Red-hot Vettel wins at Sepang

30 March 2015 - 02:01 By © The Daily Telegraph

The tears flowed after this victory for Sebastian Vettel and Ferrari, one which blew this year's world championship wide open and crushed fears that Lewis Hamilton will simply walk to a third title. Vettel, in just his second race for the team, drove a stunning, electrifying race to win the Malaysian Grand Prix, the 40th of his career and his first for more than a year. In the end, he comfortably beat the Mercedes of Hamilton and Nico Rosberg into second and third places.The German, who moved to the famous Italian team to try to emulate his hero, Michael Schumacher, would not have dared to dream he would be victorious in red this soon.It was not easy to work out the biggest winner after a thrilling Malaysian Grand Prix: Vettel, Ferrari, or Formula One? After all the misery of Melbourne, this was a well-timed riposte to the doom and gloom.Meanwhile, Hamilton was furious with his Mercedes engineers during the race.A terse exchange between the world champion and team engineers played out over the radio throughout the latter stages of the race as frustrations boiled over.It all began on lap 39 when he complained of his team giving him the wrong tyres."This is the wrong tyre man," Hamilton said, to which the engineer said they had no choice. Then later Hamilton blew up again."Lewis you are scheduled to catch Vettel with five laps remaining," said an engineer, to which he shouted: "Don't try and talk to me through the corners. I nearly went off." ..

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