Webber's triumph in Monaco - Vettel fourth

 

The Australian Mark Webber won the Formula 1 -GP of Monaco in a Mercedes in front of Nico Rosberg and Fernando Alonso in a Ferrari and his team-mate Sebastian Vettel. He caused quite a record. Never in the 63-year history of Formula 1, it has been in the first six races, six different winners.

Two years after he had given the Austro-British team of the first Monaco victory, Webber veered to the right at the end to dry road course his second victory in the Principality. "I did worry, especially the weather. Two wins in Monaco are of course fantastic, "said the Australian after he had received the usual congratulations and cup from the hand of Prince Albert.

Only a possible protest threatened the GP win for Red Bull, the RB8 allegedly unauthorized opening in the floor, the team denies this though. In the constructors' championship, the "Austrians" so clearly in front.

Webber put down a virtually flawless race on the track and defended his lead from first to last meters. Although the top six most of the time were just six seconds, but also as a finish in the long-awaited rain started, kept the Australians experienced the nerves. He drove in the most important race of the year confidently - albeit only 0.643 seconds and 6.195 in front of Rosberg sixth-placed Felipe Massa in a Ferrari before - his eighth Grand Prix victory.

Overall, the 70th GP support in the Principality still one of the rather uneventful affair. Despite DRS, there were virtually no overtaking on the track. Up to the start (not to mention investigations were pending), "scrapped" in which the "been pinched" Lotus of the Frenchman Romain Grosjean was the only pit stop and the top riders did not too much. Even the rain came too late, until after the checkered flag, it poured out of the sky.

Vettel lost his championship lead to Alonso, even though he messed up well against the same qualifying five places and was directly behind the Spaniard was fourth. The world champion from Germany has emerged as one of the top riders in the race with the harder tire, moved to the 46th Round as the last and made to two other positions well.

Vettel had already won three at the start. The hope of driving out as a temporary Leading enough of a lead to his own pit stop after his front left, but not on. Fernando Alonso leads before coming Canadian Grand Prix with 76 points, three points ahead of Vettel and Webber (73).

Final standings after 78 laps (260.520 km):
1.	Mark Webber	OFF	Red Bull	1:46:06,557
2.	Nico Rosberg	ENG	Mercedes	+ 0,643
3.	Fernando Alonso	ESP	Ferrari	0,947
4.	Sebastian Vettel	ENG	Red Bull	1,343
5.	Lewis Hamilton	GBR	McLaren	4,101
6.	Felipe Massa	BRA	Ferrari	6,195
7.	Paul di Resta	GBR	Force India	41,537
8.	Nico Hulkenberg	ENG	Force India	42,562
9.	Kimi Raikkonen	FIN	Lotus	44,036
10.	Bruno Senna	BRA	Williams	44,516
11.	Sergio Perez	MEX	Clean	1 lap
12.	Jean-Eric Vergne	FRA	Toro Rosso	1 lap
13.	Heikki Kovalainen	FIN	Caterham	1 lap
14.	Timo Glock	ENG	Marussia	1 lap
15.	Narain Karthikeyan	IND	HRT	2 rounds
16.	Jenson Button	GBR	McLaren	8 rounds

Out: Michael Schumacher (GER / Mercedes), Romain Grosjean (FRA / Lotus), Pastor Maldonado (VEN / Williams), Kamui Kobayashi (JPN / Sauber), Daniel Ricciardo (AUS / Toro Rosso), Vitaly Petrov (RUS / Caterham) Charles Pic (FRA / Marussia), Pedro de la Rosa (ESP / HRT)

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