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Hamilton's Mercedes team-mate Nico Rosberg finished second, defend Ferrari Fernando Alonso after a poor start to beat sixth round one has him.

Alonso drove Red Bull Daniel Ricciardo attack, finally on the podium.

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An unhappy Sebastian Vettel was fifth, beaten by team-mate Ricciardo for the second race in a row.

The world champion was powerless passed him to stop the Australian a team to Ricciardo to let refused it in the middle of the race.

But Vettel troubles were a mere SideShow unanswerable pace of Hamilton, who was in one of his own in the entire League.

Hamilton pulled way in about a second a lap in the early rounds and was placed in the cruise control for the remainder of the afternoon, with less tyre wear and better fuel economy than its rivals as he left at the top of the field in circulation.

The victory closes his deficit on Rosberg at the top of the Championship to four points.

"I can't believe how great the car is and how hard everyone is working," said Hamilton on the podium. "After the launch it was racing really only me. I'm really glad that Nico is here with us. Big points for the team."

Hamilton is the 25-points hit he was retired from the first race of the season in Australia, while Rosberg won, yet devised. The Englishman has every grand prix since won.

Rosberg the race, shown in the meantime, is how much more difficult it even in a dominant car like the Mercedes a driver finds himself out of position.

A loss of telemetry before the race can Williams' Valtteri Bottas bouncing over his front wheel on the entry in the first corner, Hamilton, Vettel, Alonso did start fourth and he to a poor home form survived to pursue Ricciardo and Williams' Felipe Massa in the first round.

Rosberg, lap four passed Massa, skipped Ricciardo during the first pit stops, outdated Vettel in round 22, and then on the way to Alonso.

Ferrari driver jumped to third in the first corner of his fifth place with a sparkling usually start despite a side collision with Massa.

Alonso harassed Vettel in the first round, but was forced to settle for third in the first stint.

He jumped in front of Vettel in second place in the first pit stops and managed to stay until his second and final stop in round 33, despite Rosberg moves on his cock.

A former terminus of Alonso and a goalkeeping error from Rosberg on his lap gave Alonso a five seconds advantage after the Mercedes of driver's final stop four laps later.

But Rosberg unleashes the full speed of the Mercedes in the subsequent five rounds and cruised past the Ferrari on the straight in round 42, 14 laps to go.

This left Alonso five seconds ahead of Ricciardo and need, the Red Bull at Bay hold. He discussed about 1.2 seconds, despite problems with his front tyre suffer.

"It was a good weekend," said Alonso. "We improve the car a little in comparison to the first three races, so we become more competitive we felt, the podium is a nice surprise for us.

"I think I am third in the Championship behind these two types. Not the start we would have the season we had liked, but we are still in the fight. "

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Vettel had, gave way by Ricciardo in qualifying, that his team-mate outperformed him openly and honestly, and he struck did so again in the race.

The Australian closed at Vettel tail round 23, whereupon Red Bull the German let him through ordered.

"It's what tires?" Vettel asked him about radio - his race engineer Guillaume Roquelin said that Ricciardo on the same tyre was, was but later had stopped.

"Tough luck", Vettel replied.

Still, that Ricciardo slide Vettel, and he made to turn his train a round 26 Vettel tried initially on, but on the slippery outside connection, slipped far and Ricciardo was through.

Ricciardo just him then left behind and was at the end of the race significantly more than 20 seconds, as concentrated, that Vettel to keep his advantage to force India, Nico Hülkenberg in sixth place.

Botta's were seventh, by Ferrari of Kimi Raikkonen, who now comprehensively beat four of his races by Alonso at all since his return to Maranello.

Force in Dia, Sergio Perez and Toro Rossos Daniil lap took the final points positions.

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Hamilton takes pole in wet Malaysia/must visit

Hamilton was just 0.055 seconds quicker than the world champion, as team-mate Nico Rosberg narrowly beat Ferrari's Fernando Alonso for third.

Hamilton's pole was the 33rd of his career, equalling the great Jim Clark's record for a British driver.

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Red Bull's Daniel Ricciardo was fifth from Ferrari's Kimi Raikkonen.

Hamilton, Vettel and Alonso were all well clear of their team-mates in difficult conditions brought on by the tropical afternoon rain that so often affects the action at Sepang.

Hamilton headed Rosberg by 0.619secs, Vettel beat Ricciardo by 1.055secs and Raikkonen was 1.043secs adrift of Alonso.

"Today was incredible," Hamilton said. "How heavy was the rain? It was tricky out there for everyone because at the end it was almost impossible to see. I couldn't see where the track went, where the corners were, where to brake. I had to bail out of my final fast lap, so it was very close."

Rosberg knocked Alonso off third spot by 0.125secs at the very end of the session, when conditions were slightly worse than they had been at the start of the top 10 shoot-out.

Force India's Nico Hulkenberg excelled as usual in wet conditions with seventh, and Kevin Magnussen's impressive debut for McLaren continued with the Dane taking eighth place, with team-mate Jenson Button 10th.

Lewis Hamilton's pole was the 33rd of his career, equalling the great Jim Clark's record for a British driver

Button took a gamble by choosing intermediate tyres for the final session, while everyone else was on the more heavily treaded full wet tyres in the soaking conditions.

The Englishman ended up 1.8secs slower than Magnussen, who had in any case seemed to have the edge throughout qualifying.

Button said he had no regrets about his decision, given that the best he could have hoped for would be to be two places further up the grid.

The front row, with Hamilton's Mercedes heading a Red Bull, matched that of the season-opening race in Australia two weeks ago, when qualifying also took place in the wet.

The difference was that this time the Red Bull was Vettel's. The world champion took full advantage of his car's excellent downforce to come close to beating the more powerful Mercedes.

"At the beginning of Q1, the heartbeat was rising very quickly when we realised there was an issue," said Vettel. "I came in, we restarted the car and that seemed to solve the problem. After that it was fine. It was good to go out and get another feel in the wet conditions.

"Q3 was not perfect. I would have loved to have a second go. My first attempt, I felt there was time to gain here and there. It was very close, too close. I should be on the good side for tomorrow but it depends on how good the start is. I'm happy with the result."

Lewis Hamilton: "I couldn't see where the track went, where the corners were, where to brake..."

Toro Rosso's Jean-Eric Vergne was the other driver to make the top 10 in ninth place.

The stewards investigated a collision between Alonso and Vergne's team-mate Daniil Kvyat at the start of the second session, deciding to take no action after the incident was adjudged to be a misunderstanding.

Alonso took a wide line into Turn Nine and Kvyat went for the inside thinking there would be space, but they collided when they reached the apex.

The incident broke the front left track rod of Alonso's Ferrari but his mechanics were able to change it in time for him to make it safely through into the final top 10 shoot-out.

Kvyat just failed to make it through in 11th place, pipped by Vergne.

"The car felt very strange," said Alonso. "It was so light on the right corners and so heavy on the left corners that I could not even move with the two hands.

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"I don't blame him [Kvyat]. I think it was 50:50 probably, because I didn't see him. I was lucky to run again. I think he ran again also, so that was the best news."

The two Williams cars struggled in the wet as they had in Melbourne, with Felipe Massa taking 13th behind Sauber's Esteban Gutierrez, and team-mate Valtteri Bottas 15th behind the Force India of Sergio Perez.

Bottas was later demoted to 18th on the grid following a three-place penalty for impeding Ricciardo.

Mexican Perez, dropped by McLaren after just one season last year to make way for Magnussen, was 1.672secs slower than team-mate Hulkenberg in second qualifying.

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