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[Val]

BARCELONA, Spain, April 26, 2008 (AFP) - Defending drivers´ world champion and early season leader Kimi Raikkonen of Finland on Saturday secured pole position for Sunday´s Spanish Grand Prix.

Best moments

Michael Schumacher in the pitbox at Ferrari during the Spanish Grand Prix qualifying (what was he doing there? Looking for free lunch? )

The top qualifyers of the 2008 Spanish Grand Prix. 1st Kimi Raikkonen, 2nd Fernando Alonso, 3rd Felipe Massa

Timo Glock driving on the long straight of the Catalunya circuit of Spain.

Dietrich Mateschitz (Red Bull Founder) and Robert Doornbos (race driver)

Mark Webber driving out of the pit on Friday before the 2008 Spanish Grand Prix.

But on a warm, dry and sunlit spring afternoon at the Circuit de Catalunya, it was the performance of local hero Spaniard Fernando Alonso that captured the public imagination.

Double drivers´ world champion Alonso clocked a superb lap in the closing seconds to go briefly top of the times and ended up second only after Raikkonen had eclipsed his effort in the final seconds.

Raikkonen´s Ferrari team-mate Brazilian Felipe Massa was third fastest ahead of Poland´s Robert Kubica in the leading BMW Sauber with Briton Lewis Hamilton struggling to make fifth place for McLaren Mercedes.

His team-mate Finn Heikki Kovalianen was sixth ahead of Australian Mark Webber in a Red Bull, Italian Jarno Trulli of Toyota, German Nick Heidfeld in the second BMW and Brazilian Nelson Piquet in the second Renault.

The first two mini-sessions saw the removal of 12 slower drivers from the fray.

In the first session, when Raikkonen was the fastest man, Briton David Coulthard in his Red Bull failed to make the cut by finishing 17th, just ahead of Sebastian Vettel of Germany in his Toro Rosso.

Also out went Italian Giancarlo Fisichella of Force India, German Adrian Sutil, his team-mate, Briton Anthony Davidson of the cash-starved Super-Aguri team and his partner Japanese Takuma Sato.

The second part-session saw the elimination of Brazilian Rubens Barrichello, in his Honda, Kazuki Nakajima in a Williams, Jenson Button of Britain in a Honda, German Timo Glock in a Toyota, German Nico Rosberg in a Williams and Frenchman Sebastien Bourdais in a Toro Rosso.

Next Race:

Catalunya: Spain



Sunday 27 April - 14:00: local time. 9am here in Brazil.

Good luck.

[Captain Beefheart]

Great job from Alonso and the Renault team as well. I suspect he's a bit light on fuel, but still a great step forward for the team, a podium would be too much to ask for but a Top 5 finish would be alright.

[Val]

Beef ...

could you go to the introduction thread and say something about your car there?

Flying Finn strolls to Spanish victory

The podium after the 2008 Spanish Grand Prix: 1st Kimi Raikkonen, 2nd Felipe Massa, 3rd Lewis Hamilton.

BARCELONA, Spain, April 27, 2008 (AFP) - Defending drivers world champion Kimi Raikkonen extended his lead in this year´s title race to nine points on Sunday when he drove to a comfortable victory in an incident-filled Spanish Grand Prix.

The Finn, driving a Ferrari, led from start to finish, bar the pit stops, to dominate the contest and consolidate his and his team´s position as the in-form outfit after four races this season.

Raikkonen´s win was his 17th in a career often beset by bad luck in earlier times and endorsed the wideheld feeling that he has happier at Ferrari and in the form of his life.

His Ferrari team-mate Brazilian Felipe Massa drove a solid race to finish second, after starting third on the grid, ahead of Briton Lewis Hamilton in a McLaren-Mercedes.

But Hamilton´s team-mate Finn Heikki Kovalainen produced the day´s most spectacular and worrying moment when his car suffered a front-left puncture at 240 kph.

He lost control and flew off the track into a tyre barrier.

It took five minutes to pull his car clear and lift him out on to a stretcher, but he was later declared to be uninjured and stable after being taken to the medical centre - though he was flown to a local hospital as a precautionary measure.

Poland´s Robert Kubica continued his fine form by finishing fourth for BMW Sauber ahead of Australian Mark Webber in a Red Bull and Briton Jenson Button in a Honda.

Japanese Kazuki Nakajima finished seventh for Williams and Italian Jarno Trulli ninth for Toyota.

The race saw the Safety Car sent out twice following accidents.

