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Turkey Qualifying 2008-05-10 07:25:40 For the third year in a row, Felipe Massa has popped his Ferrari onto the pole slot. He has won from first on the grid for the last two years, so looking good for the Brazilian in tomorrows race.
Heikki made a great comeback from his smash in Spain to take the second spot on [...] Read more:Turkey
F1 Games 2008-05-09 08:33:42 For years Sony had the right’s to the F1 game’s, so we only ever saw ‘arcady’ games make it onto their own platforms.
However today it’s been announced that CodeMasters have picked up the license, and it’s internal race driver : GRID team will be doing the game, that’s good news, as CodeMasters have a long [...] Read more:Games
Turkey Preview 2008-05-08 11:06:02 Istanbul is another of the Hermann Tilke new tracks, with the exception that it is a counter clockwise track.
Filipe Massa has enjoyed the track in the past, winning here twice since it’s opening race in 2005, and Ferrari have typically been strong here.
The track temperature will again be high this weekend, and the teams [...] Read more:Turkey
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Spain a full runthrough 2008-04-28 08:39:17 The Spanish GP turned out to be a bit of an interesting beast. Yes the racing was not amazing (as it rarely is at the Circuit de Catalunya), but from a technical and strategy standpoint it was a very interesting mix.
The first European GP of the year is always where strange things turn up, [...] Read more:Spain
Spain Qualifying results 2008-04-26 08:16:34 OK, so where did Renault come from? Alonso is the talk of the Qualy session without a shadow of a doubt. Yes Kimi took a pole position, and Massa took third, but it’s certain that all talk will be about Fernando, who was pleased as punch coming over the line after setting the pole [...] Read more:Spain
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Spain Preview 2008-04-25 09:43:44 Right back to doing something on the site, after sorting out our ‘technical problems’ (note to self, don’t annoy the FOM), let’s get back to race news and issues.
The Spanish GP is the first of two proposed Grand Prix’s in Spain
this year, however the Valencia GP has bumped into some issues of late.
So [...] Read more:Preview
Bahrain a full runthrough 2008-04-07 06:45:29 The Bahrain GP had a few revelations and showed some issues, so it made for an interesting race from the technical side, as well as a decent race from a racing point of view.
Let’s get onto the disappointing day for McLaren. Not only was their car completely off the pace all weekend, but their [...]
Monaco Preview 2008-05-23 08:55:44 The Monaco
GP is the most prestigious event of the F1 season. It has history, glamour and most importantly, money.
The track is the tightest and slowest of the championship, and recently has suited the McLaren cars well, coming in with a one-two last year (Alonso, Lewis). They also hold the record for most wins [...] Read more:Preview
Lewis conquers the Monaco Rain 2008-05-25 12:37:29 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 [...] Read more:Lewis
Monaco Qualifying 2008-05-24 10:13:40 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 [...]
Monaco a full runthrough 2008-05-27 11:17:24 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, [...]
Max let off 2008-06-03 11:39:04 The FIA extraordinary general meeting has given Max a life-line, for now.
It seems that of the 177 votes cast, he got 103 votes for him to stay on, with seven abstentions and four invalid votes. So for now he is still the FIA president.
However it could all change. The German ADAC (largest motoring body [...]
Canada Preview 2008-06-06 05:52:28 The Canadian GP is our only romp into the northern America’s this year.
We have been coming to the Track de Gilles Villeneuve since 1978 for the F1 championship, and it usually makes for an interesting race, with 2005’s GP still holding the record as the most watch GP event, and the third most watched [...] Read more:Canada
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Canada Qualifying 2008-06-07 13:36:56 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 [...]
Canada Result 2008-06-08 13:47:43 Lewis Hamilton ended his race at the first pit stops by running his car into the rear of Kimi’s Ferrari when he did not notice the red light at the pit exit.
However with the two title contenders out the race turned into a good one.
The Race track was quickly repaired before the race, and [...] Read more:Canada
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RIP Ove Andersson 2008-06-11 06:43:16 Unfortunate news from Toyota today. It seems Ove has had an accident whilst taking part in a vintage car rally.
Tadashi Yamashina, Chairman of Toyota Motorsport GmbH, said: "Everyone at Toyota is extremely shocked and truly saddened at this terrible news. Ove was an inspiration to our team and to many in motorsport. His passion [...]
French GP Preview 2008-06-19 06:37:12 I want to apologise for not writing a full run through for the Canadian GP, but normal service is resumed, so on with the French
GP Preview
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We go back to Magny Course this weekend for the French GP, this is one of those tracks that is disliked by a lot of the teams and [...]
French Roundup 2008-06-23 09:58:46 The French
grand prix showed the domination of the Ferrari’s around the track, but the one-two finish for Massa and Kimi is not the interesting news.
No the interest comes from who finished behind them, and the orders they did it in.
After a clean start all the cars ran down to turn three, but the [...]
French Results 2008-06-22 09:36:42 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 [...] Read more:French
French Qualifying 2008-06-21 08:25:04 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, [...]
Britain Runthrough 2008-07-10 07:55:01 Sorry it’s taken this long to get this up, but I had no network connection after the race to do it, so here we go.
The big news (as everyone will now know) is that Lewis got his championship hopes back on plan, after a sublime drive to take the win.
Lewis, Kimi and Felipe all [...] Read more:Britain
British Qualifying 2008-07-05 08:21:44 Just a quick post, as I don’t have a great connection to the net at the moment.
Well done to both Heikki and Mark who put the McLaren and Red Bull on the first row of the grid.
Other surprises are Lewis making a big pair of mistakes, first overdoing Bridge and not being able to get [...] Read more:British
British GP Preview 2008-07-03 17:43:38 The British
GP is upon us. And it’s a special one for the track. This is the circuits 60th year of racing, with the track holding the honour of being the first official championship race in 1950. Britain is also the longest running country to hold an F1 race (joining Italy)
The track is loved [...] Read more:Preview
Hungarian Preview 2008-07-31 17:09:01 The Hungaroring host’s this weeks GP, and it’s looking like it could be a good one.
Will McLaren and Lewis make it a hat trick at the track? or will Ferrari get their act together and return to the top of the sheets? Let’s have a look
McLaren are looking strong at this moment in the [...] Read more:Preview
German Results 2008-07-20 14:28:14 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
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German Qualifying 2008-07-19 10:49:33 Some interesting results from earlier’s qualifying session. It seems that the Ferrari of Kimi is miles off the pace, with Massa and Lewis leading the field.
Other interesting results are the Toyota of Jarno up at fourth spot for the start with Fernando wringing a lap out of his Renault to start in fifth, both [...] Read more:German
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