2010 German GP : Ferrari 1-2 with Alonso taking the top spot

Fernando Alonso led Ferrari to a 1-2 finish with a controversial victory at the 2010 German GP. Sebastian Vettel, who performed exceptionally well during the qualifying session couldn’t retain his pole position and lost it to the two ferraris at the very beginning of the race. Felipe Massa took full advantage of Vettel’s bad start and went ahead to claim the number one spot. The race saw the two ferrari drivers fight out for the top stop till a controversial move by Massa saw Alonso taking the top position and retaining it till the chequered flag.

The current championship leaders – McLarens never looked fast enough to fight for the podium and finished fourth and fifth. Lewis Hamilton managed to pass Webber on the first lap, with Button doing likewise by running through to lap 21 before his tyre stop. Webber then had to drop back from the McLarens due to engine problems finishing sixth overall.

Home team ,Mercedes GP didn’t had a particularly good race with Nico Roseberg and Michael Schumacher finishing eight and ninth respectively. Renault got both cars in the points with Robert Kubica finishing seventh and Vitaly Petrov tenth, while both Williams lost ground on the first lap and could not recover into the points.

Other teams in trouble were Toro Rosso and Force India, who both saw both their cars damaged in first-lap incidents – in Toro Rosso’s case after Jaime Alguersuari crashed into the back of Sebastien Buemi at the hairpin.

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Pos	No	Driver	Team	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Pts
1	8	Fernando Alonso	Ferrari	67	Winner	2	25
2	7	Felipe Massa	Ferrari	67	+4.1 secs	3	18
3	5	Sebastian Vettel	RBR-Renault	67	+5.1 secs	1	15
4	2	Lewis Hamilton	McLaren-Mercedes	67	+26.8 secs	6	12
5	1	Jenson Button	McLaren-Mercedes	67	+29.4 secs	5	10
6	6	Mark Webber	RBR-Renault	67	+43.6 secs	4	8
7	11	Robert Kubica	Renault	66	+1 Lap	7	6
8	4	Nico Rosberg	Mercedes GP	66	+1 Lap	9	4
9	3	Michael Schumacher	Mercedes GP	66	+1 Lap	11	2
10	12	Vitaly Petrov	Renault	66	+1 Lap	13	1
11	23	Kamui Kobayashi	BMW Sauber-Ferrari	66	+1 Lap	12
12	9	Rubens Barrichello	Williams-Cosworth	66	+1 Lap	8
13	10	Nico Hulkenberg	Williams-Cosworth	66	+1 Lap	10
14	22	Pedro de la Rosa	BMW Sauber-Ferrari	66	+1 Lap	14
15	17	Jaime Alguersuari	STR-Ferrari	66	+1 Lap	15
16	15	Vitantonio Liuzzi	Force India-Mercedes	65	+2 Laps	21
17	14	Adrian Sutil	Force India-Mercedes	65	+2 Laps	19
18	24	Timo Glock	Virgin-Cosworth	64	+3 Laps	23
19	21	Bruno Senna	HRT-Cosworth	63	+4 Laps	20
Ret	19	Heikki Kovalainen	Lotus-Cosworth	56	+11 Laps	18
Ret	25	Lucas di Grassi	Virgin-Cosworth	50	+17 Laps	24
Ret	20	Sakon Yamamoto	HRT-Cosworth	19	+48 Laps	22
Ret	18	Jarno Trulli	Lotus-Cosworth	3	+64 Laps	17
Ret	16	Sebastien Buemi	STR-Ferrari	1	+66 Laps	16

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July 25, 2010 | By AkMa · Tags: 2010 German GP, F1 2010 German GP, German GP

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One Response to “2010 German GP : Ferrari 1-2 with Alonso taking the top spot”

arvind on July 26th, 2010 1:55 pm

another black day for Formula 1. at least schumacher let barrichello take the top step of the podium 8 years ago. Alonso & ferrari – have let down thousands of fans of F1. they should be stripped off the victory – and an example made of them. for Ferrari – the sports cliche, ‘there is no I in Team’ should be changed. Ban Ferrari ! ( and im a huge ferrari fan!)

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