Button Wins Chinese Grand Prix

Chinese Grand Prix In Pictures

Jenson Button scored his second win of 2010 in a rain-hit Chinese Grand Prix.
Button hit the front after wisely choosing not to make an early switch to intermediate tyres – a decision which cost several of his rivals dearly.
Despite making an early change to intermediate tyres Lewis Hamilton fought back to finish second and was closing in on Button at the chequered flag.
Nico Rosberg finished third having led in the early stages before being passed by Button. Hamilton later passed him via the pits, but Fernando Alonso was unable to overhaul the Mercedes driver in the closing stages and finished fourth.
Alonso might have finished higher however, had he not been handed a drive-through penalty for jumping the start. His early getaway initially put him in the lead ahead of the Red Bulls.
Robert Kubica took fifth place for Renault ahead of Sebastian Vettel.
Vettel was passed by Mark Webber at the start and both lost ground by making the early change to intermediate tyres which, like several other drivers, they then had to correct with another stop to change back to slicks.
He made quick progress through the field aided, like the other drivers who pitted early, by a safety car period to recover debris from Jaime Alguersuari’s car.
Vettel was briefly delayed by Adrian Sutil which allowed the recovering Hamilton past. Hamilton and Vettel had already had an encounter in the pit lane.
Vitaly Petrov scored his first F1 points with seventh despite a spin. The Renault driver took care of his tyres at the end of the race and passed Michael Schumacher in the closing stages, plus Webber who was struggling for grip at the end.
Felipe Massa also got past Schumacher to finish ninth, while the Mercedes driver ended the race in tenth.
Sutil might have got by Schumacher for the final point had the race gone on for another lap, but the Force India driver ended the day without a point.
Rubens Barrichello took 12th ahead of Alguersuari, who lost several places towards the end of the race.
Heikki Kovalainen became the first driver for a new team to beat a driver from the established teams. It helped that he made only two pits stops while Nico Hülkenberg came in six times.
Behind them were the two HRTs of Bruno Senna and Karun Chandhok, the latter suffering a spin in the wet conditions.
It was another double-DNF for Virgin and Sauber. The latter lost Kamui Kobayashi in a first-lap collision which, for the second time this year, also involved Sebastien Buemi. The pair were hit by Vitantonio Liuzzi’s out-of-control Force India.

Chinese Grand Prix Full Result

Pos	No	Driver	Team	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Pts
1	1	Jenson Button	McLaren-Mercedes	56	1:46:42.163	5	25
2	2	Lewis Hamilton	McLaren-Mercedes	56	+1.5 secs	6	18
3	4	Nico Rosberg	Mercedes GP	56	+9.4 secs	4	15
4	8	Fernando Alonso	Ferrari	56	+11.8 secs	3	12
5	11	Robert Kubica	Renault	56	+22.2 secs	8	10
6	5	Sebastian Vettel	RBR-Renault	56	+33.3 secs	1	8
7	12	Vitaly Petrov	Renault	56	+47.6 secs	14	6
8	6	Mark Webber	RBR-Renault	56	+52.1 secs	2	4
9	7	Felipe Massa	Ferrari	56	+57.7 secs	7	2
10	3	Michael Schumacher	Mercedes GP	56	+61.7 secs	9	1
11	14	Adrian Sutil	Force India-Mercedes	56	+62.8 secs	10
12	9	Rubens Barrichello	Williams-Cosworth	56	+63.6 secs	11
13	17	Jaime Alguersuari	STR-Ferrari	56	+71.4 secs	12
14	19	Heikki Kovalainen	Lotus-Cosworth	55	+1 Lap	21
15	10	Nico Hulkenberg	Williams-Cosworth	55	+1 Lap	16
16	21	Bruno Senna	HRT-Cosworth	54	+2 Laps	23
17	20	Karun Chandhok	HRT-Cosworth	52	+4 Laps	24
Ret	18	Jarno Trulli	Lotus-Cosworth	26	Hydraulics	20
Ret	25	Lucas di Grassi	Virgin-Cosworth	8	Clutch	22
Ret	22	Pedro de la Rosa	BMW Sauber-Ferrari	7	Technical	17
Ret	16	Sebastien Buemi	STR-Ferrari	0	Accident	13
Ret	23	Kamui Kobayashi	BMW Sauber-Ferrari	0	Accident	15
Ret	15	Vitantonio Liuzzi	Force India-Mercedes	0	Accident	18
Ret	24	Timo Glock	Virgin-Cosworth	0	Engine	19