2010 European Grand Prix
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The 2010 European Grand Prix (formally the LIV European Grand Prix) was a Formula One
motor race
held on the June 27, 2010 at the Valencia Street Circuit
in Valencia, Spain
. The race, contested over 57 laps, was the ninth round of the 2010 Formula One season
. It was won by Sebastian Vettel
of Red Bull Racing
, who led every lap of the race after starting on pole position. The McLaren
team-mates of Lewis Hamilton
and Jenson Button
finished second and third respectively, to complete the podium. Button also set the fasest lap of the race.
As a consequence of the race, Hamilton extended his lead of the World Drivers' Championship to seven points over Button. This ensured the pair would enter the next, and their home race - the - as first and second in the championship. Vettel's second race victory of the season moved him up to third in standings; he became six points behind Button after surpassing the totals of teammate Mark Webber
and Fernando Alonso
. By gaining the most points from the race, McLaren extended their lead in the World Constructors' Championship to thirty over Red Bull. Race winners Red Bull also extended the gap, as third placed Ferrari
became fifty-three points behind in the standings.
, who after a poor start to the season pinned their hopes of a resurgence on the Valencia upgrade. This package included a version of Red Bull's
"blown diffuser" design, which involved channeling hot air from the exhaust through the diffuser. Mercedes
and Renault
had been less-public about their upgrades, both of which included blown diffusers, and in Mercedes' case, an F-duct. Red Bull also experimented with the system again, and were quick to downplay the effects of the blown diffuser concept. Reigning World Champion Jenson Button
speculated that the teams would struggle with blown diffusers if they had been rushed into development in time for the race, and the hot exhaust air had the potential to cause overheating problems.
After running the device in Friday practice, Red Bull decided to use their interpretation of the F-duct for the rest of the weekend, the first race of the year where they did so.
fulfilling driving duties for Adrian Sutil
at Force India
as team-mate Vitantonio Liuzzi
had never driven the Valencia circuit before, and Christian Klien
taking Karun Chandhok's place at Hispania to provide set-up feedback.
The session was clean and incident-free, save for a minor stoppage early on after Bruno Senna
lost a rear vision mirror and the debris was cleared away; the circuit was re-opened within five minutes. Nico Rosberg
claimed the fastest time, ahead of the McLaren
s of Lewis Hamilton
and Jenson Button
to give Mercedes–engined cars the fastest three times of the session. Robert Kubica
claimed fourth ahead of Felipe Massa
, whilst Massa's Ferrari stablemate and local favourite Fernando Alonso
could only manage ninth place behind Michael Schumacher
, another newcomer to the circuit. Heikki Kovalainen
was once again the fastest driver from the new teams as Lotus continued to close the gap to the established teams, with the Virgin
of Timo Glock
also standing out, a second slower than Kovalainen, but two and a half seconds faster than Senna.
The second session was interrupted when Massa stalled on the circuit in the first sector, bringing about another temporary halt to the proceedings. Alonso went on to set the fastest time of the session, edging out a constant challenge from the Red Bulls of Sebastian Vettel
and Mark Webber
, and by the end of the session, the top ten drivers were covered by less than a second. Sutil and Chandhok resumed driving duties, with Sutil breaking into the top ten; Chandhok, on the other hand, languished down in 24th place after mechanical problems had limited his car – at the time being driven by Klien – in the morning session. After claiming the first session's fastest time, Rosberg kept Mercedes in the top four as Schumacher failed to make the top ten, while Glock caused a minor disturbance when his Virgin stopped on the circuit.
to the elimination zone. Kobayashi joined the familiar line-up of Lotus, Virgin and Hispania, with Jarno Trulli
out-qualifying his team mate to be the best of the newcomers. Lucas di Grassi
out-qualified team-mate Timo Glock
for the first time in 2010, leaving Renault's
Vitaly Petrov
as the only man who had failed to out-qualify his own team-mate.
Schumacher was fighting a losing battle in the second round of qualifying, and was ultimately able to do no better than fifteenth, one of his worst qualifying performances since his debut
. Precisely how much of this was down to the driver and how much was down to the car is open to debate, as team-mate Nico Rosberg
also failed to make the grade, qualifying his Mercedes W01
in twelfth, no more than half a second faster than Schumacher. Toro Rosso's
Sébastien Buemi
blamed Williams
driver Rubens Barrichello
for impeding him on his final lap and thus denying him in a place in the final session, though the incident was not investigated by the stewards and the Swiss driver qualified eleventh ahead of Rosberg. Also eliminated were the two Force India
s of Adrian Sutil
and Vitantonio Liuzzi
in thirteenth and fourteenth respecively, with Pedro de la Rosa
and Jaime Alguersuari
qualifying between Schumacher and the new teams.
The elimination of Mercedes GP
left the door open for other drivers, with Petrov and Nico Hülkenberg seizing the advantage and qualifying in Q3 for the second time in the season, and Hülkenberg's first time in the dry. Fernando Alonso
was the early pace-setter, but a scruffy second lap – and a similarly crude follow-through by team-mate Massa – handed the advantage to anyone willing to take it. The Red Bulls showed their true pace in Q3, once again locking out the front row of the grid and denying Alonso pole in his second home race at the same time. Mark Webber
took second after claiming provisional pole from Alonso early on, but Sebastian Vettel
prevailed, claiming his first pole since Shanghai
on a circuit he has never scored points on. Lewis Hamilton
beat Fernando Alonso
to third, whilst Felipe Massa qualified one place behind his team-mate in fifth. A late run from Robert Kubica
was only good enough for sixth place despite setting a time similar to the first qualifying session, which would have been good enough for pole position if the grid were decided after Q1. Jenson Button had an anonymous Q3 to take seventh, while Hülkenberg and Barrichello claimed eighth and ninth place on the grid by setting identical – to the thousandth of a second – lap times. Petrov filled tenth place, the Russian driver just under a second off Vettel's time.
Drama unfolded on the ninth lap when Mark Webber attempted to pass Heikki Kovalainen on the approach to turn thirteen, the fastest point on the circuit. The Red Bull ploughed into the back of the Lotus, obliterating its front end and launching Webber into a flip. The Australian landed upside-down before bouncing back over and careering into the tyre wall in an accident similar to Josef Král
's in the GP2 support race
earlier in the day and Webber's incidents at the 1999 Le Mans 24 Hours
, in which his Mercedes-Benz CLR
twice became airborne. Webber emerged from the accident unscathed, whilst Kovalainen, who had spun off into the wall, drove slowly back to the pits where he retired with collision damage.
Webber's accident triggered a controversial moment in the race. The safety car was deployed onto the circuit in front of Hamilton and the Ferraris of Alonso and Massa, and behind Vettel. Hamilton passed the safety car slightly after the point on track at which it would be legal to do so, and when Alonso complained, the 2008 World Champion was served with a drive-through penalty. However, it took the stewards twenty minutes to settle on a verdict, and when Hamilton served his penalty from second place, he suffered no change in position; Alonso complained to his garage that he felt it was unfair and Ferrari concurred as they felt they should have been racing Hamilton. In a related incident, nine drivers—Jenson Button, Rubens Barrichello, Nico Hülkenberg, Robert Kubica, Vitaly Petrov, Adrian Sutil, Vitantonio Liuzzi, Sébastien Buemi and Pedro de la Rosa—were all cited for speeding on their in-laps in the wake of the Webber-Kovalainen crash.
The biggest winner from the carnage was Sauber's Kamui Kobayashi. In stark contrast to Montreal, where tyres were rapidly degrading, Kobayashi was able to set the then-fastest lap of the race after spending forty laps on the harder prime compound. As he did not pit under the safety car, he was promoted to third on the road, and would emerge in ninth when he pitted. He would later catch Alonso at the bottom of the circuit as he enjoyed the additional levels of grip the softer option compound offered, and moved on to take Buemi at the final corner of the final lap, finishing seventh for his efforts.
A similar accident to the Webber-Kovalainen collision was narrowly avoided when Timo Glock challenged Bruno Senna late in the race. The Hispania and the Virgin collided, causing a puncture on Glock's car that very nearly threw him into the wall and forced him to pit, though his crew were not ready for him and he lost several seconds as the tyres were brought out. Senna remained out on the circuit with a damaged front wing, but pitted on the next lap. With Kovalainen out, Lotus's hopes rested on the shoulders of Trulli, but a gearbox problem after his early altercation almost ended his race. His team managed to get him back out and racing again, but he lost three laps to the leaders in the process. Elsewhere, Nico Hülkenberg was forced into retirement when his exhaust system exploded, damaging his rear bodywork and tyre.
