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...Lap 1: SENSATIONAL start as Vettel storms off the live and Renault's Nick Heidfeld goes round the outside to leap from sixth second. Bad news for Lewis Hamilton.
Red Bull's Sebastian Vettel was in a class of his own as the world champion won a dramatic Malaysian Grand Prix.
McLaren's Jenson Button was second to move up to second in the championship. Renault's Nick Heidfeld was third.
Lewis Hamilton survived a late clash with Ferrari's Fernando Alonso as they disputed thid but a late stop for tyres dropped him to seventh behind Alonso.
Scot Paul di Resta picked up his second point with 10th for Force India behind Michael Schumacher's Mercedes.
Vettel ran a sensible race, handling his tyres well on Sepang's blistering circuit and coping without the Kers power-boost system in the second half of the race.
The German comfortably collected his 12th career win to stretch his championship lead to 24 points.
Martin Brundle called him the ''Ruderless Russian''
Perhaps it was his way of celebrating the 50th Anniversary of Vostok 1, being chucked into the air with no control!