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Massa “three-peats” in Turkish GP
• 15 May 2008 •
 Felipe Massa held off Lewis Hamilton to win his third straight Turkish Grand Prix on Sunday and earn Ferrari's fourth consecutive Formula One victory.
Massa finished 3.779 seconds ahead of McLaren driver Hamilton on the 58 laps at Istanbul Speed Park to continue a trend of winning from pole position in Turkey. All four winners at the circuit have come from the pole.
Defending world champion Kimi Raikkonen finished 4.2 seconds back in third place as Hamilton denied Ferrari a third successive sweep of the top two positions.
Robert Kubica of BMW Sauber was fourth, ahead of teammate Nick Heidfeld. Heikki Kovalainen of McLaren finished 12th after starting from second on the grid.
"I'm in the fight. Sometimes you win, sometimes you don't win, but it's important to be competitive," Massa said after his seventh career win. "It's important to be consistent."
Massa's win was his second in three races. The Brazilian has taken 28 of a possible 30 points since failing to finish the first two races of the season.
"It's just fantastic, today was a very difficult race," Massa said. "Lewis was pushing me hard the entire race. Three stops was quite optimistic and it opened up a reasonable gap."
Hamilton overtook Massa after 24 laps, but the McLaren driver's three-pit strategy didn't leave enough time to pass him again on soft tires with Raikkonen bearing down.
"I think this is the best race ever for me," Hamilton said. "It's not about winning, it's about feeling that you extract 100 percent from yourself and the car and I did that today. If I had managed to get the car on pole, I could have won."
Hamilton said the three-stop strategy was adopted because the safety of his tires couldn't be guaranteed. Hamilton experienced a tire failure in Turkey last year.
The next stop on the F1 calendar is the Monaco GP at Monte Carlo on May 25. |  Return to Top
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