Toyota Racing claimed its second consecutive win with a lights-to-flag victory in the Six Hours of Shanghai, the final round of the FIA World Endurance Championship. Having won the last round at Fuji Speedway, the #7 TS030 HYBRID of Alex Wurz and Nicolas Lapierre started from pole position and won by 58.570secs.

Maximum points from the weekend elevated Alex and Nicolas to third place in the drivers' world championship, despite only contesting six of the eight rounds. A remarkable debut season has delivered three victories in six races as well as three pole positions and four fastest laps to highlight the impressive performance of the TS030 HYBRID and its innovative Toyota HYBRID System - Racing.

The Lotus team finished the Indian GP with a double points haul as Kimi Raikkonen finished in 7th place whilst Romain Grosjean came in 9th place. The result is a massive disappointment for Finnish ace Raikkonen who expected to challenge for the drivers' title, but his championship challenge has now definitely ended.

The Enstone based Lotus team had a clean start to proceedings as "Iceman" Kimi Raikkonen maintained his starting position of 7th place whilst Romain Grosjean did not get the lightning quick getaway he needed as the Frenchman was seen languishing outside the top 10 in 12th place.

McLaren, tipped to halt the Red Bull charge on Sunday, would view the Indian GP as a lost opportunity to close the gap on old-foe Ferrari as Lewis Hamilton and Jenson Button could only muster 4th and 5th places respectively. It was a case of the glass being half-empty for the Woking based outfit as they lacked pace to compete with the Red Bulls, but were outfoxed by the Ferrari of Fernando Alonso who breezed past the McLaren duo with little resistance.The result leaves Hamilton in 5th place in the drivers' chase with 165 points whilst Button stays in 6th place with 141 points.

McLaren made a competitive start to the race, but were soon to find themselves outfoxed by Fernando Alonso who swept past Lewis Hamilton for P4 whilst Jenson Button attacked the Ferrari driver to nose ahead for 3rd place. However, Button lost 3rd place to Spaniard Alonso in a DRS enabled move as the Ferrari driver swept past Button into Turn 4.

The Mercedes team endured yet another disappointing weekend as the German marquee left India with no points added on board. The team is still unable to arrest its downhill slide as Nico Rosberg struggled with tyre issues which have destroyed their season, whilst Michael Schumacher never really recovered from a puncture suffered on the opening lap. The team decided to strategically retire the veteran German with a few laps remaining to have the freedom to change machinery for the next race.

The German based marquee had a dismal start to proceedings as Michael Schumacher was caught up with Jean-Eric Vergne's Toro Rosso resulting in the 7 times Champion suffering a right-rear puncture. The advantage of starting the German on the hard compounds was negated as the team got him into the pits to swap to the soft tyres. Nico Rosberg however steered clear of trouble as he regained his starting position and was running in the final points scoring position in 10th place.

When the going gets tough, the tough get going and Fernando Alonso stood testament to this very fact as the Spaniard drove a scintillating race which saw him finish in a brilliant 2nd place in the Indian GP right behind his championship rival Sebastian Vettel.

The Spaniard now trails Vettel by 13 points with 3 races remaining in the season, whilst Felipe Massa steered clear of trouble to bring home valuable points in 6th place.

Reigning double world champion Sebastian Vettel completed a perfect weekend in India, completing a pole position to chequered flag victory at the Buddh International Circuit to extend his lead in the Drivers' Championship to 13 points with 3 races to go. Vettel's championship rival, Fernando Alonso, made the most of his Ferrari, climbing up three places from his 5th place starting position to finish an excellent second behind the young German. Mark Webber, who appeared to be struggling with his KERS towards the end of the race, lost second place to Alonso late in the piece, but managed to soak up enormous pressure from Lewis Hamilton to hang on to the final spot on the podium and collect some crucial constructors' championship points for Red Bull Racing.

Lewis Hamilton and Jenson Button finished fourth and fifth in their McLarens, with Button taking the honours of posting the fastest lap on the very last lap of the race. Felipe Massa, Kimi Raikkonen, NIco Hulkenberg, Romain Grosjean and Bruno Senna completed the top 10.