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Button winner Vettel champion!

Fifteenth of nineteen steps 2011 World Championship Formula 1 Grand Prix of Japan, presented last weekend at Suzuka, saw Jenson Button lead to victory his McLaren-Mercedes.

Qualified second behind Sebastian Vettel, Button took command has the favor of the judgments sinks Vettel, the latter incorporating the track after the last change of tires in back of Button, but Fernando Alonso was inserted has reached its Ferrari between the two world title contenders.

The last laps were only a formality because Vettel did not seek to try the impossible to challenge one of the first two rows, the third place being sufficient to ensure him a second consecutive world title. At only 24 years, the German driver became the youngest double world champion in the history of Formula 1.

Mark Webber finished fourth ahead of Lewis Hamilton, well back after a puncture has consecutive contact with Felipe Massa, who finished seventh as to him, just behind Michael Schumacher, a great end to the other race.

Suzuka was the seventieth seventeenth F1 Grand Prix in the career of Vettel. The prodigy has won nineteen and harvesting twenty-seven pole positions. Almost one out of two is on the podium while his F1 career debuted there are only 4 years, first at the controls of a Sauber-BMW (one race in 2007) before continuing in Toro Rosso and he played his first full season and scored his first victory in 2008. Vettel argument in his third season in F1 Red Bull.

NASCAR is the oval Kansas City Sprint Cup Series and Nationwide each had a round. Nationwide, the dominance of Brad Keselowski (Dodge Team Penske) was never overwhelming victory did not seem to escape him. Carl Edwards (Ford Roush-Fenway Racing) and Elliott Sadler, the first Chevrolet entered by the team of Kevin Harvick have full round of the first three

When Featured ordeal weekend, the Sprint Cup champion Jimmie Johnson (Chevrolet / Hendrick Motorsports) has clinched a new gain on this track which he so often luck. Johnson ahead on arrival Kasey Kahne (Toyota) and Brad Keselowski in Nationwide not as dominant but realized all the same a great deal in the championship, pointing henceforth a fourth place, behind Harvick, Johnson and Edwards.

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