Reigning World Champion Sebastian Vettel drove his Red Bull-Renault RB7 to victory on the circuit of Istanbul, scoring his third win in four races so far this season. Here are the photos from the race.
Vettel stopped four times for fresh tires en route to victory.
His teammate Mark Webber brought his RB7 home second after passing Fernando Alonso’s Ferrari on the 51st lap. Both also stopped four times for fresh Pirellis.
Lewis Hamilton made a strong start but got hung out to dry after running wide and dropping from fourth to sixth, and thereafter McLaren switched him from a three-stop strategy to ‘Plan B’, four stops.
His McLaren teammate Jenson Button stayed on a three-stop strategy, and was running fourth by lap 48, but Hamilton overtook him with ease on his fresher rubber on lap 49, and five laps later Nico Rosberg followed suit to claim fifth for Mercedes.
Behind Button, Nick Heidfeld and Vitaly Petrov dragged their Renaults past Sebastien Buemi’s enthusiastically driven Toro Rosso in the closing stages to take distant seventh and eighth places.
The three-stopping Buemi clung on to take two points for ninth ahead of Kamui Kobayashi, who was the other runner of significant note to get home on three stops. He climbed from last place on the grid to claim the final point for Sauber.
In the World Championship, Vettel now has 93 points from Hamilton on 59, as Webber jumps ahead of Button with 55 to 46.
Vettel stopped four times for fresh tires en route to victory.
His teammate Mark Webber brought his RB7 home second after passing Fernando Alonso’s Ferrari on the 51st lap. Both also stopped four times for fresh Pirellis.
Lewis Hamilton made a strong start but got hung out to dry after running wide and dropping from fourth to sixth, and thereafter McLaren switched him from a three-stop strategy to ‘Plan B’, four stops.
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| Jenson Button, McLaren-Mercedes (Photo: Pirelli) |
His McLaren teammate Jenson Button stayed on a three-stop strategy, and was running fourth by lap 48, but Hamilton overtook him with ease on his fresher rubber on lap 49, and five laps later Nico Rosberg followed suit to claim fifth for Mercedes.
Behind Button, Nick Heidfeld and Vitaly Petrov dragged their Renaults past Sebastien Buemi’s enthusiastically driven Toro Rosso in the closing stages to take distant seventh and eighth places.
The three-stopping Buemi clung on to take two points for ninth ahead of Kamui Kobayashi, who was the other runner of significant note to get home on three stops. He climbed from last place on the grid to claim the final point for Sauber.
In the World Championship, Vettel now has 93 points from Hamilton on 59, as Webber jumps ahead of Button with 55 to 46.
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