Alonso Wins in Germany as Ferrari Show Favourtism

Fernando Alonso won the German Grand Prix under somewhat suspect circumstances in the Ferrari camp. Ferrari dominated from the get go as Vettel was too busy trying to force Alonso off the road and inadvertently allowed Mass to overtake the pair of them. Vettel's strategy failed on all accounts because Alonso passed the young German on the first corner anyway and Ferrari were heading an early one-two. The Red Bull of Webber fared no better as both McLarens passed in the first few corners. From there, there wasn't any real drama apart from Buemi having to retire after his teammate Alguersuari took his rear wing off.

As Massa and Alonso were looking into a one-two Alonso looked a little quicker and tried to overtake his Brazilian team-mate but failed. This resulted in the Ferrari garage having a big discussion on whether or not Massa should let Alonso through and decided to leave it for now. This seemed the right call as Massa found his pace and began to get away slightly from Alonso, but the Spaniard was having none of it and soon caught back up with Massa. This led to further discussions amongst the Ferrari garage and after being told just a handful of laps ago that Massa was on course to win and to keep going, they made a U-turn and told Massa to let Alonso pass and let the Spaniard win. He did so reluctantly and Alonso did go onto win, but I don't think it was the right call and unfair for Massa. If anything Ferrari should have let their drivers race for it but make sure they kept it clean so they avoided a repeat of Vettel and Webber's coming together in Turkey.

The standings are as follow: 1. Alonso (Ferrari), 2.Massa (Ferrari), 3. Vettel (Red Bull), 4. Hamilton (McLaren), 5.Button (McLaren), 6.Webber (Red Bull), 7. Kubica (Renault), 8. Rosberg (Mercedes), 9. Schumacher (Mercedes), 10. Petrov (Renault), 11. Kobayashi (Sauber), 12. Barrichello (Williams), 13.Hulkenburg (Williams), 14 De La Rosa (Sauber), 15. Alguersuari (Toro Rosso), 16. Liuzzi (Force India), 17. Sutil (Force India), 18. Glock (Virgin), 19. Senna (Hispania) Retired: Kovalainen (Lotus), Di Grassi (Virgin), Yamamoto (Hispania), Trulli (Lotus) and Buemi (Toro Rosso)

This leaves Hamilton still leading the championships now 14 points ahead of Button on 157. Webber is third ahead of Vettel on fourth with both drivers on 136 points. Alonso's victory puts him on 123 points and still has a chance of maybe winning the championship but it's going to take some doing.