Alonso Wins Singapore GP 2010

Flawless Fernando Alonso edges Vettel for Singapore win

Fernando Alonso moved himself right into the thick of the world title battle by taking his second consecutive victory with a consummate drive in the Singapore Grand Prix.

The brilliant pole position the Ferrari team leader earned on Saturday gave him the upper hand in a relentless race-long duel with Red Bull rival Sebastian Vettel, who finished just 0.2s behind in a rousing finish.

Alonso’s win moved him into second place in the championship standings ahead of Lewis Hamilton, whose title hopes took a further knock when he crashed out in a collision with Mark Webber shortly after half-distance.

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McLaren’s Lewis Hamilton failed to finish after colliding with the Red Bull of Mark Webber.

Webber went on to finish third, ahead of Hamilton’s team-mate Jenson Button.

Alonso’s win lifts the Spaniard to second in the drivers’ championship, just 11 points behind Webber, with Hamilton nine points adrift in third.

The twisting nature of the street circuit meant the start was likely to represent one of the only genuine overtaking opportunities in the race.

The fact the first five on the grid came out of the second corner in unchanged order did not appear to bode well for those hoping to see plenty of passing action.

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Singapore Grand Prix result

1 ALONSO Ferrari 1h57m53.6s
2 VETTEL Red Bull +0.2s
3 WEBBER Red Bull +29.1s
4 BUTTON McLaren +30.3s
5 ROSBERG Mercedes +49.3s
6 BARRICHELLO Williams +56.1s
7 KUBICA Renault +1m26.6s
8 SUTIL Force India +1m52.4s
9 HULKENBERG Williams +1m52.8s
10 MASSA Ferrari +1m53.3s
11 PETROV Renault +1 lap
12 ALGUERSUARI Toro Rosso +1 lap
13 SCHUMACHER Mercedes +1 lap
14 BUEMI Toro Rosso +1 lap
15 DI GRASSI Virgin +2 laps
16 KOVALAINEN Lotus +3 laps
R GLOCK Virgin +12 laps
R HEIDFELD Sauber +25 laps
R HAMILTON McLaren +26 laps
R KLIEN HRT +30 laps
R KOBAYASHI Sauber +31 laps
R SENNA HRT +32 laps
R TRULLI Lotus +34 laps
R LIUZZI Force India +60 laps

Ferrari's Fernando Alonso wins at Monza

Ferrari’s Fernando Alonso leapt back into title contention after winning a thrilling battle with McLaren’s Jenson Button in the Italian Grand Prix.

“Most of the thanks for the win is to the mechanics,” said Alonso.

“The pit stop felt so quick. I stopped, they changed tyres and there was a green light. I didn’t even have first gear in.

“When I came out of the pits I saw he was quite far behind and I thought OK, we have done it but I forgot he was coming at 320kmh (199mph) and he closed very fast.

“We went in the first corner nearly side by side and then I nearly spun when I got on the throttle.”

The Spaniard moves up to third in the championship, 21 points behind new leader Mark Webber of Red Bull, who leapfrogged McLaren’s Lewis Hamilton.

It was a disastrous day for Lewis Hamilton in the other McLaren, who jumped to fourth as Mark Webber’s Red Bull again started slowly, but at the second chicane Massa’s left rear wheel came into contact with Hamilton’s front right, and by the first Lesmo the McLaren driver was in the gravel, his day done.

