Yet again, the Red Bull cars of Mark Webber and Sebastian Vettel took the first two spots on the starting grid. Lewis Hamilton started from third and Fernando Alonso was second.Vettel got off to a good start, but Webber was overtaken early by Alonso. Hamilton lost third place to Vitaly Petrov early on as well. Jenson Button started 11th but was back in 14th just after the start. Vettel set a great pace and by lap 9 was 8 seconds ahead of Alonso. Lap 16 saw the emergence of the safety car and after that several things happened. A wheel flew off of Nico Rosberg's car into the pit lane, but luckily no one was injured. Seconds later more drama in the pit lane when Robert Kubica and Adrian Sutil collided.