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Ferrari failure helps Kovalainen to maiden win

Indexed: Sun Aug 03, 2008 @ 02:31:04PM 1 month 2 days ago

"Welcome to the world of winning, the first of many." That was how McLaren boss Ron Dennis greeted Heikki Kovalainen as the Finn scored a surprise victory on Sunday in a Hungarian Grand Prix that should really have been Felipe Massa's race. The Brazilian took his chance with both hands and thrust his Ferrari past the front-row McLarens of Lewis Hamilton and Kovalainen at the start, and then dominated proceedings until a late engine failure robbed him of glory just three laps from home...

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Source: Formula1.com - http://www.formula1.com/news/headlines/2008/8/8196.html
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