2011 European Grand Prix

2011 European Grand Prix
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Valencia Street Circuit
Race Details
Date	June 26, 2011
Official Name	20LV Grand Prix of Europe
Location	Valencia Street Circuit Valencia, Spain
Course	Temporary street circuit 5.419 km (3.367 mi)
Distance	57 laps, 308.883 km (191.931 mi)
Pole Position
Driver	Sebastian Vettel Red Bull-Renault
Time	1:36.275
Fastest Lap
Driver	Sebastian Vettel Red Bull-Renault
Time	1:41.852 on lap 53
Podium
First	Sebastian Vettel
Second	Fernando Alonso
Third	Mark Webber
Lap Leaders

The 2011 European Grand Prix (formally titled the LV Grand Prix of Europe was a Formula One race held on the 26th of June. It was the eighth race of the 2011 Formula One Season. It was held at the Valencia Street Circuit.

It was won by Sebastian Vettel in his Red Bull-Renault, who completed a hat-trick by taking pole and the fastest lap. Fernando Alonso came second, and in what he called his best performance of the year, Mark Webber came home in third place.

The race was notable for having no retirements, like the 1961 Dutch Grand Prix (15 starters), the 2005 United States Grand Prix (6 starters) and the 2005 Italian Grand Prix (20 starters); and Narain Karthikeyan became the equal lowest-classified driver in history (with Jim Rathmann from the 1950 Indianapolis 500) by coming 24th and last. Due to the fact that some of the 1950 Indy 500 drivers that did not finish and were still classified, this race had the most finishers of any Grand Prix.

Race

Race Results

Pos	No	Driver	Constructor	Laps	Time/Retired	Avg Speed	Grid	Pts
1	1	Sebastian Vettel	Red Bull-Renault	57	1:39:36.169	186.069	1	25
2	5	Fernando Alonso	Ferrari	57	+ 10.981s	185.730	4	18
3	2	Mark Webber	Red Bull-Renault	57	+ 27.255s	185.224	2	15
4	3	Lewis Hamilton	McLaren-Mercedes	57	+ 46.190s	184.642	3	12
5	6	Felipe Massa	Ferrari	57	+ 51.705s	184.473	5	10
6	4	Jenson Button	McLaren-Mercedes	57	+ 1m 0.065s	184.217	6	8
7	8	Nico Rosberg	Mercedes	57	+ 1m 38.090s	183.064	7	6
8	19	Jaime Alguersuari	Toro Rosso-Ferrari	56	+ 1 lap	182.584	18	4
9	14	Adrian Sutil	Force India-Mercedes	56	+ 1 lap	182.569	10	2
10	9	Nick Heidfeld	Renault	56	+ 1 lap	182.313	9	1
11	17	Sergio Pérez	Sauber-Ferrari	56	+ 1 lap	182.108	16
12	11	Rubens Barrichello	Williams-Cosworth	56	+ 1 lap	181.953	13
13	18	Sébastien Buemi	Toro Rosso-Ferrari	56	+ 1 lap	181.915	17
14	15	Paul di Resta	Force India-Mercedes	56	+ 1 lap	181.855	12
15	10	Vitaly Petrov	Renault	56	+ 1 lap	181.744	11
16	16	Kamui Kobayashi	Sauber-Ferrari	56	+ 1 lap	181.700	14
17	7	Michael Schumacher	Mercedes	56	+ 1 lap	181.253	8
18	12	Pastor Maldonado	Williams-Cosworth	56	+ 1 lap	180.714	15
19	20	Heikki Kovalainen	Lotus-Renault	55	+ 2 laps	179.189	19
20	21	Jarno Trulli	Lotus-Renault	55	+ 2 laps	178.061	20
21	24	Timo Glock	Virgin-Cosworth	55	+ 2 laps	177.584	21
22	25	Jérôme d'Ambrosio	Virgin-Cosworth	55	+ 2 laps	176.979	23
23	23	Vitantonio Luizzi	HRT-Cosworth	54	+ 3 laps	176.085	22
24	22	Narain Karthikeyan	HRT-Cosworth	54	+ 3 laps	173.313	24

Lap Leaders

Lap-by-lap

1-13 (13): Sebastian Vettel

14 (1): Felipe Massa

15-57 (43): Sebastian Vettel

Totals

Sebastian Vettel: 56

Felipe Massa: 1

Milestones

• Most finishers in a Grand Prix (24).
• Sebastian Vettel's second hat-trick, two years after his first.
• It was also Vettel's fifth double of 2011, though his sixth win.
• And it was Vettel's first fastest lap of 2011.
• Red Bull's 50th and 51st podia.
• It was also Red Bull's 10th and 11th front row starts of 2011.

Standings

DRIVERS CHAMPIONSHIP Pos. Driver Pts 1 Sebastian Vettel 186 2 Jenson Button 109 3 Mark Webber 109 4 Lewis Hamilton 97 5 Fernando Alonso 87 6 Felipe Massa 42 7 Nico Rosberg 32 8 Vitaly Petrov 31 9 Nick Heidfeld 30 10 Michael Schumacher 26 11 Kamui Kobayashi 25 12 Adrian Sutil 10 13 Jaime Alguersuari 8 14 Sébastien Buemi 8 15 Rubens Barrichello 4 16 Sergio Pérez 2 17 Paul di Resta 2 18 Pedro de la Rosa 0 19 Jarno Trulli 0 20 Vitantonio Luizzi 0 21 Jérôme d'Ambrosio 0 22 Heikki Kovalainen 0 23 Timo Glock 0 24 Pastor Maldonado 0 25 Narain Karthikeyan 0

CONSTRUCTORS CHAMPIONSHIP Pos. Constructor Pts 1 Red Bull-Renault 295 2 McLaren-Mercedes 206 3 Ferrari 129 4 Renault 61 5 Mercedes 58 6 Sauber-Ferrari 27 7 Toro Rosso-Ferrari 16 8 Force India-Mercedes 12 9 Williams-Cosworth 4 10 Lotus-Renault 0 11 HRT-Cosworth 0 12 Virgin-Cosworth 0

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