Webber wins at Silverstone

Mark Webber has won the British Grand Prix. This is his second win of the season, following his victory at Monaco, and his second win at Silverstone for Red Bull.

This result means that Webber has closed the gap to championship leader Fernando Alonso by seven points, with 116 and 129 points respectively. In the constructors' championship, Red Bull leads with 216 points to Ferrari's 152.

British Grand Prix in pictures

Pole-sitter Alonso was first into turn one, ahead of Webber, Michael Schumacher and teammate Felipe Massa, who had managed to overtake Sebastian Vettel at the start.

Alonso's lead was up to 1.3 seconds by lap six, but Webber never stopped pushing. The gap between them was down to just four-tenths of a second by lap 46, and two laps later Webber was ahead with a little help from his DRS.

Webber finished the race a full three seconds ahead of Alonso, while teammate Sebastian Vettel took the final spot on the podium. Massa had looked promising throughout the race and finished a season-best fourth, ahead of Kimi Raikkonen in fifth.

Despite losing time early in the race with a pit stop for a new front wing, Romain Grosjean battled his way from the back of the grid on lap five to finish the race an impressive sixth.

Schumacher finished seventh, ahead of Lewis Hamilton, Bruno Senna and Jenson Button. The McLaren drivers struggled throughout the race, and the team are now behind Lotus in the championship. Hamilton did put on a show for the fans, though, with a few donuts on track.

Sauber's Kamui Kobayashi narrowly missed out on a spot in the top 10. He made a mistake on his way into the pit box, knocking over several of his crew in the process. He has been fined 25,000 Euro for an unsafe move in the pits.

Kobayshai's teamate, Sergio Perez failed to finish the race. Pastor Maldonado drove into him on lap 12, causing a puncture for himself and ending the young Sauber driver's weekend.

Perez later said: "Pastor is a driver that doesn't respect the other drivers… I really hope the stewards will do something." Maldonado was later handed a 10,000 Euro fine and a reprimand for causing the collision.

It was a tough home Grand Prix for Paul di Resta. The Scot made contact with Grosjean on the first lap, and picked up a puncture and suspension damage. By lap four, he was forced to retire from the race.

Vitaly Petrov didn't take part in the race, as his car suffered an engine failure on the out-lap. This raises further questions about the reliability of the Renault engines, following failures for Vettel and Grosjean during the closing stages of the European Grand Prix two weeks ago.

2012 British Grand Prix results