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A Brittle Balance

Youth again overcame experience in Barcelona, with Felipe Massa taking a dominant win and Lewis Hamilton moving into the championship lead. Richard Barnes examines the ramifications of the Spanish Grand Prix

After a month away from racing, McLaren's Fernando Alonso and Ferrari's Kimi Raikkonen may have hoped that the break would shake their junior teammates out of the impressive form shown in Bahrain. But when the season resumed in last Sunday's Spanish Grand Prix, it was the less-fancied (and lower paid) of the quartet who again outshone their 'franchise star' teammates.

The gulf between the teammate salaries is so great, yet the difference in their on-track performances so marginal, that the championship has almost evolved into two intra-team battles, Alonso versus Hamilton and Raikkonen against Massa.

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