Although serving a penalty had put some distance between them, Hamilton's pace in the later phase of the race meant that catching and passing Vettel, who had so far led the race unchallenged, was a possibility, but as the two drivers moved into the final laps of the race, Hamilton's grip peaked too soon and he was forced to settle for second place. Kobayashi's pit stop meant Button was promoted to third, followed by Barrichello, Kubica and Sutil twenty-five seconds adrift. Kobayashi's last-corner move on Buemi saw him home seventh, with the Swiss driver edging out Alonso. Pedro de la Rosa took the final point.
The aftermath was also the subject of controversy, with Fernando Alonso claiming that the outcome of the race was "manipulated" by the stewards with their late decision regarding a safety car infringement by Lewis Hamilton. Alonso had been following Hamilton at the time of the safety car was deployed and reported Hamilton to the stewards, who took twenty minutes to issue their ruling of a drive-through penalty. Alonso claimed that his chances of finishing on the podium were "ruined" by the ruling. Other teams – including Red Bull, Lotus and McLaren – rejected Alonso's accusations, with Lotus' technical director Mike Gascoyne
stating "changing the safety car regulations had opened up a set of scenarios that had never been anticipated before. Hamilton passing the safety car is the only recorded example of a driver doing so in the modern era of Formula One." Ferrari have subsequently argued for a change of safety car rules to prevent a similar situation occurring again.
Notes:
Constructors' Championship standings
Formula One
Formula One, also known as Formula 1 or F1 and referred to officially as the FIA Formula One World Championship, is the highest class of single seater auto racing sanctioned by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile . The "formula" designation in the name refers to a set of rules with which...
motor race
Auto racing
Auto racing is a motorsport involving the racing of cars for competition. It is one of the world's most watched televised sports.-The beginning of racing:...
held on the June 27, 2010 at the Valencia Street Circuit
Valencia Street Circuit
The Valencia Street Circuit is a semi-permanent street circuit in Valencia, Spain which will host the Formula One European Grand Prix for seven years. The first race meeting on the circuit was held over the 23/24 August 2008 weekend, with Felipe Massa winning the main event, the European Grand...
in Valencia, Spain
Spain
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. The race, contested over 57 laps, was the ninth round of the 2010 Formula One season
2010 Formula One season
The 2010 Formula One season was the 61st Formula One season of World Championship motor racing competition. Red Bull Racing won its maiden Constructors' Championship with a one-two finish in Brazil, while Red Bull Racing's Sebastian Vettel won the Drivers' Championship after winning the final race...
. It was won by Sebastian Vettel
Sebastian Vettel
Sebastian Vettel is a German Formula One racing driver, currently driving for Red Bull Racing. He is the current World Champion, having won the championship in and ....
of Red Bull Racing
Red Bull Racing
Red Bull Racing is a Formula One racing team based in Milton Keynes, England which currently holds an Austrian licence. It is, along with Scuderia Toro Rosso, one of two teams owned by beverage company Red Bull GmbH. The team have won two Constructors' Championship titles, in and , becoming the...
, who led every lap of the race after starting on pole position. The McLaren
McLaren
McLaren Racing Limited, trading as Vodafone McLaren Mercedes, is a British Formula One team based in Woking, Surrey, United Kingdom. McLaren is best known as a Formula One constructor but has also competed and won in the Indianapolis 500 and Canadian-American Challenge Cup...
team-mates of Lewis Hamilton
Lewis Hamilton
Lewis Carl Davidson Hamilton, MBE is a British Formula One racing driver from England, currently racing for the McLaren team. He was the Formula One World Champion.Hamilton was born in Stevenage, Hertfordshire...
and Jenson Button
Jenson Button
Jenson Alexander Lyons Button MBE is a British Formula One driver currently signed to McLaren. He was the 2009 World Drivers' Champion.Button began karting at the age of eight and achieved early success, before progressing to car racing in the British Formula Ford Championship and the British...
finished second and third respectively, to complete the podium. Button also set the fasest lap of the race.
As a consequence of the race, Hamilton extended his lead of the World Drivers' Championship to seven points over Button. This ensured the pair would enter the next, and their home race - the - as first and second in the championship. Vettel's second race victory of the season moved him up to third in standings; he became six points behind Button after surpassing the totals of teammate Mark Webber
Mark Webber
Mark Alan Webber is an Australian Formula One driver.After some racing success in Australia, Webber moved to the United Kingdom in 1995 to further his motorsport career...
and Fernando Alonso
Fernando Alonso
Fernando Alonso Díaz is a Spanish Formula One racing driver and a two-time World Champion, who is currently racing for Ferrari....
. By gaining the most points from the race, McLaren extended their lead in the World Constructors' Championship to thirty over Red Bull. Race winners Red Bull also extended the gap, as third placed Ferrari
Scuderia Ferrari
Scuderia Ferrari is the racing team division of the Ferrari automobile marque. The team currently only races in Formula One but has competed in numerous classes of motorsport since its formation in 1929, including sportscar racing....
became fifty-three points behind in the standings.
Background
Several of the leading teams introduced upgrades for the race, most notably FerrariScuderia Ferrari
Scuderia Ferrari is the racing team division of the Ferrari automobile marque. The team currently only races in Formula One but has competed in numerous classes of motorsport since its formation in 1929, including sportscar racing....
, who after a poor start to the season pinned their hopes of a resurgence on the Valencia upgrade. This package included a version of Red Bull's
Red Bull Racing
Red Bull Racing is a Formula One racing team based in Milton Keynes, England which currently holds an Austrian licence. It is, along with Scuderia Toro Rosso, one of two teams owned by beverage company Red Bull GmbH. The team have won two Constructors' Championship titles, in and , becoming the...
"blown diffuser" design, which involved channeling hot air from the exhaust through the diffuser. Mercedes
Mercedes GP
Mercedes GP Petronas Formula One Team, the trading name of Mercedes-Benz Grand Prix Limited, is a British-based Formula One racing team and constructor, owned by Mercedes-Benz and racing under a German licence since the 2010 season....
and Renault
Renault F1
Lotus Renault GP, formerly the Renault F1 Team, is a British Formula One racing team. The Oxfordshire-based team can trace its roots back through the Benetton team of the late 1980s and 1990s to the Toleman team of the early 1980s. Renault had also competed in various forms since , before taking...
had been less-public about their upgrades, both of which included blown diffusers, and in Mercedes' case, an F-duct. Red Bull also experimented with the system again, and were quick to downplay the effects of the blown diffuser concept. Reigning World Champion Jenson Button
Jenson Button
Jenson Alexander Lyons Button MBE is a British Formula One driver currently signed to McLaren. He was the 2009 World Drivers' Champion.Button began karting at the age of eight and achieved early success, before progressing to car racing in the British Formula Ford Championship and the British...
speculated that the teams would struggle with blown diffusers if they had been rushed into development in time for the race, and the hot exhaust air had the potential to cause overheating problems.
After running the device in Friday practice, Red Bull decided to use their interpretation of the F-duct for the rest of the weekend, the first race of the year where they did so.
Free Practice
The first free practice saw several line-up changes, with Paul di RestaPaul di Resta
Paul di Resta is a British racing driver from Scotland, currently competing in Formula One with Force India. He is also a former DTM champion.-Personal life:...
fulfilling driving duties for Adrian Sutil
Adrian Sutil
-Biography:Sutil is the son of professional musicians Monika, a German, and Jorge, a Uruguayan. He has two brothers named Daniel and Raphael. He weighs 165 pounds and is 6 feet tall. A talented pianist, Sutil started karting at 14 before moving up to Swiss Formula Ford 1800 in 2002...
at Force India
Force India
Sahara Force India Formula One Team, the trading name of Force India Formula One Team Limited, is a Formula One racing team based in Silverstone, United Kingdom which currently holds an Indian licence. The team was formed in October 2007 when a consortium led by Indian businessman Vijay Mallya and...
as team-mate Vitantonio Liuzzi
Vitantonio Liuzzi
Vitantonio "Tonio" Liuzzi is an Italian race driver who is currently racing in Formula One for the HRT F1 Team. He has homes in Lugano, Switzerland and Pescara, Italy.-Karting:...
had never driven the Valencia circuit before, and Christian Klien
Christian Klien
Christian Klien is an Austrian former Formula One racing driver. In total he has scored 14 points in Formula One.Klien currently drives for Aston Martin Racing in the Intercontinental Le Mans Cup-Racing career:...
taking Karun Chandhok's place at Hispania to provide set-up feedback.
