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Brazilian Felipe Massa led Ferrari to a one-two victory at the
Bahrain Grand Prix on Sunday with team mate Kimi Raikkonen seizing the
championship lead from McLaren's Lewis Hamilton.
Massa's sixth career win brought him his first points of the Formula
One season and came at the same Sakhir desert circuit where he fired up
his title challenge last year with a pole-to-flag victory.
World champion Raikkonen collected the 50th podium finish of his
grand prix career and the Finnish 'Iceman' took over at the top with 19
points, three clear of BMW Sauber's German Nick Heidfeld, after three
races.
Hamilton, McLaren team mate Heikki Kovalainen and Poland's Robert
Kubica are all level on 14.
Britain's Hamilton endured a nightmare afternoon, finishing 13th and
lapped by the Ferraris after making an agonisingly slow start and then
running into the back of former team mate Fernando Alonso's Renault.
McLaren were also leapfrogged at the top of the constructors'
standings by BMW Sauber.
Kubica finished third, after becoming the first BMW Sauber driver to
start a grand prix from pole position, with Heidfeld a close fourth.
BMW Sauber have now finished on the podium in all of the first three
races of the season, a feat unmatched by Ferrari or McLaren. They have
30 points to Ferrari's 29 and McLaren's 28.
Kovalainen was fifth, ahead of Toyota's Italian Jarno Trulli and
Australian Mark Webber in a Red Bull. Germany's Nico Rosberg took the
final point for Williams.
Massa led from the lights, making a faster getaway than Kubica, and
took the chequered flag 3.3 seconds ahead of Raikkonen.
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