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Button began to stretch out a lead then, with Vettel keeping Button very honest, and in third pace was Massa.
At lap 3, Hamilton from last on the gird, was up to 11th place, after passing Giancarlo Fisichella. A great start by the World Champion.
Button and Vettel then began to set fastest lap times as one tried to pull away as the other tried to catch. They appeared to be evenly matched, but Brawn had more fuel on board.
A driver who was looking smooth and consistent was Nico Rosberg, he began to catch the Ferrari of Kimi Raikkonen, and then passed him on lap 10, it was a nice move, and great for a Williams to be near the front, passing a Ferrari.
Lets hope Williams can continue to improve their car, and stay in touch with the front. It will make it a great season.
Barrichello, after making his awful start, began to find some good pace, even though he damaged his front wing with contact from the accident at the start.
He did not improve the situation, when he then tagged Kimi Raikkonen, but still slithered past. He suffered after that though, his pace began to drop off, and eventually pitted.
He took on a lot of fuel and a new nose, and could then set about getting his race back on track, hopefully with out making contact with anyone!
It must be the toughest car on the grid....
And from that we go to a car that was not so tough, as Kazuki Nakajima slammed into the barrier after accelerating hard out of turn 4, he ran over the kerb, and this sent the car sliding into the barrier. Bad mistake there from the young Japanese driver.
This brought out the safety car. It was rather late in coming out to be honest, but it came out in the end. I thought it was out for a long time, but anyway the debris was cleared, and the pack was bunched up once again.
I noticed Massa locking up his wheels far too much during the safety car period, for whatever reason he thought it would be good, or he had a problem who knows, but surely he would get bad vibration after the safety car would pull in.
They eventually got under way again then, It was still Button, Vettel and Massa. Button locked his wheel at the restart, this gave Vettel and good run on him.
It came to nothing however, and they carried on with Button leading the way.
Further back Rosberg and Piquet were side by side, then as they both braked for turn one, Piquet spun dramatically and went off into the gravel trap. He lost a lot of temperature in his brakes, and on the radio he said his brakes went 'crazy'.
I thought he should have been more cautious. Let Nico by, then ease his way into the corner. Maybe his problem was too major and would have happened anyway. But still not a good start for him in his 2nd season with the Renault F1 Team.
As for the Driver in his first season, Sebastian Buemi that is, driving very well, Staying out of trouble and keeping a solid pace. Not bad, he even out-qualified his Team-Mate for the race. Do we have yet another hot star in the making?
Too early to tell yet. But showing good promise, as is the Toro Rosso yet through the race.
He tries to take on Massa, who has just had Hamilton come out in front of him after Hamilton made a pit stop.
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