Mark Webber has won his first Formula One Grand Prix in Germany, leading home Sebastian Vettel in the Red Bull Racing team's third one-two finish of the season. Felipe Massa completed the podium for Ferrari as the championship-leading Brawn team came home fifth and sixth with Jenson Button and Rubens Barrichello.

After a generally chilly weekend at the Nürburgring, temperatures reached a more pleasant 18°C (64°F) on Sunday as Mark Webber lined up on his first ever pole position for the Red Bull team. Behind the Australian, Rubens Barrichello led the charge for Brawn GP ahead of team-mate Jenson Button and Sebastian Vettel.

As the lights went out, contact on the straight between Webber and Barrichello would come back to haunt the Australian, who was handed with a drive-through penalty. With a KERS system yielding an extra three tenths of a second per lap for the McLaren team this weekend, Lewis Hamilton made the most of the device to shoot from fifth to the lead of the race at Turn 1, before running wide and picking up a right-rear puncture. The World Champion, who hoped for rain, languished at the back of the field for the remainder of the afternoon as team-mate Heikki Kovalainen picked up a point, the team's first since Bahrain five races ago.

Sébastien Bourdais was the first car to drop out of the race with a problem and off-track excursion at Turn 11; the Frenchman is rumoured to have now driven his last race for the Toro Rosso team, although time will tell whether or not the paddock gossip was true. Kimi Räikkönen's Ferrari joined him in retirement from the race, as an engine problem caused the car to slow whilst running in a points position.

Felipe Massa enjoyed a positive day in the second Ferrari, however, achieving his first podium finish of the year on the back of fourth place at Silverstone. Both the Brazilian and the Williams of Nico Rosberg were able to jump ahead of the Brawn team, which struggled with either traffic or tyre issues all race long.

With a bad start by Vettel dropping the German to sixth, Button was held up in the early stages by Heikki Kovalainen which saw the Englishman rejoin in the heart of midfield scraps after his first pit-stop. Eventually recovering to fifth with graining problems for his tyres, the championship leader's advantage has been cut to 21 points at the half way mark of the season; the leading British driver was fortunate to have team-mate Rubens Barrichello finishing behind him, defending from a hard-charging Fernando Alonso in the late stages.

Adrian Sutil's day promised much with a seventh place on the grid plus a heavy fuel load to enable a flexible strategy after a superb qualifying lap on Saturday. Unfortunately for the German, who ran as high as second, contact with Kimi Räikkönen when exiting the pits resulted in a loss of his left front wing endplate and, with it, all chances of points.

With the Hungarian Grand Prix coming up in a fortnight's time, the Red Bull team has now outscored Brawn for the third consecutive race as the Brackley-based team's advantage is cut to 19.5 points. The German Grand Prix of 2009 will be mostly remembered for the incredible driver of Mark Webber, however, who - despite taking a drive-through penalty - outdrove both the Brawn team and team-mate Sebastian Vettel to clinch his first ever victory since joining F1 with Minardi in 2002.


German Grand Prix Race Timings

Pos	No	Driver	Team	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Pts
1	14	Mark Webber	RBR-Renault	60	1:36:43.310	1	10
2	15	Sebastian Vettel	RBR-Renault	60	+9.2 secs	4	8
3	3	Felipe Massa	Ferrari	60	+15.9 secs	8	6
4	16	Nico Rosberg	Williams-Toyota	60	+21.0 secs	15	5
5	22	Jenson Button	Brawn-Mercedes	60	+23.6 secs	3	4
6	23	Rubens Barrichello	Brawn-Mercedes	60	+24.4 secs	2	3
7	7	Fernando Alonso	Renault	60	+24.8 secs	12	2
8	2	Heikki Kovalainen	McLaren-Mercedes	60	+58.6 secs	6	1
9	10	Timo Glock	Toyota	60	+61.4 secs	20
10	6	Nick Heidfeld	BMW Sauber	60	+61.9 secs	11
11	21	Giancarlo Fisichella	Force India-Mercedes	60	+62.3 secs	18
12	17	Kazuki Nakajima	Williams-Toyota	60	+62.8 secs	13
13	8	Nelsinho Piquet	Renault	60	+68.3 secs	10
14	5	Robert Kubica	BMW Sauber	60	+69.5 secs	16
15	20	Adrian Sutil	Force India-Mercedes	60	+71.9 secs	7
16	12	Sebastien Buemi	STR-Ferrari	60	+90.2 secs	17
17	9	Jarno Trulli	Toyota	60	+90.9 secs	14
18	1	Lewis Hamilton	McLaren-Mercedes	59	+1 Lap	5
Ret	4	Kimi Räikkönen	Ferrari	34	+26 Laps	9
Ret	11	Sebastien Bourdais	STR-Ferrari	18	Hydraulics	19

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