Only one week was enough to him to Felipe Massa to back take revenge from its dissapointing action seven days ago in Malaysia, where after releasing from pole position it finished fifth in his Ferrari.
In this occasion Felipe Saturday conquered with authority pole again the day, but to his side it counted on the threatening presence of the McLaren Mercedes of Lewis Hamilton, pilot who defended with soul and life the position the past race and that upset the plans of triumph of the Ferrari equipment. But this time as much Massa, as his coequiper Räikkönen, left from the left side of grilla, the one of greater adhesion.

The race leaves and Massa this time maintains the end. Hamilton also made a good game like Alonso. Photo: http://f1.racing-live.com/

Massa did not fail in the starting, Hamilton did a very good game but it sufficient not to beat to the Brazilian of Ferrari. On the other hand Alonso, that took quarter, pinched the third position to him to Kimi Räikkönen in the first variant of the drawn up one of Bahrein.
At heart of the lot it happened an incident that motivated the immediate abandonment of the Honda of Jenson Button and Torro Rosso de Scott Speed. Everything happened when Subtle the Adrian novice, of Spyker, beside the point forced his enter the third curve and hit against the back part of the car of Button. Speed tried to avoid to collide with Button, objective that fulfilled, but I spin a top was inevitable. Speed and Button were automatically eliminated of the test, whereas Subtle continued, although very delayed.
“It was a very short race! I was hit behind in the Curve 12 and I do not know the one who was. Anyway, the motor paused while the car made trompos, so I could not do nothing”, said Speed.

The accident of Speed and Button motivated the entrance of the security car. Photo: http://f1.racing-live.com/

In the end, Massa quickly tried to take distance from Hamilton colored person, but this the rate of Massa did not surrender and maintained during all the first part of the Great Prize. The distance between both never went superior to the 2 seconds putting in itself record after record one with another one.
However Alonso far was to maintain the rate of his coequiper British, worrying more than nothing to avoid an advancement from the Räikkönen Finn. Kimi did not deliver too much attack either to advance to the Alonso champion, in fact it waited the first round of resupplies to surpass it.
Behind the lot of end the best thing of the Great Prize was disputed. The fight by the last puntuables positions of the competition was remarkable. The Toyota of Trulli, the Renault de Fisichella and Kovalainen and the Williams de Rosberg and Webber, battled meter to meter by position. Trulli secured two impressive advancements to the Renault, whereas the Rosberg young person sinned of impatient committing a pair of errors during the course of the test. Rosberg even was closely together to remove from competition to its Wurz companion.

Hamilton presses to Massa during the first meters of race. The Brazilian did not commit errors and controlled the colored person of McLaren. Photo: http://f1.racing-live.com/

After the first round of resupplies everything changed for the aspirations of the McLaren equipment. Hamilton, that had managed to maintain the rate of Massa firmly, paused before the Brazilian and loaded enough more fuel than. The Briton returned very behind Massa and its rate drastically decayed product of a strong subturn. The difference between both went like Massa got to accumulate more than eleven seconds of advantage.
Exactly the same situation happened to him to the other McLaren, the one of Fernando Alonso. The Spanish lost the third position when he returned of boxes and its rate was still worse than the one of Hamilton, also wavering with Nick Heidfeld by the fourth position.
Nevertheless Hamilton did not surrender and arrived the moment from the second round of resupplies, as much as Alonso, they remained in track by more time than its rivals of Ferrari. Thus it went as the Briton returned to the attack on the final part, discounting easily the advantage to him that Massa had obtained.
The return of the good yield of McLaren took place after the equipment decided on hard tires for the last part of the competition. Thus it was as Hamilton ended up crossing the goal little more than two seconds of Massa and very far from Räikkönen, that had managed to press to the Briton in the middle of race.

Räikkönen presses to Alonso but it would not be able to exceed it in track. Kimi finally occupied the third step of podio. Photo: http://f1.racing-live.com/

“I am very contented with the today result. To have finalized in podio in three opportunities of a total of three is fantastic. Definitively we closed the difference with Ferrari and I know that all will continue pressing hard to improve still more facing the Great Prize of Spain. I could maintain the rate of Felipe (Massa) in the first part, but I had problems with the balance of the car in second. It had much subturn and it could not stretch the braking as it wanted. Nevertheless, after the second shutdown in boxes, when we changed to hard tires, I could press again. I enjoyed much the today race and with some returns it could more have fought by the end with Felipe”, commented the Hamilton novice.
The yield of Alonso also improved much, but the Spanish already had lost too much. Even so he fought to in the last recover the fourth position of Heidfeld meters of race.
The Pole Robert Kubica obtained his first points of the season after arriving sixth with his BMW Sauber. Kubica was very far from equaling the rate of his coequiper Heidfeld, and lead the majority of the test in solitude. Until the Kubica moment it only owns 3 points in the championship of conductors, against 15 accumulated ones of Heidfeld.

