A poor start from Hamilton saw the Red Bulls move into 1st and 2nd places. Sergio Perez made an aggressive start, pushing Button off the track in the 2nd lap. Massa with an excellent early surge moved into P6 but his run of poor luck continued when he spun out on the 1st corner of the 4th lap ending his race. Meanwhile,Paul di Resta while making an early pitstop almost collided with J.Eric Vergne, in a case of dangerous release, which was decided to be investigated after the race.
A number of drivers made pitstops early in the sixth lap to change to medium compounds. Vettel was comfortably in the lead when he came in to the pits on the eighth lap, allowing Webber to take the lead. However Vettel came out ahead of Hamilton.In the next lap, a pit stop gone wrong resulted in a wheel coming off Webber's car and injuring a cameraman in the pit lane itself . Webber though , managed to continue the race in 21st place. Hamilton, just behind Rosberg in 4th wanted his teammate to give way at one point but the German wasn't party to it.
Grosjean came out in third place after his pit stop, changing to mediums after starting on soft tyres. Raikkonen moved up with an excellent overtaking manoeuvre past Rosberg on the 15th lap. Grosjean was tearing through the Nurburgring with an excellent pace in second spot right behind Vettel. The other Lotus of Raikkonen too looked in fine shape, with him overtaking the Mercedes of Lewis Hamilton using DRS, on the same chicane as before. The Brit had some real problems with the grip on his tyres and would have been gutted after another bad race from a very promising spot on the starting grid.
Safety car was brought on the 25th lap after Bianchi's car rolled onto the track after a premature ending to his race due to an engine problem. The Toro Rosso of J.Eric Vergne was also out of the race at this point.
Safety car went out before the 30th lap and the top four of Vettel, Grosjean, Raikkonen and Alonso began pulling away from the rest of the field. It was an engaging battle between the two Lotus cars for P2 from this point on with Grosjean in no mood to let his teammate Raikkonen gain the upper hand. Grosjean made a pitstop on the 41st lap and came out in 6th, with Raikkonen yet to make his 3rd pit. He was followed by race leader Vettel, who dropped to 5th after his stop. Raikkonen eventually made his pitstop preceded by Button, allowing Vettel to lead the pack followed by Grosjean. Alonso tried to get himself a spot on the podium with some fast laps, but was unsuccessful. Lotus ordered Grosjean to let Raikkonen into P2 .
Vettel did very well to hold off the flying Finn and take the chequered flag .They were followed by Grosjean , Alonso and Hamilton . Jenson Button finally earned himself some points claiming the sixth spot as did teammate Perez finishing eighth .The two were separated by the Red Bull of Mark Webber. Nico Rosberg finished ninth after starting from eleventh and Nico Hulkenburg took the last point up for grabs making it three out of four Germans to end up in the points ,Adrian Sutil being the only one who missed out in 13th spot.His teammate Paul Di Resta didn't contribute to Force India's points tally either finishing 11th , this being the first time in the last seven races that he failed to do so.
With the race for the title heating up and the Mclarens hitting some good form all eyes will be on Hungaroring as the F1 troupe makes its way to Hungary for the tenth race of the season .
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