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Race Notes – Ricciardo leads Red Bull one-two
- Updated: October 2, 2016
F12016 Malaysian GP Thursday Press Conference Friday Practice 1 Results Practice 1 Report Practice 2 Results Practice 2 Report Quotes Press Conference Photos Saturday Practice 3 Results Practice 3 Report Qualifying Results Qualifying Report Quotes Press Conference Photos Sunday Race Notes Race Results Race Incidents Race Report Quotes Press Conference Photos Ricciardo leads Red Bull one-two
Daniel Ricciardo, Malaysian GP 2016
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By Mark Karp
Daniel Ricciardo won the Malaysian GP ahead of his Red Bull-Tag Heuer team mate Max Verstappen in second. Nico Rosberg after making contact with Sebastian Vettel in the first corner drove back to finish third. Lewis Hamilton, after leading two-thirds of the race suffered an engine failure on lap 41.
The win is Red Bull’s second win of the season after their win with Verstappen in Spain, and is Ricciardo’s fourth win of his career.
Kimi Raikkonen (28.7s) in the sole Ferrari finished in fourth place, followed by Valtteri Bottas (1m01.5s) in the Williams-Mercedes was fifth, Sergio Perez (1m03.7s) in the Force India-Mercedes was sixth, Fernando Alonso (1m05.2s) in the McLaren-Honda was seventh, Nico Hulkenberg (1m14.0s) in the second Force India was eighth, Jenson Button (1m21.8s) in the second McLaren was ninth and Joylon Palmer (1m34.4s) in the Renault finished in the final points position in tenth place.
Before the start Hamilton sits on pole – with his 100th career front row start, second to only Michael Schumacher all-time.
His Mercedes team mate Rosberg starts second, followed by the two Red Bulls of Verstappen and Ricciardo on the second row, Ferrraris of Vettel and Raikkonen on the third row, Force Indias of Perez and Hulkenberg on the fourth row, Button in ninth and Massa in tenth.
Pirelli’s offerings for today are yellow-sided soft, white-sided medium and orange-sided hard compound tyres. With the newly paved circuit, and very hot weather facing the drivers – the track temperature at 57 degrees, we have a lot of questions still to be answered this afternoon, but the preferred strategy looking for a three-stopper with three sets of soft tyres and the final stint on hard compound tyres. All the drivers starting on soft tyres except for Bottas, Magnussen and Nasr on medium tyres and Palmer on hard tyres.
Button sets a new mark starting his 300th Grand Prix race today.
At the appointed time, the drivers leave the grid and come around on the formation lap – Massa pushed off the grid with a throttle problem and …
