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Five For Five and Fire In Spain
Five For Five and Fire In Spain
Date: 2012-05-16
This past Sunday was a fabulous day for Williams and praise goes to Pastor Maldonado who drove his faultless Williams FW34 past everybody's surprise. Another maiden victory just after the other maiden victory.
Lotus was looking so good in qualifying but Maldonado only lost his lead at the start of the race to Fernando Alonso and did all he could to hold him off at the end. Alonso took a well-deserved second place. Third and fourth fell to Lotus with Kimi Raikkonen and lotus team mate Romain Grosjean hot on the leaders heels. Sauber's Kamui Kobayashi took fifth place in what must have been a disappointing result for the team who showed so much potential in qualifying. Red Bull had a disappointing day with both cars needing new noses and only Vettel managing to stay in the points with sixth position. 2012 does seem to be the same run away year as 2010 and 2011 was for them.
The points standing sees Red Bull Racing-Renault in first place with 109, McLaren-Mercedes in second place with 98 points and Lotus-Renault third with 84. Ferrari holds onto fourth with 63 points and Mercedes lies fifth on 43.
In the Driver Standings the German Sebastian Vettel of Red Bull Racing-Renault holds onto first place with his 61 points. Fernando Alonso of Ferrari lies second with 61, while Lewis Hamilton of McLaren-Mercedes has 53. Ying fourth Kimi Räikkönen of Lotus-Renault has 49 points while Mark Webber of Red Bull Racing-Renault holds fifth place with 48.
The next race will be in romantic Monaco on Sunday the 27th of May.