Vettel makes in two in a row at Malaysia

The Malaysian Grand Prix turned into a mixture of the expected and the very unexpected as Sebastian Vettel walked away with victory in the Red Bull, but chased home by McLaren’s Jenson Button and Renault’s Nick Heidfeld.
For Vettel it was a start-to-finish walkover, despite not being able to use his KERS hybrid system from just after the halfway point. But Button only came into contention late in the race and attempted to hunt the German down towards the end, while Heidfeld had been a strong runner throughout the race after a great performance in qualifying.
But for Button’s teammate Lewis Hamilton, however, things were not as expected. He had qualified within milliseconds of Vettel, but he just couldn’t find pace in the race, eventually finishing sixth, only to be demoted to seventh by the stewards after the race for blocking Ferrari’s Fernando Alonso.
Alonso in turn got a post-race stop-go penalty for crashing into the back of Hamilton, but still managed to move up to sixth after the equivalent time was added to his race time.
Fourth place overall went to the second Red Bull of Mark Webber. He had a terrible start, then a terrible race, and just didn’t have the pace to get past Heidfeld, with his KERS not having worked ast all throughout the race.
Felipe Massa in the second Ferrari was fifth, while eighth place went to a hard-charging Kamui Kobayashi in the Sauber, who once more proved he is the best driver to have come out of Japan.
Michael Schumacher didn’t have the pace in the Mercedes GP, but managed to finish in the points in ninth, with Scottish rookie Paul di Resta's Force India taking the final championship point.

But his team mate Adrian Sutil had a hard race after first lap damage, and another in the doldrums was Mercedes’ Nico Rosberg who finished 12th ahead of the duelling Toro Rossos of Sebastien Buemi, who overcame a stop-and-go penalty for pit-lane speeding to beat team mate Jaime Alguersuari to 13th.
The most spectacular incident in the race was when the second Renault of Vitaly Petrov went off then went flying on the 53rd lap, bouncing so high over a kerb that his car's steering column snapped on landing, and then he hit an advertising hoarding. He was unhurt, but the car was paste!
The result now means Vettel has 50 points to Button's 26, with Hamilton on 24, Webber on 22, Alonso on 20, Massa on 16 and Heidfeld and Petrov on 15.
Red Bull moves further into the lead of the constructors' championship with 72 points, with McLaren on 50 ahead of Ferrari on 36 and Renault on 30.