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Sebastian Vettel with RedBull 4th in Monza

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Alonso wins, Vettel 4th place. Red Bull conjured a magnificent strategy for Sebastian Vettel as he pitted at the end of the penultimate lap after having opened up a 22-second gap on fifth-placed Nico Rosberg in his Mercedes. It was enough of an advantage for him to retain fourth spot, making amends in part for his indiscretions in the last two grands prix in Hungary and Belgium.
It also seemed like being a bad day earlier in the race for Sebastian Vettel as a brake problem momentarily dropped him behind Red Bull team mate Webber, from fifth to sixth. But a very clever bit of strategy from the Milton Keynes team saw them keep their man out until the 52nd lap before he finally made his mandatory tire stop.

Webber now leads the world championship again with 187 points to Hamilton’s 182, but Alonso’s great drive vaults him to third on 166, just ahead of Button on 165 and Vettel on 163. Red Bull have 350 points to McLaren’s 347 and Ferrari’s 290.

It was a tense rather than thrilling race, but the scrap for the lower points places was always entertaining. Hulkenberg chased fifth-placed Robert Kubica for much of the race and jumped the Renault in the pit stops, but the Williams driver dropped back to seventh after Webber’s successful attack. Kubica took eighth, with Mercedes GP’s Michael Schumacher a distant ninth ahead of Rubens Barrichello in the second Williams.


1. Fernando Alonso (Spain) Ferrari 1hr 16mins 24.572secs
2. Jenson Button (Britain) McLaren +00:02.938
3. Felipe Massa (Brazil) Ferrari 00:04.223
4. Sebastian Vettel (Germany) RedBull - Renault 00:28.196
5. Nico Rosberg (Germany) Mercedes 00:29.942
6. Mark Webber (Australia) RedBull - Renault 00:31.276
7. Nico Huelkenberg (Germany) Williams - Cosworth 00:32.812
8. Robert Kubica (Poland) Renault 00:34.028
# 9. Michael Schumacher (Germany) Mercedes 00:44.948
# 10. Rubens Barrichello (Brazil) Williams - Cosworth 01:04.213
# 11. Sebastien Buemi (Switzerland) Toro Rosso-Ferrari 01:05.056
# 12. Vitantonio Liuzzi (Italy) Force India-Mercedes 01:06.106
# 13. Vitaly Petrov (Russia) Renault 01:18.919
# 14. Pedro de la Rosa (Spain) BMW Sauber - Ferrari 1 lap
# 15. Jaime Alguersuari (Spain) Toro Rosso - Ferrari 1 lap
# 16. Adrian Sutil (Germany) Force India - Mercedes 1 lap
# 17. Timo Glock (Germany) Virgin - Cosworth 2 laps
# 18. Heikki Kovalainen (Finland) Lotus - Cosworth 2 laps
# 19. Sakon Yamamoto (Japan) HRT - Cosworth 2 laps
# 20. Lucas Di Grassi (Brazil) Virgin - Cosworth 3 laps