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Felipe Massa took the lead of the drivers’ championship after a
decisive victory for Ferrari at Magny-Cours on Sunday. The Brazilian
trailed team mate Kimi Raikkonen for the first 38 of the 70 laps, but
moved ahead decisively as the Finn’s F2008 developed an exhaust
problem. The latter cost Raikkonen the win, but nobody else ever got
close enough to the red cars for this to be a problem to the team.
Jarno
Trulli might have been able to catch Raikkonen, but had his hands full
fending off a strong late-race challenge from McLaren’s Heikki
Kovalainen. The Finn nearly squeezed by on the penultimate lap, but as
the Toyota moved over they briefly rubbed wheels and Kovalainen went
over a chicane and had to concede his challenge. It gave Toyota their
first podium since 2005.
Behind them, Robert Kubica clung on for
second place in the championship chase thanks to a fifth place finish,
well ahead of the scrap for the final points between Mark Webber’s Red
Bull and the Renault drivers. When Fernando Alonso slid wide lapping
Giancarlo Fisichella with three laps left, Nelson Piquet moved ahead of
his team leader and was hounding Webber by the flag in a drive that
gave him his first championship points and might arguably have saved
his career.
It was a disastrous afternoon for McLaren’s Lewis
Hamilton, who had worked his way up to ninth place when he had to serve
a drive-through penalty on the 13th lap after the stewards adjudged him
to have gained an advantage on the opening lap by going over a chicane
to overtake Sebastian Vettel. The Englishman finally finished 10th,
behind David Coulthard’s Red Bull.
Timo Glock hung on for Toyota
to 11th place despite Vettel’s challenge for Toro Rosso, while Nick
Heidfeld was a disappointing 13th in the second BMW Sauber.
Rubens
Barrichello, who started from the back of the grid after a late gearbox
change, was the first lapped runner in 14th, his Honda heading home the
battling Williams drivers Kazuki Nakajima and Nico Rosberg. Sebastien
Bourdais was 17th for Toro Rosso ahead of Giancarlo Fisichella and
Adrian Sutil in their Force Indias. Jenson Button was the only
retirement after his Honda made first-lap contact with Bourdais and
sustained irreparable damage.
His success makes Massa the first
Brazilian to lead the world championship since Ayrton Senna at Monaco
in 1993. He has 48 points to Kubica’s 46 and Raikkonen’s 43. Hamilton
trails with 38 after his second race without scoring points. Ferrari
extend their lead in the constructors’ championship to a commanding 17
points over BMW Sauber.