F1 - Season 2008

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Friday, first practice:

1 Lewis Hamilton McLaren 1:35.630
2 Felipe Massa Ferrari 0:00.390
3 Kimi Räikkönen Ferrari 0:00.422
4 Heikki Kovalainen McLaren 0:00.473
5 Robert Kubica BMW 0:00.877
6 Fernando Alonso Renault 0:01.031
7 Nick Heidfeld BMW 0:01.410
8 Sebastien Bourdais Toro Rosso 0:01.440
9 Nelson Piquet Renault 0:01.550
10 Sebastian Vettel Toro Rosso 0:01.648
11 Mark Webber Red Bull 0:01.861
12 Jenson Button Honda 0:01.989
13 Kazuki Nakajima Williams 0:02.000
14 David Coulthard Red Bull 0:02.008
15 Nico Rosberg Williams 0:02.008
16 Timo Glock Toyota 0:02.034
17 Rubens Barrichello Honda 0:02.197
18 Jarno Trulli Toyota 0:02.589
19 Adrian Sutil Force India 0:02.655
20 Giancarlo Fisichella Force India 0:02.849



Friday, second practice:

1 Lewis Hamilton McLaren 1:35.750
2 Fernando Alonso Renault 0:00.274
3 Nelson Piquet Renault 0:00.344
4 Jarno Trulli Toyota 0:00.409
5 Mark Webber Red Bull 0:00.625
6 Felipe Massa Ferrari 0:00.730
7 Sebastien Bourdais Toro Rosso 0:00.779
8 Kimi Räikkönen Ferrari 0:00.792
9 Nick Heidfeld BMW 0:00.803
10 Nico Rosberg Williams 0:00.806
11 Timo Glock Toyota 0:00.865
12 Robert Kubica BMW 0:01.025
13 Heikki Kovalainen McLaren 0:01.047
14 David Coulthard Red Bull 0:01.058
15 Sebastian Vettel Toro Rosso 0:01.175
16 Kazuki Nakajima Williams 0:01.225
17 Giancarlo Fisichella Force India 0:01.723
18 Adrian Sutil Force India 0:01.867
19 Jenson Button Honda 0:02.050
20 Rubens Barrichello Honda 0:02.154

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Hamilton on pole position in China






Qualification results:

1 Lewis Hamilton McLaren 1:36.303
2 Kimi Räikkönen Ferrari 0:00.923
3 Felipe Massa Ferrari 0:01.167
4 Fernando Alonso Renault 0:01.205
5 Heikki Kovalainen McLaren 0:01.208
6 Mark Webber Red Bull 0:01.361
7 Nick Heidfeld BMW 0:01.479
8 Sebastian Vettel Toro Rosso 0:01.963
9 Jarno Trulli Toyota 0:02.212
10 Sebastien Bourdais Toro Rosso 0:03.163
11 Nelson Piquet Renault 0:00.000
12 Robert Kubica BMW 0:00.092
13 Timo Glock Toyota 0:00.215
14 Rubens Barrichello Honda 0:00.357
15 Nico Rosberg Williams 0:00.488
16 David Coulthard Red Bull 0:01.009
17 Kazuki Nakajima Williams 0:01.141
18 Jenson Button Honda 0:01.331
19 Adrian Sutil Force India 0:02.008
20 Giancarlo Fisichella Force India 0:02.017

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Hamilton very close to becoming world champion





Lewis Hamilton won the China gp, in front of two ferrari drivers, Massa and Räikkönen. This means that the Briton has a big advantage of 7 points before the last race, which will be held in Brasil. Ferrari now leads by 11 points since Kovalainen failed to get any points today. It looks like Mclaren's driver is going to win this year, but we still have to wait for the last race, because we all know what happend last year ...



Race results:

1 Lewis Hamilton McLaren 1:31:57.403
2 Felipe Massa Ferrari 14.925
3 Kimi Räikkönen Ferrari 16.445
4 Fernando Alonso Renault 18.370
5 Nick Heidfeld BMW 28.923
6 Robert Kubica BMW 33.219
7 Timo Glock Toyota 41.722
8 Nelson Piquet Renault 56.645
9 Sebastian Vettel Toro Rosso 1:04.339
10 David Coulthard Red Bull 1:14.842
11 Rubens Barrichello Honda 1:25.061
12 Kazuki Nakajima Williams 1:38.847
13 Sebastien Bourdais Toro Rosso 1:31.457
14 Mark Webber Red Bull 1:32.422
15 Nico Rosberg Williams at 1 lap
16 Jenson Button Honda at 1 lap
17 Giancarlo Fisichella Force India at 1 lap
18 Heikki Kovalainen McLaren out
19 Adrian Sutil Force India out
20 Jarno Trulli Toyota out

Standings, drivers: 1. Lewis Hamilton 94 pts 2. Felipe Massa 87 3. Robert Kubica 75 4. Kimi Räikkönen 69

Standings, teams: 1. Ferrari 156 pts 2. McLaren-Mercedes 145 3. BMW Sauber 135 4. Renault 72 5. Toyota 52

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Last race of the season - Gp of Brasil






Number of Laps: 71
Circuit Length: 4.309 km
Race Distance: 305.909 km
Lap Record: 1:11.473 - JP Montoya (2004)


Last race of the season, this is where all comes down. Hamilton has a big lead and is most likely to win, but he still has to be totaly focused and finish the race, because he cannot afford to lose another title. Important race for Ferrari and Mclaren, due to small difference in points. All f1 fans must watch this race, not excuses

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Massa on pole position





Felipe Massa (1 st) has a small advantange from Hamilton ( 4 th) but a lot of things will depend on other drivers, since Massa has to get a lot more points than Briton.
Tommorow will be the last race for David Coulthard, who will retire after 246 races, in which he scored 535 points and is second most successful driver in f1 history. He was a member of Williams-renault, Mclaren and Red Bull. Coulthard is a true legend and i wish him all the best on his last race.




