Germany race: Rosberg, Bottas, Hamilton! Massa crash out … again

At the 2014 German Grand Prix the drivers started the race on the following tyres:

Rosberg Supersoft
Bottas Supersoft
Massa Supersoft
Magnussen Supersoft
Ricciardo Supersoft
Vettel Supersoft
Alonso Supersoft
Kvyat Supersoft
Hulkenberg Supersoft
Perez Supersoft
Button Supersoft
Raikkonen Soft
Vergne Supersoft
Grosjean Soft
Sutil Supersoft
Gutierrez Supersoft
Bianchi Supersoft
Maldonado Supersoft
Kobayashi Supersoft
Hamilton Soft
Chilton Supersoft
Ericsson * Supersoft

Nico Rosberg took a comfortable victory in the German Grand Prix as Lewis Hamilton recovered from 20th on the grid to third place.

Hamilton was due to start from 15th place following his crash in qualifying, but the incident damaged his gearbox and the resulting penalty compounded his problems as it dropped him to 20th. With Rosberg leading away from pole position, he was never threatened and eased away to victory while Hamilton fought back to take third behind Valtteri Bottas.

Bottas had looked like a sitting duck as Hamilton closed at over 1.5s per lap but once the Mercedes arrived on ageing supersoft tyres, Bottas managed to hold off Hamilton despite being on soft tyres that were also over 20 laps old.

Pos No Driver Team Laps Time/Retired Grid Pts
1 6 Nico Rosberg Mercedes 67 Winner 1 25
2 77 Valtteri Bottas Williams-Mercedes 67 +20.7 secs 2 18
3 44 Lewis Hamilton Mercedes 67 +22.5 secs 20 15
4 1 Sebastian Vettel Red Bull Racing-Renault 67 +44.0 secs 6 12
5 14 Fernando Alonso Ferrari 67 +52.4 secs 7 10
6 3 Daniel Ricciardo Red Bull Racing-Renault 67 +52.5 secs 5 8
7 27 Nico Hulkenberg Force India-Mercedes 67 +64.1 secs 9 6
8 22 Jenson Button McLaren-Mercedes 67 +84.7 secs 11 4
9 20 Kevin Magnussen McLaren-Mercedes 66 +1 Lap 4 2
10 11 Sergio Perez Force India-Mercedes 66 +1 Lap 10 1
11 7 Kimi Räikkönen Ferrari 66 +1 Lap 12
12 13 Pastor Maldonado Lotus-Renault 66 +1 Lap 18
13 25 Jean-Eric Vergne STR-Renault 66 +1 Lap 13
14 21 Esteban Gutierrez Sauber-Ferrari 66 +1 Lap 16
15 17 Jules Bianchi Marussia-Ferrari 66 +1 Lap 17
16 10 Kamui Kobayashi Caterham-Renault 65 +2 Laps 19
17 4 Max Chilton Marussia-Ferrari 65 +2 Laps 21
18 9 Marcus Ericsson Caterham-Renault 65 +2 Laps 22
Ret 99 Adrian Sutil Sauber-Ferrari 47 Spin 15
Ret 26 Daniil Kvyat STR-Renault 44 +23 Laps 8
Ret 8 Romain Grosjean Lotus-Renault 26 +41 Laps 14
Ret 19 Felipe Massa Williams-Mercedes 0 Accident 3

Gutierrez qualified P14, dropped 3 for collision at last round; Hamilton qualified P16, dropped 5 for gearbox change; Ericsson failed to meet 107% qualifying requirement, raced at stewards’ discretion, started from pit lane due to parc