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Massa leads from Hamilton by 5.2 seconds. Raikkonen is 1.4 seconds behind.

It will be an interesting fight to the end!

12 laps remain

Raikkonen slightly faster than Hamilton. Will he be able to pass in the next 10 laps ?

Trulli pits.

Order on lap 49: Massa, Hamilton, Raikkonen, Kubica, Heidfeld, Alonso, Trulli and Webber.

Kovalainen takes Coulthard and then Rosberg. He is now in 8th but he is on the hard compound and we don't beleive he took on the softer tyres yet!

Raikkonen right behind Hamilton now!

Kovalainen makes his 3rd and final stop!

Kovalainen down in 13th!

Hamilton is 0.6 ahead of Raikkonen.

5 laps remain

Kovalainen takes 12th from Glock

Three laps to go and the gap between Hamilton and Raikkonen remains 0.6 seconds

Final lap and it looks like the top 3 will remain in the same order

And Massa wins the Turkish Grand Prix ahead of Lewis Hamilton and Kimi Raikkonen!

Kubica finishes in 4th ahead of Heidfeld with Alonso finishing in 6th

Webber and Rosberg make the top 8.

Coulthard, Trulli, Button, Kovalainen, Glock, Barrichello, Piquet, Sutil and Vettel make up the rest of the field

Here is a team by team summary (GMM)

FERRARI

Felipe Massa, with a chequered flag margin over Lewis Hamilton of 3.7 seconds, in Turkey became the first driver since his former Ferrari teammate Michael Schumacher to win three consecutive races at the same circuit. Kimi Raikkonen's run to third place closes his championship lead to Hamilton, and now Massa, to 7 points. Carrying wing damage after a first corner tap with compatriot Heikki Kovalainen, he narrowly missed beating Hamilton to second place at the end of a lacklustre weekend, although he did set the fastest lap of the race.

Team boss Stefano Domenicali, who turned 44 on Sunday, played down any talk of dominance, despite the face that Turkey was Ferrari's fourth consecutive win in 2008. "At Monaco and Canada last year we suffered a lot and we will have to do our best in preparing for these races," he said.


MCLAREN-MERCEDES

The reason for Hamilton's glum face during the qualifying press conference was revealed on Sunday -- even with a light three-stop fuel load, he had been outqualified by his heavier teammate Heikki Kovalainen. The Briton explained that Bridgestone requested the strategy, which produced an exciting race and even a pass on ultimate winner Massa, for fear of a repeat of his tyre failure of 2007. "I think this is the best race ever for me," Hamilton said, clearly happier with his performance in the race. "I really think we have closed the gap to Ferrari." Kovalainen's first front row start quickly turned to disappointment, after the early tag from compatriot Raikkonen forced an early pit stop, and he finished a lap down and out of the points despite a spirited fightback.


BMW-SAUBER

Another strong result for Robert Kubica, although he greeted the chequered flag nearly 18 seconds behind the final podium-getter, Raikkonen. "I was a little bit slower than the three guys in front of me, but quicker than the rest of the pack," the Pole said. Nick Heidfeld converted his poor 9th on the grid to 5th at the chequer, but he was a long way behind his teammate at the end. "We are happy with this result," said technical boss Willy Rampf.


RENAULT

The Renault-powered Mark Webber and Fernando Alonso duked it out to be 'best of the rest' behind the big teams in Turkey, and Alonso won the day by 10 seconds. Nelson Piquet compounded his poor grid position with a bad start, and finished 15th in the depleted field of 17, albeit after demonstrating some fighting qualities, particularly against Kovalainen.


RED BULL-RENAULT

"Fernando was a bit strong for us today," Webber said, after following the works Renault home to seventh place and two points. David Coulthard at least got through a race without colliding with anyone, finishing ninth.


WILLIAMS-TOYOTA

Nico Rosberg's collection of the final point was helped by his very good start from 11th on the grid. "Any more, though, is just not possible at the moment," the German said. Kazuki Nakajima's DNF was the first of his short formula one career, and he was lucky to escape unhurt after Giancarlo Fisichella's flying Force India leaped over his head at the first corner, bringing out the safety car. "I don't know exactly what happened," he said. "I was just hit from behind."


TOYOTA

Jarno Trulli got a nudge amid the turn one chaos, dropping him three places and limiting his charge to just tenth place. Timo Glock also complained about being stuck in traffic after finishing a lap down and 13th. "There is still a big gap between our performance and that of the front teams," team boss Tadashi Yamashina admitted.


HONDA

Not a good race for Honda, with Jenson Button 11th and Rubens Barrichello a lowly 14th at the end of his record-breaking 257th grand prix. "Unfortunately we did not have the pace to compete," the Brazilian veteran said. Team boss Ross Brawn said the team is working on "some visually interesting" new parts for Monaco, which may be tried at the forthcoming Paul Ricard group test.


FORCE INDIA-FERRARI

Fisichella smashed into the rear and then flew over the top of Nakajima's Williams at the first corner. "Bourdais changed direction twice and I couldn't brake in time," he said. Adrian Sutil - rarely seeing a chequered flag - narrowly beat Sebastian Vettel home to avoid last place, after a collision with a Toro Rosso damaged his nose on the fraught first lap.


TORO ROSSO-FERRARI

Vettel finally saw a chequered flag in Turkey, but only after an incident-packed race, including a cut tyre on lap one and refuelling problems, and he finished dead last after not managing to pass Sutil in the closing stages. Sebastien Bourdais also had refuelling problems, but he retired after an unidentified failure at the rear of his car spun him deep into the gravel. "We are glad the STR2 era is over," said team boss Franz Tost.

Massa celebrating the hat-trick of wins at this track. Well done!

After a difficult start to the season, Massa continues to close the gap to Raikkonen in the Championship. He needs to continue this form in the coming races.

A very good result for Hamilton who had a lighter car but took a risk with a 3-stopper and made it work finishing ahead of Raikkonen.

Raikkonen had a poor start but recoverd to finish 3rd.

Kubica finished 4th but a long way back showing that BMW weren't close to the top 2 teams here. Heidfeld was 5th and a long time behind his teammate.

Alonso started in 7th but was on a light fuel load. He gained 1 place after getting ahead of Webber at the start.

And Rosberg makes the last of the top 8.

Kovalainen only managed 12th after pitting early in the race as a result of what appears to be a puncture from a touch with Raikkonen!

Your thoughts and the driver of the day ?

Monaco in 2 weeks!