2010 Korean Grand Prix

2010 Korean Grand Prix
Race 17 of 19 in the 2010 Formula One World Championship
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A track map of the Korea International Circuit.
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 Red Bull-Renault
Time 1:35.585
Fastest lap
Driver Spain Fernando Alonso Ferrari
Time 1:50.257 on lap 42
Podium
First Ferrari
Second McLaren-Mercedes
Third 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 After a 45-minute delay, the race was restarted and the safety car was withdrawn after thirteen laps.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.

  1. ^ "2010 Korean GP". ChicaneF1. Archived from the original on 26 October 2014. Retrieved 11 December 2020.
  2. ^ "Korean Grand Prix 2010 results". ESPN F1. Archived from the original on 23 December 2011. Retrieved 11 December 2020.
  3. ^ "Korean GP – Preview". Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile. 19 October 2010. Archived from the original on 22 November 2010. Retrieved 4 May 2022.


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