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October 11, 2008
Japan Quali Results
A good qualifying session, and certainly an interesting one.
Lewis pulled off a great lap in the drying moments of Q3 to take the pole position, but it looked like Kimi, who had seemed to be struggling all qualifying up until Q3 was certainly the man to beat. He pulled a great first Q3 lap out, and then backed it up with a good second lap, but was piped by the Lewis lap.
Heikki did well to take the third spot on the grid, with a decent lap at the end of the session, and the Renault of Alonso was again looking quick, and took fourth.
Massa seemed to struggle when the Ferrari had fuel put on board, after being quick in Q1 and Q2 he struggled with car balance in Q3, so starts fifth.
Behind the title contenders, and their wingmen is Robert Kubica, Jarno and Timo in the Toyota’s and then Vettel and Bourdais in the Toro Rosso’s again outperforming the prime Red Bull team.
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August 23, 2008
Valencia Qualifying
A topsy turvy qualifying session at the new track. The grip levels were changing all session, and the couple of spots of rain probably did not help.
The Toro Rosso’s both made it through to the Q3 session, showing up their Red Bull cousins, and oddly showing how much better the Ferrari engine is than the Renault one.
It looked for a while like the front row was going to be without either a Ferrari or McLaren, but in the end Felipe drove a great lap to take to top spot, and Lewis had a great lap to make second spot.
Robert Kubica showed his skill at the heavy breaking tracks, and takes the third spot, with Kimi again not able to match his Brazilian team mates times.
Heikki then put’s the other McLaren on row three, joined with Sebastian Vettel in the fast Toro Rosso, behind him Jarno Trulli in the Toyota, with a great drive considering that he had almost no running this morning in free practice due to gearbox issues.
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July 20, 2008
German Results
Great race today, I’ve only just been able to watch it as have been out all afternoon.
Full race rundown later, but for now a hearty well done to Nelson Piquet especially, and Lewis Hamilton for the win, after having come out of his second pit stop in fourth.
| Pos | No | Driver | Team | Laps | Time/Retired | Grid | Pts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 22 | Lewis Hamilton | McLaren-Mercedes | 67 | 1:31:20.874 | 1 | 10 |
| 2 | 6 | Nelsinho Piquet | Renault | 67 | +5.5 secs | 17 | 8 |
| 3 | 2 | Felipe Massa | Ferrari | 67 | +9.3 secs | 2 | 6 |
| 4 | 3 | Nick Heidfeld | BMW Sauber | 67 | +9.8 secs | 12 | 5 |
| 5 | 23 | Heikki Kovalainen | McLaren-Mercedes | 67 | +12.4 secs | 3 | 4 |
| 6 | 1 | Kimi Räikkönen | Ferrari | 67 | +14.4 secs | 6 | 3 |
| 7 | 4 | Robert Kubica | BMW Sauber | 67 | +22.6 secs | 7 | 2 |
| 8 | 15 | Sebastian Vettel | STR-Ferrari | 67 | +33.2 secs | 9 | 1 |
| 9 | 11 | Jarno Trulli | Toyota | 67 | +37.1 secs | 4 |
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June 22, 2008
French Results
A torid day for Lewis Hamilton. After having to start 10 places down on his qualifying position, he then put a move on Sebastien Vettel, but had to cut a chicane to keep the position, and as a result had to take a drive through penalty. That put paid to his race, as he was never going to recover from that, he did finish tenth in the end, which after what he went through was not a bad result.
Kimi looked on to win the race easily, but then before the half distance one of his exhausts failed, this allowed the Brazilian team mate to take the race lead, and complete the race in the first spot. Kimi held on and limped the Ferrari home in second, the huge lead that the Ferrari cars had got initially allowed him to hold onto the second spot. Although it has to be asked why the car was not Orange and Black flagged, as the Exhaust hanging in the breeze was certainly dangerous, as others have said, if it was a McLaren, I’m sure they would have been asked to resolve the issue. When the exhaust did finally break off, it flew extremely high, and could have caused a lot of damage to another car or perhaps killed a driver if it had hit them square. It’s certainly something that a lot of people will be asking the FIA to explain there thinking behind not O&B flagging Kimi.
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May 27, 2008
Monaco run through
The rain soaked Monaco GP threw up a few surprises, and a few incidents. So let’s have a look at how the teams and drivers got on in the Principality.
The race started with the teams having to make a difficult choice over which tyres to have on the cars before the three minute warning, something Ferrari messed up, as they fitted Kimi’s wet tyres after the three minute siren, causing him to perform a drive through penalty.
All the teams made the same choice though, and they all started the race on the wet Bridgstone tyres. Heikki’s race weekend was ruined when a software glitch in the gear selection program stalled the McLaren on the dummy grid, and had to start from the pit lane.
Lewis got a great launch off the clean side of the track, beating Kimi’s Ferrari into the first corner, slotting in behind Massa to take the second place.
