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Sebastian Vettel - Malaysian Grand Prix 2010

Sebastian Vettel took his Red Bull across the line to claim his first victory of the season at this weekends Malaysian Grand Prix after passing his team-mate Mark Webber at the first corner to dominate the race.

Nico Rosberg finished in third position for Mercedes ahead of Robert Kubica in the Renault and Adrian Sutil for the Force India team.

Lewis Hamilton was in sixth place for the McLaren team followed by Felipe Massa in the Ferrari and Jenson Button in the second McLaren.

The Renault team made a complaint against Lewis Hamilton’s style of driving during the race, accusing the British driver of weaving ahead of their driver Vitaly Petrov on the straight, resulting in the McLaren driver being given a warning.  The BBC commentator Anthony Davidson told the BBC radio;

“I don’t know what Lewis was doing, weaving all over the track. I think he thought he was playing a Playstation rather than real life.”

Petrov was another retiree after his car stopped on track midway through the race, it is thought a gearbox problem caused the Renault to stall.

Vitantonio Liuzzi had a problem with the throttle on his Force India and was forced to park his car after just 12 laps.

Fernando Alonso suffered a gearbox problem with his Ferrari from the start of the race, and it all ended on the penultimate lap when the engine finally blew.

Spanish driver Jaime Alguersuari claimed ninth place for the Toro Rosso team ahead of the Williams driver Nico Hülkenberg in tenth position.  The second Mercedes GP driver Michael Schumacher was unable to finish the race after a wheel nut came off of the left rear, leaving the car unstable and impossible to steer.

Rubens Barrichello in the second Williams car appeared to be a non-starter as the race got underway and the other drivers were forced to go around the stricken vehicle.  He finally got going but was pushed to the back of the grid, finally finishing the race down in twelfth place.

Timo Glock in the Virgin Racing car was a non-finisher after hitting the Lotus F1 Racing car of Jarno Trulli as he tried to overtake.  Glock admitted that the accident was his fault after locking his rear wheels during the move but for some reason the anti-stall devise failed to work.

Both Pedro de la Rosa and Kamui Kobayashi for the BMW Sauber team failed to finish the race and both were surprised by the failure.  De la Rosa’s car broke down as he was waiting to exit the pit lane while his team-mate was out on lap 9, after both cars suffered engine failure due to the pneumatic system.

Here are the results;

POS	DRIVER	NATIONALITY	ENTRANT	LAPS	TIME/RETIRE
1.	Sebastian Vettel	Germany	Red Bull-Renault	56	1h33m48.412
2.	Mark Webber	Australia	Red Bull-Renault	56	4.849
3.	Nico Rosberg	Germany	Mercedes GP	56	13.504
4.	Robert Kubica	Poland	Renault	56	18.589
5.	Adrian Sutil	Germany	Force India-Mercedes	56	21.059
6.	Lewis Hamilton	Britain	McLaren-Mercedes	56	23.471
7.	Felipe Massa	Brazil	Ferrari	56	27.068
8.	Jenson Button	Britain	McLaren-Mercedes	56	37.918
9.	Jaime Alguersuari	Spain	Toro Rosso-Ferrari	56	1m10.602
10.	Nico Hulkenberg	Germany	Williams-Cosworth	56	1m13.399
11.	Sebastien Buemi	Switzerland	Toro Rosso-Ferrari	56	1m18.938
12.	Rubens Barrichello	Brazil	Williams-Cosworth	55	1 Lap
13.	Fernando Alonso	Spain	Ferrari	54	DNF
14.	Lucas di Grassi	Brazil	Virgin-Cosworth	53	3 Laps
15.	Karun Chandhok	India	HRT-Cosworth	53	3 Laps
16.	Bruno Senna	Brazil	HRT-Cosworth	52	4 Laps
17.	Jarno Trulli	Italy	Lotus-Cosworth	51	5 Laps
R	Heikki Kovalainen	Finland	Lotus-Cosworth	46
R	Vitaly Petrov	Russia	Renault	32	Gearbox
R	Vitantonio Liuzzi	Italy	Force India-Mercedes	12	Throttle
R	Michael Schumacher	Germany	Mercedes GP	9	Wheel Nut
R	Kamui Kobayashi	Japan	BMW Sauber-Ferrari	8	Engine
R	Timo Glock	Germany	Virgin-Cosworth	2	Spin
R	Pedro de la Rosa	Spain	BMW Sauber-Ferrari	0	Engine
FASTEST LAP:
	Mark Webber	Australia	Red Bull-Renault	53	1:37.054