:: The Formula 1 - 2008 Season Thread ::

[nish_higher]

Wow
1.lewis
2.piquet
3.massa

great renault strategy and a great run by lewis once again

 

[Hitboxx]

Ferrari should fscking kick Massa out of the team!

 

[desiibond]

Ferrari will be the n00b of this race. They couldn't make their cars competitive on track, couldn't make their drivers go flat out in the first stint.

 

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lewis=58
massa=54
kimi=51

 

[nish_higher]

Ferrari should fscking kick Massa out of the team!

yea and imo alonso/kubica should be part of ferrari

 

[desiibond]

Hats off to Lewis for the amazing drive. I have a feeling that he could well be the successor to Schumi. Perfect driving in both dry and wet conditions, going flat out when needed, being defensive at the best, doing aggressive overtaking without fearing of going off the track.

yea and imo alonso/kubica should be part of ferrari

If Alonso comes into Ferrari, Ferrari will win Constructors championships for atleast a decade. He brings so much balance to the car and makes the car so much competitive (though has bad mouth)

 

[nish_higher]

right
i can count on kubica as well.both are hardworking drivers and push to the limits.and no doubt about lewis being schumi ver 2.0 someday if he continues driving like this.

 

[Hitboxx]

Hats off to Lewis for the amazing drive. I have a feeling that he could well be the successor to Schumi. Perfect driving in both dry and wet conditions, going flat out when needed, being defensive at the best, doing aggressive overtaking without fearing of going off the track.

Honestly I believe Fernando is the successor to Michael

Ferrari is technically a sharp car while Mclaren is a much more flowing car and Fernando can put the Ferrari where he wants to, just like Michael did. Just imagining him do fastest laps on fastest laps gives me goosebumps

 

[desiibond]

Honestly I believe Fernando is the successor to Michael

Ferrari is technically a sharp car while Mclaren is a much more flowing car and Fernando can put the Ferrari where he wants to, just like Michael did. Just imagining him do fastest laps on fastest laps gives me goosebumps

yeah but it's his bad mouth that is keeping him away from ferrar

 

[nish_higher]

and that last year ferrari breach .if i remember correctly alonso knew abt it

 

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Fisichella handed 25-second penalty

Giancarlo Fisichella has been handed a 25-second penalty at the German Grand Prix after unlapping himself when he was not allowed to.
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The penalty moves Fisichella from 14th to 17th position.

*www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/69349

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Massa: I didn't have the car to fight
*www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/69337

 

[desiibond]

Massa didn't have the fight?? LOL

He didn't have the courage to fight. He tamely surrendered to Lewis. It was clear that there isn't much difference between Ferrari and McLaren. It's just that Lewis drove his heart out

 

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^nah, i guess ferrari is weaker at this track.

F1 Germany 2008 - Glock crashes
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omg

that must have hurt his back real bad.

a rear end first crash


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Raikkonen admits McLaren now quicker

Kimi Raikkonen conceded that Ferrari have now fallen behind McLaren after a difficult German Grand Prix for the Italian squad.

While McLaren's Lewis Hamilton recovered from a less-than-ideal strategy to charge through from fourth and claim a memorable victory, Ferrari duo Felipe Massa and Raikkonen could only finish third and sixth.

When asked if the Hockenheim results meant that McLaren were now the quicker team, Raikkonen replied: "It looks like it."

"Definitely this weekend they were very strong," he added. "Also in the last race they were very good. Hopefully we will find the solution for our problems and we will be back where we should be."

The reigning champion said he had never been able to get his Ferrari to his liking at Hockenheim.

"It's not exactly what we were hoping for," said Raikkonen. "It was pretty difficult all the way through. Then in the end the car was a bit better but it was very difficult for the whole weekend. We need to look and find an improvement.

"I don't know whether it the set-up or what, but we had difficult handling all weekend and it was harder in the race in the beginning.

"We improved at the end, but we must look in the test and find a solution and just work and improve because this weekend has been very difficult. Unfortunately we lost some points, but that's racing, we need to just look forward and not worry about it too much.

"Sure in the testing we will try to find the solutions to the problems we have had this weekend - it was a very difficult weekend. But after a race like this we just have to work hard and improve."

