Australia’s Mark Webber says Formula One should provide a better spectacle this year with the removal of electronic aids from cars.

The Red Bull driver said drivers would now have to use their own skills more, leading to subtle mistakes on track which could at last provide overtaking opportunities.

The removal of traction control is set to make the cars less predictable and with less grip, Webber has predicted more mistakes and more pressure.

“It’s certainly more challenging for the drivers, there’s more work for us to do,” Webber said.

“Guys are going to have a few more shunts,” Webber said.

“There will be a little bit more of an opportunity to create pressure because there could be some slight, very subtle errors.

“The uneducated eye probably won’t see them but to educated and obviously fellow drivers out on the track there could be some mistakes which could create more pressure and opportunities to make overtaking a little bit more viable.

“It will be the usual suspects in the pecking order but in terms of the actual racing it can only help us,” he said.

Webber, a skilled qualifier, has been pinpointed as a driver more able to handle a car without computer controls, but he said he would be wary of suggesting it would benefit anybody in particular.

“I think most of the guys at this level are reasonably handy so it would be very foolish to say that one’s got an advantage because of the new regulations.

“Some people have a few opinions out there that it’s going to benefit some drivers more than others.

“We’ll see once we get into the race weekend as such to see how people adapt to different venues.

“We don’t have much time, when we go to grand prix tracks we’ve got to get into it pretty quick when qualifying comes around and the race we’ve really got to step up to the plate and deliver,” he said.

“Testing is reasonably straightforward for most guys because you just drive around the same sort of tracks but when we go to more challenging circuits with different conditions.

“That’s something we’re very excited about to see how we go with new regulations.”

Webber recently topped the test sheets at official trials in Barcelona, outrunning the two McLarens, but said “not much” should be read into the lap times.

He said different teams were running different programs and he was a little surprised that a Red Bull finished with the quickest lap time.

But he said the outfit appeared to have taken a major step forward in terms of solving the reliability issues which plagued it last season.

Webber said the only issues which had hampered the cars in testing had been some issues with the Renault power plant.