The second round of the World Championship saw Ferrari take a dominant victory, with Raikkonen crossing the line some 20 seconds ahead of BMW’s Kubica.

Massa, who took pole yesterday, was leap-frogged by his Finnish team-mate during the first round of pit stops and later spun off. It isn’t clear as to why he lost the back end but I suspect there was a slight driver error, something that Massa isn’t new to.

As for the McLarens, well, both of the cars were penalised 5 grid places yesterday for holding up Nick Heidfeld, and in my opinion rightly so. As I mentioned in the Qualifying report, the speeds which they were doing their fuel saving in lap at were lethal considering the BMW was closing at 170mph. So having started from 8^th and 9^th, Hamilton got a great start and come the end of lap one was up to 5^th. Kovalainen did well, but didn’t manage to get higher than 7^th in the opening stages.

It was during Hamilton’s first pit stop that his hopes of a podium were dashed as there was so much brake dust on his front right that the pit crew couldn’t get the wheel off. The stop took some 20 seconds meaning that a final position of 5^th was about all he could hope for.

The real surprise for the day was that Trulli managed to keep his qualifying pace and ended the race in 4^th position. After two dreadful seasons it seems that Toyota have finally made a more competitive car. Indeed they were one of the only teams to start with a blank piece of paper for their 2008 car, most teams being content to revise their 2007 cars considering the rule changes coming in to place next year.

Coulthard, having been openly critical of Massa’s move in the Australian Grand Prix which took him out of the race, has since changed the mirrors on his Red Bull – perhaps not the best advert for being innocent?

Although Ferrari can leave the weekend with a well-deserved win it will be playing on their minds that, after losing three cars to engine failures last weekend (Raikkonen, Massa and a Toro Rosso which uses a Ferrari engine), Adrian Sutil’s engine (another Ferrari customer) failed on Friday. It is rare for even one engine to fail during a weekend’s racing, let alone an average of 2 every Grand Prix.

The Australian Grand Prix it wasn’t; there were certainly less accidents for a start, but Sepang’s final results were a remarkably fair reflection on all the drivers’ and cars’ pace. The BMWs were the second quickest cars out there, behind the Ferraris. While the McLarens, even though they started down in 8^th and 9^th, really didn’t have the pace to have fought for a win.

Well done Kimi for another typically relaxed win.

Pos	Driver	Team	Time/Retired	Grid	Pts
1.	Raikkonen	Ferrari	1:31:18.555	2	11
2.	Kubica	BMW	+19.57 secs	4	8
3.	Kovalainen	McLaren	+38.450 secs	8	10
4.	Trulli	Toyota	+45.832 secs	3	5
5.	Hamilton	McLaren	+46.548 secs	9	14
6.	Heidfeld	BMW	+49.833 secs	5	11
7.	Webber	Red Bull	+1:08.130	6	2
8.	Alonso	Renault	+1:10.041	7	6
9.	Coulthard	Red Bull	+1:16.220	12
10.	Button	Honda	+1:26.214	11
11.	Piquet	Renault	+1:32.202	13
12.	Fisichella	Force India	+1 Lap	17
13.	Barrichello	Honda	+1 Lap	14
14.	Rosberg	Williams	+1 Lap	16	6
15.	Davidson	Super Aguri	+1 Lap	22
16.	Sato	Super Aguri	+2 Laps	20
17.	Nakajima	Williams	+2 Laps	18	3
Ret	Vettel	Toro Rosso	Hydraulics/Electric	15
Ret	Massa	Ferrari	Accident	1
Ret	Sutil	Force India	Hydraulics	21
Ret	Glock	Toyota	Accident	10
Ret	Bourdais	Toro Rosso	Accident	19	2

Constructors Championship

Pos	Team	No of podiums	Best Result	Points
1.	McLaren	2	1 x 1st	24
2.	BMW	2	2 x 2nd	19
3.	Ferrari	1	1 x 1st	11
4.	Williams	1	1 x 3rd	9
5.	Renault		1 x 4th	6
6.	Toyota		1 x 4th	5
7.	Red Bull		1 x 7th	2
8.	Toro Rosso		1 x 7th	2
9.	Honda		1 x 10th
10.	Force India		1 x 12th
11.	Super Aguri		1 x 15th