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LEWIS Hamilton steered clear of trouble to win a chaotic Australian Grand Prix - a race packed with incident, which saw only seven out of the 22 cars cross the finish line.The race had begun in dramatic style as in incident in the first corner involving Honda’s Jenson Button,Force India’s Giancarlo Fisichella, Red Bull’s Mark Webber, Super Aguri’s Anthony Davidson and Toro Rosso’s Sebastian Vettel led directly or indirectly to their retirements from the race.

It was a day Ferrari would rather forget, Felipe Massa spinning on the first lap and being involved in an incident with Red Bull’s David Coulthard before retiring. Teammate Kimi Raikkonen, having benefited from the second safety car intervention, threw away the chance to challenge Hamilton with a mistake as he slid off the road trying to pass McLaren’s Heikki Kovalainen. Then his Ferrari let him down when he was running seventh with three laps to go.

For the results

Results from Australian Grand Prix:

1. Lewis Hamilton (GB) McLaren-Mercedes 58 laps 1:34:50.616
2. Nick Heidfeld (Ger) BMW Sauber +5.478 secs
3. Nico Rosberg (Ger) Williams-Toyota +8.163
4. Fernando Alonso(Spa) Renault +17.181
5. Heikki Kovalainen (Fin) McLaren-Mercedes +18.014
DQ Rubens Barrichello (Brz) Honda +52.453
6. Kazuki Nakajima (Jpn) Williams-Toyota 1 lap behind
7R Sebastien Bourdais (Fra) Toro Rosso-Ferrari 55 laps completed
8R Kimi Raikkonen (Fin) Ferrari 53 laps
R Robert Kubica (Pol) BMW Sauber 47 laps
R Timo Glock (Ger) Toyota 43 laps
R Takuma Sato (Jpn) Super Aguri-Honda 32 laps
R Nelson Piquet Jr (Brz) Renault 30 laps
R Felipe Massa (Brz) Ferrari 29 laps
R David Coulthard (GB) Red Bull-Renault 25 laps
R Jarno Trulli (Ita) Toyota 19 laps
R Adrian Sutil (Ger) Force India-Ferrari 8 laps
R Mark Webber (Aus) Red Bull-Renault 0 laps
R Jenson Button (GB) Honda 0 lap
R Anthony Davidson (GB) Super Aguri-Honda 0 lap
R Sebastian Vettel (Ger) Toro Rosso-Ferrari 0 laps
R Giancarlo Fisichella (Ita) Force India-Ferrari 0 laps

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