Williams found itself in a race of its own at the Malaysian Grand Prix, with Valtteri Bottas leading Felipe Massa over the line for fifth and sixth place respectively. The British team had comfortably the third-quickest car on Sunday afternoon, so much so that it was too far up the road from Toro Rosso to be caught and too far off the pace of Ferrari and Mercedes fight for the podium. So unchallenged were the Williams cars that Bottas was able to recover from a terrible first lap that saw him drop to P14 to be hustling Massa by the end of the race. The result was significantly more solid than the team had predicted after qualifying, when the car seemed to chew through its tyres far faster...
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