Alonso gets held up by a back marker and as he finally passes him Button manages to pass them both. However Alonso is in hot pusuit, he's not giving up without a fight....and they are both closing on Hamilton.

Buemi has just passed Schumacher.

And Rosberg has passed Kubica.

Order:-

Hamilton
Button
Alonso
Vettel
Webber
Rosberg
Kubica
Buemi
Schumacher
Liuzzi

Massa tries to pass Schumacher, but gets out of shape and damages the front wing and so pits.

Liuzzi is now closing on Schumacher,

And Schumacher gets passed by BOTH Force India's in the last few yards of the last lap. 'Nil points' for him.

Result:-

1. Hamilton
2. Button
3. Alonso
4. Vettel
5. Webber
6. Rosberg
7. Kubica
8. Buemi
9. Liuzzi
10. Sutil
11. Schumacher
12. Alguersuari
13. Hulkenberg
14. Barrichello
15. Massa
16. Kovalainen
17. Petrov
18. Chandhok
19. di Grassi
20. Glock
21. Trulli
22. De La Rosa
23. Senna
24. Kobayashi

Valencia next, in two weeks time.

European Grand Prix

Valencia, 25-27 June, 2010

Fri 25 Jun: Practice 1 0900-1030; Practice 2 1300-1430

Sat 26 Jun: Practice 3 1000-1100; Qualifying 1300

Sun 27 Jun: Race 1300

Welcome to Valencia.
Q1 underway and immediately there are three cars on the track.


PS. I learned my Spanish under Castillian rules, so please excuse any different pronunciation to your own.

Hulkenberg in P1 at the moment, they've not all put in times yet.

The regular names are now puting down times now and Hulkenberg's descended to P6.

Q1 drop zone so far:-

Trulli
Kovalainen
di Grassi
Chandhok
Senna
Glock
Kubica

However Kubica's just gone fastest.

So it's now:-

De La Rosa
Trulli
Kovalainen
di Grassi
Chandhok
Senna
Glock

Alguersuari then Kobayashi are the next two to drop out if any of the current bottom 7 manage to pull themselves up.

De La Rosa, Kobayashi and Alguersuari have all improved, so Schumacher is now the driver in P18

Schumacher's clawed his way up to P12, putting Kobayashi into P18

Final Q1 drop-zone:-

Kobayasi
Trulli
Kovalainen
di Grassi
Glock
Chandhok
Senna

Current Q2 Drop-zone:-

Buemi
Rosberg
Sutil
Liuzzi
Schumacher
De La Rosa
Alguersuari

Neither Force India made the top ten, but more surprisingly both Mercedes are out too.

Final Q2 Drop-zone:-

Buemi
Rosberg
Sutil
Liuzzi
Schumacher
De La Rosa
Alguersuari

Top 10 shoot out just starting. Several cars on track together.
Hamilton going really slow to try and find some space.

Hamilton
Vettel
Button

Webber
Hamilton
Vettel
Button

Webber
Hamilton
Vettel
Button
Massa
Alonso
Petrov

Webber
Hamilton
Vettel
Button
Hulkenberg
Massa
Alonso
Petrov
Kubica
Barrachello

Webber
Hamilton
Vettel
Alonso
Button
Hulkenberg
Massa
Petrov
Kubica
Barrachello

Vettel
Webber
Hamilton
Alonso
Button
Hulkenberg
Massa
Petrov
Kubica
Barrachello

Final qualifying positions:-

Vettel
Webber
Hamilton
Alonso
Massa
Kubica
Button
Hulkenberg
Barrachello
Petrov
Buemi
Rosberg
Sutil
Liuzzi
Schumacher
De La Rosa
Alguersuari
Kobayasi
Trulli
Kovalainen
di Grassi
Glock
Chandhok
Senna

They all get away reasonably well, but there's too much ground for Webber to cover and can't prevent Hamilton from taking 2nd place. He also goes wide AT THE 1ST CORNER WHICH ALLOWS at the 1st corner which allows Alonso to pass, closely followed by Massa. Webber's P5 by the 2nd corner. Meanwhile Vettel and Hamilton touch a couple of times , but are stillrunning 1st and 2nd without any apparent detriment.

Bliddy heck....that crash was hideous....am staggered that Webber has walked away from it.

ACCIDENT!!!!

Webber's car has just run into the back of Kovalainen. Up and over and lands upside-down, bounces and flips upright again and zooms sideways into the tyre wall.

Lots of pitting now as the Safety Car is being deployed.
Schumacher pits at the wrong time and can't leave the pit lane until all the rest of the cars pass the end of the pit lane. He's 19th and last.

Webber got out and walked away and Kovalainen's OK as well.

Schumacher's pitting again, back to the tyres that he prefers.

Massa lost out too and is 17th.
Alonso also, but not as badly as Massa, as he's only fallen back to 9th.

Safety Car's in and Vettel locks his tyres on the restart, but recovers in time to prevent Hamilton from taking the lead.

Kobayasshi's in 3rd and is holding the rest of them up.

Alonso's complained that Hamilton held him up in the pit lane. (I think he's suggesting it was deliberate.)

Rosberg's just been told to be careful with his breaks, cos there's a potential problem. Schumacher's seems to have the problem too.

Order:-

Vettel
Hamilton
Kobayashi
Button
Barrichello
Kubica
Buemi
Sutil
Alonso
Hulkenberg

Hamilton has received a drive-through penalty for overtaking the Safety Car.

This apparently, is the incident that Ferrari were complaining about,
Hamilton has served the penalty now, but is still in 2nd place, which is not placating Alonso.

There's a glass bottle on the track. How?

Ooh, a brave marshall has run out, grabbed the bottle and run back in.

Hamilton in 2nd is only just in front of Kobayashi who is still 3rd, but hasn't pitted yet.

Senna and Glock, backmarkers, are so busy racing each other, that they are not letting the leaders through. Actually holding them up a bit. They collide and one gets a puncture the other a broken nose.