Sebastian Vettel led team-mate Mark Webber for another Red Bull 1-2 that sealed the constructors' championship at the Brazilian Grand Prix.More importantly for the drivers, it keeps both of their title hopes alive at the season-ending Abu Dhabi Grand Prix but with Fernando Alonso in a much more favorable position finishing third ahead of Lewis Hamilton.
The result means that Alonso leads Webber by only eight points with Vettel a further seven behind his team-mate. Lewis Hamilton, who finished fourth, and Jenson Button 5th are now very much out of title contention although McLaren Mercedes seemed to bounce back during summer races.
Although Nico Hulkenberg made the big surpise with his wet pole position, both Vettel and Webber has an easy task at the start of the race overtaking him and secured a safe gap by Lewis Hamilton and Fernando Alonso behind them as they had a difficulty to pass Hulkenberg as well
The pit stop window was opened early by Jenson Button, who stopped for hard tyres in an attempt to leap the cars ahead of him that were bottled up behind Hulkenberg. The strategy worked and he finished fifth by clocking some quick laps on his new tyres while the softer rubber on the cars ahead grained and lost grip.
Midway through the race Webber launched an attack on Vettel as they came up behind traffic, but he never got the gap under 1.5 seconds. On lap 58 the race took on a new dimension as Tonio Liuzzi had a bizarre accident at turn two and brought out the safety car. However, with backmarkers scattered among the frontrunners, Vettel's lead was safe.
Hamilton, Button, Schumacher and Rosberg were the only drivers outside the top three on the lead lap and used that advantage to pit for a new set of tyres and rejoin without losing position. However, the fresh rubber didn't give them the advantage they had hoped for at the restart and Hamilton didn't trouble Alonso.
Hulkenberg led the drivers a lap down in eighth, with Robert Kubica and Kamui Kobayashi rounding out the top ten and taking the final points.
Local drivers Rubens Barrichello and Felipe Massa had disastrous races and dropped from their top ten grid positions to 14th and 15th respectively. Barrichello suffered a puncture after a slow first pit stop and Massa had to pit twice early in the race to tighten up a loose wheel nut.
The drivers' championship now moves to Abu Dhabi with a Red Bull one-two led by Webber securing the title, but another Vettel's victory will send the title back in Alonso's hands although he would have scored the most gold victories.
