Hamilton wins as RedBull falter

McLaren's Lewis Hamilton picked up his second win in three race's as he dominated today's Italian GrandPrix in Monza. The Briton started on Pole alongside team mate Jenson Button and made a fantastic start.

Meanwhile Fernando Alonso made a fantastic start from 10th on the grid. he would go on to finish the race on the podium in third place to extend his lead in the championship to 38 point's. Lewis Hamilton's win puts the McLaren driver into second place in the championship with 7 races to go.

I was delighted to see that there was no first corner incident at this year's. There was a massive accident at the start f last year's race. I think that the steward's gave the driver's a good talking to following the horrific crash at the start of last week's race in SPA that wiped out 6 driver's and resulted in Romain Grosjean being banned for today's race.

It was a fantastic race for the Sauber team as Sergio Perez took a fantastic second place finish ahead of Fernando Alonso and just behind Lewis Hamilton.

Kimi Raikkonen, who started the race from 7th on the grid admitted after the race that the race was his toughest of the season however the Iceman drove a brilliant race to finish 5th and moves up to third in the driver's championship ahead of the two RedBull driver's.

It was very disappointing race for Jenson Button, who after a fantastic pole and win at last week's Belgian GrandPrix failed to finish the race. His car ground to a halt at the side of the circuit with a suspected fuel pick up problem.

It was a terrible race for the RedBull team as firstly Sebastian Vettel was handed a drive through penalty for pushing Alonso off the track. The reigning world champion suffered an alternator failure and retired from the race. Just two lap's later team-mate Mark Webber was forced to retire due to problem's with his tyre's due to safety concerns.

So the 2012 European season comes to an end with Alonso still leading however after Alonso it is extremely tight at the top with just 10 points separating Lewis Hamilton in second and Mark Webber in 5th with just seven races remaining this season.