Red Bull superstar Sebastian Vettel takes out the Canadian F1 Grand Prix Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton, right, sprays winner Sebastian Vettel, centre, and Ferrari driver Fernando Alonso (who placed second) on the podium. Picture: Paul Chiasson for AP. Sebastien Vettel extends his lead in the Formula One drivers standing to 36 points, after winning the Canadian Grand Prix. SEBASTIAN Vettel won the Canadian Grand Prix while Aussie Mark Webber was involved in a crash that may have cost him a podium spot. Starting from the pole position, the Vettel driver finished 14.4 seconds ahead of Fernando Alonso's Ferrari. Lewis Hamilton, the 2012 winner, was third after holding the lead for three of the 70 laps when Vettel made an early pit stop. But Webber could only manage fourth place after a collision with Caterham's Giedo van der Garde. The Red Bull veteran was running third when van der Garde, last at the time, collided with the Australian at the hairpin as he ignored the marshals' waved blue flags. At that stage Webber was closing in on second-placed Hamilton. The incident earned Dutchman van der Garde a 10-second stop-go penalty for not only ignoring those flags, but also causing a collision. That was of no consolation to Webber, however. "I don't know what he was doing because we had a lot of blue flags up to the hairpin," Webber told BBC Sport. I rolled down the inside giving him plenty of time to make sure that I'm there and then when I got to the apex I got completely on the kerb trying to give him as much room as possible but in the end he kept trying to make the apex. I don't know what's going on with that but some guys maybe have too much concentration on driving the cars. He added on Sky Sports: ``He gets a time penalty and so do I obviously because I have a damaged front wing. Webber decided not to change the front wing, completing the race with the damaged part, and he admitted that that had a serious affect on the remainder of his race. "It was pretty knackered to be fair, that whole top section of it was gone on the left-hand side," he continued. It didn't help from then on, obviously when you're fighting for podiums and you're racing Fernando he's obviously going to sniff out any damage on the car. But for Vettel, it was a very clear path to the checkered flag in 1 hour, 32 minutes, 9.143 seconds. "We've had good races before, but it didn't come together to win," Vettel said on the victory podium. It made up for that today. Great feeling. Great car by the team and we were really able to pull away from the rest of the field. Vettel picked up 25 points in the championship standings to extend what had been a 21-point lead over Lotus' Kimo Raikkonen. Alonso picked up 18 points to move into second, 36 points behind Vettel; Raikkonen finished ninth for two points and now trails the leader by 44 points. Vettel's biggest difficulty on the 2.71-mile Circuit Gilles Villeneuve came when he brushed the wall in the 11th lap. But he kept extending his lead before pitting in Lap 16 and switching from supersoft to the medium tires that he continued with for the rest of the race. Hamilton moved into the lead with Vettel in the pits, but the three-time defending F1 champion went back to the front in the 19th lap and stayed there for the remainder of the race. He lapped Raikkonen in the 34th lap - halfway through the race. Vettel ran wide on a chicane in Lap 52, but it did not substantially eat into his lead. By the end, the Red Bull car had lapped every other in the field except for the top five finishers. He posted an average speed of 123.503 mph (198.753 kph). Alonso, who is third in the standings, passed Hamilton, who is fourth, at the start-finish line in the 62th lap to take third place. Monaco winner Nico Rosberg was fifth. It was the third victory of the year for Vettel, but his first career win in Montreal. On a rain-soaked course two years ago, Vettel skidded slightly on the final backstretch and Jenson Button passed him for the win. The dry track was a break for Vettel but not for rookie Valtteri Bottas, who made the second row for the first time in his career. He said after qualifying that his car would not be able to compete on a dry track - and he was right, quickly falling out of the top 10 before stabilising his position and eventually finishing 14th. With his ninth-place finish Raikkonen tied Michael Schumacher's record of recording a point in 24 consecutive finishes.