Brazil's Felipe Massa, driving a Ferrari, won his second
consecutive Formula One race on Sunday in Spain, beating Britain's
Lewis Hamilton, driving a Maclaren, and Spain's Fernando Alonso,
driving a Mercedes.
However, the result took Hamilton into first place in the
overall Grand Prix classification with 30 points, two more than
Alonso and three more than Massa.
The race was Massa's from the first curve, when as Alonso tried
to overtake Massa their cars clashed and Alonso spun off, losing
his spot to Hamilton and allowing Finland's Kimi Raikkonen to take
third.
Massa's only difficult moment was when he had to refuel for the
first time on lap 19, and lost 55 seconds due to a fuel explosion,
that caused a spectacular fire but did no harm.
Raikkonen left the race in lap nine after his car's right
forward suspension broke.
Massa was 6.7 seconds ahead of Hamilton and 17.4 ahead of
Alonso. Others winning points were fourth place Poland's Robert
Kubica driving a BMW, fifth place Britain's David Coulthard driving
a RBR, sixth place Germany's Nico Roberg driving a Williams Toyota,
seventh place Finlands Heikki Kovalainen driving a Renault and
eighth Japan's Takuma Sato.
(Xinhua News Agency May 14, 2007)
