Lewis Finishes Second In Valencia

August 24th, 2008

Lewis Hamilton finished in second position behind Ferrari’s Massa at the new European Grand Prix, the Valencia street race.

Lewis Hamilton racing in Valencia

There was no safety car as many people thought that there would be. Though, Alonso only lasted a lap after somebody drove into the back of him and he lost his rear wing.

Robert Kubica did well to finish 3rd place in front of Kovalainen who finished in fourth position.

All in all most track feedback was positive and generally people were happy with the new track and facilities around.

Lewis is still leading the championship but lost two points to Filipe Massa. Hamilton’s effort was fantastic considering that he had severe neck and back problems from a trapped nerve before qualifying and it wasn’t even sure that he will be able to race.

There was an incident with Massa leaving the pit lane as the same time as another car and there is some debate about weather it was safe or not. It will be investigated after the race.

Valencia Grand Prix 2008 Race Results:

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Lewis Hamilton Starts 2nd In Valencia

August 23rd, 2008

Lewis Hamilton driving in Valencia
The first Formula 1 qualifying in Valencia mixed up the field a bit with a brand new track which has little traction. The teams were struggling for grip in the first session but at the end of the second session there was noticeable more traction even though it started to drizzle a little bit.

The surprise of the second session was Sebastian Vettel who was first at the end of qualifying session 2. Renault’s Fernando Alonso didn’t make it into Q3.

Lewis Hamilton was finally flying in the final qualifying session and got up to 2nd position on the starting grid. Felipe Massa is on pole position and Robert Kubica is starting in third position.

Some TV commentators say that there’s a high possibility that there will be a safety car in tomorrow’s race and that McLaren are playing it safe by putting in extra fuel. We’ll have to see how the race unfolds.

Valencia 2008 Qualifying Results:

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New Exciting F1 Street Races In 2008

August 17th, 2008

Lewis Hamilton is currently leading the Formula 1 World Championship by 5 points with 7 races to go. Two of the new exciting races in 2008 are both street circuits. The first race is coming up next week in Valencia and the other Grand Prix will be the first night race held in Singapore.

The New European Grand Prix in Valencia

The new Valencia street circuit is no ordinary street circuit such as Monaco, which is narrow, slow and twisty. It will be a different type or racing track. It looks to be one of the faster circuits with an average speed of 140 mph and a top speed of 200 mph on the main straight!Valencia F1 Street Circuit

The track will be wide enough for several overtaking opportunities which should make things exciting.

The track is located at the Juan Carlos I Marina, home to the recent 32nd America’s Cup yacht race.

Norbert Haug had the following to say about the new Valencia track:

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Hamilton Finishes Hungarian Race In 5th Place After Puncture

August 3rd, 2008

Lewis Hamilton manages to get back up to 5th place after an unexpected puncture dropped him down to 10th.

Lewis Hamilton\'s Puncture in HungaryAt the start of the race with the two McLaren’s in front it was likely that they would control the race. Who would have thought Massa would overtake them by the second corner, let alone that Hamilton will get a puncture.

Lewis Hamilton’s post-race comments:

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Hamilton On Pole In Hungary

August 2nd, 2008

Lewis Hamilton delivered another fantastic qualifying performance with his 10th career pole position in Hungary. This makes his 3rd win in a row very possible.

Lewis has been looking superb all weekend leading most of the practice sessions and he was dominating qualifying Q1 and Q2.

Lewis Hamilton takes the McLaren to pole position in HungaryHeikki Kovalainen in the sister Vodafone McLaren-Mercedes managed to get into the 2nd place making it difficult for the Ferrari’s at this Hungarian Grand Prix where overtaking is very difficult.

The field is quite close together and a few hundreds of a second can mean the difference of a position at the Hungaroring. Timo Glock managed to get into 5th position in his Toyota which was a refreshing surprise.

McLaren’s Woking squad have been enjoying a few recent wins over Ferrari in the last few races. However, the intense competition between the two teams will surely keep it interesting to the end of the season.

Can Lewis make it 3-in-a-row tomorrow? We’ll have to tune in tomorrow and keep our fingers crossed.

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Spectacular Lewis Hamilton Wins In Hockenheim

July 20th, 2008

Lewis Hamilton wins his fourth race of the season at the Hockenheim Ring in Germany - taking the lead in the Driver’s Formula 1 World Championship Standings.

