Canadian GP: Third Time Lucky For Vettel

Sunday 9th June 2013 

Canadian GP: Third Time Lucky For Vettel

Sebastian Vettel finally followed up on a Canadian GP pole position with the race victory, dominating Sunday's 70-lap grand prix.

The Red Bull racer started from pole position for the third time at the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve. However, unlike in previous seasons, this Sunday he secured his first Canadian GP win.
The German dominated the race from start to finish, easily quicker than his rivals and lap after lap built up a lead. He took the chequered flag 14.4s ahead of Championship rival Fernando Alonso while lapping everyone up to the fifth-placed driver.
Lewis Hamilton had been running in second for much of the grand prix, however, in the later stages Alonso began to catch the Mercedes driver.
The gap, which had been over 10 seconds, was down to just 0.454s with ten laps to go but it still took the Spaniard another three laps and the help of DRS to take second off the Brit.
Mark Webber brought his RB9 home in fourth place despite a damaged front wing. Midway through the 70-lap race, the Aussie was hit by Giedo van der Garde as he came to lap the Caterham, who was handed a stop-go penalty before eventually retiring.
Fifth place went to Nico Rosberg, the last driver not to be lapped and the only top-ten driver to stop three times, while Jean-Eric Vergne, Paul di Resta and Felipe Massa completed the top eight. Both di Resta and ninth-placed Kimi Raikkonen opted for one-stop strategies.
Adrian Sutil was the final drivers to net a point despite being penalised with a drive-through for ignoring blue flags when Hamilton and Alonso came up behind him.