Mark Webber has won the British Grand Prix to move to within 13 points of Fernando Alonso at the top of the driver’s championship standings.
Webber passed pole-sitter Alonso with just four laps remaining. The Australian’s Red Bull team-mate Sebastian Vettel was third as British pair Lewis Hamilton and McLaren team-mate Jenson Button finished eighth and 10th respectively.
But on Sunday it was Webber and Ferrari’s Fernando Alonso battling at the front at the death, with the former grabbing the lead on lap 48 of the 52, going on to claim the ninth victory of his career.
More importantly it has allowed Webber to close the gap on Alonso at the top of the championship standings to 13 points, with Vettel having to settle for third on this occasion, and lying 29 points down.
Webber said: ‘It was another great day for us, a great day for me. To win here again is a fantastic feeling.’
For the Britons, in front of a sell-out 125,500 crowd, it was a day to forget as McLaren pair Lewis Hamilton and Jenson Button were eighth and 10th, whilst Force India’s Paul di Resta retired after two laps.
British GP Results:
1 Mark Webber (Red Bull)
2 Fernando Alonso (Ferrari)
3 Sebastian Vettel (Red Bull)
4 Felipe Massa (Ferrari)
5 Kimi Raikkonen (Lotus)
6 Romain Grosjean (Lotus)
7 Michael Schumacher (Mercedes)
8 Lewis Hamilton (McLaren)
9 Bruno Senna (Williams)
10 Jenson Button (McLaren)
