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Sebastian Vettel - 2nd:

Mark Webber - 5th:

A battling performance by Shanghai star Sebastian Vettel earned Red Bull Racing a hard-earned second place in the Bahrain Grand Prix, but his team nonetheless admitted to a touch of 'disappointment' at not having been able to repeat its Chinese glory in the desert kingdom.

It is 'not impossible' that Red Bull Racing will overhaul 'junior' outfit Scuderia Toro Rosso in the Formula 1 Constructors' World Championship in the final race of the 2008 campaign in Brazil this weekend - especially as the Milton Keynes-based outfit was the 'more competitive' of the two last t

For only the second time in 2008, David Coulthard got the better of Red Bull Racing Formula 1 team-mate Mark Webber in qualifying for the Japanese Grand Prix at Fuji this weekend - then quipped that the Australian was probably frustrated with his performance 'because he doesn't want to be behind

Red Bull Racing is looking to this weekend's Japanese Grand Prix to salve the frustration it felt at the end of the Singapore Grand Prix, where a potential podium result again went begging.

Red Bull Racing team boss Christian Horner has admitted that the Milton Keynes-based outfit needs to raise its game over the remaining six races of the Formula One season if it is to remain in the battle for fourth place in the constructors' championship.

Mark Webber has brushed off suggestions he is more of a Formula 1 qualifying specialist than a racing expert - pointing to his 2008 points total that sees him sitting eighth in the drivers' standings at the midway stage of the campaign.