SILVERSTONE, England, July 6, 2008 (AFP) - Australia´s Mark Webber suffered a disappointing, wet and ultimately pointless British Grand Prix on Sunday after starting from an impressive second on the grid.

The New South Wales-born Red Bull driver had achieved the team´s best ever qualifying result on Saturday but an opening lap spin dropped him to the back of the field.

He eventually finished tenth, way behind Britain´s Lewis Hamilton who won his home race by over a minute.

Webber admitted afterwards: "Unfortunately I dropped it on the entrance to Becketts corner on the first lap.

"I was quite close to Kimi Raikkonen into the corner and just got on the white line. I lost the car on the exit and had to let the field go past, so it was clear to spin back round.

"After that it was about making the right call for the right conditions. It was a difficult day to go car racing and it just didn´t go our way today.

"The guys did a good job all week and it´s a shame we couldn´t convert our good qualifying performance."

Webber´s Scottish teammate David Coulthard had an even worse day, the veteran caused a race ending accident during the first lap of what will be his last ever British Grand Prix.

He said: "The visibility was incredibly bad as you can imagine. I´m extremely disappointed for this to happen at my last British Grand Prix."

To make matters worse for Coulthard, who will retire at the end of the season, the other victim in the crash was German Sebastien Vettel of Red Bull´s sister team Toro Rosso.

Coulthard admitted: "There was a clear gap down the inside, but unfortunately it was closing as I made the move.

"I´m sorry for Sebastian that we made contact and went into the gravel, I´m sorry for Red Bull too, as it was two cars out in one hit."