The session was clean and incident-free, save for a minor stoppage early on after Bruno Senna
Bruno Senna
Bruno Senna Lalli is a Brazilian Formula One racing driver and the nephew of the late three-time Formula One world champion Ayrton Senna. His mother is Ayrton's older sister, Viviane. His father, Flávio Lalli, died in a motorcycle crash in 1996. He wears a slightly modified version of his uncle's...
lost a rear vision mirror and the debris was cleared away; the circuit was re-opened within five minutes. Nico Rosberg
Nico Rosberg
Nico Erik Rosberg is a racing driver for the Mercedes GP Formula One team. He races under the German flag in Formula One, although he competed for Finland earlier in his career...
claimed the fastest time, ahead of the McLaren
McLaren
McLaren Racing Limited, trading as Vodafone McLaren Mercedes, is a British Formula One team based in Woking, Surrey, United Kingdom. McLaren is best known as a Formula One constructor but has also competed and won in the Indianapolis 500 and Canadian-American Challenge Cup...
s of Lewis Hamilton
Lewis Hamilton
Lewis Carl Davidson Hamilton, MBE is a British Formula One racing driver from England, currently racing for the McLaren team. He was the Formula One World Champion.Hamilton was born in Stevenage, Hertfordshire...
and Jenson Button
Jenson Button
Jenson Alexander Lyons Button MBE is a British Formula One driver currently signed to McLaren. He was the 2009 World Drivers' Champion.Button began karting at the age of eight and achieved early success, before progressing to car racing in the British Formula Ford Championship and the British...
to give Mercedes–engined cars the fastest three times of the session. Robert Kubica
Robert Kubica
Robert Józef Kubica is the first Polish racing driver to compete in Formula One. Between 2006 and 2009 he drove for the BMW Sauber F1 team, promoted from test driver to race driver during 2006...
claimed fourth ahead of Felipe Massa
Felipe Massa
Felipe Massa is a Brazilian Formula One racing driver. He finished second in the Drivers' World Championship, and is under contract to race for Scuderia Ferrari until the end of the season.-Early years:...
, whilst Massa's Ferrari stablemate and local favourite Fernando Alonso
Fernando Alonso
Fernando Alonso Díaz is a Spanish Formula One racing driver and a two-time World Champion, who is currently racing for Ferrari....
could only manage ninth place behind Michael Schumacher
Michael Schumacher
Michael Schumacher is a German Formula One racing driver for the Mercedes GP team. Famous for his eleven-year spell with Ferrari, Schumacher is a seven-time World Champion and is widely regarded as the greatest F1 driver of all time...
, another newcomer to the circuit. Heikki Kovalainen
Heikki Kovalainen
Heikki Johannes Kovalainen is a Finnish Formula One racing driver who spent the 2008 and 2009 seasons with British based team McLaren and the 2010 and 2011 seasons with Team Lotus....
was once again the fastest driver from the new teams as Lotus continued to close the gap to the established teams, with the Virgin
Virgin VR-01
The Virgin VR-01 was a Formula One motor racing car designed by Nick Wirth for Virgin Racing in the season. It was driven by former Toyota driver Timo Glock and Brazilian ex-GP2 driver Lucas di Grassi. The car was the first Formula One racing car designed entirely with computational fluid dynamics...
of Timo Glock
Timo Glock
Timo Glock is a German motor racing driver, currently driving in Formula One for the Virgin Racing team. At the 2004 Canadian Grand Prix, standing in for Giorgio Pantano who had a contract dispute with Jordan Grand Prix, he joined a select group of drivers who have scored a World Championship...
also standing out, a second slower than Kovalainen, but two and a half seconds faster than Senna.
The second session was interrupted when Massa stalled on the circuit in the first sector, bringing about another temporary halt to the proceedings. Alonso went on to set the fastest time of the session, edging out a constant challenge from the Red Bulls of Sebastian Vettel
Sebastian Vettel
Sebastian Vettel is a German Formula One racing driver, currently driving for Red Bull Racing. He is the current World Champion, having won the championship in and ....
and Mark Webber
Mark Webber
Mark Alan Webber is an Australian Formula One driver.After some racing success in Australia, Webber moved to the United Kingdom in 1995 to further his motorsport career...
, and by the end of the session, the top ten drivers were covered by less than a second. Sutil and Chandhok resumed driving duties, with Sutil breaking into the top ten; Chandhok, on the other hand, languished down in 24th place after mechanical problems had limited his car – at the time being driven by Klien – in the morning session. After claiming the first session's fastest time, Rosberg kept Mercedes in the top four as Schumacher failed to make the top ten, while Glock caused a minor disturbance when his Virgin stopped on the circuit.
Qualifying
The first session very nearly saw the early elimination of Michael Schumacher as the German driver wrestled with a suspected power steering problem. After several untidy laps, Schumacher needed to find a few tenths of a second that had so far eluded him in the session on his final lap. He narrowly succeeded as one of the last cars to cross the line, and relegating Kamui KobayashiKamui Kobayashi
is a Japanese racing driver. He has competed in the GP2 Series, won the GP2 Asia Series, and made his Formula One debut with Toyota in the final two races of when he replaced Timo Glock after the German was injured in a crash during qualifying for the...
to the elimination zone. Kobayashi joined the familiar line-up of Lotus, Virgin and Hispania, with Jarno Trulli
Jarno Trulli
Jarno Trulli is an Italian Formula One racing driver. He has been a regular in Formula One since 1997, driving for Minardi, Prost, Jordan, Renault and Toyota. He won the 2004 Monaco Grand Prix for Renault, his only Grand Prix victory to date. He is known for being a qualification expert...
out-qualifying his team mate to be the best of the newcomers. Lucas di Grassi
Lucas di Grassi
Lucas Tucci di Grassi is a Brazilian racing driver who drove for Virgin Racing in the 2010 Formula One season...
out-qualified team-mate Timo Glock
Timo Glock
Timo Glock is a German motor racing driver, currently driving in Formula One for the Virgin Racing team. At the 2004 Canadian Grand Prix, standing in for Giorgio Pantano who had a contract dispute with Jordan Grand Prix, he joined a select group of drivers who have scored a World Championship...
for the first time in 2010, leaving Renault's
Renault F1
Lotus Renault GP, formerly the Renault F1 Team, is a British Formula One racing team. The Oxfordshire-based team can trace its roots back through the Benetton team of the late 1980s and 1990s to the Toleman team of the early 1980s. Renault had also competed in various forms since , before taking...
Vitaly Petrov
Vitaly Petrov
Vitaly Alexandrovich Petrov is a Russian Formula One racing driver, currently driving for the Lotus Renault GP team. He is known as "Vyborg Rocket" in Russia. He is, to date, the only Russian to have competed in the Formula One World Championship....
as the only man who had failed to out-qualify his own team-mate.
Schumacher was fighting a losing battle in the second round of qualifying, and was ultimately able to do no better than fifteenth, one of his worst qualifying performances since his debut
1991 Belgian Grand Prix
The 1991 Belgian Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held at Spa-Francorchamps on August 25, 1991. It was the eleventh round of the 1991 Formula One season and the debut race of Michael Schumacher.- Pre-race :...
. Precisely how much of this was down to the driver and how much was down to the car is open to debate, as team-mate Nico Rosberg
Nico Rosberg
Nico Erik Rosberg is a racing driver for the Mercedes GP Formula One team. He races under the German flag in Formula One, although he competed for Finland earlier in his career...
also failed to make the grade, qualifying his Mercedes W01
Mercedes MGP W01
The Mercedes MGP W01 was a Formula One motor racing car designed and built by the Mercedes GP Petronas team for the season and was driven by the returning seven-time World Champion Michael Schumacher and Nico Rosberg. The car was revealed at the Circuit Ricardo Tormo near Valencia at the first...
in twelfth, no more than half a second faster than Schumacher. Toro Rosso's
Scuderia Toro Rosso
Scuderia Toro Rosso , also known simply as Toro Rosso or by its abbreviation STR, is an Italian Formula One racing team...