Italian Grand Prix result

1 ALONSO Ferrari
2 BUTTON McLaren +2.9s
3 MASSA Ferrari +4.2s
4 VETTEL Red Bull +28.1s
5 ROSBERG Mercedes +29.9s
6 WEBBER Red Bull +31.2s
7 HULKENBERG Williams +32.8s
8 KUBICA Renault +34.0s
9 SCHUMACHER Mercedes +44.9s
10 BARRICHELLO Williams +64.2s
11 BUEMI Toro Rosso +65.0s
12 LIUZZI Force India +66.1s
13 PETROV Renault +78.9s
14 DE LA ROSA Sauber +1 lap
15 ALGUERSUARI Toro Rosso +1 lap
16 SUTIL Force India +1 lap
17 GLOCK Virgin +2 laps
18 KOVALAINEN Lotus +2 laps
19 YAMAMOTO HRT +2 laps
20 DI GRASSI Virgin +3 laps
21 TRULLI Lotus +7 laps
22 SENNA HRT +42 laps
23 HAMILTON McLaren +53 laps
24 KOBAYASHI Sauber +53 laps

Hamilton won Belgian Grand Prix 2010

Lewis Hamilton won the Belgian Grand Prix after an incident-packed race at Spa-Francorchamps.

Hamilton took control of the race with a perfect start from the outside of the front row, while pole-sitter Webber bogged down as his Red Bull’s anti-stall function kicked in and tumbled to seventh place.

Jenson Button and Fernando Alonso crashed out, and Sebastian Vettel failed to score a point.

“I’m ecstatic, it was a great weekend,” said Hamilton, whose driving was praised by his team principal Martin Whitmarsh. “A race like that can be a lottery, so I’m so happy and grateful to come out on top.”

Belgian Grand Prix 2010 Result (44 laps)

1 HAMILTON McLaren 1h29m04.3s

2 WEBBER Red Bull +1.6s

3 KUBICA Renault +3.5s

4 MASSA Ferrari +8.3s

5 SUTIL Force India +9.1s

6 ROSBERG Mercedes +12.4s

7 SCHUMACHER Mercedes +15.5s

8 KOBAYASHI Sauber +16.7s

9 PETROV Renault +23.9s

10 LIUZZI Force India +34.8s

11 DE LA ROSA Sauber +36.0s

12 BUEMI Toro Rosso +39.9s

13 ALGUERSUARI Toro Rosso +49.5s

14 HULKENBERG Williams +1 lap

15 VETTEL Red Bull +1 lap

16 KOVALAINEN Lotus +1 lap

17 DI GRASSI Virgin +1 lap

18 GLOCK Virgin +1 lap

19 TRULLI Lotus +1 lap

20 YAMAMOTO HRT +2 laps

R ALONSO Ferrari +7 laps

R BUTTON McLaren +29 laps

R SENNA HRT +39 laps

R BARRICHELLO Williams +44 laps

This means Red Bull have taken 13 pole positions in the 14 races this season.

But Hamilton delivered a superb performance to take second, ahead of Kubica.

Sebastian vettel wasn’t able to do better on his final lap and so ended up fourth in the second Red Bull, while world champion Jenson button did find time on his final run to snatch fifth place.

Belgian GP starting grid

1 WEBBER Red Bull

2 HAMILTON McLaren

3 KUBICA Renault

4 VETTEL Red Bull

5 BUTTON McLaren

6 MASSA Ferrari

7 BARRICHELLO Williams

8 SUTIL Force India

9 HULKENBERG Williams

10 ALONSO Ferrari

11 ALGUERSUARI Toro Rosso

12 LIUZZI Force India

13 BUEMI Toro Rosso

14 KOVALAINEN Lotus

15 GLOCK Virgin

16 ROSBERG Mercedes*

17 TRULLI Lotus

18 KOBAYASHI Sauber

19 SENNA HRT

20 YAMAMOTO HRT

21 SCHUMACHER Mercedes**

22 DE LA ROSA Sauber

23 DI GRASSI Virgin

24 PETROV Renault

The Spanish driver signalled his intention with a lap of 2 minutes, 0.797 seconds in a rain-affected morning session.

Then he capitalised on a chaotic finish to a mainly dry afternoon stint to stop the clock at 1:49.032, 0.125 seconds ahead of Force India’s Adrian Sutil.

Hamilton was 3rd but Red Bull’s championship leader Webber was 2.6secs off the pace at Spa.

