Hamilton won the chinese GP, Moves closer to world title

Shanghai: Lewis Hamilton won the Chinese Grand Prix in Shanghai to put himself on the verge of becoming the youngest world champion in the motorsport’s 58-year history. McLaren driver Hamilton, in his second season in Formula One, led from the start as title rival Felipe Massa finished more than 14 seconds behind in second place at the Shanghai International Circuit on Sunday.
The 23-year-old Hamilton won his fifth race this year to
move seven points clear of Ferrari’s Massa and needs to only finish in the top five of the November 2 season-ending Brazilian Grand Prix to be sure of securing the championship.
Fernando Alonso became the youngest champion in 2005 as a 24-year-old.
Ferrari moved closer to retaining the team title as world champion Kimi Raikkonen took third place and fellow Finn Heikki Kovalainen of McLaren got a puncture on lap 35 and dropped out on lap 50. Ferrari has 156 points to McLaren’s 145. Robert Kubica saw his mathematical chance of winning the title disappear as the Pole steered his BMW to sixth place.
Hamilton will need to avoid a repeat of last season when he finished one point behind Raikkonen after heading the standings entering the final two races. He had a four-point lead over Alonso and sevenpoint advantage over Raikkonen before the last race in Brazil and could only finish seventh then.
Sunday’s victory — matching Massa’s five wins this season - - never looked in doubt as Hamilton made a clean start from pole position and built a four-second lead after 10 laps. The only uncomfortable moment came on lap 12 when he oversteered on turn two yet retained control to make his first of two pit stops ahead of Raikkonen in second and Massa in third.
At the halfway point, Hamilton led Raikkonen by 6.6 seconds and Massa by 15.4 seconds. The top-three remained unchanged until Raikkonen let his teammate overtake him with six laps remaining, boosting Massa’s chances of delivering his first title in front of his home fans in Brazil.

ForceIndia's bad run continue

Force India’s search for the elusive maiden point in the current Formula One season continues as Adrian Sutil failed to finish the race and Giancarlo Fisichella finished 17th in the Chinese Grand Prix here on Sunday.
Fisichella began from the last position of the grid and gained three places when he took the chequered flag in the 56-lap penultimate race of the season. Sutil encountered a gearbox problem on lap 14 and was forced to pull off the track before one third distance. The German driver, beginning at 19th position, had graduated to 17th but had to face his second consecutive failure.

Its back to back win for Alonso

Fuji (Japan): Twotimes world champion Fernando Alonso claiming his second successive victory by winning an incidentpacked Japanese Grand Prix.
As the main championship protagonists licked their wounds on a day of errors, collisions and penalties, the Spaniard steered his Renault home just two weeks after winning in Singapore for his 21st career triumph.
Alonso took full advantage of a bad day for title rivals Lewis Hamilton and Felipe Massa as he came home 5.2 seconds clear of second placed Pole Robert Kubica of BMW Sauber.
Defending drivers world champion Kimi Raikkonen finished third for Ferrari.
Alonso, the champion in 2005 and 2006 for Renault before departing for an inglorious season with McLaren last year, has yet to agree a deal for next season, but is likely to stay with the French team.
Brazil’s Nelson Piquet Jr was fourth in the second Renault ahead of Italian Jarno Trulli of Toyota and the Toro Rosso of Germany’s Sebastian Vettel.
Frenchman Sebastien Bourdais was hit with a 25 second penalty after the race for running Massa off the track, relegating him to tenth from sixth. It was good news for Massa who was bumped up to seventh from eighth.
Championship leader Hamilton failed to score a point for McLaren after a poor start from pole position and some impetuous moves which cost him dearly.
These saw him overrun the first corner and go off the track together with Raikkonen, who outpaced him off the grid at the start, and later hit by Massa’s Ferrari as he attempted to pass him.
Hamilton was given a drivethrough penalty for his part in the first corner melee and Massa was given the same punishment for ramming Hamilton into a spin in the second incident.

Massa also struggled through a day of collisions, errors and penalties on his way to finishing seventh to claim two points.
This reduced Hamilton’s championship lead to five points with two races left in China and Brazil. Hamilton has 84 points and Massa 79.
In the constructors’ championship, Ferrari jumped back in front with a seven points lead over McLaren. Ferrari have 142 and McLaren 135.
Hamilton’s McLaren teammate, Finn Heikki Kovalainen, retired with a blown engine in the early stages when he was running well.

Force India

Sutil was steaming along in 10th place after six laps, thanks to the way the first corner incident reshuffled the pack. But after eight laps his right rear tyre burst, probably as a result of damage inflicted by debris. Fisichella also made a strong start, but dropped out early with gearbox problems.