Home hero Fernando Alonso of Spain was forced to retire in his Renault after blowing the engine. He started an unexpected second on the grid, but failed to match that in front of a crowd of more than 115,000 spectators at the Circuit de Catalunya.

Raikkonen made a fast, clean start to take the lead from his 15th pole position and first this year.

Behind him, his Ferrari team-mate Massa went left and wide to pass Alonso on the outside as they swept towards the first corner.

The big sun-bathed crowd of 115,000 spectators crowded into the Circuit de Catlunya gasped in disappointment, but there was nothing that Spain´s double world champion could do to prevent the Brazilian passing him with sheer speed.

Hamilton, starting fifth, took advantage of the cars swerving in front of him to spear down the inside of Kubica and, after almost running off the circuit, to squeeze ahead of him on the inside of turn one.

For both men, their aggression paid off as on this tortuously predictable circuit, where overtaking during the race is so notoriously difficult, it secured them good positions.

On the same lap, the opening one, however, there was drama when German Adrian Sutil spun and then hit his compatriot Sebastian Vettel, the Force India car smacking the Toro Rosso with enough force to wreck both of their races.

This brought out the Safety Car for two laps before Raikkonen began his charge again, opening up a clear 2.7 seconds lead by lap 10 ahead of Massa as the two Ferraris ran away at the front.

Alonso, Hamilton and Kubica filled positions three to five with Kovalainen sixth in the second McLaren.

Another accident on lap eight ended the hopes of both Nelson Piquet and Sebastien Bourdais, the Brazilian driving his Renault into the second Toro Rosso when he attempted an outrageously ambitious passing move down the inside. The Frenchman retired with a shrug and soon afterwards was joined by Briton Anthony Davidson who abandoned the race in his Super Aguri car. For the cash-starved Honda-supported team, it was a minor catastrophe in a season of worry - they do not know if they will survive for more than another week.

Piquet´s car was left abandoned out on the track at turn 10.

Alonso was the first man to pit, followed swiftly by the two Ferraris and Hamilton, but as the order was shuffled during the stops, Kovalainen speared off the track at turn nine, ramming his Renault heavily into the tyre-barrier. The front of his car was buried deep in the tyres and the Finn, in the cockpit, was out of sight seemingly in serious danger of bad injury.

But after several minutes his car was finally extracted and after he was lifted on to a stretcher he was well enough to signal with a ´thumb´s up´ that he was well and apparently unhurt.

Slow-motion replays from the cockpit footage showed that his car went out of control when his left front wheel blew up at 230 kph. It looked like a straightforward tyre failure.

On resumption, Raikkonen was left to build his lead again as the two Ferraris led the field. Hamilton was third, Kubica fourth and Alonso, after the stops, fifth. It did not last long.

As Raikkonen completed his 35th lap, Alonso pulled to a halt, his engine spewing out blue smoke.

The Renault power unit had failed dramatically. His fans in the big crowd gave him generous applause and he responded as he walked back to the pits.

Nico Rosberg, of Germany, then retired in similar, if more dramatic fashion, when his Williams car´s Toyota engine blew up as he parked by the pit wall on the main straight.

This left only 13 of the 22 starters still running.

Massa was first to make a second pit-stop as Raikkonen set another fastest lap and pulled further clear before pitting himself ahead of Hamilton and Kubica.

This left Raikkonen ahead by two seconds, as they headed to the chequered flag with Hamilton closing the gap on Massa to just nine-tenths of a second as they crossed the line.

[Val]

Massa wins Turkish Grand Prix

Felipe Massa wins the 2007 Turkish Grand Prixclose

ISTANBUL, May 11, 2008 (AFP) - Brazilian driver Felipe Massa won the Turkish Grand Prix here on Sunday for the third successive year and his seventh career victory.

The Ferrari pilot beat home Briton Lewis Hamilton while reigning champion Kimi Raikkonen was third.

Fast rising Polish driver Robert Kubica took fourth while BMW Sauber stable-mate Nick Heidfeld was fifth, two-time world champion Fernando Alonso was sixth. Australian Mark Webber and German Nico Rosberg filled the other points scoring places.

Raikkonen retained his lead in the overall standings.

[Val]

Hamilton dominates second practice session

Lewis Hamilton driving his McLaren MP4/23 at Monaco

MONACO, May 22, 2008 (AFP) - Briton Lewis Hamilton dominated Thursday´s second practice session for Sunday´s Monaco Grand Prix.

