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Turkey GP: Massa wins as Kimi comes 3rd **
<img src="images/stories/basic/f1%20race%203.jpg" border="0" alt="f1 race 3" title="f1 race 3" hspace="5" vspace="5" width="110" height="78" align="left" />Felipe Massa overcame a bold challenge from Lewis Hamilton and McLaren to clinch a third consecutive Turkish Grand Prix victory.<br />
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Hamilton had sufficient in hand over Kimi Raikkonen, however, to keep
the Finn in third place and to reduce his championship points lead to
seven.<br />
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nto fourth and fifth places came the BMW Saubers of Robert Kubica and
Nick Heidfeld, which lacked the sheer pace to play anything other than
leading supporting roles this time out.<br />
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Fernando Alonso further
boosted Renault with a solid sixth place, surviving a minor brush with
Raikkonen in the first corner, and seventh fell to Mark Webber after
another solid performance by the Australian for Red Bull. Nico Rosberg
took the final point with eighth for Williams, and was followed home by
David Coulthard in the second Red Bull and Toyota’s Jarno Trulli as the
last unlapped runners.<br />
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Honda’s Jenson Button was a lapped 11th
ahead of Heikki Kovalainen. The Finnish McLaren driver, who started
second, was desperately unlucky to have to make an unscheduled stop for
fresh rubber after two laps, having sustained a suspected puncture
after what looked like minor contact with Raikkonen. After that he
fought back from the rear of the field and had some great dices with
Toyota’s Timo Glock, in particular, and Rosberg, before dropping back
in his final pit stop. He finished ahead of Glock, who again showed his
fighting spirit, Rubens Barrichello, whose 257th GP outing did not
produce anything to shout about for Honda, Renault’s Nelson Piquet,
Force India’s Adrian Sutil and Toro Rosso’s Sebastian Vettel. <br />
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The
latter duo both stopped at the end of the opening lap to have repairs
made after Giancarlo Fisichella’s unhappy weekend came to an end as he
overtook Kazuki Nakajima - by flying over the top of the Williams.
Neither the Italian, who landed his Force India in the gravel, nor the
Japanese, who got to the pits minus his rear wing, were able to
continue.<br />
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The other retiree was Sebastien Bourdais, who dumped his Toro Rosso in the gravel.<br />
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The
result leaves Raikkonen with a diminished lead in the world
championship chase with 35 points, ahead of Massa and Hamilton on 28
and Kubica on 24. Ferrari extend their advantage atop the constructor
standings, heading BMW Sauber by 19 points, with McLaren a further two
adrift.
