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Sebastian Vettel

Sebastian Vettel dominated the Italian Grand Prix yesterday after qualifying on pole position in the Toro Rosso Ferrari to become the youngest ever winner of a Formula One Grand Prix in the sports history.

Vettel finished twelve seconds ahead of the McLaren driver Heikki Kovalainen after a safety car start on a rain-soaked track.

Robert Kubica in the BMW Sauber finished in third place after starting from eleventh place on the grid and the one-stop strategy for refueling and a change to intermediate tyres worked perfectly.

Fernando Alonso in the Renault was in fourth place followed by Nick Heidfeld in the second BMW Sauber who had to fight off Felipe Massa in the Ferrari.

Heidfeld was also on the one-stop strategy unlike Massa who’s pit stops worked against him and he dropped his place to Heidfeld and couldn’t recover, finishing in sixth place.

In seventh was Lewis Hamilton in the second McLaren, who had an amazing race after qualifying in fifteenth position.  His planned one-stop, however, didn’t go to plan and he had to change his strategy to take on a full set of wet tyres and then later changing to intermediates.

Mark Webber in the Red Bull was in eighth place despite an earlier spin, followed by Kimi Raikkonen in the second Ferrari who seemed to struggle for most of the race for grip.

With only a three laps left to run, the Williams car of Kazuki Nakajima and the Red Bull of David Coulthard collided forcing the Red Bull back to the pits for new parts.

Nelson Piquet in the second Renault finished in tenth place, another driver on a one-stopper, followed by the Toyota of Timo Glock.

The Williams driver Nakajima, finished in twelfth place ahead of the second Toyota of Jarno Trulli and the second Williams of Nico Rosberg.

A disappointing weekend for the Williams team who had seemed to be on the pace during the free practice and qualifying sessions.

Jenson Button in the Honda finished in fifteenth place followed by the Red Bull of Coulthard and his team-mate Rubens Barrichello.

It was a disaster for Frenchman Sebastien Bourdais after being up with the faster drivers all weekend.  As the cars lined-up on the grid for the warm-up lap Bourdais stalled the Toro Rosso and went a lap down before his team could fire him back up to join the race, finally finishing in eighteenth position.

The Force India driver Adrian Sutil, finished in nineteenth place while his team-mate Giancarlo Fisichella, was the only retiree of the day after a battle with Coulthard going into the first corner.

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