1247317458[1]Mark Webber overcame a drive-through penalty to finally take his first Formula 1 victory as Red Bull Racing scored its third one-two of the season at the Nurburgring, but this time with Webber ahead of Sebastian Vettel at last.

The Brawns could not compete with the Red Bulls and fell back to fifth and sixth -- Jenson Button ahead of Rubens Barrichello -- behind Felipe Massa and Nico Rosberg when their three-stop strategies unfolded. The result reduces Button's championship lead to 21 points over Vettel, with Webber and Barrichello a further 1.5 and 3.5 points adrift, respectively.

An eventful start saw the KERS cars thrust forward, with Lewis Hamilton's McLaren charging down to the outside to go three-abreast with Barrichello and Webber- - who had already banged wheels as the poleman defended off the line -- into Turn 1.

Fisichella had briefly run in the top eight thanks to a bold early charge on a three-stop strategy, while Glock made up for his pitlane start following yesterday's poor qualifying and blocking penalty by running 37 laps on his first tank of fuel. His teammate Jarno Trulli went in the opposite direction -- pitting for repairs on the first lap and never featuring afterwards.

Kimi Raikkonen had run close behind teammate Massa until retiring with a loss of power, shortly after an incident with Adrian Sutil that ended the German's chances of taking Force India's first points.

Sutil had driven a brilliantly first stint, tagging on behind the Ferraris and then running as high as second thanks to staying out until lap 27 before pitting. But as he rejoined, he made contact with Raikkonen at the first corner and ripping a chunk from his front wing, forcing another stop.


PROVISIONAL RACE RESULTS

The German Grand Prix
Nurburgring, Germamy;
60 laps; 306.458km;
Weather: Cloudy, dry.

Classified:

Pos  Driver        Team                      Time
 1.  Webber        Red Bull-Renault      (B)  1h36:43.310
 2.  Vettel        Red Bull-Renault      (B)  +     9.252
 3.  Massa         Ferrari               (B)  +    15.906
 4.  Rosberg       Williams-Toyota       (B)  +    21.099
 5.  Button        Brawn-Mercedes        (B)  +    23.609
 6.  Barrichello   Brawn-Mercedes        (B)  +    24.468
 7.  Alonso        Renault               (B)  +    24.888
 8.  Kovalainen    McLaren-Mercedes      (B)  +    58.692
 9.  Glock         Toyota                (B)  +  1:01.457
10.  Heidfeld      BMW Sauber            (B)  +  1:01.925
11.  Fisichella    Force India-Mercedes  (B)  +  1:02.327
12.  Nakajima      Williams-Toyota       (B)  +  1:02.876
13.  Piquet        Renault               (B)  +  1:08.328
14.  Kubica        BMW Sauber            (B)  +  1:09.555
15.  Sutil         Force India-Mercedes  (B)  +  1:11.941
16.  Buemi         Toro Rosso-Ferrari    (B)  +  1:30.225
17.  Trulli        Toyota                (B)  +  1:30.970
18.  Hamilton      McLaren-Mercedes      (B)  +     1 lap

Fastest lap: Alonso, 1:33.365

Not classified/retirements:

Driver        Team                      On lap
Raikkonen     Ferrari               (B)    35
Bourdais      Toro Rosso-Ferrari    (B)    19

World Championship standings, round 9:                

Drivers:                    Constructors:             
 1.  Button        68        1.  Brawn-Mercedes        112
 2.  Vettel        47        2.  Red Bull-Renault       92.5
 3.  Webber        45.5      3.  Toyota                 34.5
 4.  Barrichello   44        4.  Ferrari                32
 5.  Massa         22        5.  Williams-Toyota        20.5
 6.  Trulli        21.5      6.  McLaren-Mercedes       14
 7.  Rosberg       20.5      7.  Renault                13
 8.  Glock         13        8.  BMW Sauber              8
 9.  Alonso        13        9.  Toro Rosso-Ferrari      5
10.  Raikkonen     10
11.  Hamilton       9
12.  Heidfeld       6
13.  Kovalainen     5
14.  Buemi          3
15.  Kubica         2
16.  Bourdais       2       

All timing unofficial