In the final stint after the safety car Raikkonen produced a series of assertive passing moves to get ahead of Nico Rosberg, Fernando Alonso, Sebastian Vettel, Jarno Trulli and Robert Kubica, but felt this late charge was more a case of damage limitation than a cause for celebration.

"It was good, but without those (passes) we would have ended up with an even worse position!" he said. "We lost some points to Hamilton and Massa but there are still plenty of races, as long as we find some solutions. But of course it doesn't make it any easier."

*www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/69357

 

[nish_higher]

well massa in the official press interview said he had braking and handling problems but his driving didn't reflect that anywhere in the race

 

[desiibond]

He is just trying to blame the car

 

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BMW mechanic escapes KERS scare

Questions about the safety of Kinetic Energy Recovery Systems (KERS) in Formula One were raised again on Tuesday when a BMW Sauber mechanic suffered an electric shock after touching a car fitted with the device during testing at Jerez in Spain.

BMW Sauber were conducting further evaluation of their KERS on the first day of this week's test, with Christian Klien at the wheel of a modified car that featured some 2009-aero concepts and an early version of their energy recovery device.

Klien had just completed a three-lap installation run in the morning when he returned to the pits. After stopping in the pitlane, mechanics attended to the car to wheel him backwards into the team's garage - but the first mechanic to touch the car fell to the ground after receiving an electric shock.

He was pulled to his feet by fellow team members and, after being examined in the medical centre, he was found to have suffered no serious injury.

Klien has not yet returned to the track and is unlikely to do so until the team fully understands what went wrong this morning.

A team spokesman told autosport.com: "During the testing of the KERS car at the Jerez test track today, there was an incident involving a mechanic when the car returned to the pits. He touched it and suffered an electric shock.

"He sustained slight injuries to his left hand and grazing on his left arm. After a brief examination at the track's medical centre, he has returned to the test team. We are currently investigating the incident."

The Jerez pitlane incident comes less than a week after Red Bull Racing were forced to evacuate part of their factory in Milton Keynes after a battery system test of their KERS went wrong.

The issue of KERS safety has been discussed between the teams already this year, but with work now accelerating on getting the devices ready for 2009, there is a renewed urgency to the matter.

Toyota team principal John Howett told autosport.com in Hockenheim: "I think all of these issues have been on the table from the beginning. So you have voltage issues, you have the battery issues; you have the cost of registering the batteries to transport them. People who use high-speed rotating flywheels have also got issues there.

"The perception of KERS is very simple, but the execution is incredibly difficult and the road car applications are completely different from a race car. Whereas the motor, the control unit, the battery, and the basic concept is similar, the actual sophistication and needs of a road car are completely different from what we are having to develop in Formula One. So there is a big difference"

*www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/69391

 

[VD17]

IMO, Kimi did a worse job this weekend than Massa. Massa was just unfortunate to have come in the way of a flying McLaren. The rate at which Lewis caught up to him, there was no way Felipe could have saved himself and that too on a track like this.

And Lewis reminded me of MS - absolutely flawless driving!

 

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Lewis Hamilton to visit Mumbai on 24th July

Fresh from his back-to-back title victories at Silverstone and Hockenheim, Germany earlier this month, British race sensation and 2008 Grand Prix leader Lewis Hamilton is to visit Mumbai for a promotional tour on July 24.

The 23-year-old Vodafone McLaren Mercedes team's red hot property, who has scorched the tracks in only his second year in Formula One, would be seen driving a go kart for a lap at the Hakone track in Powai, according to sources connected with organising his visit to India.

"Hamilton will be giving Formula One enthusiasts a rare opportunity to meet him and race against the fastest time set by him. He will also be interacting with Vodafone customers and media persons," they said.

Hamilton (58 points), who finished second overall behind Finnish ace Kimi Raikkonen in his debut Formula One season, last year, is currently ahead of second-placed Brazilian Felipe Massa (Ferrari) by four points.

*www.expressindia.com/latest-news/F-1-leader-Lewis-Hamilton-to-visit-Mumbai/338915/

 

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Mosley wins privacy lawsuit

 

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friday practice : F1 Grand Prix Budapest, Hungary
click to watch

not now, friday 14:30 - 16:00 [IST]


Hamilton quickest in second practice
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*www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/69558

Kimi & massa down at 5 & 6th