Hamilton´s time in the afternoon session was the quickest of the day and gave the McLaren driver major encouragement for Sunday´s 66th running of the showpiece event.

Hamilton dominated the practice early on before Williams driver Nico Rosberg of Germany switched to softer tyres midway through the session and recorded a time of 1:15.533 eclipsing Hamilton momentarily.

Rosberg was quickest for ten minutes before Hamilton also switched to softer Bridgestone rubber and posted a time of 1:15.140, beating the Williams´ time by almost four tenths of a second.

Rosberg was able to hang on to second place ahead of Ferrari duo, defending champion Finn Kimi Raikkonen and Brazilian Felipe Massa, with Heikki Kovalainen of Finland fifth in the second McLaren.

Renault driver Fernando Alonso of Spain managed to finish seventh despite damaging his car at Saint Devote. The Spaniard span off damaging the suspension and rear wing but was able limp to the pits, and still posted the seventh best time.

In the first practice run, Raikkonen edged Hamilton to the fastest time.

In a session interrupted by a long red flag to attend to a loose drain cover, Hamilton had been quickest prior to the interruption, having lapped in 1:17.078 early on. He then improved the benchmark to 1:16.216 shortly after the session was restarted.

But with nine minutes to go, he was usurped by Raikkonen, as the Ferrari driver produced a 1:15.948 to beat Hamilton by 0.268 seconds.

Those times stood as neither driver managed a clear lap on their last runs.

Kovalainen beat Raikkonen´s initial sector times in the second McLaren, but could not sustain the advantage around the final part of the lap and ended up third.

[Val]

Ferrari dominate as Massa grabs pole in Monaco

Felipe Massa gets pole position for the 2008 Malaysian Grand Prix.

MONACO, May 24, 2008 (AFP) - Brazilian Felipe Massa secured pole position for Sunday´s Monaco Grand Prix when he outpaced his Ferrari team-mate and defending champion Kimi Raikkonen in the final seconds of Saturday qualifying.

The Latin American made nonsense of his declared hatred of the unforgiving street circuit in the Mediterranean principality by producing a sublime effort to outpace not only Raikkonen, but also both McLaren drivers.

Raikkonen ended up second ahead of Briton Lewis Hamilton and his McLaren team-mate, Finn Heikki Kovalainen, who was fourth.

They will share the second row of the grid after failing to build on their speed earlier in the weekend.

In effect, this also means that Massa is favourite to grab his third win of the season and the eighth of his career in Sunday´s traditionally-processional race around the old harbour.

It was Massa´s 12th career pole position and Ferrari´s first pole in Monaco since 2000.

Poland´s Robert Kubica was fifth for BMW ahead of German Nico Rosberg in a Williams. Twice champion Spaniard Fernando Alonso in a Renault was seventh and Italian Jarno Trulli eighth for Toyota.

That left the two Red Bulls of Australian Mark Webber and David Coulthard in ninth and 10th places.

Coulthard had a huge accident but escaped unhurt at the end of the second mini-session.

The first mini-session in warm, but overcast conditions saw the prompt elimination of the two Toro Rosso drivers Frenchman Sebastien Bourdais and German Sebastian Vettel, who will start the race from 16th and 18th places respectively, along with Brazilian Nelson Piquet in his Renault, who was 17th.

German Adrian Sutil in a Force India was 19th and his team-mate Italian Giancarlo Fisichella was 20th, an outcome that meant they fill the back row of the grid.

Massa was fastest in the opening mini-session when the conditions were benign - an air temperature of 20 degrees, a track temperature of 24 degrees and humidity of 75 per cent. Rain appeared imminent.

The second mini-session was led by the Ferraris, with Massa on top, but the action was overshadowed by Coulthard´s crash in the closing seconds.

The Scot´s Red Bull appeared to hit the barriers at around 260 kph in the tunnel and the first sign of trouble was the sight of a wheel flying ahead of his car into the sunlight.

The Monaco-resident´s car then appeared after smashing into the barriers with both right wheels missing.

The session was red-flagged. He was unhurt and when the debris was cleared the session resumed. He had clocked the 10th-fastest time.

The second mini-session saw the removal from the fray of German Timo Glock in his Toyota, Briton Jenson Button in a Honda and German Nick Heidfeld in a BMW Sauber. They will start 11th, 12th and 13th on the grid.

Japan´s Kazuki Nakajima in a Williams and Brazilian Rubens Barrichello in the second Honda were 14th and 15th.

