2011 Korean Grand Prix

F1 KOR Korean 2011 Japanese Grand Prix 2011 Indian Grand Prix 16 October 2011 Korea international circuit v2.svg 16 19 2011 Formula 1 Korean Grand Prix Yeongam, South Jeolla, South Korea Korea International Circuithttp://fialive.fiacommunications.com/en-GB/sport/championships/f1/Documents/2010-f1-lap-info.pdf 2010 FIA Formula One World Championship: Circuit and lap information fia.com Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile 4 March 2010 Paris 12 October 2011 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20100331011925/http://fialive.fiacommunications.com/en-GB/sport/championships/f1/Documents/2010-f1-lap-info.pdf March 31, 2010 3.493 5.621 55 192.100 309.155 Dry, light rain at the start Air Temp 21 C2011 FORMULA 1 KOREAN GRAND PRIX (Race) http://www.formula1.com/results/season/2011/851/6915/live_timing_popup.html Formula1.com Formula One Group 16 October 2011 31 March 2012 March 2016 84,000 Lewis Hamilton McLaren-Mercedes 1:35.820 GBR Sebastian Vettel Red Bull Racing-Renault 1:39.605 55 (lap record)lap record N Although Lewis Hamilton set a lap time of 1:35.820 in qualifying, Sebastian Vettel's time of 1:39.605 is recognised as the lap record as it was set under race conditions. GER Sebastian Vettel Red Bull Racing-Renault GER Lewis Hamilton McLaren-Mercedes GBR Mark Webber Red Bull Racing-Renault AUS KOR The 2011 Korean Grand Prix, formally the 2011 Formula 1 Korean Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race that was held on 16 October 2011 at the Korea International Circuit in Yeongam, South Jeolla, South Korea.http://www.fia.com/en-GB/mediacentre/pressreleases/wmsc/2010/Pages/wmsc_031110.aspx World Motor Sport Council: 03/11/2010 fia.com Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile 3 November 2010 21 May 2011 https://web.archive.org/web/20110622005933/http://www.fia.com/en-GB/mediacentre/pressreleases/wmsc/2010/Pages/wmsc_031110.aspx 22 June 2011 dead It was the sixteenth round of the 2011 Formula One season, the second running of the Korean Grand Prix, and the first race after Sebastian Vettel claimed the 2011 World Drivers' Championship. The 55-lap race was won by Vettel, after starting from second on the grid. Lewis Hamilton finished in second place for McLaren, and Mark Webber completed the podium in third position.https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/formula1/15326210 Sebastian Vettel wins Korean Grand Prix from Lewis Hamilton BBC Sport BBC 16 October 2011 16 October 2011 Sarah Holt As a consequence of the race, podium finishes for both Vettel and Webber ensured that Red Bull Racing defended their World Constructors' Championship title, extending their lead to 140 points over McLaren, with only 129 points available at the final three races. Polesitter Hamilton broke Red Bull's streak of pole positions, which had started at the 2010 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, and continued for another 15 races. Prior to this race, the last time Red Bull failed to take pole was at the 2010 Brazilian Grand Prix, when Nico Hülkenberg, driving for Williams, was the polesitter. Report Background The FIA announced that former Lotus driver, Martin Donnelly, would be the drivers' representative on the stewards panel for the weekend.Martin Donnelly takes on driver steward role for Korean Grand Prix Matt Beer http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/95277 Autosport Haymarket Publications 12 October 2011 12 October 2011 Formula Renault 3.5 Series runner-up Jean-Éric Vergne drove for Toro Rosso during free practice, after announcing a deal to run in Friday practice in Korea, Abu Dhabi and Brazil.http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/95272 Matt Beer Toro Rosso to run Jean-Eric Vergne in Friday practice at three grands prix Autosport Haymarket Publications 12 October 2011 12 October 2011 With Sebastian Vettel clinching the 2011 championship title at the 2011 Japanese, four drivers remained in contention for the runner-up position behind Vettel. Jenson Button, the winner in Japan, held an eight-point lead over Fernando Alonso, with Mark Webber a further eight points behind, and Lewis Hamilton another