F1 Grand Prix

[williamp]

well its that time of the year again...time for the F1 grand prix

today marks the start of F1's 2008 championships

i'm going to report wat happens on every GP weekend for this year in this thread in my own words of course :)

for qualifying i'll report the top 3 and for the actual race i'll report the top 8

we started of course with GP australia

so we start a new year we need to know the rookie drivers and teams of every1 aswell

Teams:
Mclaren Mercedes: Lewis Hamilton, Heikki Kovalainen
Ferrari: Felipe Massa, Kimi Raikkonen
Sauber BMW: Nick Heidfeld, Robert Kubica
Renault: Fernando Alonso, Nelson Piquet Jr
Williams Toyota: Kazuki Nakajima, Nico Rosberg
Red Bull Racing: David Coulthard, Mark Webber
Toyota: Jarno Trulli, Timo Glock
Schuderia Toro Rosso: Sebastien Vettel, Sebastien Bourdais
Honda Racing: Jenson Button, Rubens Barrichello
Super Aguri Honda: Anthony Davidson, Takuma Sato
Force India (STR ferrari): Adrian Sutil, Giancarlo Fisichella


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Results:

Qualifying: Taking Pole position for Sundays race was Lewis Hamilton, Second Place was Robert Kubica who would've gotten 1st had he not screwed up on the last turn i think it was...but none the less he retains 2nd place
Third place went to Heikki Kovalainen a good start for the new Mclaren Driver


Race Day:
The race started with all 22 drivers running and very shockingly the race ended and only 7 drivers finished...3 or 4 safety cars made up the race (i didn't count them) but it was a chaotic race, i think that alot of the chaos was caused by the new rule in which no cars have traction control some were general race crashes but it was 1 of the most chaotic races i've ever seen with huge crashes and spin offs at every point...lol never a dull moment

that was an overview of the whole race...for more information on the race go to the official website www.itv.com/f1 (http://www.itv.com/f1)

now for the results of the race
1st:Lewis Hamilton
2nd:Nick Heidfeld
3rd:Nico Rosberg
4th:Fernando Alonso
5th:Heikki Kovalainen
6th:Rubens Barrichello
7th:Kazuki Nakajima

normally there would be 8 places but i'm not entirely sure who came 8th because i'm not sure who went out last I think it was Sebastien Bourdais who crashed on the 55th lap (wth 3 laps left) but it could've been Raikkonen or Kubica aswell so i'm not sure...maybe some1 could clarify it for me?

that concludes the Australlian Grand Prix...lol its definatly kicking off the season with a bang

[williamp]

Todays grand prix qualifying was in malaysia

there were quite a few conflicts in it, like near the end where Nick Heidfeld's flying lap was shortened because of the cars blocking the road in fuel saving mode at the end of the race because they were going to slow, aswell as all the annoyace at racers not getting the right time because of not getting to grips with the car and circuit

So without further adue, he grid for 2morrows race starts like this:


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1st: Massa
2nd: Raikonnen
3rd: Kovalainen
4th: Hamilton

[sasori]

looks like a red day to meTake This

[williamp]

well yes it was a red day, a dissappointing day for lewis hamilton fans :(

but ferrari fans will be a bit happier this weekend than last

well this weekends race wasn't nearly as action packed as last weekends, i missed the end of this 1 which i'll watch later howeve i did see, Timo Glock go out at the start, and Sutil went out aswell at some point, also sebastien bordais went out at the start when he went flying off the track at the start
i also learned that after i fell asleep massa spun out and fell into last place on lap 31, i'm not sure if he went out

sadly Timo Glock fans won't be happy that he's failed to reach the checkered flag again aswell as sebastien bordais did which isn't good news for the rookies

Now for the even worse news, Qualifying was changed yestarday

because of Nick Heidfeld and Fernando Alonso being kinda blocked on their last flying lap because of all he other cars going to slow the starting grid changed a bit and looked like this:

1st Massa
2nd Raikonnen
3rd Kubica
4th (actually i can't remember who it was lol)

but the point is that both Mclaren cars were moved down 5 places because of them blocking the road for Nick Heidfeld's flying lap...meaning that they were down here:

7th Alonso
8th Kovalainen
9th Hamilton
10th Glock

this didn't help their chances.


now for the results that i know from the race itself:




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1st Raikonnen
2nd Kubica (not sure about this 1 so i'll clarify it later)
3rd Kovalainen
4th Trulli
5th Hamilton
6th (not sure who this was)
7th Heidfeld (again, i'm not sure about this 1 so i'll clarify it later)
8th Alonso



Raikonnen believes he got an easy victory after he passed his teamate Massa after his 1st pit stop
Kovalainen somehow managed to grab 3rd, it was nice work by him none the less
Trulli says he's getting closer to getting the pole in Sepang after his previous pole in 2005
Hamilton is disappointed at his result because of the faulty tool that was used to screw the wheel back on in his 1st pit stop which ended up in an atrocious 19.9 second pit stop...but he still managed a 5th which was good considering that happened
Alonso say that he thinks this is thebest that renault could do, he seems to be keeping a positive attitude

well i guess that this race could've ended up worse

But that concludes the Malaysian Grand Prix...next Grand Prix is in Bahrain in 2 weeks time


2nd post coming later to clarify results

[williamp]

ok thisis a bit late but o well...results were actually

1st Raikonnen
2nd Kubica
3rd Kovalainen
4th Trulli
5th Hamilton
6th Heidfeld
7th Webber
8th Alonso

[williamp]

well ppl this time i think i'll probs b unable to report the results of the bahrain weekend because of my trip to greece, i will still b able to watch it...but i don't think i'll b able to get to a computer :(

so if i don't...maybe some1 else will :)...just a pre-warning