Sébastien Buemi
Sébastien Buemi
Sébastien Olivier Buemi is a Swiss racing driver, who competes for Scuderia Toro Rosso in Formula One.-Formula BMW:...
blamed Williams
WilliamsF1
Williams Grand Prix Engineering Limited, trading as AT&T Williams, is a British Formula One motor racing team and constructor. It was founded and run by Sir Frank Williams and Patrick Head...
driver Rubens Barrichello
Rubens Barrichello
Rubens Gonçalves "Rubinho" Barrichello is a Brazilian Formula One racing driver. He is currently racing for Williams F1.Barrichello has scored the seventh highest points total in Formula One history. Barrichello drove for Ferrari from to , as Michael Schumacher's teammate, enjoying considerable...
for impeding him on his final lap and thus denying him in a place in the final session, though the incident was not investigated by the stewards and the Swiss driver qualified eleventh ahead of Rosberg. Also eliminated were the two Force India
Force India
Sahara Force India Formula One Team, the trading name of Force India Formula One Team Limited, is a Formula One racing team based in Silverstone, United Kingdom which currently holds an Indian licence. The team was formed in October 2007 when a consortium led by Indian businessman Vijay Mallya and...
s of Adrian Sutil
Adrian Sutil
-Biography:Sutil is the son of professional musicians Monika, a German, and Jorge, a Uruguayan. He has two brothers named Daniel and Raphael. He weighs 165 pounds and is 6 feet tall. A talented pianist, Sutil started karting at 14 before moving up to Swiss Formula Ford 1800 in 2002...
and Vitantonio Liuzzi
Vitantonio Liuzzi
Vitantonio "Tonio" Liuzzi is an Italian race driver who is currently racing in Formula One for the HRT F1 Team. He has homes in Lugano, Switzerland and Pescara, Italy.-Karting:...
in thirteenth and fourteenth respecively, with Pedro de la Rosa
Pedro de la Rosa
Pedro Martínez de la Rosa is a Formula One driver who has participated in 87 Grands Prix for the Arrows, Jaguar, McLaren and Sauber teams, debuting on 7 March 1999, becoming one of very few drivers to score a point at his first race...
and Jaime Alguersuari
Jaime Alguersuari
Jaime Víctor Alguersuari Escudero , is a Spanish racing driver who became the youngest Formula One driver to start a Grand Prix in history at the 2009 Hungarian Grand Prix. Alguersuari is the first driver to be born in the 1990s to compete in Formula One....
qualifying between Schumacher and the new teams.
The elimination of Mercedes GP
Mercedes GP
Mercedes GP Petronas Formula One Team, the trading name of Mercedes-Benz Grand Prix Limited, is a British-based Formula One racing team and constructor, owned by Mercedes-Benz and racing under a German licence since the 2010 season....
left the door open for other drivers, with Petrov and Nico Hülkenberg seizing the advantage and qualifying in Q3 for the second time in the season, and Hülkenberg's first time in the dry. Fernando Alonso
Fernando Alonso
Fernando Alonso Díaz is a Spanish Formula One racing driver and a two-time World Champion, who is currently racing for Ferrari....
was the early pace-setter, but a scruffy second lap – and a similarly crude follow-through by team-mate Massa – handed the advantage to anyone willing to take it. The Red Bulls showed their true pace in Q3, once again locking out the front row of the grid and denying Alonso pole in his second home race at the same time. Mark Webber
Mark Webber
Mark Alan Webber is an Australian Formula One driver.After some racing success in Australia, Webber moved to the United Kingdom in 1995 to further his motorsport career...
took second after claiming provisional pole from Alonso early on, but Sebastian Vettel
Sebastian Vettel
Sebastian Vettel is a German Formula One racing driver, currently driving for Red Bull Racing. He is the current World Champion, having won the championship in and ....
prevailed, claiming his first pole since Shanghai
2010 Chinese Grand Prix
The 2010 Chinese Grand Prix was the fourth round in the 2010 Formula One season. It was held in Shanghai, China on April 18, 2010.The race was won by Jenson Button ahead of team-mate Lewis Hamilton....
on a circuit he has never scored points on. Lewis Hamilton
Lewis Hamilton
Lewis Carl Davidson Hamilton, MBE is a British Formula One racing driver from England, currently racing for the McLaren team. He was the Formula One World Champion.Hamilton was born in Stevenage, Hertfordshire...
beat Fernando Alonso
Fernando Alonso
Fernando Alonso Díaz is a Spanish Formula One racing driver and a two-time World Champion, who is currently racing for Ferrari....
to third, whilst Felipe Massa qualified one place behind his team-mate in fifth. A late run from Robert Kubica
Robert Kubica
Robert Józef Kubica is the first Polish racing driver to compete in Formula One. Between 2006 and 2009 he drove for the BMW Sauber F1 team, promoted from test driver to race driver during 2006...
was only good enough for sixth place despite setting a time similar to the first qualifying session, which would have been good enough for pole position if the grid were decided after Q1. Jenson Button had an anonymous Q3 to take seventh, while Hülkenberg and Barrichello claimed eighth and ninth place on the grid by setting identical – to the thousandth of a second – lap times. Petrov filled tenth place, the Russian driver just under a second off Vettel's time.
Race
The race began with Hamilton beating Webber off the line and attempting a brave pass down the inside of Vettel at the first corner that result in contact. Hamilton's car was slightly damaged in the process, though he was able to continue racing. Further down in the field, Jarno Trulli tangled with one of the Virgins and damaged his front wing, whilst Nico Rosberg was forced wide at the fourth corner and strayed into the no-man's land of the run-off. The first lap was otherwise clean, with Vettel establishing a large lead.Drama unfolded on the ninth lap when Mark Webber attempted to pass Heikki Kovalainen on the approach to turn thirteen, the fastest point on the circuit. The Red Bull ploughed into the back of the Lotus, obliterating its front end and launching Webber into a flip. The Australian landed upside-down before bouncing back over and careering into the tyre wall in an accident similar to Josef Král
Josef Král
Josef Král is a professional racing driver from the Czech Republic.-Karting & early career:Král began his motorsport career in karting back in 1998, and during the following seven years he achieved notable success, winning the Czech Republic ICA Junior title in 2003 and the Czech ICA 100...
's in the GP2 support race
2010 Valencian GP2 round
The 2010 Valencian GP2 round was a GP2 Series motor race held on June 26 and June 27, 2010 at the Valencia Street Circuit in Valencia, Spain. It was the fourth round of the 2010 GP2 Season and the second race of the 2010 GP3 Season...
earlier in the day and Webber's incidents at the 1999 Le Mans 24 Hours
1999 24 Hours of Le Mans
The 1999 24 Hours of Le Mans was the 67th Grand Prix of Endurance, and took place on June 12 and 13, 1999.-Pre-race:1999 saw another increase in manufacturers involvement. Although Porsche did not send a team to contest, Toyota retained their three updated GT-Ones, now moved to the LMGTP class due...
, in which his Mercedes-Benz CLR
Mercedes-Benz CLR
The Mercedes-Benz CLR was a Le Mans Prototype built by Mercedes-Benz for the 1999 24 Hours of Le Mans. It became infamous for spectacular crashes during its only competitive outing.-Racing history:...
twice became airborne. Webber emerged from the accident unscathed, whilst Kovalainen, who had spun off into the wall, drove slowly back to the pits where he retired with collision damage.
Webber's accident triggered a controversial moment in the race. The safety car was deployed onto the circuit in front of Hamilton and the Ferraris of Alonso and Massa, and behind Vettel. Hamilton passed the safety car slightly after the point on track at which it would be legal to do so, and when Alonso complained, the 2008 World Champion was served with a drive-through penalty. However, it took the stewards twenty minutes to settle on a verdict, and when Hamilton served his penalty from second place, he suffered no change in position; Alonso complained to his garage that he felt it was unfair and Ferrari concurred as they felt they should have been racing Hamilton. In a related incident, nine drivers—Jenson Button, Rubens Barrichello, Nico Hülkenberg, Robert Kubica, Vitaly Petrov, Adrian Sutil, Vitantonio Liuzzi, Sébastien Buemi and Pedro de la Rosa—were all cited for speeding on their in-laps in the wake of the Webber-Kovalainen crash.
The biggest winner from the carnage was Sauber's Kamui Kobayashi. In stark contrast to Montreal, where tyres were rapidly degrading, Kobayashi was able to set the then-fastest lap of the race after spending forty laps on the harder prime compound. As he did not pit under the safety car, he was promoted to third on the road, and would emerge in ninth when he pitted. He would later catch Alonso at the bottom of the circuit as he enjoyed the additional levels of grip the softer option compound offered, and moved on to take Buemi at the final corner of the final lap, finishing seventh for his efforts.
A similar accident to the Webber-Kovalainen collision was narrowly avoided when Timo Glock challenged Bruno Senna late in the race. The Hispania and the Virgin collided, causing a puncture on Glock's car that very nearly threw him into the wall and forced him to pit, though his crew were not ready for him and he lost several seconds as the tyres were brought out. Senna remained out on the circuit with a damaged front wing, but pitted on the next lap. With Kovalainen out, Lotus's hopes rested on the shoulders of Trulli, but a gearbox problem after his early altercation almost ended his race. His team managed to get him back out and racing again, but he lost three laps to the leaders in the process. Elsewhere, Nico Hülkenberg was forced into retirement when his exhaust system exploded, damaging his rear bodywork and tyre.
Although serving a penalty had put some distance between them, Hamilton's pace in the later phase of the race meant that catching and passing Vettel, who had so far led the race unchallenged, was a possibility, but as the two drivers moved into the final laps of the race, Hamilton's grip peaked too soon and he was forced to settle for second place. Kobayashi's pit stop meant Button was promoted to third, followed by Barrichello, Kubica and Sutil twenty-five seconds adrift. Kobayashi's last-corner move on Buemi saw him home seventh, with the Swiss driver edging out Alonso. Pedro de la Rosa took the final point.
