Mark Webber climbed to the top of the Formula One championship standings with victory at the Hungarian Grand Prix on Sunday as Red Bull teammate and polesitter Sebastian Vettel paid for a mistake while the safety car was out.
The Australian moved four points clear of previous leader Lewis Hamilton, who retired in the 24th lap of 70 after a mechanical failure ended his hopes of a second successive win at the Hungaroring, where he also triumphed in 2007.
The safety car was already out when the leading McLaren ground to a halt, and its introduction allowed Webber to take the lead having lost second place to Ferrari’s Fernando Alonso at the start.
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Alonso, who won last time out at Hockenheim, kept his hopes of a third world title alive as he held off Vettel to take second place—17.821 seconds behind Webber—despite the German setting the fastest lap of any driver.
Vettel moved up to third overall, 10 points behind Webber, despite failing to capitalize on his seventh pole position this year as his early 12-second lead was wiped out.
Alonso remained fifth in the standings, but is now only 20 points off the leader with seven races left. CNN
Felipe Massa was a distant fourth in the second Ferrari, followed by Renault man Vitaly Petrov, Williams’ Nico Hulkenberg and Sauber’s Pedro de la Rosa, the latter finally opening his account for the season.
McLaren’s Jenson Button claimed four points for eighth, with Kamui Kobayashi ninth – despite starting on the back-row of the grid.
Rubens Barrichello took P10 and the final point, passing Michael Schumacher near the end on the start-finish straight, although the German didn’t make it easy, and almost put him in the wall. The stewards had said they will investigate the matter. Yahoo! Eurosport UK
Behind Schumacher, Toro Rosso’s Sebastien Buemi beat Force India’s Vitantonio Liuzzi by six-tenths of a second after a race-long duel, and Heikki Kovalainen just fended off Lotus team mate Jarno Trulli by eight-tenths to ‘win’ the new teams fight.
Timo Glock was 16th, nearly half a minute behind for Virgin, followed by Bruno Senna’s HRT, Lucas di Grassi’s Virgin which led the newbies for a while, and Sakon Yamamoto’s HRT. Formula1
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