By Tan Teck Joo
11 April 2011
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| Vettel successful continuing won two times champion in this season, made a perfect score. |
SEPANG, April 11 - Red Bull’s Sebastian Vettel won a dramatic Malaysian Grand Pix without facing too much challenged from his rival.
Vettel ran a sensible race, handling his tyres well on Sepang's blistering circuit and coping with intermittent use of the Kers power-boost system in the second half of the race.
The German comfortably collected the 12th grand prix win of his career to stretch his championship lead to 24 points.
"The fight behind him is close but Vettel has such an advantage out front in the championship now," said BBC commentator Martin Brundle.
The German’s ability to stay comfortably ahead of rivals McLaren, Ferrari and Renault in a car he could not even employ the effective use of KERS (kinetic energy recovery system or power boost) for portions of the race made his rivals scratch their heads in charting out how to stop the rampaging Red Bulls.
Closest rivals McLaren are, however, determined to close the gap.
Button finished three seconds behind Vettel on Sunday but the Briton was never in contention to win once the Red Bull driver come out from his final stop with a 10-second lead.
“The Red Bulls’ pace is very good. He’s won two races out of two and nobody else has been consistent. He’s got a 24-point lead and that’s a lot after two races,” said Button, who was still, nevertheless, satisfied to grab his first podium finish.
The 24 drivers will re-enter the fray in just five days' time for Friday practice in Shanghai for next weekend's Chinese Grand Prix.
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