2010 Korean Grand Prix

2010 Korean Grand Prix
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Race details[1][2]
Date	24 October 2010
Official name	2010 Formula 1 Korean Grand Prix
Location	Yeongham, South Jeolla, South Korea
Course	Korea International Circuit
Course length	5.615 km (3.489 miles)
Distance	55 laps, 308.630 km (191.774[a] miles)
Weather	Rain. Air 20 °C (68 °F), Track 18 °C (64 °F)
Attendance	80,000
Pole position
Driver	Sebastian Vettel	Red Bull-Renault
Time	1:35.585
Fastest lap
Driver	Fernando Alonso	Ferrari
Time	1:50.257 on lap 42
Podium
First	Fernando Alonso	Ferrari
Second	Lewis Hamilton	McLaren-Mercedes
Third	Felipe Massa	Ferrari
Lap leaders

The 2010 Korean Grand Prix (formally the 2010 Formula 1 Korean Grand Prix) was a Formula One motor race held on 24 October 2010 at the Korea International Circuit in Yeongam, South Jeolla, South Korea. It was the seventeenth round of the 2010 Formula One World Championship and the first Korean Grand Prix. Ferrari driver Fernando Alonso won the 55-lap race starting from third position. Lewis Hamilton finished second for McLaren and Alonso's teammate Felipe Massa was third.

The race began behind the safety car but was stopped after three laps because of a large amount of standing water on the circuit. After a 45-minute delay, the race was restarted and the safety car was withdrawn after thirteen laps. Pole sitter Sebastian Vettel maintained his lead going into the first corner. A second safety car deployment caused by the collision of Mark Webber and Nico Rosberg on lap nineteen closed up the field but Vettel retained the lead. Alonso maintained second position until a botched pit stop during a third safety-car period caused him to drop to third. At the restart on lap thirty-five, Hamilton ran wide at the first corner, allowing Alonso back into second place. Vettel's engine failed eleven laps later, promoting Alonso to the lead, which he maintained to win the race.

The victory was Alonso's fifth of the season; the result elevated him to the lead of the Drivers' Championship, eleven points ahead of Webber, who had dropped to second after failing to finish the race. Hamilton moved into third and Vettel's retirement demoted him to fourth. Jenson Button remained in fifth position. In the World Constructors' Championship, McLaren reduced the points deficit to Red Bull to twenty-seven points behind. With two races of the season remaining, Ferrari was a further twenty-five points adrift.

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