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May 24, 2008
Monaco Qualifying
A shock result from the qualifying session for Monaco, the McLaren’s have only managed to take the second row of the grid, being out qualified by the Ferrari’s at the ‘McLaren Track’.
Lewis Hamilton seemed to be struggling the whole session to get a good time in sector 2 of the track, and it seemed to be where he was loosing his time.
Massa eclipsed his team mate in all three sessions of the qualifying, and seemed to have the Ferrari hooked up better than Kimi.
Heikki put in a solid lap considering he was in a rebuilt car after putting his McLaren into the barrier this morning in practice.
Robert Kubica’s BMW-Sauber looked a complete handful, so it’s impressive to see him on the fifth spot of the grid, he certainly faired better than his German team mate, who start’s thirteenth.
Nico was possibly the outstanding driver of the session, putting the Williams onto the third row of the grid. He seemed to have a well planted front end to the car, and drove well to get his car there. Constantly 1.2 seconds faster than his young team mate.
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March 24, 2008
Malaysia a full runthrough
It was not quite the race that McLaren and Lewis were hoping for after their domination in Australia. It was however an interesting race, as it showed that the season is not going to be the two horse race that we have had in recent seasons.
Ferrari shone all weekend, and where pretty much unbeatable, Felipe was looking fast, as was Kimi, and the Ferrari with it’s minor changes to improve cooling looked strong.
The race started under a little cloud, the McLaren team had been penalised five grid spots for both of their cars, this was because Lewis and Heikki had impeded Heidfeld and Alonso’s fast laps at the end of the Q3 session.
This put the two lower fueled McLarens into eight and ninth place, in and around heavier fueld cars. This did however show us that both the McLaren and Lewis are quick away from the line, the Brit lined up ninth on the grid, and finished the first set of corners in fifth, Mark Webber did well getting the Red Bull into fourth as well.
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March 22, 2008
Qualifying at Malaysia
The Ferrari’s looked good in qualifying. Both of the Scarlet cars are on the front of the grid, with Massa taking the pole spot.
The McLaren’s looked slower all qualifying session, so it seems that they may have put a little more fuel in the cars, and went for the second row, which they got. Heikki managing to take third spot, with Hamilton looking out of sorts and struggling to keep Trulli’s Toyota behind him.
Trulli is surely the shock of the session though, setting the fastest time in Q1, and then the ‘best of the rest’ for fifth spot in the final Q3 session.
The two BMW’s follow Trulli in sixth and seventh for Kubica and Heidfeld, Webber managing to take eighth, Alonso ninth and the second Toyota of Timo Glock on the tenth spot.
It was quite a dangerous session though, with Alonso and Heidfeld both trying to set times at the end of the session, with all the other cars touring very slowly in fuel saving mode back to the pit’s. There will certainly have to be some sort of ruling stopping the cars going so slowly when they have finished their own final fast lap.
