Elementary, my dear Hamilton. So the demanding task of winning the Malaysian Grand Prix was made to look by the supreme  racing craft of the Briton chasing his second, life-defining, world title. With victory secured in the suffocating heat of the Sepang track, Lewis Hamilton beamed on the podium as he was interviewed, bizarrely enough, by Sherlock Holmes, aka actor Benedict Cumberbatch. But what looked like a piffling one-pipe triumph for a driver of Hamilton’s brilliance was a massive statement of intent in what, at this early stage of the season at least, is a private championship duel between the two Mercedes’ men, Hamilton and Nico Rosberg.
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Lewis Hamilton wins the Malaysian Grand Prix from pole position
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Nico Rosberg finishes second as Mercedes secure top two finish
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World Champion Sebastian Vettel grabs first podium finish this season
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Fernando Alonso in fourth, McLaren's Jenson Button sixth
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Daniel Ricciardo to face ten-place grid penalty for unsafe pit release
All too easy: @placeholder comfortably won in Malaysia as Mercedes dominated the race