That left the leading teams to enjoy the final shootout in dry conditions with the sun attempting to make an appearance. It certainly shone on Massa.

[bigbear]

Damn it Danicka Patrick is out of the Indy 500 Race today!

[Jocasta]

Thank goodness for the rain, it made for an exciting race when it can often be so boring in Monaco.

[Val]

Melbourne to keep Grand Prix until 2015 - report

The podium after the 2008 Australian Grand Prix: 1st L. Hamilton, 2nd N. Heidfeld, 3nd N. Rosberg

SYDNEY, June 15, 2008 (AFP) - Melbourne is set to keep its Formula One Grand Prix until 2015, and without moving it to night-time, a media report said early on Sunday.

A new deal is expected to be signed within days, according to News Limited, following rampant speculation over the event´s future.

A senior government source reportedly said a verbal agreement had been reached and an announcement was "imminent."

"We haven´t signed the deal but we´re going to quite soon," the source was quoted as saying.

F1 boss Bernie Ecclestone had threatened to strip Melbourne of the event if it is not held at night to satisfy European TV audiences.

The new extension is expected to include a later start at around 5:00 pm (0600 GMT) but not night-racing.

"We have ruled out a night race and that is not negotiable," said Victoria state tourism minister Tim Holding.

"This is a good event for the state. It´s one we want to keep and we´ll be working hard to ensure that it does remain here in Melbourne in the years ahead."

The Grand Prix switched to Melbourne from Adelaide in 1996 and the current contract expires in 2010.

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[Val]

Raikkonen on pole for French GP

Kimi

MAGNY-COURS, France, June 21, 2008 (AFP) - Defending drivers world champion Kimi Raikkonen lived up to his promise on Saturday when he claimed pole position for Ferrari for Sunday´s French Grand Prix.

The 28-year-old Finn clocked a best time of one minute and 16.449 seconds to outpace his nearest rival and team-mate Brazilian Felipe Massa by just 0.041 seconds, the pair making sure it was an all-Ferrari front row.

And Raikkonen insisted he could have gone even faster.

"I had quite a bit faster lap on the lap I came in, but the team told me to box it because I was fastest anyhow, there was no point to waste a lap of fuel," said Raikkonen, who has not scored a point in the last two races.

"That last lap I was at least two tenths faster so just at the last moment I turned in when I was at the last chicane, when the team told me to box.

"We had good speed all weekend, the car has been working well and it has been a great weekend so far but tomorrow we have to finish and hopefully we can win because we need some points."

Briton Lewis Hamilton was third-fastest for McLaren Mercedes, but he will be relegated 10 places to 13th on the grid as a punishment for his crash in the pitlane where he ignored a red light at the Canadian Grand Prix.

Spaniard Fernando Alonso was fourth fastest for Renault, a result that means the double world champion will start third with Italian Jarno Trulli alongside him on the grid for Toyota.

Hamilton´s McLaren team-mate Finn Heikki Kovalainen was sixth and will start fifth ahead of Pole Robert Kubica, the championship leader, in his BMW Sauber, Australian Mark Webber and his Red Bull team-mate Briton David Coulthard, and German Timo Glock who completed the top ten fastest times for Toyota.

The pole was the 16th of Raikkonen´s career and gives him a great chance of bouncing back in the drivers´ championship in which he is currently fourth behind Kubica, Hamilton and Massa.

After a warm morning, the afternoon qualifying session began under blue skies with the temperature rising to 27 degrees Celsius in the air and 45 degrees on the track.

The first part-session saw the swift elimination of German Adrian Sutil and his Force India team-mate Italian Giancarlo Fisichella, who will fill the back row of the grid, behind the two Hondas of Briton Jenson Button and Brazilian Rubens Barrichello.

Also knocked out was Japanese Kazuki Nakajima of Williams who will start from 16th on the grid.

The second mini-session saw the departure from the fray of Nakajima´s team-mate German Nico Rosberg, meaning that the rear three rows were in pairs of Williams, Honda and Force India.

Also out were local hero Frenchman Sebastien Bourdais of Toro Rosso and his team-mate German Sebastian Vettel who should share the seventh row of the grid.

German Nick Heidfeld of BMW Sauber and Brazilian Nelson Piquet, who was fastest for Renault in the morning´s final practice session, were also unable to progress to the top-ten shootout in the final session.

That began slowly, but soon picked up pace and incident when Trulli sent his Toyota into a spin at the hairpin, the Italian recovering his car to rejoin the action.

