Massa celebrates maiden win

BRAZILIAN Felipe Massa scored his maiden victory as defending drivers’ world champion Fernando Alonso of Spain fended off a fierce challenge from Michael Schumacher in a dramatic Turkish Grand Prix yesterday.

Massa triumphed by 5.5 seconds for Ferrari from Renault’s Alonso who had to fight off seven-times champion Schumacher several times over the last 15 laps to take a vital second place by just a car’s length.

The Spaniard came home just fractions ahead of his Ferrari rival to increase his championship lead over the German to 12 points with four races left.