It was a day of mixed emotions for Red Bull and Sebastian Vettel at the European Grand Prix in Valencia on Sunday, as Vettel won his second race of the season but saw his teammate, Mark Webber crash out early in the race.

It was a near perfect display of racing by the 22-year-old German, who led the race from start to finish and recorded his seventh career win to go along side his ninth pole position. Vettel also led every lap of the race for the second time in his career. The only result he missed was the fastest-lap, which went to Jenson Button of McLaren. Vettel was third fastest behind Lewis Hamilton.

For Webber the trouble started when he tried to pass Heikki Kovalainen after falling behind with an early pit stop. Webber, doing more than 300k/pm came quick and hard at a much slower Lotus and ran into the back of Kovalainen. Webber`s car went skywards, flipped upside down, bounced across the circuit before slamming into the barriers. Amazingly, Webber stepped out of his wrecked car unhurt.

Mark Webber’s crash ended his run of ten consecutive finishes in the points.

The safety car was sent out and, almost immediately, the order of things was shaken up. Nine drivers were investigated for not complying with safety car conditions and added five seconds to the times of Button, Kubica, his fellow Renault driver Vitaly Petrov, Sutil and his teammate Vitantonio Liuzzi, Barrichello and team-mate Hulkenberg, Buemi and de la Rosa. In terms of the race standings, Button, Barrichello, Kubica and Sutil retained third, fourth, fifth and sixth places.

Lewis Hamilton finished in second after he was judged to have passed the safety car only later in race.

Meanwhile, Michael Schumacher recorded his worst ever Grand Prix finish with 15th place in the European Grand Prix. His previous worst finish was 12th at China in 2004 and Monaco earlier this year.

It was Vettel’s tenth win for the team, all of which have been scored in the last 24 races. Seven more wins will place them among the top ten most successful Formula 1 constructors.