{"id":15683,"date":"2013-07-08T04:33:07","date_gmt":"2013-07-08T04:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=15683"},"modified":"2013-07-08T04:33:07","modified_gmt":"2013-07-08T04:33:07","slug":"vettel-wins-german-gp-raikkonen-finishes-second","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=15683","title":{"rendered":"Vettel wins German GP, Raikkonen finishes second"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-11115\" style=\"margin-right: 6px; margin-left: 6px; float: left;\" alt=\"sebastian-vettel-red-bull\" src=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/sebastian-vettel-red-bull.jpg\" height=\"200\" width=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/sebastian-vettel-red-bull.jpg 200w, https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/sebastian-vettel-red-bull-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>Nurburgring:<\/strong> Sebastian Vettel of Red Bull edged past Kimi Raikkonen of Lotus to win the Germain Grand Prix here on Sinday. The world champion also became the first German to win a German Grand Prix at the Nurburgring in the history of the Formula One world championship.<\/p>\n<p>Vettel&#8217;s win was his fourth this year and the 30th of his career and it lifted him 34 points clear of nearest rival, Spaniard Fernando Alonso of Ferrari, in the drivers&#8217; championship.\n<\/p>\n<p>Meaanwhile Romain Grosjean finished third ahead of Fernando Alonso while Lewis Hamilton of Mercedes came fifth. Jenson Button of McLaren raced ahead of Australian Mark Webber for the sixth place.<\/p>\n<p>Vettel said, \u201cIt was a tough race; it was one of the toughest for a long time. I\u2019m happy the race wasn\u2019t two or three laps longer, as Kimi was a bit quicker towards the end. I\u2019m very happy that it worked out and it\u2019s very special. The team worked really hard to give me the chance to win this weekend and we got it. First of all you have to remember that it\u2019s a privilege to have the opportunity to race in your home country; we have around 20 races, but there are obviously more than 20 countries, so it\u2019s special to race at home and get so much support. I had a good start and then just focused on every single lap during the race. You don\u2019t really think about where you are while you are racing, you can\u2019t allow your mind to drift, but when the flag came out and the race was over I really let myself enjoy the parade lap and saw a lot of people in the grandstands cheering and waving flags. These pictures will remain in my head for a long, long time.\u201d &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile Kimi R\u00e4ikk\u00f6nen said, \u201cWe had a pretty good last stint of the race, but the cars are close on performance so it\u2019s difficult to overtake. Maybe some more laps would have helped us, but the race is only 60 laps so you have to do your best with that. After my first stop I was stuck behind a Mercedes for a while, but once I was past the car was pretty good. After the safety car three of us were able to pull away, but we were too close on speed to change the order. It was a good day for the team. Of course, we wanted to win; we couldn\u2019t, but we did score the most points here. The warmer temperatures definitely helped us, so let\u2019s hope for some more hot weather in Budapest.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ecsataic Romain Grosjean said that it was pretty special when he was leading the race. \u201cAfter some difficult races, everything went right today and it was pretty special when I was leading the race and returning to the podium is naturally a good thing. My car felt great on the first stint with the soft tyres and it\u2019s clear that the summer weather really suits us. Hopefully we\u2019ll have a long summer now in Europe! Letting Kimi past at the end of the race was the sensible thing to do as we were on different strategies and he had more of a chance of going for the win than I did at that point. We didn\u2019t know which tyre would be the best at the end of the race, so we didn\u2019t put all our eggs in one basket,\u201d said Grosjean.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" alignleft size-full wp-image-11115\" style=\"margin-right: 6px; margin-left: 6px; float: left;\" alt=\"sebastian-vettel-red-bull\" src=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/sebastian-vettel-red-bull.jpg\" height=\"200\" width=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/sebastian-vettel-red-bull.jpg 200w, https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/sebastian-vettel-red-bull-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>Nurburgring:<\/strong> Sebastian Vettel of Red Bull edged past Kimi Raikkonen of Lotus to win the Germain Grand Prix here on Sinday. The world champion also became the first German to win a German Grand Prix at the Nurburgring in the history of the Formula One world championship.<\/p>\n<p>Vettel&#8217;s win was his fourth this year and the 30th of his career and it lifted him 34 points clear of nearest rival, Spaniard Fernando Alonso of Ferrari, in the drivers&#8217; championship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11115,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[9596,1695,1435,1694],"class_list":["post-15683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-latest","tag-german-gp","tag-kimi-raikkonen","tag-romain-grosjean","tag-sebastian-vettel"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Vettel wins German GP, Raikkonen finishes second - IndianSportsNews.com - Latest Updated Sports News &amp; Sports Blogs of Cricket, Hockey, Golf, Football, Tennis &amp; Other Sports<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=15683\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Vettel wins German GP, Raikkonen finishes second - IndianSportsNews.com - Latest Updated Sports News &amp; Sports Blogs of Cricket, Hockey, Golf, Football, Tennis &amp; Other Sports\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Nurburgring: Sebastian Vettel of Red Bull edged past Kimi Raikkonen of Lotus to win the Germain Grand Prix here on Sinday. 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