Vettel Wins and Gives Red Bull another Title

by Adam Milleneuve on Oct 16th, 2011

He may have missed out on pole position, but Sebastian Vettel wasn't 2nd for long today, overtaking Hamilton on the first lap to take the lead and keep it through to the chequered flag.  With Mark Webber finishing on the podium in 3rd too, Red Bull hauled enough points to secure their second constructors championship - a mark of how dominant they've been all year.

Elsewhere in the race, Lewis Hamilton kept it clean and seemed to be suitably pleased to have a weekend without stewards enquiries and a 2nd place finish - he seemed pleased with that, but was far from celebrating too much.  Jenson Button had a tricky race, and with the McLaren being ultimately slower than the Red Bull today, the best he could was 4th.  Hamilton did ruddy well to keep ahead of Webber, the two of them provided a fantastic battle for 3rd for most of the second half of the race.

There are plenty more talking points, our race highlights will be up later today.  For now, here's the result:

POS		Driver	Team	Gap
1		Sebastian Vettel	Red Bull	0.000
2		Lewis Hamilton	McLaren	12.019
3		Mark Webber	Red Bull	12.477
4		Jenson Button	McLaren	14.694
5		Fernando Alonso	Ferrari	15.689
6		Felipe Massa	Ferrari	25.133
7		J.Alguersuari	Toro Rosso	49.538
8		Nico Rosberg	Mercedes	54.053
9		Sebastien Buemi	Toro Rosso	1'02.762
10		Paul Di Resta	Force India	1'08.602
11		Adrian Sutil	Force India	1'11.229
12		R.Barrichello	Williams	1'33.068
13		Bruno Senna	Renault	1 Lap
14		H.Kovalainen	Lotus	1 Lap
15		Kamui Kobayashi	Sauber	1 Lap
16		Sergio Perez	Sauber	1 Lap
17		J.Trulli	Lotus	1 Lap
18		Timo Glock	Virgin	1 Lap
19	[no pic]	Daniel Ricciardo	HRT	1 Lap
20		J.D'Ambrosio	Virgin	1 Lap
21		Vitantonio Liuzzi	HRT	3 Laps
22		Pastor Maldonado	Williams	Engine
23		Vitaly Petrov	Renault	Collision
24		M.Schumacher	Mercedes	Collision