Post-Race
The stewards issued a five-second penalty to the nine cars that had been flagged for speeding under safety car conditions. Sébastien Buemi was demoted to ninth place, whilst the penalties to Pedro de la Rosa and Vitaly Petrov demoted them to eleventh and twelfth, respectively. Timo Glock was also given a twenty-second penalty for ignoring blue flags.The aftermath was also the subject of controversy, with Fernando Alonso claiming that the outcome of the race was "manipulated" by the stewards with their late decision regarding a safety car infringement by Lewis Hamilton. Alonso had been following Hamilton at the time of the safety car was deployed and reported Hamilton to the stewards, who took twenty minutes to issue their ruling of a drive-through penalty. Alonso claimed that his chances of finishing on the podium were "ruined" by the ruling. Other teams – including Red Bull, Lotus and McLaren – rejected Alonso's accusations, with Lotus' technical director Mike Gascoyne
Mike Gascoyne
Michael "Mike" Gascoyne is a designer of Formula One cars. He is currently the Chief Technical Officer of Team Lotus....
stating "changing the safety car regulations had opened up a set of scenarios that had never been anticipated before. Hamilton passing the safety car is the only recorded example of a driver doing so in the modern era of Formula One." Ferrari have subsequently argued for a change of safety car rules to prevent a similar situation occurring again.
Qualifying
| Pos | No | Driver | Constructor | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Grid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 5 |  Sebastian VettelSebastian Vettel Sebastian Vettel is a German Formula One racing driver, currently driving for Red Bull Racing. He is the current World Champion, having won the championship in and .... |
Red Bull Red Bull Racing Red Bull Racing is a Formula One racing team based in Milton Keynes, England which currently holds an Austrian licence. It is, along with Scuderia Toro Rosso, one of two teams owned by beverage company Red Bull GmbH. The team have won two Constructors' Championship titles, in and , becoming the... -Renault Renault F1 Lotus Renault GP, formerly the Renault F1 Team, is a British Formula One racing team. The Oxfordshire-based team can trace its roots back through the Benetton team of the late 1980s and 1990s to the Toleman team of the early 1980s. Renault had also competed in various forms since , before taking... |
1:38.324 | 1:38.015 | 1:37.587 | 1 |
| 2 | 6 |  Mark WebberMark Webber Mark Alan Webber is an Australian Formula One driver.After some racing success in Australia, Webber moved to the United Kingdom in 1995 to further his motorsport career... |
Red Bull Red Bull Racing Red Bull Racing is a Formula One racing team based in Milton Keynes, England which currently holds an Austrian licence. It is, along with Scuderia Toro Rosso, one of two teams owned by beverage company Red Bull GmbH. The team have won two Constructors' Championship titles, in and , becoming the... -Renault Renault F1 Lotus Renault GP, formerly the Renault F1 Team, is a British Formula One racing team. The Oxfordshire-based team can trace its roots back through the Benetton team of the late 1980s and 1990s to the Toleman team of the early 1980s. Renault had also competed in various forms since , before taking... |
1:38.549 | 1:38.041 | 1:37.662 | 2 |
| 3 | 2 | Lewis Hamilton Lewis Hamilton Lewis Carl Davidson Hamilton, MBE is a British Formula One racing driver from England, currently racing for the McLaren team. He was the Formula One World Champion.Hamilton was born in Stevenage, Hertfordshire... |
McLaren McLaren McLaren Racing Limited, trading as Vodafone McLaren Mercedes, is a British Formula One team based in Woking, Surrey, United Kingdom. McLaren is best known as a Formula One constructor but has also competed and won in the Indianapolis 500 and Canadian-American Challenge Cup... -Mercedes |
1:38.697 | 1:38.158 | 1:37.969 | 3 |
| 4 | 8 |  Fernando AlonsoFernando Alonso Fernando Alonso Díaz is a Spanish Formula One racing driver and a two-time World Champion, who is currently racing for Ferrari.... |
Ferrari Scuderia Ferrari Scuderia Ferrari is the racing team division of the Ferrari automobile marque. The team currently only races in Formula One but has competed in numerous classes of motorsport since its formation in 1929, including sportscar racing.... |
1:38.472 | 1:38.179 | 1:38.075 | 4 |
| 5 | 7 |  Felipe MassaFelipe Massa Felipe Massa is a Brazilian Formula One racing driver. He finished second in the Drivers' World Championship, and is under contract to race for Scuderia Ferrari until the end of the season.-Early years:... |
Ferrari Scuderia Ferrari Scuderia Ferrari is the racing team division of the Ferrari automobile marque. The team currently only races in Formula One but has competed in numerous classes of motorsport since its formation in 1929, including sportscar racing.... |
1:38.657 | 1:38.046 | 1:38.127 | 5 |
| 6 | 11 |  Robert KubicaRobert Kubica Robert Józef Kubica is the first Polish racing driver to compete in Formula One. Between 2006 and 2009 he drove for the BMW Sauber F1 team, promoted from test driver to race driver during 2006... |
Renault Renault F1 Lotus Renault GP, formerly the Renault F1 Team, is a British Formula One racing team. The Oxfordshire-based team can trace its roots back through the Benetton team of the late 1980s and 1990s to the Toleman team of the early 1980s. Renault had also competed in various forms since , before taking... |
1:38.132 | 1:38.062 | 1:38.137 | 6 |
| 7 | 1 | Jenson Button Jenson Button Jenson Alexander Lyons Button MBE is a British Formula One driver currently signed to McLaren. He was the 2009 World Drivers' Champion.Button began karting at the age of eight and achieved early success, before progressing to car racing in the British Formula Ford Championship and the British... |
McLaren McLaren McLaren Racing Limited, trading as Vodafone McLaren Mercedes, is a British Formula One team based in Woking, Surrey, United Kingdom. McLaren is best known as a Formula One constructor but has also competed and won in the Indianapolis 500 and Canadian-American Challenge Cup... -Mercedes |
1:38.360 | 1:38.399 | 1:38.210 | 7 |
| 8 | 10 | Nico Hülkenberg |
Williams WilliamsF1 Williams Grand Prix Engineering Limited, trading as AT&T Williams, is a British Formula One motor racing team and constructor. It was founded and run by Sir Frank Williams and Patrick Head... -Cosworth Cosworth Cosworth is a high performance engineering company founded in London in 1958, specialising in engines and electronics for automobile racing , mainstream automotive and defence industries... |
1:38.843 | 1:38.523 | 1:38.428 | 8 |
| 9 | 9 | Rubens Barrichello Rubens Barrichello Rubens Gonçalves "Rubinho" Barrichello is a Brazilian Formula One racing driver. He is currently racing for Williams F1.Barrichello has scored the seventh highest points total in Formula One history. Barrichello drove for Ferrari from to , as Michael Schumacher's teammate, enjoying considerable... |
Williams WilliamsF1 Williams Grand Prix Engineering Limited, trading as AT&T Williams, is a British Formula One motor racing team and constructor. It was founded and run by Sir Frank Williams and Patrick Head... -Cosworth Cosworth Cosworth is a high performance engineering company founded in London in 1958, specialising in engines and electronics for automobile racing , mainstream automotive and defence industries... |
1:38.449 | 1:38.326 | 1:38.428 | 9 |
| 10 | 12 |  Vitaly PetrovVitaly Petrov Vitaly Alexandrovich Petrov is a Russian Formula One racing driver, currently driving for the Lotus Renault GP team. He is known as "Vyborg Rocket" in Russia. He is, to date, the only Russian to have competed in the Formula One World Championship.... |
Renault Renault F1 Lotus Renault GP, formerly the Renault F1 Team, is a British Formula One racing team. The Oxfordshire-based team can trace its roots back through the Benetton team of the late 1980s and 1990s to the Toleman team of the early 1980s. Renault had also competed in various forms since , before taking... |
1:39.004 | 1:38.552 | 1:38.523 | 10 |
| 11 | 16 |  Sébastien BuemiSébastien Buemi Sébastien Olivier Buemi is a Swiss racing driver, who competes for Scuderia Toro Rosso in Formula One.-Formula BMW:... |
Toro Rosso Scuderia Toro Rosso Scuderia Toro Rosso , also known simply as Toro Rosso or by its abbreviation STR, is an Italian Formula One racing team... -Ferrari Scuderia Ferrari Scuderia Ferrari is the racing team division of the Ferrari automobile marque. The team currently only races in Formula One but has competed in numerous classes of motorsport since its formation in 1929, including sportscar racing.... |
1:39.096 | 1:38.586 | 11 | |
| 12 | 4 | Nico Rosberg Nico Rosberg Nico Erik Rosberg is a racing driver for the Mercedes GP Formula One team. He races under the German flag in Formula One, although he competed for Finland earlier in his career... |
