Car on fire next to concrete wall… When there are no marshals on hand the drivers have to do the job. First there was Heikki Kovalainen in Singapore …

Heikki Kovalainen - The Firefighter

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Fernando Alonso wins 2010 Korean GP

Fernando Alonso won the wet inaugural Korean GP ahead of Lewis Hamilton and Felipe Massa. It was a bad day in office for Red Bull. Mar Webber spun off at early stages of proper racing action, Sebastian Vettel blew his engine while leading comfortably with only few laps to go. As a result Alonso takes the championship lead with two races to go.

2010 Korean GP – Race Result:

1. Fernando Alonso
2. Lewis Hamilton +14.9
3. Felipe Massa +30.8
4. Michael Schumacher +39.6
5. Robert Kubica +47.7
6. Vitantonio Liuzzi +53.5
7. Rubens Barrichello +1:09.2
8. Kamui Kobayashi +1:17.8
9. Nick Heidfeld +1:20.1
10. Nico Hulkenberg +1:20.8
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Advantage Red Bull

Sebastian Vettel will start the Korean GP from the pole position, his team mate Mark Webber will line up next to him on the front row. Fernando Alonso and Lewis Hamilton form the second row ahead of Rosberg, Massa, Button, Kubica, Schumacher and Barrichello.

2010 Korean GP – Qualifying Results

1. Vettel – 1:35.585
2. Webber – 1:35.659
3. Alonso – 1:35.766
4. Hamilton – 1:36.062
5. Rosberg – 1:36.535
6. Massa – 1:36.571
7. Button – 1:36.731
8. Kubica – 1:36.824
9. Schumacher – 1:36.950
10. Barrichello – 1:36.998

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Robert Kubica fastest in final practice in Korea

Robert Kubica posted the fastest time in the final practice session for 2010 Korean GP (1:37.354) with Hamilton, Alonso and Webber within 1 tenth of a second behind.

Saturday Practice Times:

1. Kubica – 1:37.354
2. Hamilton +0.048
3. Alonso +0.072
4. Webber +0.087
5. Rosberg +0.275
6. Massa +0.601
7. Button +1.065
8. Hulkenberg +1.147
9. Schumacher +1.276
10. Sutil +1.278
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Five title contenders and Bernie Ecclestone ahead of 2010 Korean GP

The inaugural Korean GP weekend begins today with the first practice sessions. Lewis Hamilton was fastest in the morning session (1:40.887) ahead of Robert Kubica, Nico Rosberg, Sebastian Vettel, Jenson Button and Michael Schumacher. As the green slippery track keeps rubbering in we can expect significantly quicker times in the later sessions.

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F1 comes to Korea this weekend for the very first Korean Grand Prix. The venue seems to be far from finished and we are yet to see how the very fresh tarmac will cope with the power of F1 cars. At the moment however the plan is for the race to go ahead – it is time for round 17 of our prediction game. Just for the record, the last time F1 had to cope with crumbling track Lewis Hamilton crashed into Kimi Raikkonen in the pitlane and Robert Kubica won his only F1 race to date.

The race starts on Sunday October 24 at 3pm local time.

The predictions have to be placed before the start of the qualifying session (Saturday October 23, 2pm local time). Predictions can be changed, amended, there is no limit on the number of changes as long as they are made before the start of the qualifying. Predictions that arrive after the start of qualifying will not count.

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The 2010 F1 season is now less than 2 weeks away. A lot has changed since the end of 2009. Here is the part 1 of a miniseries summarizing the differences between F1 in 2009 and F1 in 2010.

Grands Prix

The 2010 season will have 19 rounds (compared with 17 last year). No race was dropped from the calendar, Canadian GP returns and for the first time F1 will travel to Korea.

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