Pole and victory.

German driver Sebastian Vettel repeated the brilliant driving of the Italian Grand Prix of 2008 and won Sunday’s Chinese GP claiming Red Bull’ first victory. Vettel had performed a similar feat in Monza, when he was driver of Toro Rosso last year as the Shanghai race was raced completely under rain.

Only 21 years old, the driver born in Heppenheim celebrated his second win in Formula 1. For Red Bull, the party was even greater, as Australian Mark Webber finished in second place and the team not only celebrated the first victory in F-1, but the first 1-2 victory as well. “What can I say? I am extremely happy because it is my second victory in the rain again. I hope it rains more,” joked Vettel during the press conference.

Winner of the first two GPs, Englishman Jenson Button placed third, but kept the championship points lead. With 21 points, he has six more than Rubens Barrichello, who was fourth in Shanghai.

The Chinese test also marked the end of the hegemony of Brawn GP, which dominated the first two tests, ironically for a team that does not have the rear diffuser with cracks, which facilitates the passage of more air and enjoy the Brawn GP. “We must work and not to leave the Red Bull win. The GP of Bahrain will be more contested,” Barrichello promised.

If the English team saw the finish area in 2009, another team celebrated the recovery. The McLaren took its two drivers to an area with scores of Finnish Heikki Kovalainen in fifth position, just ahead of English Lewis Hamilton.

Ferrari is already in your ordeal. The Maranello team was off again for points and bitter his worst start since 1981 when it became the first three GPs with no points. In China, Kimi Räikkönen was placed 10th and Felipe Massa left with electrical problems. This is also the first time that Brazil is the three tests without scoring since you came to Ferrari in 2006.

“I’m sad, but it will pass. It was a shame because doing a spectacular race,” says Massa, who also had never started a season in F-1 without scoring in the first three tests.

Brazilian Nelsinho Piquet also leave Shanghai with little reason to remember the evidence, it was 16th and last among the drivers who completed the 56 laps. The cars return to the Formula 1 track in the next Sunday, when the dispute of the Bahrain GP.

The race The weather provided great chance of rain in Shanghai and hit. With the bad weather and poor visibility on the runway, the GP started with the safety car on the track, but the measure did not prevent that Massa and Adrian Sutil rodassem. Nico Rosberg and Fernando Alonso took to hold parades in their boxes, and only safety car left the track in the eighth round.

No problem, Vettel kept the lead and still had the “protection” from Webber, who took second place with a parade of Alonso. Intermediary who shone in the platoon was Hamilton. The current champion overcame Jarno Trulli and Kimi Räikkönen, took fifth place already in the 11th round, but then he Rodou and lost five positions.

Mass and contribute and also came on the track. The Brazilian, who came in 12th, was third in the 18th round, when Robert Kubica hit the rear of Jarno Trulli and forced to enter again the safety car because of the debris left by the driver of the Toyota, who had to leave the GP. Two laps later, Massa seen eroding the good proof, it had electrical problems and the car left crestfallen.

Without Brazil, the safety car stayed until the 22nd and return around Hamilton was again the protagonist. He overcame Räikkönen to take fourth place, while Vettel was quiet in front, followed by Button. Seven laps later, the English of Brawn lost the second position for Webber, recovered in the 32nd round of the Australian after a mistake, but was then overtaken again.

Since then, Red Bull left in Shanghai. Vettel made the second stop in boxes in the 37th round, but once again behind Button. Even with a heavier car, the German has easily exceeded in the 41st round, two rounds after Webber also held the last exchange of tires, to regain the lead.

After the parades of Barrichello and Button, Red Bull just need to control the dobradinha in the final laps. Who regretted that the end of the GP was the Force India. The team walked to add its first point in Formula 1, but an accident of Adrian Sutil, who occupied the sixth place, just with the dream team in the 51st round.