The Red Bull civil war was boiling over on Sunday. Webber still unhappy with losing the front wing on Saturday wanted to show his abilities during the race and he sure did that. In to the first corner he led Vettel and Hamilton was with them too. As Vettel moved into Apex of the first corner he touched Hamilton's car and immediately his tyre was punctured. At Becketts he lost control of the car and went off the track. Hamilton's car continued undamaged while Vettel fell to the back. In the meantime Alonso had had a bad start from 3rd. He was fighting with his teammate Massa who managed to get alongside him the two teammates touched and Massa was also left hobbling back to the pit lane with a puncture. Button meanwhile having started back in 14th had had a brilliant first lap as he kept passing cars getting off line and out of shape, he was up to 8th after a lap. The race evened out following the starting mayhem until the stops. At this stage Hamilton had been working his hardest to keep up with Webber, the gap had extended to about five seconds. There had also been a massive battle from third to 11th as the pace between the cars was even.

During the stops Rosberg who had inherited fourth from the Ferraris on lap 1 stayed out later and managed to get ahead of Kubica for third, first though he had to overtake Alguersuari who was on a different strategy, he put a peach of a move on the young Spaniard into Brooklands, it was a beautiful move. On lap 16 Alonso caught the Renault, he passed him off the track. A few laps later Kubica retired from the race and for the manoeuvre Alonso was handed a drive through penalty for passing off the track. This would be the second race in succession when Alonso would feel he was being screwed by the FIA. For the second time in succession though he was just unlucky.

Button had stayed out of the pits longer than anyone else and when he finally ventured in on lap 21 he had turned 8th into 6th. On lap 25 a battle between De La Rosa and Adrian Sutil led to contact, parts of the BMW Sauber car were on the race track at both the start finish line and hangar straight. The safety car was scrambled. Having been just off the leaders pace for the whole race to this point this gave Vettel a chance to catch up. When the safety car came back in a couple of laps later he was 14th and ready to fight. He took the also recovering Massa quickly and Alonso succumbed thanks to his penalty. Alguersuari was the next target and he didn't prove a big obstacle for the charging Red Bull. When he passed Petrov as well he found himself in the points. A lap later and he had Hulkenberg as well. We were then treated to the battle we had been waiting for. Schumacher and Vettel together on the track. This had been Schumacher's best weekend for a while and yet he still proved easy prey for Vettel down the new straight into Brooklands. Schumacher tried to force the Red Bull driver onto the grass but Vettel kept his foot in and got the job done.

Next up the field was Adrian Sutil, the Force India driver took some beating and Vettel had to get physical bumping him out of the way to make the pass. It was a great recovery drive for Vettel, without the safety car he would have been nowhere and yet he did not have the greatest drive on the day. There were many superb performances. Hamilton drove to the limit the whole race in the Mclaren. Button made the best of his poor qualifying performance in getting a deserved fourth and Barrichello and Kobayashi get brilliant finishes in 5th and 6th places.

One driver who will be glad to be out of Silverstone again will be Felippe Massa who suffered a second puncture near the end following a spin. A scoreless day for Ferrari after such a promising qualifying showing the day before will depress the team in a championship that is increasingly (but not deservingly) becoming a two horse race.

Webber was sublime and seemed always to have a little extra on hand if he needed it. As it was he was the class of the field today and deserved the points but there were a lot of class drives out there and it bodes well for the rest of the season.