Motor Racing

Vettel wins the British Grand Prix in 2009

Sebastian Vettel stormed to victory in the British Grand Prix at Silverstone yesterday, totally dominating the event from the front. Current championship leader Jenson Button could only take sixth place in the cool conditions but his team mate Rubens Barrichello finished third behind the second Red Bull of Mark Webber.

As so often recently it was not a particularly thrilling race with Lewis Hamilton providing most of the action in his battles for sixteenth place.

PROVISIONAL RACE RESULTS

The British Grand Prix
Silverstone, Britain;
60 laps; 308.355km;
Weather: Dry.

Classified:

Pos  Driver        Team                      Time
 1.  Vettel        Red Bull-Renault      (B)  1h22:49.328
 2.  Webber        Red Bull-Renault      (B)  +    15.188
 3.  Barrichello   Brawn GP-Mercedes     (B)  +    41.175
 4.  Massa         Ferrari               (B)  +    45.043
 5.  Rosberg       Williams-Toyota       (B)  +    45.915
 6.  Button        Brawn GP-Mercedes     (B)  +    46.285
 7.  Trulli        Toyota                (B)  +  1:08.307
 8.  Raikkonen     Ferrari               (B)  +  1:09.622
 9.  Glock         Toyota                (B)  +  1:09.823
10.  Fisichella    Force India-Mercedes  (B)  +  1:11.522
11.  Nakajima      Williams-Toyota       (B)  +  1:14.023
12.  Piquet        Renault               (B)  +     1 lap
13.  Kubica        BMW Sauber            (B)  +     1 lap
14.  Alonso        Renault               (B)  +     1 lap
15.  Heidfeld      BMW Sauber            (B)  +     1 lap
16.  Hamilton      McLaren-Mercedes      (B)  +     1 lap
17.  Sutil         Force India-Mercedes  (B)  +     1 lap
18.  Buemi         Toro Rosso-Ferrari    (B)  +     1 lap

Fastest lap: Vettel, 1:20.735

Not classified/retirements:

Driver        Team                      On lap
Bourdais      Toro Rosso-Ferrari    (B)    25
Kovalainen    McLaren-Mercedes      (B)    24

World Championship standings, round 8:                

Drivers:                    Constructors:             
 1.  Button        64        1.  Brawn GP-Mercedes     105
 2.  Barrichello   41        2.  Red Bull-Renault     74.5
 3.  Vettel        39        3.  Toyota               34.5
 4.  Webber        35.5      4.  Ferrari                26
 5.  Trulli        21.5      5.  Williams-Toyota      15.5
 6.  Massa         16        6.  McLaren-Mercedes       13
 7.  Rosberg       15.5      7.  Renault                11
 8.  Glock         13        8.  BMW Sauber              8
 9.  Alonso        11        9.  Toro Rosso-Ferrari      5
10.  Raikkonen     10
11.  Hamilton       9
12.  Heidfeld       6
13.  Kovalainen     4
14.  Buemi          3
15.  Kubica         2
16.  Bourdais       2