Webber wins in Hungary, Hamilton fails to finish
author: Andries van der Walt
Mark Webber of Red Bull claimed victory in an exciting Hungarian Formula One Grand Prix Sunday to overtake Lewis Mahilton on the championship standings after Hamilton failed to finish.
Ferrari's Fernando Alonso finished second while Sebastian Vettel was in the second Red Bull. Vettel was penalised with a stop-go penalty for not maintaining a ten lenght gap behind the safety car.Felipe Massa claimed fourth spot in the second Ferrari with Vitaly Petrov of Renault fifth.
Webber now has 161 points after 12 of 19 races, four clear of McLaren's Lewis Hamilton, who was forced to retire because of a gearbox problem. Vettel sits third on 151 points, followed by defending champion Jenson Button of McLaren on 147 and Alonso on 141.
Vettel had made sluggish starts from pole at Silverstone and Hockenheim already this season but made a perfect start at the Hungaroring, holding off Alonso going into the first corner.
Alonso started from third but easily passed second-placed Webber at the start, although the Ferrari driver was unable to keep pace with Vettel in the early stages, losing on average nearly a second a lap to the 23-year-old German.
Webber kept pace with Alonso without attacking the Spaniard while Massa also maintained his distance in fourth.
The safety car was deployed on lap 15 to remove debris from the track and Vettel, Alonso, Massa and Hamilton amade the most of the situation to pit.
Massa was forced to wait for Alonso to pit first, leading the Brazilian to lose fourth place to Hamilton while Robert Kubica also suffered a stop-go penalty for being released in the pit in fropnt of the Forcve India car of Anil Sutil.
There s was more drama as Nico Rosberg's race ended in the pits as the German lost his back right tyre halfway down the pitlane, which bounced dangerously before being caught by a Sauber mechanic. He may be in more trouble with the race stewards
Webber was the only one of the leading cars to stay out during the safety car phase and it paid dividends as he took over the race lead from Vettel.
Hamilton was forced to retire on lap 24 due to gearbox problems while Vettel received the news five laps later that he had incurred a stop-go penalty for exceeding the allowed 10 car lengths to the safety car. A clearly angry Vettel came in on lap 32 to serve his penalty, returning in third place behind Alonso but ahead of Massa.
Michael Schumacher's season took a further dive as the Mercedes driver was knocked out of the points by a late overtaking manoeuvre from Rubens Barrichello.
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