Two times world formula 1 champion, Fernando Alonso, in a Ferrari, kept his word when he won thje German Grand Prix at Hockenheim this afternoon. Alonso said before the race that he still had a chance of winning the 2010 title to go with his two previous wins in 2007 and 2008. It was alos a one-two for Ferrari, their first for 2010.
"We've been competitive, we've performed really well," Alonso said after the race. “It's a very strong result for the team”. Felipe Massa, in the second Ferrari, took the race lead into the first corner as polesitter Sebastian Vettel, of Red Bull Racing first got a slow start off the line, and then focused all his attention on Alonso, who had started alongside Vettel on the front row.
On lap 49, though, Rob Smedley, Massa's race engineer, told him that Alonso was faster, and asked the Brazilian to acknowledge that fact. Massa understood the hidden intent of the message, though, and slowed down on the exit of the hairpin to allow Alonso to pass.
"Very, very magnanimous," Smedley told Massa just after Alonso and Massa had taken the chequered flag, separated by 4.191 seconds Vettel was third, 0.930 seconds behind Massa. McLaren's Lewis Hamilton and Jenson Button were fourth and fifth. Mark Webber, Vettel’s Red Bull team mate was sixth overall.
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