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After a promising start on Saturday despite the state of the track, which unforgivably was disintegrating during qualification, Lewis Hamilton’s pole position was all to no avail after driving into the back of Kimi Raikkonen after they had both pitted. Hamilton didn’t see the red light telling Raikkonen to stop and ploughed into the back of his Ferrari, while Niko Rosberg drove into the back of Hamilton. In addition to the Ferrari and McLaren being unable to continue, both Hamilton and Rosberg will be awarded a 10 place penalty for the next GP in France.

In the end it was Robert Kubica who was the hero of the day. After his massive smash in last year’s Canadian Grand Prix he must have been somewhat anxious at the thought of racing there again. But he needn’t have worried, winning his first Grand Prix, almost certainly the first of many.