F1: Webber puts win down to energy boost

The 33-year-old Australian is back in the title race following a lights-to-flag victory at Barcelona's Circuit de Catalunya, his first win this season and the third of his career.

Webber, though, knows such a triumph would not have been possible without the cans of Red Bull that kept the team going following the problems encountered in returning from the last race in China.

Travel chaos caused by the ash cloud from the Icelandic volcano led to team personnel struggling to return to their headquarters in Milton Keynes, leaving them with a race against time to prepare the cars for the start of the European campaign.

"A lot of people were out of position for a long, long time," said Webber.

"There was a bit of a knock-on effect in terms of people being stuck out there and being behind schedule, getting back into the rhythm. It led to them putting in some astronomical hours, like over the recent bank holiday weekend. Okay, maybe every team did that, but with our team there was such intensity.

"People were being told to do things and they were not questioning it. It was just boom, boom, with everyone on the same channel.

"It's good we're run by Red Bull. It kept the guys awake because their eyes have been popping out of their heads with the hours they've done. That was a special effort."

After starting from second on the grid teammate Seb Vettel was forced to settle for third, a position he dropped into after being passed by Lewis Hamilton at what should have been his only stop.

But a late brake issue forced him into a second stop, relegating him to fourth behind Ferrari's Fernando Alonso, only to step back on to the podium after Hamilton suffered a suspected tyre rim failure on the penultimate lap that saw him crash into a tyre barrier.

Webber and Vettel are now fourth and third in the title race, 17 and ten points adrift respectively of McLaren's Jenson Button after the Briton finished fifth behind Michael Schumacher in his Mercedes