1. Fernando Alonso takes the victory and the lead of the championship – 2010
If Mark Webber’s retirement from the race wasn’t dramatic enough, the action just kept on coming with countless incidents and accidents.
Through it all though, Fernando Alonso was running second with only a few laps to go. He’d overcome a slow pit stop earlier in the race to pass Hamilton, and was catching Sebastian Vettel. But it seemed like the German had it all under control, until, and not for the first time that season, Red Bull’s reliability let it down.
Vettel suffered a spectacular engine failure which left him with no points, despite having led for most the race. It was a terrible race for Red Bull, who suffered a rare double DNF and seemingly seen Sebastian go out of title contention.
Alonso didn’t mind though, and he negotiated the closing laps serenely, with a comfortable margin over Hamilton, to take his fifth victory of the season. The reaction from him, and the whole of the Ferrari team, said it all. This was a race they hadn’t expected to win, and now, with two races to go, they were back in the lead of the championship.
Little did they know that Vettel would stage a fight back in the last two races to take his first title.
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