Nico Rosberg on a 1 stop strategy picks up 11 spots and Lewis Hamilton on lap 1 looses 13. Mark Webber goes on to overcome a drive through penalty and win his first Grand Prix in 130 starts.

Sunday Race Results:

Position (Points)	Driver	Team	Laps	Time	Gain/Loss
1 (10)	Webber	Red Bull Racing	60	1:36:43.310	-
2 (8)	Vettel	Red Bull Racing	60	+9.2 secs	+2
3 (6)	Massa	Scuderia Ferrari	60	+15.9 secs	+5
4 (5)	Rosberg	Williams	60	+21.0 secs	+11
5 (4)	Button	Brawn GP	60	+23.6 secs	-2
6 (3)	Barrichello	Brawn GP	60	+24.4 secs	-4
7 (2)	Alonso	Renault	60	+24.8 secs	+5
8 (1)	Kovalainen	McLaren Mercedes	60	+58.6 secs	-2
9	Glock	Toyota	60	+61.4 secs	+11
10	Heidfeld	BMW Sauber	60	+61.9 secs	+1
11	Fisichella	Force India	60	+62.3 secs	+7
12	Nakajima	Williams	60	+62.8 secs	+1
13	Piquet	Renault	60	+68.3 secs	-3
14	Kubica	BMW Sauber	60	+69.5 secs	+2
15	Sutil	Force India	60	+71.9 secs	-8
16	Buemi	Scuderia Toro Rosso	60	+90.2 secs	+1
17	Trulli	Toyota	60	+90.9 secs	-3
18	Hamilton	McLaren Mercedes	59	+1	-13
19	Raikkonen	Scuderia Ferrari	34	DNF	-10
20	Bourdais	Scuderia Toro Rosso	18	DNF	-1

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Saturday Qualifying Results:

Position	Driver	Team	Q1	Q2	Q3	Weight (kg)
1	Webber	Red Bull Racing	1:31.257	1:38.038	1:32.230	661
2	Barrichello	Brawn GP	1:31.482	1:34.455	1:32.357	647
3	Button	Brawn GP	1:31.568	1:39.032	1:32.473	644
4	Vettel	Red Bull Racing	1:31.430	1:39.504	1:32.480	661
5	Hamilton	McLaren Mercedes	1:31.473	1:39.149	1:32.616	654.5
6	Kovalainen	McLaren Mercedes	1:31.881	1:40.826	1:33.859	664
7	Sutil	Force India	1:32.015	1:36.740	1:34.316	678.5
8	Massa	Scuderia Ferrari	1:31.600	1:41.708	1:34.574	673.5
9	Raikkonen	Scuderia Ferrari	1:31.869	1:41.730	1:34.710	674
10	Piquet	Renault	1:32.128	1:35.737	1:34.803	676
11	Heidfeld	BMW Sauber	1:31.771	1:42.310		681
12	Alonso	Renault	1:31.302	1:42.318		668.2
13	Nakajima	Williams	1:31.884	1:42.500		683.6
14	Trulli	Toyota	1:31.760	1:42.771		683.7
15	Rosberg	Williams	1:31.598	1:42.859		689.6
16	Kubica	BMW Sauber	1:32.190			673.5
17	Buemi	Scuderia Toro Rosso	1:32.251			674.5
18	Fisichella	Force India	1:32.402			662.5
19	Glock	Toyota	1:32.423			689.5
20	Bourdais	Scuderia Toro Rosso	1:33.559			662.3

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The fallout of Bernie Ecclestone’s ‘Hitler’ interview continued on Tuesday as it emerged the F1 chief executive reportedly called off a scheduled appearance at the Nurburgring circuit this weekend.

After describing the outrage sparked by his Hitler comments as a ‘big misunderstanding’ in the German press, Ecclestone has now turned to the English-speaking print media to apologize for his comments.

“What I regret is people who have taken this the wrong way and have been offended, I’m really, really sad about because I have done an awful lot for the Jewish community, charities and whatever,” Ecclestone said.

For obvious reasons, a leader of Germany’s Christian Democratic Union party could not at this time be meeting with a man accused of sympathizing with tyrant Adolf Hitler.  The decision of German state premier Gunther Oettinger to cancel his meeting with Ecclestone this weekend was interpreted as a blow to Hockenheim’s hopes of retaining its F1 race.

But Auto Motor und Sport reports that the alternate Nurburgring meeting on Sunday is still to take place, with a lawyer or another representative of the Baden-Wurttemberg state to join Ecclestone instead.

“As far as I’m concerned I am to meet him at 12 o’clock on Sunday. Nobody has said anything to the contrary to me,” Ecclestone said.

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