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Vettel puts in the race for the world title!

Fourteenth of twenty rounds of the World Championship 2012 Formula 1 Singapore Grand Prix saw the double world champion title Sebastian Vettel reconnect with the success last weekend. With a multitude of different winners this season, we had almost forgotten the Red Bull-Renault driver, whose last victory dating back to Bahrain Grand Prix in April.

In the Asian city-state, Vettel has all the same benefited a small dose of luck as the origin nobody seemed able to beat Lewis Hamilton, who qualified in pole position, led the first half of the race before see the gearbox in his McLaren-Mercedes make the soul. Second, Vettel suddenly inherited command and containing easily the ski lift Jenson Button McLaren with the other in the closing laps, he triumphs. A success that allows him to return to the second place in the championship, twenty-nine points of Fernando Alonso (Ferrari), third in the Grand Prix.

Paul Di Resta with his Force India-Mercedes finished fourth. This is to date the best result in F1 for the young Scottish rider, who is playing in his second year of F1. Nico Rosberg (Mercedes) and the duo of Team Lotus-Renault, Kimi Raikkonen and Romain Grosjean, round off the "Top 7".

NASCAR Denny Hamlin (Toyota) has won a third victory in five starts in the Sprint Cup, to climb to third in the championship, behind the new leader, the multiple champion Jimmie Johnson (Chevrolet) and Brad Keselowski (Dodge). If the Sprint Cup rolling in Oval Loudon New Hampshire, the other two stars of NASCAR series they were on a Kentucky Speedway. Nationwide, the victory went to Austin Dillon, while in Camping World Trucks is James Buescher which is required.

World Championship of GT cars was presented as his penultimate meeting of the 2012 season, and most likely its history. Indeed, with competition Endurance World Championship and several other series for GT cars in Europe and elsewhere in the world, this series has all the trouble of the world together more than a dozen competitors in recent months. Despite all races remain contested. This time on the Nurburgring, the duo Toni Vilander / Filip Salaquarda who wins, offering a Ferrari 458 Italia first win in this competition.

Finally, in the North American Rally Cup, the Californian Ken Block and his co-driver Alessandro Gelsomino (Ford Fiesta HFHV) have harvest one second consecutive victory. This time it was at the Olympus Rally in Washington State. On roads that have, in the 1990s, hosted the World Championships, the best North American specialists were forced to compete in a highly reduced his term ordeal, following the threat of forest fires. Block has won all stages, to win before England's David Higgins (Subaru Impreza WRX STi) and the Quebecois Antoine L'Estage (Mitsubishi Lancer Evo.X). However, the third place was enough L'Estage and his co-driver Nathalie Richard to be crown champions, while still two rounds to play Canada.

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