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Vettel closer to title with Korean win
German won his fourth consecutive Korean Grand Prix
Sebastian Vettel had another comfortable win in Korea to grab his fourth consecutive win in this venue. The German grabbed important points, extending his lead in the Drivers' Championship and driving closer to his fourth consecutive world title. Lotus duo Kimi Raikkonen and Romain Grosjean grabbed second and third place.
The reigning world champion got off to his usual lead at the start of the race, leaving Hamilton and Grosjean fighting for second place, a place the French would conquer in Turn 3. Behind these two a lot of action was taking place as Massa spinned his Ferrari being avoided by everyone, but with Button and Sutil getting out of the mess with there wings damaged.
Vettel enlarged the gap to the rest of the pack as Hamilton and Grosjean kept fighting for second place, while Nico Rosberg was following them and Sauber's Nico Hulkenberg was holding off Fernando Alonso and many other drivers.
During the second stint of pitstops Raikkonen managed to put himself in front of the group and flew away. At the front Hamilton's tyres we're starting to fail him and he lost time to Grosjean and came closer to his team-mate Nico Rosberg, who as he was passing the Brit had a problem with his front wing that started sending sparkes in every direction.
The Mercedes problems brought Raikkonen up the order two more places putting him on podium position, just before the safety car came him due to a tyre explosion in Sergio Perez car. Being hit by debris as he was right behind the Mexican, Webber who had managed to climb up to 13th place got a puncture.
After the safety car came in Vettel got off again from the rest of the pack leaving the Lotus duo behind. Raikkonen made his experienced skills count and overtook the French to second position.
Webber's day would end after Sutil's spin clouded the Aussie, whose car eventually caught fire in the run-off area. Safety car came out again.
Vettel would once again run away from his competition when the green flag was brought up to pull another win. Behing the Lotus duo a magnificent performance from Hulkenberg would earn him and Sauber an amazing fourth place. The German managed to hold on to his position although he was pursued by Hamilton and Alonso, who were having a battle of their own. Behind them Rosberg, Button, Massa and Perez completed the top 10.
