{"id":16950,"date":"2013-09-09T06:32:46","date_gmt":"2013-09-09T06:32:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=16950"},"modified":"2013-09-09T06:32:46","modified_gmt":"2013-09-09T06:32:46","slug":"vettel-wins-italian-grand-prix-alonso-finishes-second","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiansportsnews.co.in\/?p=16950","title":{"rendered":"Vettel wins Italian Grand Prix, Alonso 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\" \/>Monza:<\/strong> Sebastian Vettel got the better of Fernando Alonso to win the Italian Grand Prix here on Sunday. With this win, the Red Bull driver extended his lead in the drivers&#8217; world championship to more than 50 points.<\/p>\n<p>Vettel came home 5.4 seconds clear of Alonso, as the Ferrari driver thrilled with a battling chase in pursuit ahead of third-placed Australian Mark Webber in the second Red Bull and Brazilian Felipe Massa, fourth in the second Ferrari.\n<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, starting from pole position, Vettel held his lead into the first chicane despite a determined charge from Mark, who started alongside his team-mate on the front row.<\/p>\n<p>Vettel said after the race that it was fantastic to win the event again. \u201cI just managed to make turn one! I locked the front right and it just didn\u2019t seem to come back. I had a big flat spot, which I felt straight away and I wasn\u2019t sure if the tyre would survive, but fortunately I managed to make it round and have a strong first stint. I pushed straight away to get a bit of a gap, in case we had to stop early and change to a two-stop strategy,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe had a gearbox issue and I had to short shift, which meant we dropped some time in the straights \u2013 but I tried to make it up in the corners. It\u2019s great to finish on the top step. The podium here is always very passionate. We are in Italy and when you walk around outside the track, you see Ferrari clothing and merchandise in all the shops starting from the smallest sizes upwards; it\u2019s part of their DNA, which I understand. It was great for the Tifosi to have Fernando on the podium today. The season is going well and we\u2019re pushing hard, but we take each race as it comes. We\u2019re looking forward to Singapore next, which I want to finish; I think it\u2019s the toughest race we have all year,\u201d Vettel added.<\/p>\n<p>Mark Webber said, \u201cIt\u2019s a great place here and it\u2019s very special to finish on the podium. It\u2019s not the circuit where I\u2019ve had the best results in the past, so it\u2019s a bit of a personal best for me in qualifying and the race. I felt better on the soft tyres today; I had a good battle with Fernando, fair play to him on that and then afterwards I settled in to getting my head down and getting on with the race. We got Felipe on the stop, which was great. I was happy with my in-lap, the pit stop was great and then my out-lap was strong, so we cleared him reasonably comfortably. We had to nurse the gearbox a bit at the end, but overall it was a good result. Seb is very strong around here and it was great to get such a good result today.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Christian Horner, Team Principal said: \u201cA fantastic way to achieve our 40th victory and Sebastian\u2019s 32nd. To win and finish third in Monza, which is one of the most historic events, is testimony to our strong team work today. It\u2019s been a fantastic effort behind the scenes in preparation for this event. We had some issues that we had to manage during the race and the pit stops in particular were great and enabled Mark to get ahead of Felipe Massa. It\u2019s very impressive how the whole team have all contributed to this fantastic result.\u201d<\/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\" \/>Monza:<\/strong> Sebastian Vettel got the better of Fernando Alonso to win the Italian Grand Prix here on Sunday. With this win, the Red Bull driver extended his lead in the drivers&#8217; world championship to more than 50 points.<\/p>\n<p>Vettel came home 5.4 seconds clear of Alonso, as the Ferrari driver thrilled with a battling chase in pursuit ahead of third-placed Australian Mark Webber in the second Red Bull and Brazilian Felipe Massa, fourth in the second Ferrari.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11115,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[1436,6361,6949,1694],"class_list":["post-16950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-latest","tag-fernando-alonso","tag-italian-grand-prix","tag-red-bull","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 Italian Grand Prix, Alonso 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=16950\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Vettel wins Italian Grand Prix, Alonso 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=\"Monza: Sebastian Vettel got the better of Fernando Alonso to win the Italian Grand Prix here on Sunday. 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