Vettel wins South Korea Grand Prix

Sebastian Vettel won the Korean Grand Prix on Sunday (October 16) to secure Red Bulls second successive Formula One constructors championship with his 10th victory of the season. The 24-year-old German, who clinched back-to-back drivers title in Japan last weekend, took the lead from McLarens Lewis Hamilton on the opening lap and never looked back despite a safety car period bunching up the field.Hamilton finished runner-up, 12 seconds behind the sports youngest double champion, with Australian Mark Webber third for Red Bull and just 0.4 adrift. After predictions of a flurry of pitstops and heavy tyre degradation, the leaders made just two trips to the pits on an afternoon short on thrills at the little-used circuit 320km south of Seoul.Mercedess Schumacher retired on lap 17 after his car was speared in the rear by Vitaly Petrovs Renault into turn three. The Russian nursed his car back to the garage and called it a day. The collision brought out the safety car for three laps while marshals collected the debris from the collision that Ferraris Fernando Alonso narrowly avoided.Hamilton and Webber then provided the main excitement with a closely fought duel that saw the pair fighting and trading positions repeatedly before and after the second pitstop. Jenson Button, the 2009 champion who won in Japan for McLaren, finished fourth after dropping from third to sixth at the start with Alonso and Ferrari teammate Felipe Massa fifth and sixth respectively.Toro Rosso had Spaniard Jaime Alguersuari and Sebastian Buemi finish seventh and ninth with Mercedes German Nico Rosberg eighth. Britains Paul Di Resta took the final point for Force India. Yes, yes, yes. Ten wins my friend, whooped Vettel over the radio after crossing the finishing line.I was able to open a gap just before we had the second pitstop and then to the end it was just fantastic, I could push when I had to and obviously got a litle gap when those guys were fighting, but it was fantastic, after last weekend the drivers championship, this weekend the constructors championship for the team, Vettel told the post-race news conference.Hamilton, who had started on pole position for the first time since Canada in June last year, had appeared almost downcast on Saturday but allowed himself a smile on his first podium appearance for six races.