Ferrari has won the double at the Grand Prix of Germany after the victory of Spanish Fernando Alonso with Brazilian Felipe Massa, second, ahead of German Sebastian Vettel (Red Bull).
After his victory, the second of the season, Alonso remains in fifth place in the world championship, but cut 13 points to McLaren’s Lewis Hamilton (McLaren).
“Fernando is much faster than you,” Massa told Ferrari to radio
The race was dominated from start to finish for Ferrari. Massa, who started third, was in pole position to reach the first corner and held the lead until lap 49 of the 67 that comprised the test, when the radio told him that Alonso was faster and that if he had understood the message.
Felipe Massa, understood the message and out of the fork aside and gave first place to Alonso who has crossed the finish line four seconds ahead of Brazilian and five on Vettel, the latest twist in getting the fastest lap of the race.
In fourth and fifth ended the McLaren drivers Lewis Hamilton and Britons Jenson Button in sixth Australian Mark Webber (Red Bull), in Poland’s Robert Kubica seventh (Renault), eighth and ninth at the Mercedes German Nico Rosberg and Michael Schumacher, and completing tenth scoring pilots, the Russian Vitaly Petrov (Renault).
The Spanish Pedro de la Rosa (Sauber) and Jaime Alguersuari (Toro Rosso) finished in fourteenth and fifteenth place respectively, after both made an extra stop to change the nose of their cars after two separate touches to the end and beginning of the race, everyone.
