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Sebastian Vettel charged to his third win in four races this season with another lights-to-flag victory here as he extended his lead at the top of the world championship table.
Mark Webber made it a one-two for Red Bull and there was a return to high pace by Ferrari, at least for Fernando Alonso, who was third and was second for a while after an eye-catching duel with Webber.
A bad third pit stop for Hamilton, when there was difficulty fixing a nut to his front right wheel, and then a further delay when Felipe Massa got in his way, cost him over 15 seconds.
He finished, as he started, in fourth place, but over half a minute behind Vettel. Meanwhile Button also finished as he started, back in sixth, the McLarens split by the Mercedes of Nico Rosberg. The Guardian
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Renault’s Nick Heidfeld finished seventh ahead of team-mate Vitaly Petrov, who passed Toro Rosso’s Sebastien Buemi on the final lap of what was another hectic race.
Kamui Kobayashi was in the thick of it as usual, the Sauber driver claiming the final championship point with 10th place after starting at the back of the grid following the engine problems he experienced in qualifying.
Massa and Schumacher eventually finished 11th and 12th respectively, while Force India’s Paul Di Resta pulled off the track and into retirement on lap 45. SkySports
Sutil/Perez battle resolved itself in the Force India driver’s favour, though officially they crossed the finish line a lap down, separated by 0.0s.
And behind them, Rubens Barrichello’s three-stop race took him to the line in 15th place for Williams, 0.1s ahead of four-stopping Jaime Alguersuari in the Toro Rosso. Pastor Maldonado took 17th for Williams, in a race which included a drive-through penalty for pit-lane speeding, from Jarno Trulli who had a great intra-team scrap with Heikki Kovalainen until the Finn’s Lotus developed technical problems in the closing stages and dropped back in 19th place.
Virgin’s Jerome D’Ambrosio took 20th in a race that team mate Timo Glock did not even start after suffering gearbox problems on the way to the grid, and Narain Karthikeyan led home HRT partner Tonio Liuzzi after the fleet Italian’s race was spoiled by a long stop to investigate mechanical problems.
Vettel now has 93 points in the world championship from Hamilton on 59, as Webber jumps ahead of Button with 55 to 46. Alonso is fifth with 41. In the constructors’ stakes, Red Bull have 148 to McLaren’s 105 and Ferrari’s 65, with Renault on 42 and Mercedes 26. Formula 1
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