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F1 Competition 2011

autoviva2011-10-30 21:37:52

Vettel wins for the 11th time this season

 
 
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Vettel wins for the 11th time this season

And Vettel has done it again and drove to his 11thwin of the season. This time around the already world champion won the inaugural Indian Grand Prix at the Budh International Circuit.

Vettel had a convincing win as he managed to grab a nice advantage right from the start as his team-mate Mark Webber was forced to secure his position from the attacks of McLaren’s Jenson Button and Ferrari’s Fernando Alonso.

Throughout the whole race Vettel secured an advantage between four to five seconds and he completed a perfect performance by completing the fastest lap of the race.

After grabbing second place on the first lap, while Alonso ran wide letting Webber keep third spot, Jenson Button had an uncontested run to second place. Although the Australian tried to recover his position Button would manage to escape.

In the final visit to the pitstops Webber lost third position to Fernando Alonso after being the first of the frontrunners to change to the hard Pirellis.

In another chapter of the Hamilton-Massa dispute there is another collision to talk about. Massa was leading from Hamilton since the first lap and was leading by a safe margin until an error half-way through the race let him vulnerable to Hamilton attacks.

In one of those attacks as Hamilton went down the inside at Turn 5 the collision took place. Massa was given a drive-through penalty, being blamed for the situation by the stewards. The Brazilian would retire after smashing his suspension on a curb, while Hamilton managed  to recover from ninth to seventh after he had to pit for a new front wing.

Hamilton finished behind the two Mercedes drivers. Schumacher was the first of the two benefitting from a fast start and a late final pitstop to finish fifth.

It seemed like it would be another very good afternoon for Toro Rosso as both drivers looked set to finish in the points. But then Sebastien Buemi stopped as his car left behind it a cloud of smoke. Spaniard Jaime Alguersuari would finish in eighth ahead of Force India’s Adrian Sutil. The star of the day would be Sergio Perez that coming from down the order would finish tenth after running a very short runs on hard tyres and then switching to soft tyres for a long period.

Following the same strategy as Perez was Petrov who narrowly missed on tenth position. Bruno Senna had some KERS problems which stopped him from being able to fight longer for tenth position, finishing 12th.

Indian Grand Prix results
Pos No Driver Team Laps Time/Retired Grid Pts
1 1 Sebastian Vettel RBR-Renault 60 1:30:35.002 1 25
2 4 Jenson Button McLaren-Mercedes 60 +8.4 secs 4 18
3 5 Fernando Alonso Ferrari 60 +24.3 secs 3 15
4 2 Mark Webber RBR-Renault 60 +25.5 secs 2 12
5 7 Michael Schumacher Mercedes 60 +65.4 secs 11 10
6 8 Nico Rosberg Mercedes 60 +66.8 secs 7 8
7 3 Lewis Hamilton McLaren-Mercedes 60 +84.1 secs 5 6
8 19 Jaime Alguersuari STR-Ferrari 59 +1 Lap 10 4
9 14 Adrian Sutil Force India-Mercedes 59 +1 Lap 8 2
10 17 Sergio Perez Sauber-Ferrari 59 +1 Lap 20 1
11 10 Vitaly Petrov Renault 59 +1 Lap 16  
12 9 Bruno Senna Renault 59 +1 Lap 14  
13 15 Paul di Resta Force India-Mercedes 59 +1 Lap 12  
14 20 Heikki Kovalainen Lotus-Renault 58 +2 Laps 18  
15 11 Rubens Barrichello Williams-Cosworth 58 +2 Laps 15  
16 25 Jerome d'Ambrosio Virgin-Cosworth 57 +3 Laps 21  
17 22 Narain Karthikeyan HRT-Cosworth 57 +3 Laps 23  
18 23 Daniel Ricciardo HRT-Cosworth 57 +3 Laps 22  
19 21 Jarno Trulli Lotus-Renault 55 +5 Laps 19  
Ret 6 Felipe Massa Ferrari 32 +28 Laps 6  
Ret 18 Sebastien Buemi STR-Ferrari 24 Technical 9  
Ret 12 Pastor Maldonado Williams-Cosworth 12 Gearbox 13  
Ret 24 Timo Glock Virgin-Cosworth 2 Accident damage 24  
Ret 16 Kamui Kobayashi Sauber-Ferrari 0 Accident damage 17

 

Constructor's Standings
Pos Team Points
1 RBR-Renault 595
2 McLaren-Mercedes 442
3 Ferrari 325
4 Mercedes 145
5 Renault 72
6 Force India-Mercedes 51
7 Sauber-Ferrari 41
8 STR-Ferrari 41
9 Williams-Cosworth 5
10 Lotus-Renault 0
11 HRT-Cosworth 0
12 Virgin-Cosworth 0

 

Driver's Standings
Pos Driver Nationality Team Points
1 Sebastian Vettel German RBR-Renault 374
2 Jenson Button British McLaren-Mercedes 240
3 Fernando Alonso Spanish Ferrari 227
4 Mark Webber Australian RBR-Renault 221
5 Lewis Hamilton British McLaren-Mercedes 202
6 Felipe Massa Brazilian Ferrari 98
7 Nico Rosberg German Mercedes 75
8 Michael Schumacher German Mercedes 70
9 Vitaly Petrov Russian Renault 36
10 Nick Heidfeld German Renault 34
11 Adrian Sutil German Force India-Mercedes 30
12 Kamui Kobayashi Japanese Sauber-Ferrari 27
13 Jaime Alguersuari Spanish STR-Ferrari 26
14 Paul di Resta British Force India-Mercedes 21
15 Sebastien Buemi Swiss STR-Ferrari 15
16 Sergio Perez Mexican Sauber-Ferrari 14
17 Rubens Barrichello Brazilian Williams-Cosworth 4
18 Bruno Senna Brazilian Renault 2
19 Pastor Maldonado Venezuelan Williams-Cosworth 1
20 Pedro de la Rosa Spanish Sauber-Ferrari 0
21 Jarno Trulli Italian Lotus-Renault 0
22 Heikki Kovalainen Finnish Lotus-Renault 0
23 Vitantonio Liuzzi Italian HRT-Cosworth 0
24 Jerome d'Ambrosio Belgian Virgin-Cosworth 0
25 Timo Glock German Virgin-Cosworth 0
26 Narain Karthikeyan Indian HRT-Cosworth 0
27 Daniel Ricciardo Australian HRT-Cosworth 0
28 Karun Chandhok Indian Lotus-Renault 0

 

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