Lewis Hamilton won the German Grand Prix on Sunday after a tight battle with Fernando Alonso and Mark Webber at the Nurburgring.
The McLaren driver scored his second victory of the season having taken the lead at the start of the race before then losing it to Red Bull driver Webber during the first round of pit stops.
However, Hamilton regained the lead after pitting for a second time just past half distance and remained there for the remainder of the race’s 60 laps.
Alonso took second place after also getting ahead of Webber during the second round of stops, with around three seconds at most separating the trio as they fought each other during the most crucial phase of the race.
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But his home grand prix proved a disappointment for defending world champion Sebastian Vettel, who relied on smart pit work from Red Bull late on to get him into fourth place ahead of Ferrari’s Felipe Massa. SkySports
Adrian Sutil’s best drive of the year brought him sixth place for Force India, as he made a two-stop strategy work superbly to beat the two Mercedes of Rosberg and Michael Schumacher. The latter had been challenging his team-mate until losing time with a mid-race spin at Turn 10.
A great start and a two-stop strategy helped Kamui Kobayashi come through from 17th on the grid to ninth for Sauber, just ahead of Petrov, who lost ground by staying out too long on his first set of tyres.
Jenson Button never featured at the front. A slow start dropped him to 10th, and he then spent the race in traffic, couped up behind Vitaly Petrov’s Renault for most of the first stint. Just after making it past Rosberg and into sixth, the McLaren developed a hydraulic problem and had to retire.
Completing a disappointing day for the majority of the large home driver contingent, Renault’s Nick Heidfeld tangled with Paul di Resta’s Force India on the opening lap. The German earned a drive-through penalty for the incident, but never got chance to take it as by then he had crashed out for good in a clash with a wandering Sebastien Buemi (Toro Rosso) on the approach to the chicane. Yahoo! Eurosport UK
Pos No Driver Team Time/Retired 1 3 Lewis Hamilton McLaren-Mercedes Winner 2 5 Fernando Alonso Ferrari +3.9 secs 3 2 Mark Webber RBR-Renault +9.7 secs 4 1 Sebastian Vettel RBR-Renault +47.9 secs 5 6 Felipe Massa Ferrari +52.2 secs 6 14 Adrian Sutil Force India-Mercedes +86.2 secs 7 8 Nico Rosberg Mercedes +1 Lap 8 7 Michael Schumacher Mercedes +1 Lap 9 16 Kamui Kobayashi Sauber-Ferrari +1 Lap 10 10 Vitaly Petrov Renault +1 Lap 11 17 Sergio Perez Sauber-Ferrari +1 Lap 12 19 Jaime Alguersuari STR-Ferrari +1 Lap 13 15 Paul di Resta Force India-Mercedes +1 Lap 14 12 Pastor Maldonado Williams-Cosworth +1 Lap 15 18 Sebastien Buemi STR-Ferrari +1 Lap 16 20 Heikki Kovalainen Lotus-Renault +2 Laps 17 24 Timo Glock Virgin-Cosworth +3 Laps 18 25 Jerome d'Ambrosio Virgin-Cosworth +3 Laps 19 22 Daniel Ricciardo HRT-Cosworth +3 Laps 20 21 Karun Chandhok Lotus-Renault +4 Laps Ret 23 Vitantonio Liuzzi HRT-Cosworth +23 Laps Ret 4 Jenson Button McLaren-Mercedes +25 Laps Ret 11 Rubens Barrichello Williams-Cosworth +44 Laps Ret 9 Nick Heidfeld Renault +51 Laps
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