That was followed by the increasingly familiar sight of Hamilton running off the circuit and across the trackside dirt -- before rejoining the fray as the session entered the final decisive minutes.

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[Val]

Hamilton takes pole for Belgian GP



The top 3 qualifiers for the 2008 Belgium GP at Spa-Franchorchamps. 1st Lewis Hamilton (middle), 2nd Felipe Massa (right) & 3rd Heikki Kovalainen (left)



SPA-FRANCORCHAMPS, Belgium, Sept 6, 2008 (AFP) -
World championship leader Lewis Hamilton oozed confidence after he secured pole position for the Belgian Grand Prix with a dazzling lap in Saturday´s qualifying session.

The 23-year-old Briton, in a McLaren, claimed his fifth pole of this season and the 11th of his career with a perfectly-timed lap to outpace title rival the Ferrari of Brazilian Felipe Massa

Hamilton´s supreme lap lifted him clear of Massa by three-tenths of a second and proved he is fully recovered from his sore neck suffered in Spain two weeks ago.

Finland´s Heikki Kovlainen in the second McLaren was third fastest and starts ahead of defending champion and compatriot Kimi Raikkonen in the second Ferrari on row two.

German Nick Heidfeld was fifth for BMW Sauber ahead of two times champion Spaniard Fernando Alonso in a Renault.

Australian Mark Webber was seventh for Red Bull ahead of Poland´s Robert Kubica in the second BMW, Frenchman Sebastien Bourdais in a Toro Rosso and Sebastian Vettel of Germany in the second Toro Rosso.

Hamilton leads Massa by six points going into the penultimate European race of the year and oozed confidence. "It was a perfect lap, one of my four perfect laps so I was very happy," he said.

"I made no mistakes and the team made no mistakes so we are looking good," said Hamilton.

Massa said he also did a perfect lap. "It was as good as I could have done," he said. "Sometimes you do your best, do a perfect lap and then you find it is not enough, and that is what happened today."

Hamilton, however, warned: "It is not over yet and it is going to be a very challenging day for me and all of us tomorrow. But I am feeling really good.

"I am all over, much better than I felt in Valencia. I feel better than ever now and we had perfect preparation for this race.

"I have got a big smile on my face, but I hope I still have tomorrow."

After a morning of heavy rain, the afternoon session was run in dry, if cloudy conditions and Hamilton was swiftly out to top the times after Massa and then Raikkonen had laid down good marker laps.

In the final minute, and as the flag fell, both Massa and Hamilton were pushing as hard as possible and the Brazilian went top briefly before the leader took over again to get the prime grid position.

The first part-session was topped unexpectedly by the bespectacled Frenchman Sebastien Bourdais in his Toro Rosso.

It also saw the elimination from the fray of the bottom five runners led by the two Honda men Briton Jenson Button and Brazilian Rubens Barrichello, both of whom had a wretched session.

German Adrian Sutil and his Force India team-mate, Italian veteran Giancarlo Fisichella, were also removed along with the Japanese Kazuki Nakajima in a Williams.

At least the rain held off for an hour of action after a wet morning as the drivers took on the demands and challenges of arguably the greatest circuit on the calendar.

In the second part-session, it was another surprise as Finn Heikki Kovalainen clocked the fastest time in his McLaren while behind him, in the scrap for a top ten finish and a place in the final shooout, German Nico Rosberg failed to make it in his Williams.

He ended up qualifying 15th ahead of the back markers while Italian Jarno Trulli in his Toyota was 11th and out also.

Brazilian Nelson Piquet for Williams, German Timo Glock in the second Toyota, and Briton David Coulthard in his Red Bull were also knocked out.

[Kashie]

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So why is the F1 thread so quiet? It's 'cause the British guy is kicking Massa's a**, isn't it Val?

[Val]

Originally Posted by Kashie

So why is the F1 thread so quiet? It's 'cause the British guy is kicking Massa's a**, isn't it Val?

[Kashie]

aw, I'm sorry.
I have no idea really... I'm not much into it actually. Only cared for F1 for about 2 hours going to the KISS concert at the Grand Prix

[Val]

Hamilton wins 2008 F1 championship





SAO PAULO, Nov 2, 2008 (AFP) - Massa victorious, Hamilton champion after nail-biting finish in Brazil

McLaren’s Lewis Hamilton is the 30th - and youngest-ever - world champion. Lady Luck was on his side after title rival Felipe Massa dominated at Interlagos. The Brazilian crossed the line first after a pluperfect performance - and seemed to have achieved the impossible - as Hamilton trailed in sixth.