sixteen back in fifth place. Red Bull Racing entered the race weekend with the opportunity of winning the Constructors' Championship for the second consecutive season.http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/12102011/2/formula-statistics-korean-gp.html Formula One statistics for Korean GP Yahoo! Eurosport TF1 Group Reuters 12 October 2011 12 October 2011January 2016 With the World Drivers' Championship settled in Japan, Pirelli promised an "aggressive" tyre selection for the final four races of the season, with motorsport director Paul Hembery predicting four-stop strategies throughout the race.http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/95287 Pirelli promises Korean GP tyre choice will give teams a challenge Jonathan Noble Matt Beer Autosport Haymarket Publications 12 October 2011 14 October 2011 Tyre supplier Pirelli brought its yellow-banded soft compound tyre as the harder "prime" tyre and the red-banded super-soft compound as the softer "option" compound, as opposed to the previous year where Bridgestone brought the silver-banded hard compound as the prime.Pirelli announce tyre choices for remaining races http://www.formula1.com/news/headlines/2011/10/12604.html Formula1.com Formula One Group 7 October 2011 31 March 2012 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20120210020300/http://www.formula1.com/news/headlines/2011/10/12604.html February 10, 2012 A single DRS (Drag Reduction System) Zone was used in the Korean race. The detection point was located 30m after the first turn, while the DRS activation point was halfway (516m after turn 2) in between turn 2 and 3, down the long straight. Hence, the DRS was used for maximising top speed rather than acceleration.Short DRS zone for Korean Grand Prix http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/2011/10/13/short-drs-zone-korean-grand-prix/ Keith Collantine F1 Fanatic Keith Collantine 13 October 2011 31 March 2012 Following a collision between Jaime Alguersuari and Nico Rosberg during the second free practice session in which Rosberg made contact with Alguersuari as the Toro Rosso driver emerged from the pit lane, a system of warning lights was installed on the approach to the first turn.http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/95358 F1 drivers to be warned with lights about rivals exiting the pits in Korea Jonathan Noble Autosport Haymarket Publications 14 October 2011 14 October 2011 Following the accident, Ferrari drivers Fernando Alonso and Felipe Massa called for the pit exit to be reconfigured in future so as to prevent similar incidents from occurring.http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/95342 Korea Friday quotes: Ferrari Autosport Haymarket Publications 14 October 2011 14 October 2011 Nico Rosberg and Jenson Button almost had a collision coming out of the pit lane. It involved the two cars sharing the pit lane to get out in one piece. Rosberg managed to get out first but was overtaken by Button. Button was then taken over by Rosberg again. The Grand Prix was the 700th in which the McLaren team competed.http://www.mclaren.com/page/700-and-counting-mclaren-celebrates-gp-milestone-in-korea 700 and counting! McLaren celebrates GP milestone in Korea Alan Henry Alan Henry 13 October 2011 14 October 2011 McLaren McLaren Group dead https://web.archive.org/web/20111015001212/http://www.mclaren.com/page/700-and-counting-mclaren-celebrates-gp-milestone-in-korea October 15, 2011 Qualifying Lewis Hamilton stopped Red Bull's run of 16 consecutive pole positions by setting the fastest time in Saturday's qualifying session. It was his first pole since the 2010 Canadian Grand Prix. Sebastian Vettel was still on the front row of the grid because his final flying lap was not good enough to beat Hamilton's time but still left him in second position. Jenson Button was three tenths slower than teammate Hamilton, but only a tenth slower than Vettel. The second Red Bull of Mark Webber lined up fourth, in front of the two Ferraris, where Felipe Massa had out-qualified Fernando Alonso for the fourth time in six races. Nico Rosberg, Vitaly Petrov and the Force Indias of Paul di Resta and Adrian Sutil completed