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29/3/2015
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00:00Three, and the heat rises, the noise rises, and it's lights out, and away we go, and it's not a bad start from Nico Rosberg, and Sebastian Vettel now moves over to try and cover him, Hamilton is already away, and it's wheel to wheel, Rosberg and Vettel down towards turn one, behind them, Kvyat tries to dance around the outside, Vettel maintains second place, and there on the inside, Daniel Ricciardo keeps ahead of his teammates, and just ahead of the Williams of Felipe Massa, who was chopping away, Kvyat on the inside of Ricciardo,
00:29Vettel down at turn two, looking to make up a place for his lost house, to Felipe Massa, right at the start, as they head down the race, trying to defend into the last corner, and Grosjean just goes around the outside of him, and he actually backed up, I expected Max to push him on the grass, no he didn't, you know, he just gave him the space, and was actually quite timid, I thought at this point, and I thought, oh, okay, this is maybe Max just being a little bit careful at this stage, and it was borne out, because later on, his driving was really first class, this was him, you know, overtaking Vettel in the bigger Red Bull team,
00:59and the parent level team, just squeezing him on the grass, just no fear at all to squeeze him on the grass, to take the position, so some very careful thinking,
01:07and now this is Verstappen going down the inside of Halkenburg, he's actually coming from a long way back, and in that sort of, when you try that sort of move, it's quite risky,
01:14he hadn't pushed Halkenburg wide enough, through these points, you see there, the two Red Bulls are tossing, and he's pushed Halkenburg wide a little bit,
01:20but they're not really wide enough, so, if I was Kvyat, I would have given him a bit more space at the apex,
01:26to try to realise that Halkenburg was there, so, you could argue that that could have just been a racing incident,
01:33but unfortunately, the stewards didn't see it that way, and Halkenburg was punished, now this one, Perez,
01:38Grosjean's going around the outside, and he just didn't give him any space, just went, tried to go through turn 12 too fast,
01:45ran out of space, and tagged Grosjean.
01:47As soon as which race? I think they have decided that they're just going to race hard,
01:52and not worry about breaking power units, judging from what Justin Bunn just said,
01:56because they'd rather be pushing the edge, and see what happens, so that they can try and increase the rate of performance.
02:04Out in front, ten seconds, the margin between Sebastian Vettel and Lewis Hamilton,
02:09which is what it was, when Vettel first pitted, and stayed out, an awful lot longer,
02:15Hamilton pitting under the safety car after four laps, Sebastian Vettel pitting after 17 laps.
02:24That margin really hasn't dipped down alarmingly for Sebastian Vettel,
02:30new head of the scooter rear, the team boss,
02:34and I think this is a Ferrari victory that will go down very well, huge amount of Ferrari fans here in Malaysia,
02:43Michael Schumacher winning three times here, Fernando Alonso winning of course for Ferrari,
02:50one of his three wins here in the Sepang circuit, and it's looking like a fourth Grand Prix win.
02:57Into Ferrari's hands.
03:01Sebastian Vettel,
03:04swerving, weaving,
03:06dancing to the chequered flag,
03:08he wins as a Ferrari driver for Mercedes,
03:12ahead of his teammate Nico Rosberg,
03:14it's podiums for Mercedes,
03:15but it's not the win that they thought will be theirs this afternoon,
03:19specification for the top ten,
03:21and Toro Rosso outpacing and beating the senior team of Red Bullers,
03:26Fiat and Ricciardo finished ninth and tenth,
03:29who is Hamilton's run of converting pole positions into victories ended today,
03:34it is 150th Grand Prix start.
03:37A big round of applause for our podium winners.
03:39We're in China.

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