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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 3^rd 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 6^th.

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 7^th and Sebastien Buemi 9^th. 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 14^th.

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Red Bull might have had their wings clipped for the British round, but in a repeat of 2010’s grid Mark Webber leads Sebastian Vettel at the head of the field. The duo got their first runs in before rain spots ruined everyone’s second chances, the German running 1m 30.431s to take pole before Webber snatched it away with 1m 30.399s.

Fernando Alonso was the only man to run them close, lapping his Ferrari in 1m 30.516s. His team mate Felipe Massa backed him up in fourth with 1m 31.124s, then there was a big time gap before Jenson Button put his McLaren a disappointing fifth with 1m 31.898s.On a disastrous day, Lewis Hamilton could only manage 1m 32.376s, possibly still troubled by the KERS problem that dogged him this morning, and will start 10th in the second McLaren.Separating the two silver cars, Paul di Resta took his best-ever qualifying position with sixth place in the lead Force India on 1m 31.929s - perilously close to Button - with Pastor Maldonado having a great run for Williams to take their best start position of the season in seventh with 1m 31.933s. Kamui Kobayashi more than made up for crashing his Sauber on Friday with 1m 32.128s, and Nico Rosberg was ninth in his Mercedes on 1m 32.209s.When both Rosberg and Hamilton aborted their second runs as the rain came down again, nobody else ventured out.

The track was dry again in time for Q2 after a shower in Q1, and a rapid-fire series of improvements saw Massa eventually go fastest for Ferrari on 1m 31.640s from Webber on 1m 31.673s and Alonso on 1m 31.727s.Button was one of the last to improve, jumping from 13th to fourth with 1m 32.273s, which bumped Adrian Sutil down to 11th for Force India on 1m 32.617s. Sergio Perez was also out, with 1m 32.624s, while Michael Schumacher’s efforts to improve for Mercedes failed and left him 13th on 1m 32.656s. Vitaly Petrov and Nick Heidfeld also missed Q3 for Lotus-Renault, 1m 32.734s and 1m 33.805s leaving them 14th and 16th either side of Williams' Rubens Barrichello in 1m 33.119s

.Heikki Kovalainen did a great job to get through to Q2 for Team Lotus, and his 1m 34.821s initially left him a startling fourth until improvements by others pushed him all the way back down to 17th. The road stayed dry for the first 14 minutes of Q1, but soon the Silverstone surface was again awash.Prior to that Webber had set the pace for Red Bull on hard Pirellis, despite the restriction on Renault engine exhaust gas flow, with 1m 32.670s, but the surprise was Maldonado in second after a soft-tyre run for Williams yielded 1m 32.702s. Massa was third on 1m 32.760s, Vettel fourth on 1m 32.977s, and Alonso fifth on 1m 32.986s despite a spin at Luffield.Neither of the Toro Rossos got through as the rain came when they were out on their warm-up lap on softs; Jaime Alguersuari was thus 18th on 1m 35.245s from Sebastien Buemi on 1m 35.749s. Timo Glock was 20th on 1m 36.203s for Virgin, ahead of Jarno Trulli’s Lotus on 1m 36.456s. Then came Jerome D’Ambrosio’s Virgin on 1m 37.154s, Tonio Liuzzi’s HRT on 1m 37.484s and rookie Daniel Ricciardo’s similar car on 1m 38.059s. The Australian will thus start his first Grand Prix in 24th place.

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Sebastian Vettel took his sixth win of the 2011 F1 race for Red Bull at the European Grand Prix which has been held at Valencia, Spain Sunday,remains unchallenged from start to finish.

Vettel drove smoothly than his opponents on a very hot track, saving his tires better than the rest, crossing the finish line nearly 11 seconds ahead of second-place Fernando Alonso’s Ferrari. The strategy to make the pit-stop, and all the coordination has a very good result for Vettel.

Vettel extracted every bit of performance from his Red Bull RB7, balancing between speed and conservation, driving perfectly in each turn to maximize pace while minimizing tire wear. He told the post-race press conference on BBC that the challenge of driving the car perfectly made this his most satisfying victory of the season.

“Maybe from the outside it looked like a boring race—but I tell you, I enjoyed it so much. When it is between you and the car every single lap—pushing hard but judging the tires, trying to foresee the strategy, and every single lap between you and the car. The team has done a phenomenal job preparing the car. This track is not made for us 100 percent, with no real fast corners. Still we manage to put everything together and were faultless this weekend.”

Fernando Alonso who drove Ferrari, battled with Mark Webber, but prevailed as the Australian's RB7 misbehaved in the closing stages and prevented him attempting to regain the second place he had held on two occasions.

For Michael Schumacher from Mercedez GP Petronas team didn't make it well when he had a collision with Petrov on lap 15, resulting in running a full lap with one broken wing!

Below are the summary

2011 European GP (Valencia): Formula One Race Results
Pos	No	Driver	Team	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Pts
1	1	Sebastian Vettel	RBR-Renault	57	Winner	1	25
2	5	Fernando Alonso	Ferrari	57	+10.8 secs	4	18
3	2	Mark Webber	RBR-Renault	57	+27.2 secs	2	15
4	3	Lewis Hamilton	McLaren-Mercedes	57	+46.1 secs	3	12
5	6	Felipe Massa	Ferrari	57	+51.7 secs	5	10
6	4	Jenson Button	McLaren-Mercedes	57	+60.0 secs	6	8
7	8	Nico Rosberg	Mercedes	57	+98.0 secs	7	6
8	19	Jaime Alguersuari	STR-Ferrari	56	+1 LAP	18	4
9	14	Adrian Sutil	Force India-Mercedes	56	+1 LAP	10	2
10	9	Nick Heidfeld	Lotus-Renault	56	+1 LAP	9	1
11	17	Sergio Perez	Sauber-Ferrari	56	+1 LAP	16
12	11	Rubens Barrichello	Williams-Cosworth	56	+1 LAP	13
13	18	Sebastien Buemi	STR-Ferrari	56	+1 LAP	17
14	15	Paul Di Resta	Force India-Mercedes	56	+1 LAP	12
15	10	Vitaly Petrov	Lotus-Renault	56	+1 LAP	11
16	16	Kamui Kobayashi	Sauber-Ferrari	56	+1 LAP	14
17	7	Michael Schumacher	Mercedes	56	+1 LAP	8
18	12	Pastor Maldonado	Williams-Cosworth	56	+1 LAP	15
19	20	Heikki Kovalainen	Team Lotus	55	+2 LAPS	19
20	21	Jarno Trulli	Team Lotus	55	+2 LAPS	20
21	24	Timo Glock	Virgin-Cosworth	55	+2 LAPS	21
22	25	Jerome dAmbrosio	Virgin-Cosworth	55	+2 LAPS	23
23	23	Vitantonio Liuzzi	HRT-Cosworth	54	+3 LAPS	22
24	22	Narain Karthikeyan	HRT-Cosworth	54	+3 LAPS	24

Overall result for 2011 season

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1	Red Bull	255
2	McLaren	186
3	Ferrari	101
4	Lotus Renault	60
5	Mercedes	52