Kubica battling with the Italian Fisichella. The Pole scored for the first time in the year. High productivity of the BMW cars. Photo: http://f1.racing-live.com/

“Generally, it has been a very positive weekend as much for me, as for the equipment. It is the first time that with himself points this season, so I am contented of to have finished, to have secured points and to have arrived up to here. Unfortunately, the cover of the gas tank did not close, which has supposed an important loss of aerodynamic load. There am lost time in the fast curves and the braking. It has been abierto at the beginning of the race and no longer there has been form to close it. Good is progression, reliability that we have reached, so we are wishing to see what happens in Barcelona”, ended up saying Kubica.
The Italian Jarno Trulli arrived in the points for the second time consecutive after battling with several rivals during all the day of Sunday. On the end, the pilot of Toyota supported the attacks of his Fisichella compatriot very well, who could not exceed the pilot of the Japanese equipment. Although Toyota On guard is not to fight far from it by victories, the consistency of Trulli is very good, coverall considering that no of the pilots of equipment “Top” (Ferrari, McLaren and BMW) made abandonment of the competition.
Renault returned to suffer the same problems of competitiveness from both past races. Whatsoever, Fisichella and Kovalainen did the best thing than they could with the material that counted arriving 8º and 9º. He is very little obtained by the equipment the bichampion in this dissapointing starting of season.

Webber begins to press to Fisichella. The Australian would advance a pair to it of returns later, but soon he would confuse. Photo: http://f1.racing-live.com/

“Another hard race for us. I have sallied good and my rate was really good in first stint of the race, but it went more unloaded than Kubica, that was just ahead, and it has restrained to me enough, which has not allowed abrir hollow me with the cars that followed to me. Later, in the third second of race yes that I have had problems, since the back tires have been worn away very fast and are lost several positions still rolling to the limit. Soon with the hard tires in the last part I have returned to recover my rate and have pressed everything what I have been able to Jarno, but have not had returns sufficient to be able to advance to him. He is dissapointing not to have been able to take advantage of to the maximum our potential today, but it is certain that to which we could more aspire today it was to a seventh position. The one is a point that there are lost, but all we know that our intention is to fight by much more that, and I hope that we pruned to from now on make some progresses and until the next race in Barcelona within four weeks”, showed the Fisichella Roman.
Of the rest of the equipment it is not possible to be added much more. David Coulthard could have finished easily in the points, but for a technical problem in its Red Bull. Webber inherited the puntuable position of the Scot, it wasted but it to 16 turns of the end after an own confusion of newcomer …

Great race of Coulthard. The Scottish pilot battled arduously to recover positions, but its car failed to him soon after the end. Photo: http://f1.racing-live.com/

“We lost the back axis straight and I had to stop. It was with a strategy of aggressive race, and came working well. When long from back he is typical to adopt a strategy to a shutdown, but, as we saw in Malaysia, the option to a shutdown does not offer opportunities to advance - so we left with one more a shorter strategy. The car felt well, the strategy was good and I believe that it would have borne his fruits. We are having many problems at the moment, we will surpass but them and be stronger, all in the factory are working very it last”, said Coulthard.
Super Aguri tried to score with a strange strategy that allowed its Davidson pilot to be located sixth in the middle of race. Everything towards supposition that the British would only make a halting, but quickly carried out the second resupply being delayed remarkably. A pair of turns later both Super Aguri would leave by identical breakage of motor.
The one of today it has been the third victory in Formula 1 of Felipe Massa, whose to previous two it obtained them triumphs in the Great Prizes of Turkey and Brazil of the past year. This campaign the Brazilian was sixth in Australia and fifth in Malaysia, reason why this result repays to him fully of the worries with which the year began.

Together Hamilton and Massa in podio for the first time in the season. The inexperienced one shares the leadership of the match with Alonso and Räikkönen. Photo: http://f1.racing-live.com/

“A great result, and is good that now we have a length receso during which I can enjoy thinking about this! It was not to me well in the two first races, but today we put everything. The equipment did a great work as far as the strategy and to the completion of the car and everything. But I want to dedicate to him to east triumph Raffaela fianc2ee, that has been very patient with me east weekend! But we needed to work much to maintain this moment and the small advantage that we have. During the first part of the race my car or was not balanced, had too much sobreturn and then, in second, he was fantastic, because the tires worked very or. In the last part, after my second shutdown in boxes, was with the hardest tires and when seeing the difference that took I concentrated in the car, did not need to increase the difference. Soon I wasted a little time with the stragglers. The championship is very even now, so these were ten very important points! ”, Massa winner explained.
After three races, each with a different winner, motivated that the first place of the championship is shared by the champion Alonso, Räikkönen and Hamilton, all with 22 points. It follows them to Massa with 17, Heidfeld with 15 and Fisichella with 8 units.
The glass of constructors, on the other hand, shows in the McLaren end with 44 points, followed by Ferrari with 39 points, BMW 18 points and Renault with 9 units.
Now Formula 1 returns to the European tracks with the Great Prize of Spain to dispute the 13 of next May.

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The key of the GP: The dominion imposed by the Ferrari de Felipe Massa after the first shutdown. He was a little while key of the race and there McLaren failed.

The maneuver of the GP: The amble of Nico Rosberg to Heikki Kovalainen in the middle of race. Both pilots were close in the last curve, no yielded, and Rosberg ended up escaping to the Finnish on the main straight line.

Outstanding pilot I: Felipe Massa. This time did all perfect one. An excellent one released and a shining administration of the competition.

Outstanding pilot II: Lewis Hamilton. In his third race in F1 was clearly quicker than its companion bichampion of the Alonso world. Lewis did not know the three first tracks where he competed, now the circuits arrive that he knows …

The surprise: 6º put of the Super Aguri de Davidson in the middle of race.

Deception I: The double abandonment of Red Bull. The equipment had a clear opportunity to add points.

Deception II: The final result of the Williams Toyota (10º and 11º). If Wurz and Rosberg had taken the things with calm they could have scored.

© Alexander Lucardi
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