German Grand Prix

One of the jewel races of the season didn't fail to disappoint, especially the Germans, as Sebastian Vettel hung on for dear life in the closing laps to take the win. It was a fairly clean race, with no collisions except for a cameraman and a tire. Mark Webber went in for a pit stop and his rear right tire wasn't fitted properly. He took off as his crew was calling him back, but it was too late has the tire fell off and knocked a cameraman down and Webber had to be pushed back to get the tire fitted the right way and he found himself at the back of the pack. Ferrari tried a different strategy by starting the race on the hard tires and let everyone else wear down their soft tires. Although, in the very early stages of the race, Felipe Massa had what appeared to be a mechanical failure and pulled off the track and was out of the race. Once again it was up to Alonso to save the day for Ferrari, which he did. He kept a good pace for the entire race even when he was feeling uncomfortable with the tires he was on and managed to stay at front of the pack throughout. Everything heated up with about 5 laps to go when Raikkonen was chasing down Vettel for first and Alonso was quickly catching Grosjean for third. Alonso was on a new soft tires whereas Grosjean was on 6 lap old softs. Unfortunately for Ferrari, Alonso couldn't catch Grosjean and just missed the podium. If there was just 1 or 2 laps more in the race, I think we would've been seeing Kimi with the victory and Alonso on the podium instead of Grosjean. However, more importantly, Pirelli made changes to the tires from last week in Britain and there were no problems for the any of the drivers except for Mercedes who continue to fight tire wear. In the end, it was a fantastic race and nice to see a German win if it wasn't going to be a Ferrari.