Mercedes Mercedes GP Mercedes GP Petronas Formula One Team, the trading name of Mercedes-Benz Grand Prix Limited, is a British-based Formula One racing team and constructor, owned by Mercedes-Benz and racing under a German licence since the 2010 season.... |
1:38.752 | 1:38.627 | 12 | |
| 13 | 14 | Adrian Sutil Adrian Sutil -Biography:Sutil is the son of professional musicians Monika, a German, and Jorge, a Uruguayan. He has two brothers named Daniel and Raphael. He weighs 165 pounds and is 6 feet tall. A talented pianist, Sutil started karting at 14 before moving up to Swiss Formula Ford 1800 in 2002... |
Force India Force India Sahara Force India Formula One Team, the trading name of Force India Formula One Team Limited, is a Formula One racing team based in Silverstone, United Kingdom which currently holds an Indian licence. The team was formed in October 2007 when a consortium led by Indian businessman Vijay Mallya and... -Mercedes |
1:39.021 | 1:38.851 | 13 | |
| 14 | 15 |  Vitantonio LiuzziVitantonio Liuzzi Vitantonio "Tonio" Liuzzi is an Italian race driver who is currently racing in Formula One for the HRT F1 Team. He has homes in Lugano, Switzerland and Pescara, Italy.-Karting:... |
Force India Force India Sahara Force India Formula One Team, the trading name of Force India Formula One Team Limited, is a Formula One racing team based in Silverstone, United Kingdom which currently holds an Indian licence. The team was formed in October 2007 when a consortium led by Indian businessman Vijay Mallya and... -Mercedes |
1:38.969 | 1:38.884 | 14 | |
| 15 | 3 | Michael Schumacher Michael Schumacher Michael Schumacher is a German Formula One racing driver for the Mercedes GP team. Famous for his eleven-year spell with Ferrari, Schumacher is a seven-time World Champion and is widely regarded as the greatest F1 driver of all time... |
Mercedes Mercedes GP Mercedes GP Petronas Formula One Team, the trading name of Mercedes-Benz Grand Prix Limited, is a British-based Formula One racing team and constructor, owned by Mercedes-Benz and racing under a German licence since the 2010 season.... |
1:38.994 | 1:39.234 | 15 | |
| 16 | 22 | Pedro de la Rosa Pedro de la Rosa Pedro Martínez de la Rosa is a Formula One driver who has participated in 87 Grands Prix for the Arrows, Jaguar, McLaren and Sauber teams, debuting on 7 March 1999, becoming one of very few drivers to score a point at his first race... |
BMW Sauber Sauber Sauber F1 Team is a Swiss Formula One team. It was founded in the 1970s by Peter Sauber, who progressed through hillclimbing and the World Sportscar Championship to reach Formula One in 1993.... -Ferrari Scuderia Ferrari Scuderia Ferrari is the racing team division of the Ferrari automobile marque. The team currently only races in Formula One but has competed in numerous classes of motorsport since its formation in 1929, including sportscar racing.... |
1:39.003 | 1:39.264 | 16 | |
| 17 | 17 | Jaime Alguersuari Jaime Alguersuari Jaime Víctor Alguersuari Escudero , is a Spanish racing driver who became the youngest Formula One driver to start a Grand Prix in history at the 2009 Hungarian Grand Prix. Alguersuari is the first driver to be born in the 1990s to compete in Formula One.... |
Toro Rosso Scuderia Toro Rosso Scuderia Toro Rosso , also known simply as Toro Rosso or by its abbreviation STR, is an Italian Formula One racing team... -Ferrari Scuderia Ferrari Scuderia Ferrari is the racing team division of the Ferrari automobile marque. The team currently only races in Formula One but has competed in numerous classes of motorsport since its formation in 1929, including sportscar racing.... |
1:39.128 | 1:39.548 | 17 | |
| 18 | 23 |  Kamui KobayashiKamui Kobayashi is a Japanese racing driver. He has competed in the GP2 Series, won the GP2 Asia Series, and made his Formula One debut with Toyota in the final two races of when he replaced Timo Glock after the German was injured in a crash during qualifying for the... |
BMW Sauber Sauber Sauber F1 Team is a Swiss Formula One team. It was founded in the 1970s by Peter Sauber, who progressed through hillclimbing and the World Sportscar Championship to reach Formula One in 1993.... -Ferrari Scuderia Ferrari Scuderia Ferrari is the racing team division of the Ferrari automobile marque. The team currently only races in Formula One but has competed in numerous classes of motorsport since its formation in 1929, including sportscar racing.... |
1:39.343 | 18 | ||
| 19 | 18 | Jarno Trulli Jarno Trulli Jarno Trulli is an Italian Formula One racing driver. He has been a regular in Formula One since 1997, driving for Minardi, Prost, Jordan, Renault and Toyota. He won the 2004 Monaco Grand Prix for Renault, his only Grand Prix victory to date. He is known for being a qualification expert... |
Lotus-Cosworth Cosworth Cosworth is a high performance engineering company founded in London in 1958, specialising in engines and electronics for automobile racing , mainstream automotive and defence industries... |
1:40.658 | 19 | ||
| 20 | 19 |  Heikki KovalainenHeikki Kovalainen Heikki Johannes Kovalainen is a Finnish Formula One racing driver who spent the 2008 and 2009 seasons with British based team McLaren and the 2010 and 2011 seasons with Team Lotus.... |
Lotus-Cosworth Cosworth Cosworth is a high performance engineering company founded in London in 1958, specialising in engines and electronics for automobile racing , mainstream automotive and defence industries... |
1:40.882 | 20 | ||
| 21 | 25 | Lucas di Grassi Lucas di Grassi Lucas Tucci di Grassi is a Brazilian racing driver who drove for Virgin Racing in the 2010 Formula One season... |
Virgin Virgin Racing Marussia Virgin Racing, the trading name of Virgin Racing Limited, is a Russian owned Formula One racing team based in the United Kingdom and racing on a Russian licence, which made its debut in the 2010 Formula One season. It was granted entry as Manor Grand Prix on 12 June 2009, as one of four... -Cosworth Cosworth Cosworth is a high performance engineering company founded in London in 1958, specialising in engines and electronics for automobile racing , mainstream automotive and defence industries... |
1:42.086 | 21 | ||
| 22 | 24 | Timo Glock Timo Glock Timo Glock is a German motor racing driver, currently driving in Formula One for the Virgin Racing team. At the 2004 Canadian Grand Prix, standing in for Giorgio Pantano who had a contract dispute with Jordan Grand Prix, he joined a select group of drivers who have scored a World Championship... |
Virgin Virgin Racing Marussia Virgin Racing, the trading name of Virgin Racing Limited, is a Russian owned Formula One racing team based in the United Kingdom and racing on a Russian licence, which made its debut in the 2010 Formula One season. It was granted entry as Manor Grand Prix on 12 June 2009, as one of four... -Cosworth Cosworth Cosworth is a high performance engineering company founded in London in 1958, specialising in engines and electronics for automobile racing , mainstream automotive and defence industries... |
1:42.140 | 22 | ||
| 23 | 20 |  Karun Chandhok |
HRT-Cosworth Cosworth Cosworth is a high performance engineering company founded in London in 1958, specialising in engines and electronics for automobile racing , mainstream automotive and defence industries... |
1:42.600 | 23 | ||
| 24 | 21 | Bruno Senna Bruno Senna Bruno Senna Lalli is a Brazilian Formula One racing driver and the nephew of the late three-time Formula One world champion Ayrton Senna. His mother is Ayrton's older sister, Viviane. His father, Flávio Lalli, died in a motorcycle crash in 1996. He wears a slightly modified version of his uncle's... |
HRT-Cosworth Cosworth Cosworth is a high performance engineering company founded in London in 1958, specialising in engines and electronics for automobile racing , mainstream automotive and defence industries... |
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Race
| Pos | No | Driver | Constructor | Laps | Time/Retired | Grid | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 5 | Sebastian Vettel Sebastian Vettel Sebastian Vettel is a German Formula One racing driver, currently driving for Red Bull Racing. He is the current World Champion, having won the championship in and .... |
Red Bull Red Bull Racing Red Bull Racing is a Formula One racing team based in Milton Keynes, England which currently holds an Austrian licence. It is, along with Scuderia Toro Rosso, one of two teams owned by beverage company Red Bull GmbH. The team have won two Constructors' Championship titles, in and , becoming the... -Renault Renault F1 Lotus Renault GP, formerly the Renault F1 Team, is a British Formula One racing team. The Oxfordshire-based team can trace its roots back through the Benetton team of the late 1980s and 1990s to the Toleman team of the early 1980s. Renault had also competed in various forms since , before taking... |
57 | 1:40:29.571 | 1 | 25 |
