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August 3, 2008
Hungary Race
And who says that the Hungaroring never has an interesting race. I have to feel for Felipe, with a great race right up until the third from last lap, when the Ferrari power plant blew, it seemed that the same issue may have been showing on Kimi’s car as well, as right after Felipe’s blow, Kimi dialled the engine back massively.
A bitter sweet race for McLaren as well, Felipe jumping both McLaren drivers at the start, and seemingly having the race pace to fend Lewis off in his McLaren, that was until Lewis had a front left tyre failure, that relegated him to twelfth spot after crawling round the track and changing onto the super soft tyres.
Toyota must be over the moon, with there best finish yet, Timo bringing the Japanese team their first second spot finish. That will boost the team, and Glock, and comes not long after Jarno’s third place finish. The team surprised when Timo pitted a lot later than everyone thought he would, showing his qualifying pace was genuine and an obvious step on in the performance for Glock and Toyota.
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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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June 21, 2008
French Qualifying
The Ferrari’s have taken the front row of the French Grand Prix, with Lewis Hamilton getting the third spot of the session, so he will start from thirteenth.
Fernando Alonso is the surprise performance of session 3, managing to put the car onto fourth, which means he will start from third tomorrow. The car looks planted, and could be the dark horse in the race.
Jarno Trulli again put in a great lap to take the fifth fastest time of Q3, and starts from fourth in the race, showing that the Toyota is certainly getting quicker, and maintaining the development pace.
Heikki had a bad session, and only managed to get the McLaren into the sixth fastest time, this means that he will struggle to help Lewis out in the race tomorrow. McLaren could have done with him taking a front row at worst, and would have like the car on pole position, so he could try to control the race pace.
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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
