“Lewis Hamilton lost his lead in the Formula One drivers' championship after finishing outside the points in Bahrain. Felipe Massa scored his first points of 2008 with a dominant victory ahead of Ferrari team-mate Kimi Raikkonen, with BMW's Robert Kubica third.
British star Hamilton damaged his McLaren after running into the back of his old sparring partner Fernando Alonso, having lost seven places at the start. He eventually trundled home in 13th. Massa's sixth career win came at the same Sakhir desert circuit where he fired up his title challenge last year with a start-to-finish victory.
World champion Raikkonen collected the 50th podium finish of his grand prix career and the Finnish 'Iceman' took over at the top with 19 points, three clear of BMW Sauber's German Nick Heidfeld, after three races. Hamilton, McLaren team mate Heikki Kovalainen and Kubica are all level on 14. McLaren were also leapfrogged at the top of the constructors' standings by BMW Sauber.
Kubica finished third, after becoming the first BMW Sauber driver to start a grand prix from pole position, with Heidfeld a close fourth. BMW Sauber have now finished on the podium in all of the first three races of the season, a feat unmatched by Ferrari or McLaren. They have 30 points to Ferrari's 29 and McLaren's 28. Kovalainen was fifth, ahead of Toyota's Italian Jarno Trulli and Australian Mark Webber in a Red Bull. Germany's Nico Rosberg took the final point for Williams.
Massa led from the lights, making a faster getaway than Kubica, and took the chequered flag 3.3 seconds ahead of Raikkonen.”
Source from Reuters/eurosport
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