the top ten, after all making the third part of qualifying. Jaime Alguersuari and Sébastien Buemi did well to qualify an unusually high eleventh and thirteenth for the Toro Rosso team. The Mercedes of Michael Schumacher was only twelfth, in between them. Kamui Kobayashi, Bruno Senna, Pastor Maldonado and Sergio Pérez were the other drivers who made it into Q2, filling spaces 14 to 17 on the grid in that order. This meant that Rubens Barrichello could not qualify higher than eighteenth. The three new teams completed the back of the grid; Heikki Kovalainen out-qualified Jarno Trulli at Lotus, Timo Glock was faster than Jérôme d'Ambrosio at Virgin and Daniel Ricciardo failed to set a lap time due to electrical problems, but would be allowed start twenty-fourth and behind HRT teammate, Vitantonio Liuzzi. Race The race started with contact at the back, between a Sauber and the Toro Rosso of Sébastien Buemi. Vettel positioned his car behind Hamilton to pick up the slipstream from his car, in order to move close enough to make a passing manoeuvre, and passed Hamilton for the lead at Turn 4. In the meantime, Massa had moved up to third position, passing both Webber and Button. Into turn 4, Button tried to pass Massa around the outside of the turn, but both drivers were delayed enough to allow Webber to pass them both, and Alonso further displaced Button through turn 6. At the end of the lap, Liuzzi was forced to pit, to replace a damaged front wing. On lap 14, there was a pit stop battle between Button and Rosberg. They entered the pits, Button ahead, and Rosberg emerged from his box ahead of Button, after a quicker pit stop. When the pair exited the pits, Rosberg braked too late, and Button passed him. Rosberg then deployed his DRS, and would pass Button again, before Button reversed the move the following lap. On lap 17, there was a crash between Petrov and Schumacher, causing both cars to retire with damage, and the safety car to be deployed. Petrov and Alonso had been battling over track position on the straight, but both missed the braking zone, and Petrov rammed into the back of Schumacher, damaging Schumacher's rear wing. Petrov was later given a five-place grid penalty for the 2011 Indian, for causing an avoidable collision. The safety car came in on lap 20, where Vettel extended his lead once again. On lap 27, Rosberg was defending fifth place, from Massa and Alonso, but Rosberg missed his braking point and lost track position to them both. Pastor Maldonado was given a drive-through penalty for entering the pit lane too fast, and later retired due to a clutch problem. On lap 33, the battle for second place between Hamilton and Webber saw both drivers pit, with Hamilton returning to the track ahead. Webber dived up the inside of Hamilton to take second place at Turn 6. Hamilton continued alongside Webber on the run to the next corner, and Webber had to yield, thus handing the place back to Hamilton. Later in the race Ferrari pitted Massa, but Alonso decided to stay out, consequently leading the race for a few laps. This worked out best for Alonso, because Massa was held up in traffic, and Alonso was not. Later on, after Alonso had pitted, Alonso was closing in on the cars ahead. He caught up with only a few laps to spare, setting a fastest lap on the way. Alonso then came on the radio saying "I give up. I give up." It was later revealed that he meant he had arrived too late, and there was nothing he could do, so he kept fifth. Vettel took his tenth victory of the season, ahead of Hamilton – who took his first podium since the 2011 German – and Webber, the latter's result ensuring that Red Bull Racing became 2011 Constructors' World Champion with three races remaining. Button was fourth, and Alonso finished fifth, followed by Massa, Alguersuari, Rosberg, Buemi and di Resta, who completed the points scoring positions. Buemi scored his last career points and the last for a Swiss driver in Formula One. Classification Qualifying Pos No Driver Constructor Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Grid 1 3 GBR Lewis Hamilton McLaren-Mercedes 1:37.525 1:36.526 1:35.820 1 2 1 DEU Sebastian Vettel Red Bull Racing-Renault 1:39.093 