Spanish Grand Prix 2010

Spanish Grand Prix 2010
07 – 09 May 2010, Circuit de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain

Webber wins Spanish Grand Prix 2010

Mark Webber wins in Spain but Lewis Hamilton crashes out

Mark Webber took a dominant victory for Red Bull at the Spanish Grand Prix as McLaren’s Lewis Hamilton lost second place in a dramatic finish.

Webber led from pole to flag, but Hamilton had out-raced Sebastian Vettel in the other Red Bull before a puncture forced the Englishman out.

That promoted Fernando Alonso’s Ferrari to second, ahead of Vettel, who also hit trouble in the closing stages.

Mercedes’s Michael Schumacher was fourth from Jenson Button’s McLaren.

Vettel looked to have lost third place when he ran into problems in the closing laps… read more

Faultless Webber wins with style in Spain

Mark Webber drove the race of his life in Barcelona on Sunday afternoon, leaving Red Bull team mate Sebastian Vettel behind on the way to the third Grand Prix victory of his career. The Australian won the race to the first corner as Vettel tucked into second place ahead of McLaren’s Lewis Hamilton and Ferrari’s Fernando Alonso, and steadily set the pace as he pulled away.

By the time they had all made their first pit stops, Webber was more than nine seconds ahead of Hamilton, who had outfumbled Vettel in the tyre changes. The German got held up waiting for Alonso to come by to his pit, and then Hamilton went one lap longer than Red Bull had expected. As Lewis rejoined, Sebastian was heading for the outside line into Turn One, but as Hamilton had to jink round one of the Virgins which was hugging the inside line to let them go, Vettel had to run wide into the run-off area and that cemented Hamilton’s position. read more

Webber takes crushing Barcelona win

Mark Webber got his 2010 title challenge up and running with a crushingly dominant first win of the season in the Spanish Grand Prix.

The Australian kept Red Bull team-mate Sebastian Vettel at bay into the first corner and was never threatened thereafter, relentlessly extending his lead and driving faultlessly to victory.

A slow pit stop for Vettel promoted Lewis Hamilton to second place, but the McLaren driver was cruelly denied his best result of the season when his left-front tyre failed at 140mph on the penultimate lap. read more