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Webber wins Monaco Grand Prix

Mark Webber won the Monaco Grand Prix today in dominating fashion, from flag-to-flag, in his Red Bull-Renault, leading a Red Bull 1-2 with his team-mate Sebastian Vettel finishing second.

Front row starter Robert Kubica, after getting beaten to the first corner by Vettel, finished in third place in his Renault – the engine manufacturer sweeping the podium for the first time since the Luxembourg GP in 1997.

The race ended under the Safety Car, when Jarno Trulli and Karun Chandhok collided with three laps to go – the race being interrupted by four Safety Car periods in total.

Felipe Massa in the Ferrari finished in fourth, Lewis Hamilton in the McLaren-Mercedes in fifth. After starting at the back of the field due to his crash before qualifying.

Fernando Alonso worked his way up the field with the help of the clever strategy of making his only pitstop for tyres during the first Safety Car period after Nico Hulkenberg crashed in the tunnel on the first lap of the race. Alonso looked set to finish in sixth place, but as the field came to the chequered flag, and the safety car pulled in, the Spanish driver got sideways out of the Rascasse corner, and Michael Schumacher slipped past to take sixth place in his Mercedes GP. Alonso finished seventh in his Ferrari.

Nico Rosberg finished eighth in his Mercedes, followed by Force India-Mercedes drivers Adrian Sutil and Vitantonio Liuzzi in ninth and tenth places.

Webber’s second win in a row leaps him into the lead in the Driver’s Championship – tied with Vettel at 78 points, followed by Alonso with 73, Button with 70, Massa with 61 and Hamilton and Kubica tied at 59 points. In the Constructors’ Championship Red Bull-Renault with 156 points and Ferrari on 134 passed McLaren-Mercedes who drops to third with 129 points, followed by Mercedes GP with 84 and Renault with 65 points.

Here are the full results;

Pos No Driver Team Laps Time/Retired Grid Pts
1 6 Mark Webber RBR-Renault 78 1:50:13.355 1 25
2 5 Sebastian Vettel RBR-Renault 78 +0.4 secs 3 18
3 11 Robert Kubica Renault 78 +1.6 secs 2 15
4 7 Felipe Massa Ferrari 78 +2.6 secs 4 12
5 2 Lewis Hamilton McLaren-Mercedes 78 +4.3 secs 5 10
6 8 Fernando Alonso Ferrari 78 +6.3 secs 24 8
7 4 Nico Rosberg Mercedes GP 78 +6.6 secs 6 6
8 14 Adrian Sutil Force India-Mercedes 78 +6.9 secs 12 4
9 15 Vitantonio Liuzzi Force India-Mercedes 78 +7.3 secs 10 2
10 16 Sebastien Buemi STR-Ferrari 78 +8.1 secs 13 1
11 17 Jaime Alguersuari STR-Ferrari 78 +9.1 secs 17
12 3 Michael Schumacher Mercedes GP 78 +25.7 secs 7
13 12 Vitaly Petrov Renault 73 +5 Laps 14
14 20 Karun Chandhok HRT-Cosworth 70 Accident 23
15 18 Jarno Trulli Lotus-Cosworth 70 Accident 19
Ret 19 Heikki Kovalainen Lotus-Cosworth 58 Steering 18
Ret 21 Bruno Senna HRT-Cosworth 58 Hydraulics 22
Ret 9 Rubens Barrichello Williams-Cosworth 30 Accident 9
Ret 23 Kamui Kobayashi BMW Sauber-Ferrari 26 Gearbox 16
Ret 25 Lucas di Grassi Virgin-Cosworth 25 Wheel problem 21
Ret 24 Timo Glock Virgin-Cosworth 22 Rear suspension 20
Ret 22 Pedro de la Rosa BMW Sauber-Ferrari 21 Hydraulics 15
Ret 1 Jenson Button McLaren-Mercedes 2 Engine 8
Ret 10 Nico Hulkenberg Williams-Cosworth 0 Accident 11
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