Massa silences his critics with his win at Bahrain GP

Sunday, April 6, 2008

Brazilian Felipe Massa grabbed success in Manama on Sunday for his second successive victory in the Bahrain Grand Prix and answered his mounting bank of critics as his Ferrari team celebrated an easy one-two win with Kimi Raikkonen finishing second.

The 26-year-old Latin American, who was unsuccessful to score a point after an error-strewn performance in both opening races, came home as a comfortable winner ahead of his team-mate defending drivers world champion Finn Kimi Rakkkonen. This was enough for the BMW-Sauber team to lead the constructors' championship for the first time.

Massa clearly loves the 5.412 kms desert track in Sakhir as he repeated last year's triumph, dominating the 57-lap race after blasting off the grid to take the lead from BMW's Robert Kubica, the first Polish driver to start a grand prix from pole. He finishing track time is 1:31:06.970 with 2 Pit Stops.

It was Massa's sixth career win, whose future at Ferrari is by now the question of theory.