Good afternoon and welcome to our LIVE coverage of the Malaysian Grand Prix!

Thanks for joining today's live coverage! Next up, the Formula One bandwagon rolls on to China - can Vettel keep his perfect run going? Find out on Friday, when we'll have live commentary of the first two free practice sessions!

Sebastian Vettel: "It was never easy... I'm very pleased. I love what I do, and I don't think I could be happier at this stage."

A similarly downbeat Mark Webber: "You get killed on the long run with no KERS... It's touch to clear people who have got KERS... I was losing a lot of time behind Lewis, who was in trouble, that's just the way it was."

A very downbeat Lewis Hamilton: "This is racing, I guess. I started second, and did everything I could to keep up... I was stuck behind Heidfeld... I was really squashed in turn one... My tyres were done at the end, you just have to take it on the chin and move forwards."

The drivers drench themselves in champagne, as Heidfeld looks understandably thrilled to be up on the podium. It's the German's first podium since the 2009 Malaysian Grand Prix

Vettel is all smiles once again as he leaps onto the podium for the German national anthem. It's a perfect start to the season for the world champion, who is already building an imposing lead in the drivers' championship.

11-16 is Sutil, Rosberg, Buemi, Alguersuari, Kovalainen, and Glock, with Petrov, Liuzzi, d'Ambrosio, Trulli, Perez, Barichello, Karthikeyan, and Maldonaldo all failing to finish

Massa takes fifth ahead of team-mate Alonso, and Hamilton finishes a miserable afternoon in seventh. Kobayashi finishes eighth, Schumacher picks up a couple of championship points in ninth, and Di Resta rounds off another impressive performance in the Force India with a 10th-placed finish

Webber can't quite force his way into the top three, but that's a decent recovery from the Australian after a shocking start as he finishes fourth

Button takes second, with Heidfeld holding on comfortably to complete the podium

VETTEL WINS THE 2011 MALAYSIAN GRAND PRIX!

Heidfeld has the KERS in third place, Webber hasn't! If the German can stay clean, he should get a podium finish here. Massa is fifth, Alonso sixth, Hamilton seventh, Kobayashi eighth, Schumacher ninth, and Di Resta 10th

Vettel enters his final lap of the Grand Prix, still six seconds ahead of Button

Petrov goes over a rain gulley at top speed AND HE FLIES OFF THE TRACK AND INTO A 150MPH MARKER! That's race over for the Russian, and the steering column came off in his hands!

So it's Vettel, Button, and Heidfeld, with Webber lurking dangerously with four fewer laps in his tyres than the Renault

Hamilton then runs wide at turn seven with Webber right behind him, and hands the Australian fourth place as a gift! Hamilton immediately pits, and comes back out behind Petrov! The Brit is sinking through the points like a stone...

Heidfeld opens up his rear wing as he comes up behind Hamilton on the first straight, and he uses the DRS to take him! Heidfeld moves into third!

Hamilton now 19 seconds adrift of Button, and he has looked so uncomfortable on those tyres. Heidfeld and Webber are on the charge, though, and will both fancy a podium position here!

Button still 6.588 seconds behind Vettel, as Webber moves up to fifth place with a text-book overtake around the outside of Massa on turn one

Petrov takes eighth place from Kobayashi, as Webber starts to ask some questions of Massa in sixth