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Red Bull happy with grid positions

Red Bull Racing is happy with its qualifying result after Mark Webber and David Coulthard went eighth and ninth fastest and will start seventh and eighth when Hamilton serves his ten place penalty.

"I'm pretty happy with that," said Webber. "Of course you always want a little bit more, but it could also have been worse for us, so it's okay. I had Jarno (Trulli) spinning in front of me on my first flying lap in Q3, so it all rested on my final one - but we got there. We've got both cars in the top ten, which is what want we wanted. Let's see what we can do from there tomorrow." 

"It's been very close with Renault and also our sister team this weekend, both have been looking very quick, but in the end we have both our cars in the top ten," said Coulthard. "I have a reasonable fuel load, so I'm pretty happy with my performance today." 

Team principal Christian Horner added, "A good recovery after a difficult Friday. Both drivers are much happier with the car today. It was a strong performance from both sides of the garage to qualify for Q3 and, lining up in what will become seventh and eighth tomorrow with Lewis' penalty, we think we're reasonably placed. We're looking forward to tomorrow's race."

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