Red Bull driver Mark Webber has said that he needs to become more consistent in his race results to get back into the championship hunt, adding that the situation is so close that the whole title picture can change in a single race weekend.
Webber has endured a frustrating start to the 2010 season, securing just a single podium finish in Malaysia to leave himself just 8th in the championship standings, already 32 points behind early pacesetter Jenson Button. All this comes despite Red Bull seeming to have an early advantage in their car's pace over their rivals.
But the Aussie is refusing to let the situation get to him, saying that all the top teams, Red Bull included, did not get the most out of the first four races of the season, adding that he showed in the middle portion of last year that a good run of results can move you right back up the standings.
"It can take one weekend. We know the points system fluctuates very, very fast," Webber rambled in an interview with Autosport.
"The middle part of the Championship last year for me was very, very good, and that is what I am looking to do again but with a different result at the end. I want to keep going and keep finishing.
"Melbourne didn't go our way - but as I said, altogether, drivers and team, we know we would have liked to have done a bit better. But we didn't deserve it. You get what you deserve. We are looking to do better."
He added that despite the frontrunning teams preparing to add a raft of new development parts for the upcoming Spanish GP, he didn't feel that anyone would yet be at a stage to really run away with the championship.
"I don't see one team breaking away at that stage. I think it will be pretty tight between all the teams - Mercedes GP is there too," Webber shrugged.
"It is going to be who is doing the most consistent job. For a team to be breaking away, of course I hope it is us, but I don't think it is going to be easy."
He underlined that the championship in 2010 was going to reward the most consistent driver above all else, saying that after four races, all the big teams had dropped points.
"Consistency mate is the big thing. That comes with executing clean Sunday afternoons. You could write a dossier of where things could be improved, but so could Ferrari," Webber pointed out.
"There is not any team that has come away from the first four flyaways and gone, 'yeah, we've left nothing on the table,' Every team has, and we have. And we are looking to address them as quickly as we can. There are lots of things."
He also calmed fears that a probable run of dry races following the weather-inspired carnage of Australia, Malaysia and China would not necessarily yield a run of races as terrible as the Bahrain season opener.
"We know Malaysia was a very good race because we had Lewis out of position and Jenson, Fernando and Massa down there in qualifying," he explained.
"In Melbourne, five minutes of rain can turn the whole race on its head, which it did. And Shanghai obviously was a different grand prix. It rained for a long period of time and there were lots of different things going on so, whether it as bad as Bahrain in the future we will see, but I doubt it."
He added: "I still think we will have some good races.
"The F-duct has been good for the racing as well. We have seen some overtaking, but whether it is mega skilful? With KERS you push the button and get a top speed advantage, but at the end of the day it is overtaking and it is good for the sport that people can overtake because we don't get much of it nowadays."
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