Fernando Alonso Survives To Win Wet and Wild Korean Grand Prix

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Published: October 24, 2010

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Here’s a brilliant marketing slogan for those in charge of selling Formula One to the world: “For exciting racing—just add water.” That’s certainly what we got when the F1 gods decided that racing on a brand new and very green track in Korea wasn’t going to be difficult enough and decided to throw some heavy rain into the mix.

After a late start under safety car conditions and then a red flag after four laps, it looked possible that the race may not actually get underway and would be abandoned without a lap of real racing.

How Red Bull wish that had happened.

The safety car start was an unexpected bonus for Mark Webber, who has made a complete hash of his last few starts and was likely to have trouble again from a very dirty second spot on the grid. He put his car into the wall on lap 19 and then took out Nico Rosberg on the rebound.

Webber narrowly missed cleaning up Fernando Alonso who, if he was honest, probably would have preferred to take out.

Webber had the decency to admit the driver error and apologise to Rosberg, but it was a dreadful mistake and perhaps the first indication that the pressure of the championship lead is starting to have an effect on the Aussie. Then again, maybe it was just a simple mistake.

The race was even more heartbreaking for Sebatian Vettel, who had the race well under control until we had the relatively rare sight of his Renault engine converting itself into sparks and scrap metal. The mishap meant that Vettel, who was looking to take the lead in the championship, slipped back to fourth, 25 points behind new leader Fernando Alonso.

Ferrari were the big winners of the weekend, with Alonso taking out the win and teammate Felipe Massa taking the final spot on the podium. Alonso simply kept out of trouble and even though a slow pitstop saw him yield second spot (at the time) to Lewis Hamilton, a brake lockup by the Bri...
Article Source: Bleacher Report - Formula 1

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