Rain in the closing stages had prompted the first five - Massa, Renault’s Fernando Alonso, Ferrari’s Kimi Raikkonen, Hamilton and Toro Rosso’s Sebastian Vettel - to pit for wet tyres. Crucially, Timo Glock, running sixth for Toyota, did not.

Massa, Alonso and Raikkonen resumed in first to third places, but Hamilton and Vettel fell behind Glock. That was still good enough for Hamilton. But then, under pressure on the 70th lap, he made a crucial mistake and slid wide. It was all Vettel needed and the Toro Rosso driver pushed through to snatch away the fifth place that Hamilton needed to become champion.

Even as Massa crossed the line, Hamilton was only sixth and the Brazilian was the champion. But as Vettel and Hamilton slammed out of the final corner, Glock’s Toyota was slowing in front of them, the German struggling for grip on his increasingly unsuitable rubber. From the jaws of defeat, the British driver snatched back the crown in one of the most dramatic title deciders in history. No Hollywood script could have been more exciting.

Rain at the start had added to the drama, and saw Red Bull’s David Coulthard make an undignified exit from his last Grand Prix after he was tapped into a spin by Williams’ Nico Rosberg, which then involved Rosberg’s team mate Kazuki Nakajima. Coulthard was out on the spot, while Renault’s Nelson Piquet went off in Turn Three and was also out.

Massa controlled things throughout, with Toyota’s Jarno Trulli soon falling back from an initially strong second-place run as everyone began changing from wet to dry-weather tyres after seven laps. Vettel, running a different fuel strategy to the other leaders, was always a threat, running second ahead of Alonso and pressuring Massa several times before stopping earlier for fuel. Raikkonen ran some way behind this trio, but closed in rapidly on Alonso in the final stages and was close to him as Massa crossed the line 13.2s ahead.

Hamilton took few chances, was always around fourth or fifth, and looked easily on target until that dramatic battle at the end. Glock finished sixth, limping across the line well ahead of McLaren’s Heikki Kovalainen, and Trulli, the final points scorers.

Mark Webber brought his Red Bull home ninth, ahead of the BMW Saubers of Nick Heidfeld and Robert Kubica, the team thus failing to score for the first time in 2008. Rosberg was 12th ahead of Honda’s Jenson Button, Toro Rosso’s Sebastien Bourdais (whose chances of points were ruined after a clash with Trulli in Turn One), Honda’s Rubens Barrichello, Force India’s Adrian Sutil, Nakajima and Giancarlo Fisichella. The Italian Force India driver was the first to stop for dry tyres on Lap Two, and ran as high as fifth before the inevitable decline as faster machinery hit its stride.

After those gripping final laps there was almost disbelief at McLaren as Hamilton scraped home, but Massa had that covered as he graciously conceded defeat.

“We need to congratulate Lewis,” he said. “He did a great championship, and he scored more points than us, so deserves to be champion.”

Ferrari’s consolation was to win the constructors’ world championship but, ultimately, and in the most dramatic circumstances imaginable, this was Lewis Hamilton’s and McLaren’s day.



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That's why I love F1.








Final result:



1. Massa (Ferrari) 1h47:00:000
2. Alonso (Renault) + 13.298
3. Raikkonen (Ferrari) + 16.235
4. Vettel (Toyota) + 38.011
5. Hamilton (McLaren) + 38.907
6. Glock (Toyota) + 44.368
7. Kovalainen (McLaren) + 55.074
8. Trulli (Toyota) + 1:08.433
9. Webber (Red Bull) + 1:19.666
10. Heidfeld (BMW-Sauber) + 1 lap
11. Kubica (BMW-Sauber) + 1 lap
12. Rosberg (Williams) + 1 lap
13. Button (Honda) + 1 lap
14. Bourdais (Toro Rosso) + 1 lap
15. Barrichello (Honda) + 1 lap
16. Sutil (Force India) + 2 laps
17. Nakajima (Williams) + 2 laps
18. Fisichella (Force India) + 2 laps
19. Piquet (Renault) out
20. Coulthard (Red Bull) out


That's it!
Congrats to the kid.

See you next year.

[Jocasta]

Amazing race, congrats to both Massa and Hamilton, 2 great talents and here's to a great contest between them in the years to come.

(Oops... I posted in the Sports thread before I saw this.)

[Val]

Mummy ...
you should post here first!

[Jocasta]

Sorry baby... *kisses?*

[Val]

Love you!