Fernando Alonso wins 2010 Korean Grand Prix

October 26, 2010

driver won the first ever   in, South Korea. With two races to go, Alonso now leads the drivers' championship, closely followed by and.

As reached, heavy rain hit Yeongam on Sunday afternoon and the race was red-flagged for about half an hour, before conditions improved. Both drivers failed to finish despite starting first and second from the grid before and after race restarted. Webber ran wide and hit a wall, hitting 's, and ’s engine blew up during his spurt to the finish line leading the race.

Hamilton changed places twice with Alonso behind Vettel, but finished second for. Alonso's teammamte closing the podium on third place. drove his best race in this season for Mercedes overtaking 's after the restart following the red flag. Schumacher finished fourth and Kubica fifth.

placed his on 6th place after his teammate,, crashed in lap 47 after coming into contact with 's {{w|BMW Sauber|Sauber}. 's gets passes by both Kubica and Liuzzi to finish 7th ahead Kobayashi. The two German drivers of Sauber and Williams&mdash; and closed the top ten.

The situation in the season's standings has now changed in favour of Alonso&mdash;the Spaniard leads the driver's championship with 231 points, 11 more than Webber, who is in second place with 220 points. Hamilton and Vettel are third and fourth in the rankings with 210 and 206 respectively. Jenson Button has admitted he now has little hope of winning the title&mdash;he is in fifth with 189 points. The constructors' standings list is still dominated by Red Bull, who have 426 points, McLaren with 399 and Ferrari with 374. There are two races left until the end of the season, the, and the.