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Red Bull Monaco Victory
| The Red Bull Racing Team lived up to its advertising slogan this year - Red Bull Gives You Wings - when their F1 team won the Monaco Grand Prix today - and came second as well. Australian Mark Webber won his second straight race after winning last weekend's Spanish Grand Prix - and in both races he started from pole position, and is now leading the drivers' championship on 78 points. His Red Bull team mate, German Sebastian Vettel, made it a day to remember by coming second - and is equal on points with Webber in the driver's points so far this year. And the team is now building up a lead in the constructors championship - with a lead of over 20 points over closest rival Ferrari, with McLaren in third place just five points behind. The race itself was packed with incidents around the streets of Monte Carlo, with the safety car making no less than four appearances, but nothing stopped the Monaco Grand Prix living up to its reputation as the most glamourous of the F1 calendar. The third place on the podium was taken by Renault's Robert Kubica, with the trophies being presented by Prince Albert and other members of the Monaco Royal Family. For British fans it was a disappointing race, with 2008 winner Lewis Hamilton coming in fifth, and fellow McLaren driver and current World Champion Jensen Button who won last year's race retiring as early as the third lap. The television audience in the UK for F1 has soared this year, with the BBC winning back the rights to televise the races after ITV televised it for a few years - and ran advertisements during races, often missing vital moments, much to the frustration of their viewers. The glamour of Monaco was there for all to see - with F1 cars speeding past the Monte Carlo casino and the harbour with it's multi million Euro yachts, and celebrities in the pit lane and dotted around the Principality - and with the Cannes Film Festival just up the road some no doubt will be staying in Monte Carlo for a few days to come. The final race positions for the 2010 Monaco Grand Prix were: 1 Mark Webber 1:50:13.355 2 Sebastian Vettel 1:50:13.803 3 R Kubica 1:50:15.030 4 F Massa 1:50:16.021 5 L Hamilton 1:50:17.718 6 M Schumacher 1:50:19.067 7 F Alonso 1:50:19.696 8 N Rosberg 1:50:20.006 9 A Sutil 1:50:20.325 10 V Liuzzi 1:50:20.660 |
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