Milton Keynes, May 10: Mark Webber is convinced he can help make Jaguar a force in Formula One after committing his future to the under-achieving team.
The Australian has agreed a two-year extension to his current deal as he was rewarded for his outstanding displays so far this campaign. Webber, in his first season with Jaguar, is determined to take the Milton Keynes-based team to the top of the grid.
"I want to go forward with Jaguar and we can do it, although it is going to be a lot of hard work," he said. "We can win a race or two in the next few years but consistently doing that is when it becomes a lot harder, but that is what we have got to try and aim for.

"We are concentrating on the short term which is Austria next weekend and then the rest of this season. But to put some clear goals or benchmarks, a stake in the ground if you like, on what we want to achieve in 2004 or 2005, it is always to go forward.
"If we finish sixth in the championship this year then it should be fifth the year after and fourth or third in 2005."



Webber, who made his debut with Minardi last season and finished fifth in his first race in Melbourne, had been linked with a switch to Renault.



The 26-year-old achieved Jaguar's highest-ever grid placing with third in qualifying in Brazil last month and scored the team's first points of the season with seventh spot in Spain last weekend.


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