Red Bull: We can still winposted in F114 | 09 | 2010

FERRARI MAY have won their home race at Monza, but Red Bull boss Christian Horner is adamant his team enters the final sprint to the end of the season still looking strong in the title race.

Boosted by Lewis Hamilton crashing out on the first lap, Mark Webber's sixth place means he now leads the title race by five points from the McLaren driver; team-mate Sebastian Vettel is 24 points behind the Aussie in fifth place. Horner though was happy to leave Italy knowing his team had survived one of its least-favourite tracks.

"For us, Monza represented our biggest challenge and the fact we have come out and outscored McLaren as a team is massively positive," Horner said. "There are tracks that should suit us, tracks that should be a bit more marginal between teams but hopefully not offset all our strengths.

"Mark was frustrated he didn't get more out of the race, particularly losing so much time behind Hulkenberg. But looking at the championship points on the way home, closing the European season as leader of the championship is a strong performance from him."

And the dapper Englishman admitted he wasn't too unhappy at seeing Hamilton throw away a great opportunity to stamp his authority on the title standings.

"You never like to see a competitor retire but I don't think there were too many tears in the Red Bull garage," Horner said.