F1 News
- March 16, 2008
Australia Result
And it’s a result for Lewis Hamilton, and McLaren.
Lewis drove a start to finish winning race, however the news is the Ferrari cars.
None of the Ferrari powered cars managed to finish the race, with two engine failures (Kimi and Bordause).
It was also nice to see the BMW and Williams on the podium, Heidfeld took the second spot, and Rosberg took a much deserved third spot.
The race was incident packed, with 3 safety cars out, Kovalinen got caught out in his second stop with the Safety Car that Timo Glock’s big accident brought out, having to stop under the safety car, and join the end of the snake along with Alonso.
David Coulthard had a big accident with Massa into turn one ending Red Bulls day. Rubens was running well in the lone Honda (Button had an incident on the opening lap), with his car running out of fuel, he had to come in to refuel while the safety car was out and the pit lane was closed giving him a 10 second penalty, he then looked to go back out onto the track through red pit lights. So it’s unknown at the moment if he managed to score points or not.
I feel a little sorry for Sabastian Bordause with a failure so late in the race, when he was doing a good job holding off Alonso and Kovalinen.
A full breakdown of the race after I have had a nap.
6 Responses to “Australia Result”
Great 1st race but lacking manufacturers that can stay on the road. Is ‘alfa romeo’ coming back to f1. Preview of potential alfa is available at http://www.targ8.com/f1
By targ8 on Mar 16, 2008
I doubt very much if we will see Alfa Romeo, there also owned by the Fiat group, who Own Ferrari.
By ashleigh on Mar 16, 2008
but Alda used to be in f1. Torro rosa use ferriri engine so why not Alfa again?
By neil on Mar 17, 2008
Hi,
It is unfortunate to see David crashing out by a silly mistake from Massa. Video’s show Massa just entered into the inner side. However good show after all by Lewis.
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By Sumit on Mar 17, 2008
Neil,
The reason Alfa will not be seen in the sport is because Fiat group cannot afford to support 3-400 million dollar budgets for two teams.
The Fiat group are represented by Ferrari, and I doubt we will see any other Fiat group companies in the sport while the Scarlet team are there.
There is also the issue that the ‘expensive’ Fiat brand cannot be seen to be being beaten by the ‘cheaper’ cousin of the group.
By ashleigh on Mar 17, 2008