Do you remember the first F1 race in Korea? It was surely the toughest one there at all.
After heavy rain the race was suspended only after three laps behind the Safety Car. The visibility was simply too bad.
Fernando Alonso told in team radio: "That was the worst condition I ever drove a car."
After a break of an hour the race was started again - but still behind the Safety Car.
While many drivers were still complaining about the visibility, Lewis Hamilton told via team many times that wanted to race. Then, after a few laps the Safety Car finally came in after 17 laps of deployment.
But only after two corners Hamilton was overtaken by Nico Rosberg who started to close the gap to Alonso.
Unfortunately only one lap later the championship leader Mark Webber at second place lost the control of his car and crashed into the wall and Nico Rosberg couldn't avoid the collision with the Red Bull.
Both drivers had to retire and the Safety Car was deployed.
Rosberg later claimed that he would have been able to win that race - but we will never know.
So Vettel kept his lead for many laps. After another Safety Car deployment because of a crash with two backmarkers Vitali Petrow crashed out of the final corner.
The crash of Russian driver didn't cause a Safety Car, but at least a yellow flag in that corner.
At that time it became gradually darker because of the sunset.
Vettel started to complain that he could not see the braking point anymore while Hamilton told the team that the "visibility is fine". Red Bull obviously tried to force a red flag to save the victory.
But that didn't work and shortly after that Vettel got passed by Alonso and then the German had to retire with an engine failure at the long straight.
Fernando Alonso inherited the victory and took the lead of the championship.
Red Bull Racing were at their low point,but - as we now know - that couldn't stop them...
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