| 2 | 2 |  Lewis HamiltonLewis Hamilton Lewis Carl Davidson Hamilton, MBE is a British Formula One racing driver from England, currently racing for the McLaren team. He was the Formula One World Champion.Hamilton was born in Stevenage, Hertfordshire... |
McLaren McLaren McLaren Racing Limited, trading as Vodafone McLaren Mercedes, is a British Formula One team based in Woking, Surrey, United Kingdom. McLaren is best known as a Formula One constructor but has also competed and won in the Indianapolis 500 and Canadian-American Challenge Cup... -Mercedes |
57 | +5.042 | 3 | 18 |
| 3 | 1 | Jenson Button Jenson Button Jenson Alexander Lyons Button MBE is a British Formula One driver currently signed to McLaren. He was the 2009 World Drivers' Champion.Button began karting at the age of eight and achieved early success, before progressing to car racing in the British Formula Ford Championship and the British... |
McLaren McLaren McLaren Racing Limited, trading as Vodafone McLaren Mercedes, is a British Formula One team based in Woking, Surrey, United Kingdom. McLaren is best known as a Formula One constructor but has also competed and won in the Indianapolis 500 and Canadian-American Challenge Cup... -Mercedes |
57 | +12.658 | 7 | 15 |
| 4 | 9 | Rubens Barrichello Rubens Barrichello Rubens Gonçalves "Rubinho" Barrichello is a Brazilian Formula One racing driver. He is currently racing for Williams F1.Barrichello has scored the seventh highest points total in Formula One history. Barrichello drove for Ferrari from to , as Michael Schumacher's teammate, enjoying considerable... |
Williams WilliamsF1 Williams Grand Prix Engineering Limited, trading as AT&T Williams, is a British Formula One motor racing team and constructor. It was founded and run by Sir Frank Williams and Patrick Head... -Cosworth Cosworth Cosworth is a high performance engineering company founded in London in 1958, specialising in engines and electronics for automobile racing , mainstream automotive and defence industries... |
57 | +25.627 | 9 | 12 |
| 5 | 11 | Robert Kubica Robert Kubica Robert Józef Kubica is the first Polish racing driver to compete in Formula One. Between 2006 and 2009 he drove for the BMW Sauber F1 team, promoted from test driver to race driver during 2006... |
Renault Renault F1 Lotus Renault GP, formerly the Renault F1 Team, is a British Formula One racing team. The Oxfordshire-based team can trace its roots back through the Benetton team of the late 1980s and 1990s to the Toleman team of the early 1980s. Renault had also competed in various forms since , before taking... |
57 | +27.122 | 6 | 10 |
| 6 | 14 | Adrian Sutil Adrian Sutil -Biography:Sutil is the son of professional musicians Monika, a German, and Jorge, a Uruguayan. He has two brothers named Daniel and Raphael. He weighs 165 pounds and is 6 feet tall. A talented pianist, Sutil started karting at 14 before moving up to Swiss Formula Ford 1800 in 2002... |
Force India Force India Sahara Force India Formula One Team, the trading name of Force India Formula One Team Limited, is a Formula One racing team based in Silverstone, United Kingdom which currently holds an Indian licence. The team was formed in October 2007 when a consortium led by Indian businessman Vijay Mallya and... -Mercedes |
57 | +30.168 | 13 | 8 |
| 7 | 23 | Kamui Kobayashi Kamui Kobayashi is a Japanese racing driver. He has competed in the GP2 Series, won the GP2 Asia Series, and made his Formula One debut with Toyota in the final two races of when he replaced Timo Glock after the German was injured in a crash during qualifying for the... |
BMW Sauber Sauber Sauber F1 Team is a Swiss Formula One team. It was founded in the 1970s by Peter Sauber, who progressed through hillclimbing and the World Sportscar Championship to reach Formula One in 1993.... -Ferrari Scuderia Ferrari Scuderia Ferrari is the racing team division of the Ferrari automobile marque. The team currently only races in Formula One but has competed in numerous classes of motorsport since its formation in 1929, including sportscar racing.... |
57 | +30.965 | 18 | 6 |
| 8 | 8 | Fernando Alonso Fernando Alonso Fernando Alonso Díaz is a Spanish Formula One racing driver and a two-time World Champion, who is currently racing for Ferrari.... |
Ferrari Scuderia Ferrari Scuderia Ferrari is the racing team division of the Ferrari automobile marque. The team currently only races in Formula One but has competed in numerous classes of motorsport since its formation in 1929, including sportscar racing.... |
57 | +32.809 | 4 | 4 |
| 9 | 16 | Sébastien Buemi Sébastien Buemi Sébastien Olivier Buemi is a Swiss racing driver, who competes for Scuderia Toro Rosso in Formula One.-Formula BMW:... |
Toro Rosso Scuderia Toro Rosso Scuderia Toro Rosso , also known simply as Toro Rosso or by its abbreviation STR, is an Italian Formula One racing team... -Ferrari Scuderia Ferrari Scuderia Ferrari is the racing team division of the Ferrari automobile marque. The team currently only races in Formula One but has competed in numerous classes of motorsport since its formation in 1929, including sportscar racing.... |
57 | +36.299 | 11 | 2 |
| 10 | 4 | Nico Rosberg Nico Rosberg Nico Erik Rosberg is a racing driver for the Mercedes GP Formula One team. He races under the German flag in Formula One, although he competed for Finland earlier in his career... |
Mercedes Mercedes GP Mercedes GP Petronas Formula One Team, the trading name of Mercedes-Benz Grand Prix Limited, is a British-based Formula One racing team and constructor, owned by Mercedes-Benz and racing under a German licence since the 2010 season.... |
57 | +44.382 | 12 | 1 |
| 11 | 7 | Felipe Massa Felipe Massa Felipe Massa is a Brazilian Formula One racing driver. He finished second in the Drivers' World Championship, and is under contract to race for Scuderia Ferrari until the end of the season.-Early years:... |
Ferrari Scuderia Ferrari Scuderia Ferrari is the racing team division of the Ferrari automobile marque. The team currently only races in Formula One but has competed in numerous classes of motorsport since its formation in 1929, including sportscar racing.... |
57 | +46.621 | 5 | |
| 12 | 22 | Pedro de la Rosa Pedro de la Rosa Pedro Martínez de la Rosa is a Formula One driver who has participated in 87 Grands Prix for the Arrows, Jaguar, McLaren and Sauber teams, debuting on 7 March 1999, becoming one of very few drivers to score a point at his first race... |
BMW Sauber Sauber Sauber F1 Team is a Swiss Formula One team. It was founded in the 1970s by Peter Sauber, who progressed through hillclimbing and the World Sportscar Championship to reach Formula One in 1993.... -Ferrari Scuderia Ferrari Scuderia Ferrari is the racing team division of the Ferrari automobile marque. The team currently only races in Formula One but has competed in numerous classes of motorsport since its formation in 1929, including sportscar racing.... |
57 | +47.414 | 16 | |
| 13 | 17 | Jaime Alguersuari Jaime Alguersuari Jaime Víctor Alguersuari Escudero , is a Spanish racing driver who became the youngest Formula One driver to start a Grand Prix in history at the 2009 Hungarian Grand Prix. Alguersuari is the first driver to be born in the 1990s to compete in Formula One.... |
Toro Rosso Scuderia Toro Rosso Scuderia Toro Rosso , also known simply as Toro Rosso or by its abbreviation STR, is an Italian Formula One racing team... -Ferrari Scuderia Ferrari Scuderia Ferrari is the racing team division of the Ferrari automobile marque. The team currently only races in Formula One but has competed in numerous classes of motorsport since its formation in 1929, including sportscar racing.... |
57 | +48.239 | 17 | |
| 14 | 12 | Vitaly Petrov Vitaly Petrov Vitaly Alexandrovich Petrov is a Russian Formula One racing driver, currently driving for the Lotus Renault GP team. He is known as "Vyborg Rocket" in Russia. He is, to date, the only Russian to have competed in the Formula One World Championship.... |
Renault Renault F1 Lotus Renault GP, formerly the Renault F1 Team, is a British Formula One racing team. The Oxfordshire-based team can trace its roots back through the Benetton team of the late 1980s and 1990s to the Toleman team of the early 1980s. Renault had also competed in various forms since , before taking... |
57 | +48.287 | 10 | |
| 15 | 3 | Michael Schumacher Michael Schumacher Michael Schumacher is a German Formula One racing driver for the Mercedes GP team. Famous for his eleven-year spell with Ferrari, Schumacher is a seven-time World Champion and is widely regarded as the greatest F1 driver of all time... |
Mercedes Mercedes GP Mercedes GP Petronas Formula One Team, the trading name of Mercedes-Benz Grand Prix Limited, is a British-based Formula One racing team and constructor, owned by Mercedes-Benz and racing under a German licence since the 2010 season.... |
57 | +48.826 | 15 | |
| 16 | 15 | Vitantonio Liuzzi Vitantonio Liuzzi Vitantonio "Tonio" Liuzzi is an Italian race driver who is currently racing in Formula One for the HRT F1 Team. He has homes in Lugano, Switzerland and Pescara, Italy.-Karting:... |
