Sebastian Vettel is Formula One's youngest winner

YOUNG STAR: The 21-year-old German is also the youngest to start a GP on pole position.

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Monza: Germany's Sebastian Vettel stunned Formula One as the sport's youngest race winner on Sunday with an exuberant victory for tiny Toro Rosso at their home Italian Grand Prix.

The 21-year-old, already the youngest to start a Grand Prix on pole position, gave his Ferrari-powered team their first win with a remarkably assured drive through spray and slippery conditions.

It was an astonishing result for the smallest of teams, formerly tail-enders Minardi, in a paddock dominated by mighty manufacturers.

Emerging from Ferrari's immense shadow at the temple of Italian motor racing, Toro Rosso became the only other Italy-based team to win a grand prix since Juan Manuel Fangio triumphed for Maserati in 1957.

"It's amazing, I can't believe it. I'm lost for words," declared Vettel, who was almost crying with joy before taking the chequered flag 12.5 seconds clear of McLaren's Heikki Kovalainen.

"It is the best day of my life. These pictures and emotions I will never forget."

McLaren's Lewis Hamilton, who started 15th after losing a gamble with the weather in qualifying, retained his championship lead by a single point after overtaking a string of cars to finish seventh.

Ferrari's Brazilian Felipe Massa, Hamilton's closest rival, failed to make the most of starting nine places ahead of the Briton and finished sixth in a wet race that began behind the safety car.

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With four races remaining, Hamilton has 78 points to Massa's 77 and Robert Kubica's 64 for BMW-Sauber, pending an appeal into the result of the Belgian Grand Prix where the championship leader was demoted from first to third for cutting a chicane.

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