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Hamilton Wins His First Race of The Season.
The betting prior to the race would not give you great odds, but still no-one would really have expected a Hamilton win and a Raikkonen second with flashbacks to the competitiveness of last year.
Hamilton qualified fourth on the grid but as the race started jumped to third behind Alonso who lead from pole, whilst Vettel fell from second to seventh and Webber took over the second position.
Hamilton managed to wrestle second place from Mark Webber on the fifth lap, but Alonso had already built up a 3 second gap. Alonso then ran into trouble on the 12 lap and has to come into the pits to change the front right tyre. On his outward lap, the wheel came off and he had to limp back to the pits. He did rejoin the race, but a lap down. With his race effectively over he retired on lap 17.
Hamilton by now was using his KERS to great advantage and building up a substantial lead over second place Mark Webber. Through the ingenious use of the pit stops Raikkonen takes second place and leaves Webber in third. And so the race concluded with Hamilton taking the chequered flag, Raikkonen coming in second and Webber coming in third. Jenson Button was some way down and finished in seventh place.
The overall standings at the top of the leader board see Button remain in first place with 70 points. 18.5 points behind is Mark Webber who took second place from his Red Bull Team mate Sebastian Vettell who now finds himself in third position. The Constructors Championship see Brawn still at the top with 114 points and Red Bull in second with 98.5 and some-way back in third are Ferrari with 40 points.
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