Massa leads Ferrari domination

Published April 7, 2008

MANAMA, April 6: 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.

Results:

1. Felipe Massa (Brazil) Ferrari 1hr 31mins 06.970 secs; 2. Kimi Raikkonen (Finland) Ferrari +00:03.339 secs; 3. Robert Kubica (Poland) BMW Sauber 00:04.998; 4. Nick Heidfeld (Germany) BMW Sauber 00:08.409; 5. Heikki Kovalainen (Finland) McLaren 00:26.789; 6. Jarno Trulli (Italy) Toyota 00:41.314; 7. Mark Webber (Australia) RedBull–Renault 00:45.473; 8. Nico Rosberg (Germany) Williams–Toyota 00:55.889; 9. Timo Glock (Germany) Toyota 01:09.500; 10. Fernando Alonso (Spain) Renault 01:17.181; 11. Rubens Barrichello (Brazil) Honda 01:17.862; 12. Giancarlo Fisichella (Italy) Force India–Ferrari 1 lap; 13. Lewis Hamilton (Britain) McLaren 1 lap; 14. Kazuki Nakajima (Japan) Williams-Toyota 1 lap.—Reuters

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