Kubica, testing the team’s brand-new F-duct aerodynamic system, came through 4th fastest and Alonso’s teammate Massa was sixth.

Red Bull’s Sebastian Vettel, third in the drivers’ rankings, was 0.657secs behind and reigning world champion Button of McLaren was a further 0.066secs back.

Alonso ended up on top but his rivals may point to the open track on which he was able to post his top time following a red flag towards the end of second practice.

Williams driver Rubens Barrichello, who is set to become the 1st Formula 1 driver to contest 300 races this weekend, was almost 1.1secs off the pace.

Mercedes’ seven-time world champion Michael Schumacher goes into the race with a 10-place grid penalty after nearly running Barrichello into a pit wall at the Hungarian Grand Prix.

Belgian Grand Prix free practice session two times

1 ALONSO Ferrari 1m49.032s
2 SUTIL Force India 1m49.157s
3 HAMILTON McLaren 1m49.248s
4 KUBICA Renault 1m49.282s
5 MASSA Ferrari 1m49.588s
6 VETTEL Red Bull 1m49.689s
7 BUTTON McLaren 1m49.755s
8 DE LA ROSA Sauber 1m50.081s
9 BARRICHELLO Williams 1m50.128s
10 KOBAYASHI Sauber 1m50.200s
11 PETROV Renault 1m50.251s
12 SCHUMACHER Mercedes 1m50.341s
13 ROSBERG Mercedes 1m50.382s
14 ALGUERSUARI Toro Rosso 1m50.682s
15 HULKENBERG Williams 1m50.831s
16 LIUZZI Force India 1m51.520s
17 BUEMI Toro Rosso 1m51.523s
18 WEBBER Red Bull 1m51.636s
19 KOVALAINEN Lotus 1m53.480s
20 TRULLI Lotus 1m53.639s
21 DI GRASSI Virgin 1m54.325s
22 SENNA HRT 1m55.751s
23 YAMAMOTO HRT 1m56.039s
24 GLOCK Virgin 2m03.179s

Webber wins Hungarian GP 2010

Mark Webber vaulted back into the lead of the world championship after storming to an inspired fourth victory of the season in an ultimately absorbing Hungarian Grand Prix.

Vettel sprinted into the lead from pole position, with Ferrari’s Fernando Alonso bulling up to snatch second from Webber as Felipe Massa in the second scarlet car just held off Renault’s Vitaly Petrov and McLaren’s Lewis Hamilton.

A gearbox problem ended Hamilton’s race on lap 24 when he was running fourth.

Ferrari’s Felipe Massa took fourth, ahead of Renault’s Vitaly Petrov and Williams’ Nico Hulkenberg. Sauber’s Pedro de la Rosa scored his first points of the season with seventh ahead of McLaren’s Jenson Button.

Hungarian Grand Prix 2010 Result

1 WEBBER Red Bull

2 ALONSO Ferrari +17.8s

3 VETTEL Red Bull +19.2s

4 MASSA Ferrari +27.4s

5 PETROV Renault +1m13.1s

6 HULKENBERG Williams +1m16.7s

7 DE LA ROSA Sauber +1 lap

8 BUTTON McLaren +1 lap

9 KOBAYASHI Sauber +1 lap

10 BARRICHELLO Williams +1 lap

11 SCHUMACHER Mercedes +1 lap

12 BUEMI Toro Rosso +1 lap

13 LIUZZI Force India +1 lap

14 KOVALAINEN Lotus +3 laps

15 TRULLI Lotus +3 laps

16 GLOCK Virgin +3 laps

17 SENNA HRT +3 laps

18 DI GRASSI Virgin +4 laps

19 YAMAMOTO HRT +4 laps

20 HAMILTON McLaren +47 laps

21 KUBICA Renault +47 laps

22 ROSBERG Mercedes +55 laps

23 SUTIL Force India +55 laps

24 ALGUERSUARI Toro Rosso +69 laps

Fastest lap: VETTEL 1m22.362s (lap 70)

Controversial win for Alonso in Germany

Fernando Alonso lead a Ferrari one-two at the German Grand Prix at Hockenheim after Felipe Massa is given coded team orders to let his team-mate past.

