Sebastian Vettel Wins a Tense 2011 Malaysian GP

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Published: April 10, 2011

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The Malaysian Grand Prix very rarely disappoints and I’ve got to say the 2011 GP was another great event!

There were overtaking maneuvers galore, battles that lasted multiple laps, and although the man who started pole finished first, it certainly wasn’t a routine win. 

The race got off to a fantastic start when all of the cars darted into turn one.

Sebastian Vettel held on to P1, but behind him there was synchronized chaos!

Felipe Massa got passed Fernando Alonso, and Mark Webber slipped down the rankings, but the real story was developing at Renault.  Nick Heidfeld sped beautifully up into P2 after a great maneuver at turn 1, and Vitaly Petrov sneaked around the outside to claim P5.

After one lap the positions were as follows:

Sebastian Vettel, Nick Heidfeld, Lewis Hamilton, Jenson Button, Vitaly Petrov, Felipe Massa, Fernando Alonso, Michael Schumacher, Mark Webber, Kamui Kobayashi, Jamie Alguersari, Sebastien Buemi, Nico Rosberg, Paul Di Resta, Rubens Barrichello, Adrian Sutil, Sergio Perez, Pastor Maldinado, Heikki Kovalianen, Jarno Trulli, Timo Glock, Jerome D’Ambrosio, Vitantonio Liuzzi, Narain Karthikeyan.

By lap 3, Rubens Barrichello received his first bit of bad luck when he picked up a puncture right at the beginning of the lap.  The Williams man limped around the track and his afternoon was effectively ruined.

There were some lovely little scraps as the race took early shape.  Felipe Massa had a great fight with Vitaly Petrov and Fernando Alonso was able to pass Kamui Kobayashi and Mark Webber in one lap!

One lap later, there was a lovely battle developing between Kobayashi and Webber.  At this point it became clear that Webber’s KERS were broken so it looked as if Sauber and Red Bull would be fighting for many more laps.

The first pit stop came on lap 11 as Mark Webber darted in for new ...
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