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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 |
Posted by ashleigh on
June 7, 2008
Canada Qualifying
Lewis Hamilton has taken his second pole position in Canada with a simply stunning lap at the end of Qualifying 3.
Lewis set a laptime 6 tenths of a second faster than Robert Kubica in the BMW-Sauber, and nearly a second faster than Kimi in the Ferrari.
Fernando Alonso had a good set of laps in the Renault to take a spot on the second row of the grid, and Felipe and Heikki are sat on the third row.
Rubens Barrichello got the Honda into the Q3 session, with Button’s car failing with a third gear issue in Q1.
Mark Webber had a good Q2, but was trying to better his time at the end of the session, unfortunately the track surface was starting to break up at the hairpin, and on the exit of turn 7, this caught him out and he bumped the nose into barrier, ending his qualifying session. He starts in tenth position as he could not participate in Q3
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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.
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May 25, 2008
Lewis conquers Monaco
Lewis Hamilton and McLaren have taken the race win in Monaco on a rain drenched day.
Lewis managed to get the jump on Kimi at the race start, taking corner one behind Massa.
He then managed to bump his rear wheel against a barrier, and had to pit for replacement, where the McLaren team switched him to a one stop race. This turned out to be the winning move for Lewis, who then proceeded to get up to speed, and was the fastest of the front runners, which ultimately gave him the race.
BMW-Sauber took second spot with Robert Kubica running a solid race, and Ferrari took the last podium spot with Felipe getting his strategy all wrong, and was caught on a drying track, with wet tyres.
Drive of the day must go to Adrian Sutil though, as he drove a fabulous race all afternoon, setting fastest times in difficult circumstances, right up until Kimi Räikkönen smashed the back of his Force India into submission on the breaking into the chicane after coming out of the tunnel.
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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.
