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| Subject: losing five seconds Wed Aug 10, 2011 4:43 am | |
| Massa retained his pole position lead into the first corner, followed by Trulli, Räikkönen, Hamilton and Kovalainen. Coulthard was hit from behind by Nico Rosberg into turn two, spinning him around. The Red Bull car then collided with Rosberg's Williams team-mate Kazuki Nakajima. This damaged the suspension and forced Coulthard to retire in his final race.[24][25][26] Piquet spun off at the next corner, his car hitting the barriers. Kovalainen was passed by Alonso and Vettel mid-lap, dropping him to seventh.[20] The accidents of Coulthard and Piquet prompted the deployment of the safety car at the end of the first lap. The track conditions began to dry early on; Force India's Giancarlo Fisichella was the first driver to stop for dry-weather tyres, pitting at the end of lap two. He remained in 18th position.[27][28] Racing resumed on lap five when the safety car pulled into the pit-lane.[23] Rosberg and Button both pitted on lap seven, each changing to dry-weather tyres. Bourdais, Glock, Adrian Sutil and Nakajima followed a lap later. By lap 11, the rest of the field had changed to dry-weather tyres.[20][29] Fisichella benefited from pitting the earliest for dry tyres, moving up the order to a high of fifth position.[27] By finishing the race in eleventh place, Robert Kubica ceded third place in the Championship to Räikkönen Nakajima spun on lap 13, losing five seconds on the lap.[20] On lap 15, Massa set a new fastest lap of 1:16.888, and extended his lead over Vettel.[20] Hamilton remained behind Fisichella, and though his McLaren car appeared quicker, he was unable to pass the Force India driver until lap 18.[20] Glock passed Fisichella two laps later. Trulli and Bourdais collided on lap 20 into turn one, sending the Toro Rosso driver across the grass. Bourdais lost six places and rejoined in 13th place. gold charmspitbull stud service | |
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