Massa, who trailed his team-mate by 31 points prior to the race, was told by Ferrari chief engineer Rob Smedley over team radio: “Alonso is faster than you. Can you confirm you understand?” – to which he responded by letting Alonso through on Turn Six moments later.

Red Bull’s Sebastien Vettel was third & Hamilton fourth.

After Massa took the lead with a dream start and Alonso squeezed past Sebastian Vettel into second place, the Ferrari team-mates waged an intense duel for 49 laps in which the balance of advantage constantly fluctuated.

Alonso’s win took him to within 34 points of Hamilton, who has 157 points. Defending champion Button is second with 143 points, while Webber and Vettel are equal third with 136 points.

1 ALONSO Ferrari 1h27m38.864s

2 MASSA Ferrari +4.1s

3 VETTEL Red Bull +5.1s

4 HAMILTON McLaren +26.8s

5 BUTTON McLaren +29.4s

6 WEBBER Red Bull +43.6
7 KUBICA Renault +1 lap

8 ROSBERG Mercedes +1 lap

9 SCHUMACHER Mercedes +1 lap

10 PETROV Renault +1 lap

11 KOBAYASHI Sauber +1 lap

12 BARRICHELLO Williams +1 lap

13 HULKENBERG Williams +1 lap

14 DE LA ROSA Sauber +1 lap

15 ALGUERSUARI Toro Rosso +1 lap

16 LIUZZI Force India +2 laps

17 SUTIL Force India +2 laps

18 GLOCK Virgin +3 laps

19 SENNA HRT +4 laps

R KOVALAINEN Lotus +11 laps

R DI GRASSI Virgin +17 laps

R YAMAMOTO HRT +48 laps

R TRULLI Lotus +64 laps

R BUEMI Toro Rosso +66 laps

Vettel on pole - German Grand Prix 2010

Red Bull’s Sebastian Vettel will start on pole position at his home Grand Prix in Germany after he edged out Ferrari’s Fernando Alonso by 0.002 seconds.

After Red Bull’s Mark Webber made a mistake in the first sector of his final run, he was jumped by Felipe Massa in the second Ferrari, who thus starts third after a lap of 1m 14.290s. Webber is fourth on 1m 14.347s.

Alonso had looked set to end Ferrari’s long wait for a pole – which stretches back to the final round of 2008 – after impressively topping the first two qualifying segments and then setting the pace in the early Q3 forays.

“We have to be happy, we are in the first row for the first time, that’s a step forward for us,” said Alonso.

“We expected the Red Bulls to give something more in Q3 as we have seen them do before.

“We are in a way surprised to be that close and finally fighting for pole position after 10 races, it took a little bit of a long time but now we are very close.”

German Grand Prix 2010 Grid

1 VETTEL Red Bull

2 ALONSO Ferrari

3 MASSA Ferrari

4 WEBBER Red Bull

5 BUTTON McLaren

6 HAMILTON McLaren

7 KUBICA Renault

8 BARRICHELLO Williams

9 ROSBERG Mercedes

10 HULKENBERG Williams

11 SCHUMACHER Mercedes

12 KOBAYASHI Sauber

13 PETROV Renault

14 DE LA ROSA Sauber

15 ALGUERSUARI Toro Rosso

16 BUEMI Toro Rosso

17 TRULLI Lotus

18 KOVALAINEN Lotus

19 SUTIL Force India

20 SENNA HRT

21 LIUZZI Force India

22 YAMAMOTO HRT

23 DI GRASSI Virgin

24 GLOCK Virgin

Webber storms to 2010 British GP win

Red Bull’s Mark Webber achieved a comfortable win in the British Grand Prix leaving McLaren’s Lewis Hamilton second.

