The two McLaren's qualified third and fourth but were penalised and dropped back five spots to start the race at eight and nine after officials declared that they blocked other drivers during qualifying.
At the start of the race the Ferrari's were never really troubled, easily braking away from the pack and racing between themselves for first place. Raikkonen was able to manoeuvre himself in front of Massa after a quick pit stop and they were both destined for an easy podium finish. That was until Massa’s car seemed to spin out on its own on lap 31, putting him into the sand trap and out of the race.
Back in Pit Lane, he told ITV Sports reporter Louise Goodman "I don’t know what happened, I just lost the car completely. There was strange behaviour on the rear, so I don’t know [what caused it]."
Championship leader Louis Hamilton had an interesting race moving from ninth to fifth in the first lap before a problem with the front right wheel in pit lane led to a nearly twenty second pit stop and put him well back in the pack.
For Kimi Raikkonen however it was him and then daylight, finishing 19.5 seconds in front of BMW’s Robert Kubica, followed by Kovalainen, Trulli, Hamiliton, Heidfeld and Webber with Alonso rounding out those in the points.
Louis Hamilton still leads the championship on 14 points with Raikkonen and Heidfeld on 11. McLaren lead the constructors’ championship on 24 with BMW on 19 and Ferrari on 11. That is sure to change once Massa starts to finish some races as he has looked good for the last two qualifying fourth and first only to have two DNFs.
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