Webber wins Silverstone epic race

Webber wins Silverstone epic race from McLaren’s Lewis Hamilton and Mercedes’s Nico Rosberg, this is Webber’s third win of the season and Red Bull’s fifth win.


Pole sitter Sebastian Vettel made a bad start which put Mark Webber in first place behind them Fernando Alonso got a bad start as well to slip back to 5th, Vettel got a puncture when run off the circuit while trying to get back the lead.

Massa got a puncture as well when he made contact with teammate Fernando Alonso both Vettel and Massa changed tyres and were last by the nd of the first lap.

Lewis Hamilton tried to keep up with the Red Bull but the Red Bull was untouchable today, behind Alonso was trying to made up his lost positions with an attempts to overtake Renault’s Robert Kubica but he cut the chicane and got a drive through penalty.

The safety car was deployed when one of the Force India drivers was trying to pass Pedro De La Rosa and made contact with the rear wing of the Sauber and broke some parts of it.

Alonso did his drive through penalty and came in last place, meanwhile Vettel closed on Massa and passed him and then passed Petrov, Buime,Liuzzi,Shumacher and Sutil to finish in seventh place after all.

Button starting from 14th on the grid finished 4th with his long first stint on the hard tyres and could have finished forth without his fuel problems.

Robert Kubica retired with differential problem from fifth place.

With Mark Webber’s win Lewis Hamilton now leading the driver’s standings with 145 point ahead of teammate Button 133.

In the constructors standings McLaren leads with 278 from Red Bulls 249.

Pos	No	Driver	Team	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Pts
1	6	Mark Webber	RBR-Renault	52	Winner	2	25
2	2	Lewis Hamilton	McLaren-Mercedes	52	+1.3 secs	4	18
3	4	Nico Rosberg	Mercedes GP	52	+21.3 secs	5	15
4	1	Jenson Button	McLaren-Mercedes	52	+21.9 secs	14	12
5	9	Rubens Barrichello	Williams-Cosworth	52	+31.4 secs	8	10
6	23	Kamui Kobayashi	BMW Sauber-Ferrari	52	+32.1 secs	12	8
7	5	Sebastian Vettel	RBR-Renault	52	+36.7 secs	1	6
8	14	Adrian Sutil	Force India-Mercedes	52	+40.9 secs	11	4
9	3	Michael Schumacher	Mercedes GP	52	+41.5 secs	10	2
10	10	Nico Hulkenberg	Williams-Cosworth	52	+42.0 secs	13	1
11	15	Vitantonio Liuzzi	Force India-Mercedes	52	+42.4 secs	20
12	16	Sebastien Buemi	STR-Ferrari	52	+47.6 secs	16
13	12	Vitaly Petrov	Renault	52	+59.3 secs	15
14	8	Fernando Alonso	Ferrari	52	+62.3 secs	3
15	7	Felipe Massa	Ferrari	52	+67.4 secs	7
16	18	Jarno Trulli	Lotus-Cosworth	51	+1 Lap	21
17	19	Heikki Kovalainen	Lotus-Cosworth	51	+1 Lap	18
18	24	Timo Glock	Virgin-Cosworth	50	+2 Lap	19
19	20	Karun Chandhok	HRT-Cosworth	50	+2 Lap	23
20	21	Sakon Yamamoto	HRT-Cosworth	50	+2 Lap	24
Ret	17	Jaime Alguersuari	STR-Ferrari	54	+8 Lap	17
Ret	22	Pedro de la Rosa	BMW Sauber-Ferrari	29	+23 Laps	9
Ret	11	Robert Kubica	Renault	19	+33 Laps	6
Ret	25	Lucas di Grassi	Virgin-Cosworth	9	+43 Laps	22