1:37.285 1:36.042 2 3 4 GBR Jenson Button McLaren-Mercedes 1:37.929 1:37.302 1:36.126 3 4 2 AUS Mark Webber Red Bull Racing-Renault 1:39.071 1:37.292 1:36.468 4 5 6 BRA Felipe Massa Ferrari 1:38.670 1:37.313 1:36.831 5 6 5 ESP Fernando Alonso Ferrari 1:38.393 1:37.352 1:36.980 6 7 8 DEU Nico Rosberg Mercedes 1:38.426 1:37.892 1:37.754 7 8 10 RUS Vitaly Petrov Renault 1:38.378 1:38.186 1:38.124 8 9 15 GBR Paul di Resta Force India-Mercedes 1:38.549 1:38.254 no time 9 10 14 DEU Adrian Sutil Force India-Mercedes 1:38.789 1:38.219 no time 10 11 19 ESP Jaime Alguersuari Toro Rosso-Ferrari 1:39.392 1:38.315 11 12 7 DEU Michael Schumacher Mercedes 1:38.502 1:38.354 12 13 18 CHE Sébastien Buemi Toro Rosso-Ferrari 1:39.352 1:38.508 13 14 16 JPN Kamui Kobayashi Sauber-Ferrari 1:39.464 1:38.775 14 15 9 BRA Bruno Senna Renault 1:39.316 1:38.791 15 16 12 VEN Pastor Maldonado Williams-Cosworth 1:39.436 1:39.189 16 17 17 MEX Sergio Pérez Sauber-Ferrari 1:39.097 1:39.443 17 18 11 BRA Rubens Barrichello Williams-Cosworth 1:39.538 18 19 20 FIN Heikki Kovalainen Lotus-Renault 1:40.522 19 20 21 ITA Jarno Trulli Lotus-Renault 1:41.101 20 21 24 DEU Timo Glock Virgin-Cosworth 1:42.091 21 22 25 BEL Jérôme d'Ambrosio Virgin-Cosworth 1:43.483 22 23 23 ITA Vitantonio Liuzzi HRT-Cosworth 1:43.758 23 107% time: 1:44.351 24 22 AUS Daniel Ricciardo HRT-Cosworth no time 24Source:2011 FORMULA 1 KOREAN GRAND PRIX - Qualifying Results http://www.formula1.com/results/season/2010/851/6913/ formula1.com 28 December 2015 https://web.archive.org/web/20141218130240/http://www.formula1.com/results/season/2011/851/6913/ 18 December 2014 Race Pos No Driver Constructor Laps Time/Retired Grid Points 1 1 DEU Sebastian Vettel Red Bull Racing-Renault 55 1:38:01.994 2 25 2 3 GBR Lewis Hamilton McLaren-Mercedes 55 +12.019 1 18 3 2 AUS Mark Webber Red Bull Racing-Renault 55 +12.477 4 15 4 4 GBR Jenson Button McLaren-Mercedes 55 +14.694 3 12 5 5 ESP Fernando Alonso Ferrari 55 +15.689 6 10 6 6 BRA Felipe Massa Ferrari 55 +25.133 5 8 7 19 ESP Jaime Alguersuari Toro Rosso-Ferrari 55 +49.538 11 6 8 8 DEU Nico Rosberg Mercedes 55 +54.053 7 4 9 18 CHE Sébastien Buemi Toro Rosso-Ferrari 55 +1:02.762 13 2 10 15 GBR Paul di Resta Force India-Mercedes 55 +1:03.602 9 1 11 14 DEU Adrian Sutil Force India-Mercedes 55 +1:11.229 10 12 11 BRA Rubens Barrichello Williams-Cosworth 55 +1:33.068 18 13 9 BRA Bruno Senna Renault 54 +1 Lap 15 14 20 FIN Heikki Kovalainen Lotus-Renault 54 +1 Lap 19 15 16 JPN Kamui Kobayashi Sauber-Ferrari 54 +1 Lap 14 16 17 MEX Sergio Pérez Sauber-Ferrari 54 +1 Lap 17 17 21 ITA Jarno Trulli Lotus-Renault 54 +1 Lap 20 18 24 DEU Timo Glock Virgin-Cosworth 54 +1 Lap 21 19 22 AUS Daniel Ricciardo HRT-Cosworth 54 +1 Lap 24 20 25 BEL Jérôme d'Ambrosio Virgin-Cosworth 54 +1 Lap 22 21 23 ITA Vitantonio Liuzzi HRT-Cosworth 52 +3 Laps 23 Ret Retired 12 VEN Pastor Maldonado Williams-Cosworth 30 Clutch 16 Ret Retired 10 RUS Vitaly Petrov Renault 16 Collision damage 8 Ret Retired 7 DEU Michael Schumacher Mercedes 15 Collision 12Source:2011 FORMULA 1 KOREAN GRAND PRIX - Race Results http://www.formula1.com/results/season/2010/851/ formula1.com 28 December 2015 https://web.archive.org/web/20150103174829/http://www.formula1.com/results/season/2011/851/ 3 January 2015 Championship standings after the race Drivers' Championship standings Pos. Position Driver Points 10px 1 DEU Sebastian Vettel 349 10px 2 GBR Jenson Button 222 10px 3 ESP Fernando Alonso 212 10px 4 AUS Mark Webber 209 10px 5 GBR Lewis Hamilton 196Source:https://www.statsf1.com/en/2011/coree-du-sud/championnat.aspx South Korea 2011 - Championship • STATS F1 www.statsf1.com 19 March 2019 Constructors' Championship standings Pos. Position Constructor Points 10px 1 AUT Red Bull Racing-Renault 558 10px 2 GBR McLaren-Mercedes 418 10px 3 ITA Ferrari 310 10px 4 DEU Mercedes 127 10px 5 GBR Renault 72Source: Note: Only the top five positions are included for both sets of standings. Bold text indicates the 2011 World Champions. Footnotes N References External links Korean Grand Prix 2011 2011 Japanese Grand Prix 2011 Indian Grand Prix 2010 Korean Grand Prix 2012 Korean Grand Prix 2011 Formula One Grand Prix Korean Grand Prix Korean Grand Prix