Posted by ashleigh on
March 17, 2008
For those that cannot get it
‘I’m uploading the ITV-F1 stream of the highlight’s. This has all the bumps and bangs, including the Timo Glock accident.
For those that want the DivX version, download it here
Oh well, suppose it was only a matter of time, the FOM have asked for the video to be removed, so I have. Appologies.
I just wish the FOM would put a decent video subset up of their own, and it would not come to this, after all we ARE in the 21st century nowadays.
FOM Sort your life out, the F1 is a highly watched sport, with a high interest level in it. I am sure you can monetise video content on your site if you were to do it (properly, not that lame attempt you currently have). After all I’m sure there is more than one sponsor that would fund it for you. Give the fans what they want! After all we are what makes you all of your money!
Posted by ashleigh on
March 17, 2008
Australia a full runthrough
After having a few hours nap, then watching the GP again as it was repeated, then napping. I thought it about time to do my full race synopsis.
The race for various reasons has to be one of the best in the resent past, and I have had quite a few comments from ‘non F1′ friends and colleges stating that they enjoyed the race, and as a result would take more interest in the rest of the season. So from that front, I have to say well done FIA at forcing the standard engine unit on the F1 world.
The race will obviously be remembered for three reasons. First and foremost, it was the race that Lewis dominated, and made look his own. We saw very little of Hamilton during the race footage, and that was because for the most part he had an easy race. He was challenged a little at the start by Robert Kubicca, but besides that drove a mature, well paced race to take the top step of the podium.
Posted by ashleigh on
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.
Posted by ashleigh on
March 15, 2008
Pole for Lewis, but that’s not the surprise
Lewis popped his McLaren onto the Pole position, but the surprise is who is in second.
We already know that Kimi is starting 16th, so it was expected that the second Ferrari would be lining up next to him. That did not occur though, and it was not Lewis’s team mate Heikki either.
Nope hat’s off to BMW Sauber and Robert Kubbica for their second spot start for the first race.
Other surprises are the Honda cars, both making it into a lot higher position than last year (11th and 13th),
Both of the Toyota’s made it through to the top 10 shoot out, as did Nico Rosberg and David Coulthard and big surpise Sebastian Vettel. Mark Webber held his bad luck at his home track, with what looked like a failure of a front brake pad or disk under braking into the fast turn 12.
We look forward to what will be a cracking race tomorrow.
Times after the clickthrough.
Posted by ashleigh on
March 14, 2008
Australia practice 2
It looked for a long time that the local boy Mark Webber was going to set the fastest session time in the Red Bull, however it was not to be, as Lewis came out towards the end of the session and smashed the time Webber set by nearly a second.
Again we saw quite a few of the drivers having moment’s as they tried to work out where the edge of the envelope was.
Trulli was the biggest looser in this session, loosing the back of the car during braking by touching the grass and parking the car in the sand. However there was also a big spin from Felipe.
Behind Lewis and Mark, was Felipe, Heikki, Coulthard, Raikkonen, Trulli, Rosberg, Fisichella and Glock with the tenth placed Glock just over 2 seconds slower than Lewis.
Sebastian Bordais seemed like he is still getting used to turning right instead of left, as he finished the session third last in front of the two Super Aguri cars.
