Ferrari
Fernando Alonso, P1
Felipe Massa, P3
Alonso did a masterful job of managing Bridgestone’s wet and intermediate tyres as he carried the fight to Vettel and Red Bull and then took control when the German’s engine failed. He is the first driver to win five races this year, and a third title looks ever more likely. Massa matched Alonso’s pace at times, but later struggled on his intermediates. Nevertheless, third place was a fillip, and helped Ferrari back into contention in the constructors’ chase, with 374 points to Red Bull’s 426 and McLaren’s 399.
McLaren
Lewis Hamilton, P2
Jenson Button, P12
Hamilton fought all the way to the end and thoroughly deserved second place in a McLaren that had the legs of the Ferrari in the first two sectors but lost everything and more to it in the third. By the end his intermediates were rooted, but he was very happy to score some decent points and to keep his title aspirations alive. Button, by contrast had a terrible afternoon. He was very unlucky with the timing of his pit stop, dropping from sixth to 15th as rivals ahead lucked into the third safety car and didn’t lose places. Then he got shoved off by Sutil, and for the rest of the race he said he had zero grip. His championship chances are, by his own admission, almost over.
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Mercedes GP
Michael Schumacher, P4
Nico Rosberg, Retired lap 19, accident
Mercedes were desperately unlucky when Rosberg, having overtaken Hamilton for fourth on the first racing lap, got taken out in Webber’s accident. But Schumacher drove a lonely but solid race to fourth.
Renault
Robert Kubica, P5
Vitaly Petrov, Retired lap 40, accident
Renault had a good and a day. Kubica struggled massively for grip on the full wet tyres, but found his R30 a far better proposition on the intermediates and fought through to take fifth place in the closing stages. Petrov again blotted his copybook with another very heavy shunt.
Force India
Tonio Liuzzi, P6
Adrian Sutil, Retired lap 47, accident
A good and bad day here, too. Liuzzi drove a fabulous race and was closing on Kubica for fifth, having set fifth-fastest race lap, when passing Barrichello delayed him even though it gave him a place. His was one of the drives of the race, from 18th on the grid. Sutil seemed to have so many incidents: a spin, shoving Button off track, running wide after overbraking, and finally crashing into Kobayashi and taking himself out. Just to compound a bad day at the office, the stewards gave him a five-place grid penalty for Brazil… But the team hung on ahead of Williams in the constructors’ battle, 68 points to 65.
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