The Australian overtook team-mate Vettel in the first corner, took the lead and never looked back.

Of course, Vettel tried quickly to regain the 1st position but suffered a puncture which pretty much ruined his race
Ferrari’s Fernando Alonso didn’t have the best of starts which allowed Hamilton to jump to second from lap 1.

“Not bad for a number two driver” is what Webber said over the team radio, which couldn’t have pleased some people at Red Bull.

Nico Rosberg returned the revitalised Mercedes team to the podium for the first time since China with an impressive run to third, withstanding late pressure from
Jenson Button as the world champion rebounded brilliantly from his qualifying slump.

Valencia stars Rubens Barrichello (Williams) and Kamui Kobayashi (Sauber), meanwhile, performed impressively once again to take their respective fast-improving squads to fifth and sixth places respectively.

Webber: “There’s a bloke upstairs every now and again. I did the best job I could today and it worked out OK”.

“I made a good start and was very keen obviously to make it my corner and it worked out OK for me.

“It was a good fight with Lewis. It was enjoyable, particularly the first part of the GP.

“It’s very special for me to win here – it’s been a special track for me and to win here and be alongside these guys (Hamilton and Rosberg) is amazing.”

British Grand Prix result – 52 laps

1 WEBBER Red Bull

2 HAMILTON McLaren +1.3s

3 ROSBERG Mercedes +21.3s

4 BUTTON McLaren +21.9s

5 BARRICHELLO Williams +31.4s

6 KOBAYASHI Sauber +32.1s

7 VETTEL Red Bull +36.7s

8 SUTIL Force India +40.9s

9 SCHUMACHER Mercedes +41.5s

10 HULKENBERG Williams +42.0s

11 LIUZZI Force India +42.4s

12 BUEMI Toro Rosso +47.6s

13 PETROV Renault +59.3s

14 ALONSO Ferrari +62.3s

15 MASSA Ferrari +67.4s

16 TRULLI Lotus +1 lap

17 KOVALAINEN Lotus +1 lap

18 GLOCK Virgin +2 laps

19 CHANDHOK HRT +2 laps

20 YAMAMOTO HRT +2 laps

R ALGUERSUARI Toro Rosso +8 laps

R DE LA ROSA Sauber +23 laps

R KUBICA Renault +33 laps

R DI GRASSI Virgin +43 laps

Vettel Fastest - British Grand Prix 2010 Qualifying

1 VETTEL Red Bull
2 WEBBER Red Bull
3 ALONSO Ferrari
4 HAMILTON McLaren
5 ROSBERG Mercedes
6 KUBICA Renault
7 MASSA Ferrari
8 BARRICHELLO Williams
9 DE LA ROSA Sauber
10 SCHUMACHER Mercedes
11 SUTIL Force India
12 KOBAYASHI Sauber
13 HULKENBERG Williams
14 BUTTON McLaren
15 LIUZZI Force India
16 PETROV Renault
17 BUEMI Toro Rosso
18 ALGUERSUARI Toro Rosso
19 KOVALAINEN Lotus
20 GLOCK Virgin
21 TRULLI Lotus
22 DI GRASSI Virgin
23 CHANDHOK HRT
24 YAMAMOTO HRT

Sebastian Vettel will start the British Grand Prix from pole position for Red Bull after narrowly beating team mate Mark Webber. The two of them were inseparable in all three sessions, but Vettel just edged out the Australian with a lap of 1m 29.615s compared to 1m 29.758s.

Lewis Hamilton salvaged fourth from a difficult weekend for McLaren as team-mate Jenson Button managed only 14th after struggling for rear grip.

“I think there’s something wrong – the car was pretty much undriveable,” the world champion told BBC Sport.

Vettel was quicker in the first knockout session, Webber had the edge in Q2, and then when it really mattered Vettel produced a pair of superbly committed laps to settle the contest.