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"In any sport as competitive as Formula 1, you&amp;#039;re bound to have controversy. It could surround the outspoken opinions of the sport&amp;#039;s administrators, the unfair advantage of one team&amp;#039;s tech over another&amp;#039;s, or the actions taken by drivers, on or off the track. But few issues are as contentious as team orders, and this weekend in Malaysia, team orders became a crucial part of the story.  With rain pouring down on Kuala Lumpur&amp;#039;s Sepang International Circuit, Sebastian Vettel once again landed on pole, repeating the streak he enjoyed on the way to last year&amp;#039;s championship. Beside him lined up Ferrari&amp;#039;s Felipe Massa, his teammate Fernando Alonso just behind in third next to Mercedes&amp;#039; Lewis Hamilton. Mark Webber and Nico Rosberg took row three, but while Kimi Raikkonen had qualified seventh, a three-place penalty (imposed for impeding Rosberg) bumped him down to tenth behind McLaren&amp;#039;s Jenson Button and Sergio Perez, sandwiching Force India&amp;#039;s former DTM champ Adrian Sutil.  The rain stopped before the race began on Sunday, leaving a damp track as Vettel led the field into the first corner. Alonso skipped past his wingman but dinged his own wing when he tapped the back of Vettel&amp;#039;s car. Vettel got away, Massa dropped to sixth and while Alonso held on, his damaged wing came loose on the second lap. Into the gravel and out of the race he went.   Button had a better start, but Rosberg wasn&amp;#039;t giving up and on lap 3 Hamilton&amp;#039;s new team-mate got the better of his old one. With the track drying off, front-row qualifiers Vettel and Massa were the first to ditch their intermediate rain tires for the medium-compound slicks, the softer of the two that Pirelli selected for Sepang.  The flurry of pit stops that ensued, however, didn&amp;#039;t go smoothly for everyone. In a humorous episode, Hamilton, evidently still accustomed to looking for the McLaren pit box, drove in there first. After realizinf his mistake, he continued down to the Mercedes box. Toro Rosso&amp;#039;s Jean-Eric Vergne collided with Caterham&amp;#039;s Charles Pic, but was right next to his pit box, enabling him to swap out the broken nose. The problems were a bit more pronounced for Force India: Sutil&amp;#039;s wheel jammed, forcing Paul di Resta to wait, only to encounter the same problem. Ultimately, both were forced to retire before reaching the finish line.   Once those stops were done, it was Webber who emerged in the lead ahead of Vettel. The Red Bull duo was followed closely by the Mercedes pair of Hamilton and Rosberg in a close team-on-team, four-car battle. And so they tussled, as Kimi Raikkonen struggled to regain position from his starting-grid penalty.  The third round of pit stops left Jenson Button temporarily in the lead, but after he headed in for fresh tires, he left with the right-front wheel improperly attached. By the time his team sorted it out, he was down to 14th place.   For the fourth and final round of pit stops on a circuit that&amp;#039;s notoriously hard on tires, Mark Webber pitted from the lead and rejoined in position, but just barely. A heated battle with Sebastian Vettel ensued, and Red Bull ordered Vettel to back off, fearing both drivers would degrade their tires and lose out to the Mercedes duo eagerly awaiting their chance to pounce. Vettel would have none of it. In a controversial move, he overtook his wingman anyway and snatched the lead.  Behind them, Nico Rosberg was pleading with his team to let him pass Hamilton, but Ross Brawn, ever the calculating strategist, ordered him to back off. Rosberg obeyed.   Before the end of the race, Massa would work his way back up to fifth behind the Red Bull and Mercedes cars, while Button retired to the McLaren garage.  Vettel took his controversial win, followed by a dismayed Webber, with Hamilton beside them on the podium. Rosberg took fourth, Massa fifth, the Lotus pair of Romain Grosjean and Kimi Raikkonen sixth and seventh, respectively, followed by Sauber&amp;#039;s Nico Hulkenberg, McLaren&amp;#039;s Sergio Perez and Toro Rosso&amp;#039;s Jean-Eric Vergne.   The results propel Vettel into the lead at this early stage in the fight for the drivers&amp;#039; title with 40 points to Raikkonen&amp;#039;s 31, Webber&amp;#039;s 26, Hamilton&amp;#039;s 25 and Massa&amp;#039;s 22. Red Bull subsequently leads the constructors&amp;#039; championship with a combined score of 66, followed by Lotus and Ferrari with 40 apiece and Mercedes with 37. Next up is the Chinese Grand Prix on April 14, followed by Bahrain the next weekend. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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