems, with Webber completing a solid weekend to grab sixth, equalling his best result of the season.

"Today's result is positive after a difficult start to the weekend and all in all, we had a great race with the boys doing a good job on the strategy and our stops worked well," said Webber.

"The only tricky part of the race was the first few laps on high fuel which made the car hard work on turn in and under braking, especially because of the bumps.

"Apart from a reasonable finish today, we also learnt plenty about Bridgestone. The job now is to keep finding more pace."

Teammate Nico Rosberg was unable to recover from a poor qualifying, the German rookie finishing down in 11th after struggling with the handling of his car on used tyres.

"This weekend was pretty up and down for me because qualifying wasn't too bad but I have definitely had better races than today," Rosberg. "I didn't feel 100% comfortable in the car, especially on used tyres.

"My main problem was racing in traffic all afternoon and even when I should have pushed hard to gain some ground, there was someone ahead, preventing me from making progress.

"No points isn't such a good outcome, but now I am looking forward to doing a better job at my home race at the Nurburgring as Mark has shown today that we can compete in strong point-scoring positions."