Team by team analysis of Sunday's German Formula One Grand Prix (listed in championship order):-MCLAREN (Lewis Hamilton 4, Jenson Button 5)Hamilton got ahead of Button at the start and ended the day with an increased lead over his team mate of 14 points. McLaren's advantage of Red Bull slipped to 28 points.-RED BULL (Sebastian Vettel 3, Mark Webber 6)Vettel started on pole for the sixth time in 11 races but lost out at the start to the two Ferraris. He is now level on points with Webber, but behind 3-2 on race wins. Webber had an oil problem towards the end and had to nurse the car home. Vettel set the fastest lap.-FERRARI (Fernando Alonso 1, Felipe Massa 2)Alonso's second win of the season and 23rd of his career. Ferrari's second 1-2 of the year but a controversial one after Massa, who led from the start, was ordered to move aside.-MERCEDES (Nico Rosberg 8, Michael Schumacher 9)Schumacher made up three places at the start in his first home race since 2006 and first in Germany with Mercedes, getting ahead of Rosberg who got back in front after his second pitstop.-RENAULT (Robert Kubica 7, Vitaly Petrov 10)Petrov scored for the first time since April and his first in dry conditions. Two cars in the top 10, for only the second time this year, but both lapped by Ferrari.-FORCE INDIA (Vitantonio Liuzzi 16, Adrian Sutil 17)The drivers collided on the opening lap and then a tyre bungle at the first pitstop, with each fitted with one of the other's tyres, cost them a reprimand.-WILLIAMS (Rubens Barrichello 12, Nico Hulkenberg 13)Both struggled to make a clean getaway and lost positions at the start.-SAUBER (Kamui Kobayashi 11, Pedro de la Rosa 14)Both drivers finished at least but Kobayashi's scoring run came to an end. De la Rosa said the first laps on hard tyres were like driving on ice.-TORO ROSSO (Jaime Alguersuari 15, Sebastien Buemi retired)The two collided at the start, with Alguersuari apologising for driving into Buemi. He pitted for a new front wing and continued but Buemi's race was over.-LOTUS (Heikki Kovalainen and Jarno Trulli retired)Team bosses started the day by paying their respects to the late great Jim Clark at the memorial marking his death at the circuit in 1968. Trulli retired on lap four with a gearbox problem. Kovalainen in lap 60 after colliding with De la Rosa.-HRT (Bruno Senna 19, Sakon Yamamoto retired)No luck and no points as usual for the team. Yamamoto stopped on lap 19 with a mechanical failure.-VIRGIN (Timo Glock 18, Lucas di Grassi retired)Glock was the top driver from the new teams, despite starting on the last row. Di Grassi retired with broken suspension.(Reporting by Alan Baldwin, editing by Pritha Sarkar; To query or comment on this story email sportsfeedback@thomsonreuters.com)News posted by www.newsinfoline.com
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