Qualifications results:

1. Massa (Ferrari) 1:12.368
2. Trulli (Toyota) 1:12.737
3. Raikkonen (Ferrari) 1:12.825
4. Hamilton (McLaren-Mercedes) 1:12.830
5. Kovalainen (McLaren-Mercedes) 1:12.917
6. Alonso (Renault) 1:12.967
7. Vettel (Toro Rosso-Ferrari) 1:13.082
8. Heidfeld (BMW Sauber) 1:13.297
9. Bourdais (Toro Rosso-Ferrari) 1:14.105
10. Glock (Toyota) 1:14.230
11. Piquet (Renault)
12. Webber (Red Bull-Renault)
13. Kubica (BMW Sauber)
14. Coulthard (Red Bull-Renault)
15. Barrichello (Honda)
16. Nakajima (Williams-Toyota)
17. Button (Honda)
18. Rosberg (Williams-Toyota)
19. Fisichella (Force India-Ferrari)
20. Sutil (Force India-Ferrari)

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Massa wins the race, Hamilton world champion for just a point






What a dramatic race!! Massa practically cruised to victory while Hamilton struggled for fifth place, which enabled him to win the title. Few laps before the end of the race, rain appeared, so everybody went to pits for new tyres. Briton was in fifth place but S. Vettel overtook him, which meant that Massa would have been the champion with equal points but more wins. He already finished the race and at that point it all looked like he has done something amazing, when 2 turns before the finish line, both Vettel and Hamilton overtook Timo Glock, who didn't go to pits and had tyres for dry road. That meant that Hamilton is back on 5 th position and has become #1. Nobody knew what was happening, in both teams people were hugging and cheering when suddenly Hamilton appeared as number 5 and not 6 as everybody thought. With Raikkonen in third position, Ferrari easilly defended the constructor's title.
It was a long and thrilling season, now some deserving vacation for the drivers and teams. Hope u had fun ...


Race results:

1. Felipe Massa (Ferrari) 1:34:11,435
2. Fernando Alonso (Renault) + 13,298
3. Kimi Räikkönen (Ferrari) +16,235
4. Sebastian Vettel (Toro Rosso) +38,011
5. Lewis Hamilton (McLaren-Mercedes) +38,907
6. Timo Glock (Toyota) +44,368
7. Heikki Kovalainen (McLaren-Mercedes) +55,074
8. Jarno Trulli (Toyota) +1:08,463
9. Mark Webber (Red Bull) +1:19,666
10. Nick Heidfeld (BMW-Sauber) +1 lap
11. Robert Kubica (BMW-Sauber) +1 lap
12. Nico Rosberg (Williams) +1 lap
13. Jenson Button (Honda) +1 lap
14. Sebastien Bourdais (Toro Rosso) +1 lap
15. Rubens Barrichello (Honda) +1 lap

Final standings, drivers: 1 Lewis Hamilton British McLaren-Mercedes 98 pts 2 Felipe Massa Brazilian Ferrari 97 3 Kimi Räikkönen Finnish Ferrari 75 4 Robert Kubica Polish BMW Sauber 75 5 Fernando Alonso Spanish Renault 61 6 Nick Heidfeld German BMW Sauber 60 7 Heikki Kovalainen Finnish McLaren-Mercedes 53 8 Sebastian Vettel German STR-Ferrari 35 9 Jarno Trulli Italian Toyota 31 10 Timo Glock German Toyota 25 11 Mark Webber Australian Red Bull-Renault 21 12 Nelsinho Piquet Brazilian Renault 19 13 Nico Rosberg German Williams-Toyota 17 14 Rubens Barrichello Brazilian Honda 11 15 Kazuki Nakajima Japanese Williams-Toyota 9 16 David Coulthard British Red Bull-Renault 8 17 Sebastien Bourdais French STR-Ferrari 4 18 Jenson Button British Honda 3 19 Giancarlo Fisichella Italian Force India-Ferrari 0 20 Adrian Sutil German Force India-Ferrari 0 21 Takuma Sato Japanese Super Aguri-Honda 0 22 Anthony Davidson British Super Aguri-Honda 0

Final standings, teams: 1 Ferrari 172 pts 2 McLaren-Mercedes 151 3 BMW Sauber 135 4 Renault 80 5 Toyota 56 6 STR-Ferrari 39 7 Red Bull-Renault 29 8 Williams-Toyota 26 9 Honda 14 10 Force India-Ferrari 0 11 Super Aguri-Honda 0

That's all folks!!!