2010 KOREAN GRAND PRIX // RACE RESULTS

On Sunday, Fernando Alonso collected his fifth victory of the 2010 season, finishing the inaugural Korean Grand Prix ahead of Lewis Hamilton and his Ferrari teammate, Felipe Massa. The rain soaked grand prix, held at the new Korea International Circuit, started under caution and did not go green until 17 laps had been run behind the safety car. Disaster struck the Red Bull team after just two green flag laps, when Mark Webber lost control of his RB6 and collided with Nico Rosberg. That brought the safety car out once more and allowed Alonso to slot into second behind Vettel, and Hamilton to take third ahead of Felipe Massa.

The top three continued in that order until Vettel's RB6 came to a stop on the approach to turn three, and for the second time this season the young German was robbed of a likely win due to a car failure. In the closing stages of the race tire wear came into play. Alonso seemed to have looked after his tires and by the end of the race was lapping the 3.49 mile circuit some four seconds per lap faster than the cars behind. Shortly thereafter Alonso brought his F10 around the final lap to win the inaugural Korean Grand Prix and claim 25 points on a day when both Red Bull drivers failed to score.

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2010 Korean Grand Prix // Race Result:

1 Fernando Alonso Ferrari 55
2 Lewis Hamilton McLaren-Mercedes 55 14.999 14.999
3 Felipe Massa Ferrari 55 30.868 15.869
4 Michael Schumacher Mercedes 55 39.688 8.820
5 Robert Kubica Renault 55 47.734 8.046
6 Vitantonio Liuzzi Force India-Mercedes 55 53.571 5.837
7 Rubens Barrichello Williams-Cosworth 55 69.257 15.686
8 Kamui Kobayashi Sauber-Ferrari 55 77.889 8.632
9 Nick Heidfeld Sauber-Ferrari 55 80.107 2.218
10 Nico Hülkenberg Williams-Cosworth 55 80.851 0.744
11 Jaime Alguersuari Toro Rosso-Ferrari 55 84.146 3.295
12 Jenson Button McLaren-Mercedes 55 89.939 5.793
13 Heikki Kovalainen Lotus-Cosworth 54 1 lap 1 lap
14 Bruno Senna HRT-Cosworth 53 2 laps 1 lap
15 Sakon Yamamoto HRT-Cosworth 53 2 laps 17.333

DNF:

14 Adrian Sutil Force India-Mercedes 46 9 laps 7 laps
5 Sebastian Vettel Red Bull-Renault 45 10 laps 1 lap
12 Vitaly Petrov Renault 39 16 laps 6 laps
24 Timo Glock Virgin-Cosworth 31 24 laps 8 laps
16 Sebastien Buemi Toro Rosso-Ferrari 30 25 laps 1 lap
25 Lucas di Grassi Virgin-Cosworth 25 30 laps 5 laps
18 Jarno Trulli Lotus-Cosworth 25 30 laps 153.453
6 Mark Webber Red Bull-Renault 18 37 laps 7 laps
4 Nico Rosberg Mercedes 18 37 laps 2.487

Drivers’ Championship:

1 Fernando Alonso 231
2 Mark Webber 220
3 Lewis Hamilton 210
4 Sebastian Vettel 206
5 Jenson Button 189
6 Felipe Massa 143
7 Robert Kubica 124
8 Nico Rosberg 122
9 Michael Schumacher 66
10 Rubens Barrichello 47
11 Adrian Sutil 47
12 Kamui Kobayashi 31
13 Vitantonio Liuzzi 21
14 Vitaly Petrov 19
15 Nico Hülkenberg 18
16 Sebastien Buemi 8
17 Pedro de la Rosa 6
18 Nick Heidfeld 6
19 Jaime Alguersuari 3
20 Heikki Kovalainen 0
21 Jarno Trulli 0
22 Karun Chandhok 0
23 Bruno Senna 0
24 Lucas di Grassi 0
25 Timo Glock 0
26 Sakon Yamamoto 0
27 Christian Klien 0

Constructors’ Championship:

1 Red Bull 426
2 McLaren 399
3 Ferrari 374
4 Mercedes 188
5 Renault 143
6 Force India 68
7 Williams 65
8 Sauber 43
9 Toro Rosso 11
10 Lotus 0
11 HRT 0
12 Virgin 0

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Editorial: Justin W. Coffey