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

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The German Grand Prix is back at Hockenheim in 2010. This has always been a popular event, especially so in recent years thanks to Michael Schumacher and all the other German drivers on the grid.

The future of the even may be in uncertain but one thing is for sure, thousands of F1 fans will fill the stands at Hockenheim hoping for another memorable race in 2010.

German Grand Prix 2010 Tickets are on sale now.

What fans say about Hockenheim:

“We went to Hockenheim in 2006, viewing from the pits straight grandstand. Hockenheim is quite flat so you don’t see a great amount of the track but by standing at the top of the grandstand you can see across to Sachskurve and many people took advantage of this. Tickets in this grandstand were 150 euros for the weekend.”

“Do not camp at the circuit campsites unless you like not washing for three days and listening to German drinking songs at 4am”

There was a controversy about the name of the event in 2009 because it took place at Nürburgring while the Hockenheim holds the rights to the German Grand Prix.

German Grand Prix 2010 is back at Hockenheim but the future of the event remains uncertain because the organisers, city and state officials are unhappy about the high fees demanded by Bernie Ecclestone.

Michael Schumacher is the driver with the most wins, 4 in total – 1995, 2002, 2004, 2006.

Recent German Grand Prix winners

2009 Mark Webber Red Bull-Renault
2008 Lewis Hamilton McLaren-Mercedes
2007 Cancelled
2006 Michael Schumacher Ferrari
2005 Fernando Alonso Renault
2004 Michael Schumacher Hockenheimring
2003 Juan Pablo Montoya Williams-BMW

Hockenheimring Circuit Information

Circuit length: 4.574 km
Race distanc: 67 laps / 306.458 km