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April 26, 2008
Spain Qualifying results
OK, so where did Renault come from? Alonso is the talk of the Qualy session without a shadow of a doubt. Yes Kimi took a pole position, and Massa took third, but it’s certain that all talk will be about Fernando, who was pleased as punch coming over the line after setting the pole position time.
The new Renault is obviously a decent step up from what they started the season with, but the question is how much fuel does Alonso have on board.
The BMW of Robert Kubica sit’s behind Massa’s Ferrari in fourth spot, with the two McLarens on the third row of the grid, with Hamilton ahead of Kovalainen.
Behind the McLarens is Webber and Trulli, showing that the Red Bull and Toyota’s are still in the hunt, even if it’s not for the race win.
Heidfeld and Piquet get the last two spot’s in the top 10, showing that their team mates did a decent job, even if they are light on fuel.
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October 6, 2007
Another ‘Lewis Lap’
Lewis Hamilton has for the second time in a row, pulled a marvelous lap out of the bag in the dying minutes of qualifying.
Lewis looked every bit fourth fastest all the way through the 3 sessions, then managed to hook a near perfect lap up in the last moments of Q3 to take the pole spot.
Kimi Raikkonen took the second place, with the Ferrari looking sorted in sectors 2 and 3, but a little out of sorts in the tight sector 1.
Massa sit’s his Ferrari in third spot, with Fernando popping the second McLaren into fourth.
Behind the top four is where the interest starts however. David Coulthard put’s his Red Bull on the fifth spot, and after announcing he wont be driving for Toyota in 2008, Ralf Schumacher put’s his car sixth.
The second Red Bull of Mark Webber is in seventh, followed by the two BMW cars (Heidfeld/Kubica) who’s cars just did not look their usual hooked up self.
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August 5, 2007
Update before the start
There have been some changes on the grid, so I thought I would mention them before the race starts.
Giancarlo Fisichella has lost five places on the grid due to a breach of article 31.7 of the FIA Sporting code. He was judged to have impeded Sakon Yamamoto in the first phase of qualifying.
Then we have the Alonso / Hamilton incident. The Stewards have decided that Alonso unnecessarily impeded Hamilton and so Alonso has a 5 place drop on the grid as well.
1 Hamilton McLaren
2 Heidfeld BMW
3 Raikkonen Ferrari
4 Rosberg WilliamsF1
5 R Schumacher Toyota
6 Alonso McLaren
7 Kubica BMW
8 Trulli Toyota
9 Webber Red Bull
10 Coulthard Red Bull
11 Kovalainen Renault
12 Wurz WilliamsF1
13 Fisichella Renault
14 Massa Ferrari
15 Davidson Super Aguri
16 Liuzzi Toro Rosso
17 Button Honda
18 Barrichello Honda
19 Sato Super Aguri
20 Vettel Toro Rosso
21 Sutil Spyker
22 Yamamoto Spyker
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May 28, 2007
McLaren take Monaco by storm
McLaren Mercedes dominated at this weekends Monaco GP. Alonso and Lewis came home 1-2 in a dominant showing from the Grove based team.
The two McLaren’s lead from the start, and never looked like being surpassed all race. The Ferrari of Massa could not hang with the two silver cars, and made the race easy for the two at the front. Lewis had a few extra laps of fuel in the car, but struggled to maintain the race perfect pace of Alonso in the opening part of the race, and therefore could not capitalise on his longer first run.
Behind the two McLaren’s, Massa’s Ferrari showed that the struggling pace of the team was not just merely a practice and qualifying issue. Massa struggled to keep up with Lewis in the first section of the race, and after the first stop the Ferrari team resorted to trying the super soft tyres, in an attempt to give the Ferrari a little more pace. This did not work, and Massa could just not live with the pace of the front runners.
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May 12, 2007
Massa gets another pole
Filipe Massa has taken another great pole in Spain. The Ferrari team showed there true colour’s in qualifying after sandbagging all weekend.
The Spanish were happy though as Alonso popped his McLaren onto the second spot of the grid, just a few hundredths of a second behind Massa.
Kimi Raikkonen dropped the second Ferrari into third, with the second McLaren of young Lewis Hamilton popping into the fourth spot.
It seems that the fuel strategy between the teams has been split amongst the drivers. Massa and Alonso seem to have short fueled with Raikkonen and Hamilton going slightly longer.
Behind the front four are the BMW of Robert Kubica and the Toyota of Jarno Trulli. Jarno is the surprise of the group in the top 10, Toyota have been slow all weekend.
Fourth row has the second BMW of Nick Heidfeld and the Renault of Heikki Kovalainen.
Fifth row has the much improved Red Bull of David Coulthard and the second Renault of Giancarlo Fisichella.
