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By Brad Spurgeon, About.com Guide to Formula 1

Spanish Grand Prix Produces More than One Winner

Sunday May 13, 2007

It is very hard to decide what the most interesting story was at the Spanish Grand Prix today: Felipe Massa won the race and took over the position as the leading Ferrari driver from Kimi Raikkonen. Lewis Hamilton finished second and took over the lead in the drivers' championship, thus becoming the youngest ever leader of the series. And finally, Takuma Sato drove his Super Aguri to eighth place, taking the last remaining available point, and the first for his team since it started in F1 last year. Super Aguri has the smallest budget of all the teams.

Sato took the position with six laps remaining in the race after Giancarlo Fisichella, in a Renault, had to make another last minute pit stop.

"An amazing weekend," said Sato. "I was fighting with Giancarlo but I could not see him ahead of me and my race engineer kept saying, 'We're fighting with Renault,' and I just put my foot down. When I saw Giancarlo coming down the pitlane and I was a fraction ahead of him, it was just fantastic."

It was indeed. But the Hamilton story is the one that I think gets my vote as being the most extraordinary of the day. How will it ever end?

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