F1 Valencia - RACE

Fernando Alonso is the winner of Valencia Grand Prix 2012!

If you missed this race, you missed one of the most thrilling races this year. First half was more of a pure driving, without any major suprises. The things got serious in second half, after the safety car drove off the track.

The pole position holder Sebastian Vettel had amazing start, the best one in the race. He held his 1st position right up to the 29th lap, when Heikki Kovalainen and Jean Eric Vergne had collision and the safety car was on the track. Vergne had to cancel the race because of the destroyed rear right rim, but Kovalainen managed to get to the pits for repair.

Lots of bad luck for Red Bull and Lotus-Renault team in the continuation of the race. Both Vettel and Grosjean had to cancel the race due to the electrical (Red Bull) and alternator problem (Lotus-Renault).

In the last lap, Hamilton and Maldonado was strugling for 3rd place, but it ended up in crashing Hamilton's Mclaren and Maldonado ending up on 10th place.

A thrilling race with lots of turn arounds.

Results:

     Driver	   Team                       Time
 1.  Alonso        Ferrari                    1h44:16.449
 2.  Raikkonen     Lotus-Renault              +     6.421
 3.  Schumacher    Mercedes                   +    12.639
 4.  Webber        Red Bull-Renault           +    13.628
 5.  Hulkenberg    Force India-Mercedes       +    19.993
 6.  Rosberg       Mercedes                   +    21.176
 7.  Di Resta      Force India-Mercedes       +    22.886
 8.  Button        McLaren-Mercedes           +    24.653
 9.  Perez         Sauber-Ferrari             +    27.777
10.  Maldonado     Williams-Renault           +    34.630
11.  Senna         Williams-Renault           +    35.900
12.  Ricciardo     Toro Rosso-Ferrari         +    37.000
13.  Petrov        Caterham-Renault           +  1:15.871
14.  Kovalainen    Caterham-Renault           +  1:34.654
15.  Pic           Marussia-Cosworth          +  1:36.565
16.  Massa         Ferrari                    +    1 krug
17.  De la Rosa    HRT-Cosworth               +    1 krug
18.  Karthikeyan   HRT-Cosworth               +    1 krug
19.  Hamilton      McLaren-Mercedes           +   2 kruga

Fastest lap: Rosberg, 1:42.163

DNF:

Driver        Team                        Lap
Grosjean      Lotus-Renault                41
Vettel        Red Bull-Renault             34
Kobayashi     Sauber-Ferrari               34
Vergne        Toro Rosso-Ferrari           27
Glock         Marussia-Cosworth            1

Chamiponship standings after 8 races:                

Drivers:                      Contrustors:  
 1.  Alonso       111        1.  Red Bull-Renault          176
 2.  Webber        91        2.  McLaren-Mercedes          137
 3.  Hamilton      88        3.  Lotus-Renault             126
 4.  Vettel        85        4.  Ferrari                   122
 5.  Rosberg       75        5.  Mercedes                   92
 6.  Raikkonen     73        6.  Sauber-Ferrari             60
 7.  Grosjean      53        7.  Williams-Renault           45
 8.  Button        49        8.  Force India-Mercedes       44
 9.  Perez         39        9.  Toro Rosso-Ferrari          6
10.  Maldonado     30
11.  Di Resta      27
12.  Kobayashi     21
13.  Hulkenberg    17
14.  Schumacher    17
15.  Senna         15
16.  Massa         11
17.  Vergne         4
18.  Ricciardo      2