Force India Force India Sahara Force India Formula One Team, the trading name of Force India Formula One Team Limited, is a Formula One racing team based in Silverstone, United Kingdom which currently holds an Indian licence. The team was formed in October 2007 when a consortium led by Indian businessman Vijay Mallya and... -Mercedes |
57 | +50.890 | 14 | |
| 17 | 25 | Lucas di Grassi Lucas di Grassi Lucas Tucci di Grassi is a Brazilian racing driver who drove for Virgin Racing in the 2010 Formula One season... |
Virgin Virgin Racing Marussia Virgin Racing, the trading name of Virgin Racing Limited, is a Russian owned Formula One racing team based in the United Kingdom and racing on a Russian licence, which made its debut in the 2010 Formula One season. It was granted entry as Manor Grand Prix on 12 June 2009, as one of four... -Cosworth Cosworth Cosworth is a high performance engineering company founded in London in 1958, specialising in engines and electronics for automobile racing , mainstream automotive and defence industries... |
56 | +1 Lap | 21 | |
| 18 | 20 | Karun Chandhok |
HRT-Cosworth Cosworth Cosworth is a high performance engineering company founded in London in 1958, specialising in engines and electronics for automobile racing , mainstream automotive and defence industries... |
55 | +2 Laps | 23 | |
| 19 | 24 | Timo Glock Timo Glock Timo Glock is a German motor racing driver, currently driving in Formula One for the Virgin Racing team. At the 2004 Canadian Grand Prix, standing in for Giorgio Pantano who had a contract dispute with Jordan Grand Prix, he joined a select group of drivers who have scored a World Championship... |
Virgin Virgin Racing Marussia Virgin Racing, the trading name of Virgin Racing Limited, is a Russian owned Formula One racing team based in the United Kingdom and racing on a Russian licence, which made its debut in the 2010 Formula One season. It was granted entry as Manor Grand Prix on 12 June 2009, as one of four... -Cosworth Cosworth Cosworth is a high performance engineering company founded in London in 1958, specialising in engines and electronics for automobile racing , mainstream automotive and defence industries... |
55 | +2 Laps | 22 | |
| 20 | 21 | Bruno Senna Bruno Senna Bruno Senna Lalli is a Brazilian Formula One racing driver and the nephew of the late three-time Formula One world champion Ayrton Senna. His mother is Ayrton's older sister, Viviane. His father, Flávio Lalli, died in a motorcycle crash in 1996. He wears a slightly modified version of his uncle's... |
HRT-Cosworth Cosworth Cosworth is a high performance engineering company founded in London in 1958, specialising in engines and electronics for automobile racing , mainstream automotive and defence industries... |
55 | +2 Laps | 24 | |
| 21 | 18 | Jarno Trulli Jarno Trulli Jarno Trulli is an Italian Formula One racing driver. He has been a regular in Formula One since 1997, driving for Minardi, Prost, Jordan, Renault and Toyota. He won the 2004 Monaco Grand Prix for Renault, his only Grand Prix victory to date. He is known for being a qualification expert... |
Lotus-Cosworth Cosworth Cosworth is a high performance engineering company founded in London in 1958, specialising in engines and electronics for automobile racing , mainstream automotive and defence industries... |
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| Ret | 10 | Nico Hülkenberg |
Williams WilliamsF1 Williams Grand Prix Engineering Limited, trading as AT&T Williams, is a British Formula One motor racing team and constructor. It was founded and run by Sir Frank Williams and Patrick Head... -Cosworth Cosworth Cosworth is a high performance engineering company founded in London in 1958, specialising in engines and electronics for automobile racing , mainstream automotive and defence industries... |
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| Ret | 19 | Heikki Kovalainen Heikki Kovalainen Heikki Johannes Kovalainen is a Finnish Formula One racing driver who spent the 2008 and 2009 seasons with British based team McLaren and the 2010 and 2011 seasons with Team Lotus.... |
Lotus-Cosworth Cosworth Cosworth is a high performance engineering company founded in London in 1958, specialising in engines and electronics for automobile racing , mainstream automotive and defence industries... |
8 | Collision | 20 | |
| Ret | 6 | Mark Webber Mark Webber Mark Alan Webber is an Australian Formula One driver.After some racing success in Australia, Webber moved to the United Kingdom in 1995 to further his motorsport career... |
Red Bull Red Bull Racing Red Bull Racing is a Formula One racing team based in Milton Keynes, England which currently holds an Austrian licence. It is, along with Scuderia Toro Rosso, one of two teams owned by beverage company Red Bull GmbH. The team have won two Constructors' Championship titles, in and , becoming the... -Renault Renault F1 Lotus Renault GP, formerly the Renault F1 Team, is a British Formula One racing team. The Oxfordshire-based team can trace its roots back through the Benetton team of the late 1980s and 1990s to the Toleman team of the early 1980s. Renault had also competed in various forms since , before taking... |
8 | Collision | 2 | |
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Notes:
- 1. – Button, Barrichello, Kubica, Sutil, Buemi, de la Rosa, Petrov and Liuzzi were given five-second time penalties for exceeding the safety car-in lap time. Hülkenberg was also given a five-second penalty, but he retired from the race.
- 2. – Glock was given a 20-second time penalty for failing to observe blue flags.
Standings after the race
Drivers' Championship standings| Pos | Driver | Points |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lewis Hamilton Lewis Hamilton Lewis Carl Davidson Hamilton, MBE is a British Formula One racing driver from England, currently racing for the McLaren team. He was the Formula One World Champion.Hamilton was born in Stevenage, Hertfordshire... |
127 |
| 2 | Jenson Button Jenson Button Jenson Alexander Lyons Button MBE is a British Formula One driver currently signed to McLaren. He was the 2009 World Drivers' Champion.Button began karting at the age of eight and achieved early success, before progressing to car racing in the British Formula Ford Championship and the British... |
121 |
| 3 | Sebastian Vettel Sebastian Vettel Sebastian Vettel is a German Formula One racing driver, currently driving for Red Bull Racing. He is the current World Champion, having won the championship in and .... |
115 |
| 4 | Mark Webber Mark Webber Mark Alan Webber is an Australian Formula One driver.After some racing success in Australia, Webber moved to the United Kingdom in 1995 to further his motorsport career... |
103 |
| 5 | Fernando Alonso Fernando Alonso Fernando Alonso Díaz is a Spanish Formula One racing driver and a two-time World Champion, who is currently racing for Ferrari.... |
98 |
Constructors' Championship standings
| Pos | Constructor | Points |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | McLaren McLaren McLaren Racing Limited, trading as Vodafone McLaren Mercedes, is a British Formula One team based in Woking, Surrey, United Kingdom. McLaren is best known as a Formula One constructor but has also competed and won in the Indianapolis 500 and Canadian-American Challenge Cup... -Mercedes |
248 |
| 2 |  Red BullRed Bull Racing Red Bull Racing is a Formula One racing team based in Milton Keynes, England which currently holds an Austrian licence. It is, along with Scuderia Toro Rosso, one of two teams owned by beverage company Red Bull GmbH. The team have won two Constructors' Championship titles, in and , becoming the... -Renault Renault F1 Lotus Renault GP, formerly the Renault F1 Team, is a British Formula One racing team. The Oxfordshire-based team can trace its roots back through the Benetton team of the late 1980s and 1990s to the Toleman team of the early 1980s. Renault had also competed in various forms since , before taking... |
218 |
| 3 | Ferrari Scuderia Ferrari Scuderia Ferrari is the racing team division of the Ferrari automobile marque. The team currently only races in Formula One but has competed in numerous classes of motorsport since its formation in 1929, including sportscar racing.... |
165 |
| 4 | Mercedes Mercedes GP Mercedes GP Petronas Formula One Team, the trading name of Mercedes-Benz Grand Prix Limited, is a British-based Formula One racing team and constructor, owned by Mercedes-Benz and racing under a German licence since the 2010 season.... |
109 |
| 5 |  RenaultRenault F1 Lotus Renault GP, formerly the Renault F1 Team, is a British Formula One racing team. The Oxfordshire-based team can trace its roots back through the Benetton team of the late 1980s and 1990s to the Toleman team of the early 1980s. Renault had also competed in various forms since , before taking... |
89 |
- Note: Only the top five positions are included for both sets of standings.