Formula 1: Best result of the season for Kobayashi
Celebration by BMW Sauber driver Kamui Kobayashi: The Japanese, whose car is equipped with ZF Sachs Race Engineering dampers, finished in seventh place in the European GP at Valencia. As a result, Kobayashi claimed his best result of the season and collected six world championship points. Team mate Pedro de la Rosa was tenth.
Local matador Fernando Alonso took ninth place at Valencia, in the championship the Spaniard, whose Ferrari is also equipped with damper technology from Schweinfurt, currently lies in fifth place. Team mate Felipe Massa finished 14th.
Nico Rosberg won the prestigious internal duel in the Mercedes GP team once again. The German, who relies on dampers supplied by the ZF Sachs brand in his Mercedes, finished in twelfth place. Team mate Michael Schumacher was 16.
The Swiss S�bastien Buemi scored four world championship points after finishing eighth overall in the STR-Ferrari. It was already the third points scoring finish in four races for Buemi in whose car both clutches and dampers from ZF Sachs are used.
The two HRT F1 team drivers Karun Chandhok and Bruno Senna who rely on clutches and dampers made in German finished the European GP in the luckless 19th and 20th positions.
Result European GP (E), round 9, FIA Formula 1 World Championship, 25.06.-27.06.2010:
1 Sebastian Vettel, Red Bull, 1h 40m 29.571s
2 Lewis Hamilton, McLaren, + 5.042s
3 Jenson Button, McLaren, + 7.658s
4 Rubens Barrichello, Williams, + 20.969s
5 Robert Kubica, Renault, + 22.122s
6 Adrian Sutil, Force India, + 25.168s
7 Kamui Kobayashi, Sauber, + 30.965s, ZF Sachs
8 S�bastien Buemi, Scuderia Toro Rosso, + 31.299s, ZF Sachs
9 Fernando Alonso, Ferrari, + 32.809s, ZF Sachs
10 Pedro de la Rosa, Sauber, + 42.414s, ZF Sachs
Drivers� World Championship standings:
1 Lewis Hamilton, 127 points; 2 Jenson Button, 121; 3 Sebastian Vettel, 115; 4 Mark Webber, 103; 5 Fernando Alonso, 96; 6 Robert Kubica, 83; 7 Nico Rosberg, 74; 8 Felipe Massa, 67; 9 Michael Schumacher, 34; 10 Adrian Sutil, 31.
Manufacturers� World Championship standings:
1 McLaren-Mercedes, 248 points; 2 Red Bull Renault, 218; 3 Ferrari, 163; 4 Mercedes, 108; 5 Renault, 89; 6 Force India-Mercedes, 43; 7 Williams-Cosworth, 20; 8 STR-Ferrari, 12; 9 Sauber-Ferrari, 8.
Other results:
Result Valencia (E), round 5, Supercup, 25.06.-27.06.2010:
1 Ren� Rast, Porsche, 30m 35.701s, ZF Sachs
2 Norbert Siedler, Porsche, + 7.259s, ZF Sachs
3 Jeroen Bleekemolen, Porsche, + 10.670s, ZF Sachs
4 Jaap van Lagen, Porsche, + 15.019s, ZF Sachs
5 Sean Edwards, Porsche, + 17.756s, ZF Sachs
6 Stefan Rosina, Porsche, + 18.049s, ZF Sachs
7 Patrick Huisman, Porsche, + 18.583s, ZF Sachs
8 Nick Tandy, Porsche, + 19.375s, ZF Sachs
9 Sascha Maassen, Porsche, + 23.190s, ZF Sachs
10 Sebastiaan Bleekemolen, Porsche, + 28.449s, ZF Sachs
Drivers� Championship standings:
1 Ren� Rast, 88 points; 2 Jeroen Bleekemolen, 74; 3 Nick Tandy, 68; 4 Stefan Rosina, 64; 5 Norbert Siedler, 54; 6 Jaap van Laagen, 44; 7 Patrick Huisman, 40; 8 Jan Seyffarth, 36; 9 Sean Edwards, 32; 10 Sascha Maassen and Alessandro Zampedri, 28.