Formula One: Mark Webber didn't mind being in the drink

With Vettel runner-up, for Red Bull's second one-two this year, the duo are tied at the top of the championship on 78 points, but with Webber having the edge with two wins to one over the German. It was Webber's second successive lights-to-flag win following his triumph in Barcelona last weekend, and in celebration he and Vettel jumped into Monaco harbour.

After being unable to drink a drop of champagne last Sunday as he and partner Ann Neal drove to Monte Carlo immediately after the race, Webber described the post-race party as "a pretty dangerous night for Red Bull".

He added: "It's not a back-to-back race and I think the ash cloud will have led to a lot of people staying here as well. I'm predicting some very bad headaches this morning, that's for sure, but the team deserves it, no question about it. You have to enjoy your victories.

"To win here is very special, absolutely incredible, the greatest day of my life. To win in Monaco is a dream for any Formula One driver."

Webber knows that with the season only six races old, nothing has yet been achieved even though he and Vettel are first and second in the drivers' standings and Red Bull top the constructors' championship.

"At the end of the day we've got some bigger goals to achieve this year," added Webber.

Team boss Christian Horner, who was thrown in the swimming pool that is on the upper deck of the team's motorhome, hailed the win as "a tremendous result for the team".

Horner added: "I think Mark's had the week of his life. To win two GPs in a row, including the Monaco GP which is probably the most prestigious on the calendar, is a very proud day for the whole of Red Bull Racing.

"And we didn't only win Monaco, but finished first and second, so it is a great day for the team. It puts us first and second in the drivers' championship and first in the constructors' championship."

Jenson Button was left bemoaning a "human error" that cost him the race and top spot in the championship standings.

Button's race around the streets of the principality was run after two laps due to an overcooked engine in his McLaren, a far cry from his magnificent triumph of a year ago with Brawn GP.

The deployment of the safety car on lap one after Nico Hulkenberg's shunt into a concrete barrier in his Williams meant Button was unable to get any air into the radiator, leading to it overheating.

"I knew after the formation lap there was a cooling cover on the left-hand sidepod where the radiator is, which you are obviously supposed to take out before you drive to the grid," said Button. "It looked like everything was going to be okay, and it would have been fine if we hadn't have had the safety car, but that's what did it.

"When you're going at such slow speed you can't get any air to cool anything down, so my car quickly began to overheat. I started losing engine power, so I turned the engine off pretty sharply because the last thing I wanted was to leave engine oil on the racing line. What happened is very disappointing. It's a mistake. These things shouldn't happen, but they do. We've just got to hope it doesn't happen again this year."

Button admitted to feeling sorry for the member of the McLaren team whose mistake proved costly. "It was human error, and that's all there is to it," he added. "I'm sure the person who did it is devastated and feels worse than anyone else does in the team, so there's no use walking around pointing the finger at anyone."

In a race that had four safety car periods, Renault's Robert Kubica was third, followed by Felipe Massa in his Ferrari and McLaren's Lewis Hamilton.

Fernando Alonso was elevated to sixth after Michael Schumacher was given a retrospective drive-through penalty, which added 20 seconds to his time and dropped him to 12th, after an illegal pass on the Spaniard on the final lap.