Red Bull Win Big in Korean GP

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Red Bull Racing have become back to back World Champions, as Sebastian Vettel takes the tenth win for the team this season in Korea.

After Lewis Hamilton put an end to the Red Bull team’s dominance of pole position this season in qualifying yesterday, Sebastian Vettel proved that just because he took the driver’s world championship title last weekend in Japan he wasn’t happy to settle for second place. The young German got a great start off the grid, as did Hamilton and the pair fought for position through the opening stages of the first lap of the race. However, Vettel just had raw pace down the straight and took Hamilton into turn 5 to take the lead.



The two Ferrari’s also got a great start off the grid, surprising 3rd place man at the time, Jenson Button as Felipe Massa and Fernando Alonso passed him into the hairpin on the opening lap. This cost Button a few places, although he didn’t give up and fought his way back through to finish the race back ahead of both the Ferrari’s in fourth, with Alonso just behind in fifth and Massa 6th.
It was a great race for Red Bull’s sister team, Toro Rosso, with both driver’s putting in solid drives to finish in the points. Jaime Alguersuari crossed the line 7th and Sebastien Buemi 9th. Alguersuari pushed right to the very last lap, passing the Mercedes GP of Nico Rosberg only a few corners from the end.
The only major incident came when Vitaly Petrov crashed into the back of Michael Schumacher on lap 17. This put an end to both drivers race as Petrov broke his steering arm, and Schumacher lost his rear wing. Petrov took full responsibility for the accident, and the incident is now being investigated by the stewards now the race has finished.
Other steward penalties and investigations include, HRT being investigated for the unsafe release of Daniel Ricciardo in the pits, again after the race has finished. Williams’ Pastor Maldonado was also given a drive through penalty for hitting the bollard on entry to the pit lane. Not that it made much difference to Maldonado’s race as he was forced to retire on lap 30 with a mechanical issue.
Out of the newer teams it was once again Team Lotus who dominated with Heikki Kovalainen finishing 14th.

Courtesy information from f1.co.uk
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