Lewis stormed away from the field from the start of the race, leading by the length of the strait after only a few laps. Massa in the Ferrari was not able to keep up with his supreme pace, but fast enough to stay in front of McLaren’s Heikki Kovalainen.

Lewis Hamilton on Hockenheim PodiumAs Lewis was leading the race by a country mile the safety car had to be deployed after a big Toyota crash on the pit-strait. Most cars came in to pit but McLaren left Lewis out on the track behind the safety car. This turned out to be a mistake as the rest of the field went into pit to get tyres and fuel to last to the end of the race, apart from Hamilton how had to come in again.

Lewis came out on track in 7th position after the pit-stop behind his team mate Heikki who soon realised that Hamilton was a lot quicker and decided to let him though. Lewis then managed to pass Heidfeld, Massa, who was having brake and tyre problems and Piquet who did very well to pit early the get his best ever F1 race result in 2nd position.

There was no stopping Lewis with his incredible speed and consistency this weekend and hopefully for the rest of the season ;-) .

F1 Driver’s Championship Standings:

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Hamilton is on Pole in Germany

July 19th, 2008

Another superb Lewis Hamilton pole position, this time in Hockenheim, Germany.

Lewis was looking good since he arrived at the Hockenheim circuit setting the fastest practice times throughout the weekend so far. His car was very well set-up, contrary to Kimi’s Ferrari which just didn’t hook up very well at all. But Hamilton was on form all weekend and today managed to secure his pole position for tomorrow Hockenheim Grand Prix.

Here’s what Hamilton had to say:

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Superb Hamilton Wins Silverstone Grand Prix

July 6th, 2008

A superb race by our man Lewis Hamilton, who won his maiden home grand prix race in Silverstone.

Lewis Hamilton celebrating his win in SilverstoneIt was an eventful Formula 1 race today, with light to heavy rain mixed in with some sunny spells causing very tricky conditions for the Formula 1 drivers out there. There were plenty of spins by most of the drivers, including Lewis but Nick Heidfeld seems to be the only driver who didn’t spin off the track landing him a podium finish in second place.

Barrichello also had a great race finishing in third position with his Honda. This was mainly because he went for the full wet tires when it was pouring down with rain.

It seems Lewis Hamilton has silenced his critics for now who’ve been complaining about his lack of performance recently, especially his Montreal crash and his French no-points finish.

Things are starting to look up again as Lewis Hamilton is joint-championship leader with Ferrari’s Felipe Massa and Kimi Raikkonen . Massa who finished last and Kubica who retired didn’t score any points. Though Robert Kubica is only trailing by a mere 2 points, this is really starting to look like 4-horse-race.

I can’t wait until the next race which will be in Germany on the 20th of July in 2 weeks time.

Silverstone 2008 F1 Race Results:

1.  HAMILTON     McLaren
2.  HEIDFELD     BMW           +68.5s
3.  BARRICHELLO  Honda         +82.2s
4.  RAIKKONEN    Ferrari       +1 lap
5.  KOVALAINEN   McLaren       +1 lap
6.  ALONSO       Renault       +1 lap
7.  TRULLI       Toyota        +1 lap
8.  NAKAJIMA     Williams      +1 lap
9.  ROSBERG      Williams      +1 lap
10. WEBBER       Red Bull      +1 lap
11. BOURDAIS     Toro Rosso    +1 lap
12. GLOCK        Toyota        +1 lap
13. MASSA        Ferrari       +2 laps
R.  KUBICA       BMW           +21 laps
R.  BUTTON       Honda         +22 laps
R.  PIQUET       Renault       +25 laps
R.  FISICHELLA   Force India   +34 laps
R.  SUTIL        Force India   +50 laps
R.  VETTEL       Toro Rosso    +60 laps
R.  COULTHARD    Red Bull      +60 laps

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Hamilton Starts Fourth In Silverstone

July 5th, 2008

Lewis Hamilton is going to start in 4th place in Silverstone on Sunday, the British Grand Prix.

Lewis Hamilton sitting in carIt seems it was somewhat of a tough 3rd qualifying session for Lewis who was on provisional for a short while. Nearing the end of qualifying Hamilton came off the racetrack on a hot lap as he was pushing the car and either, the wind turned, the tires weren’t quite right or he simply made a small mistake.

Nevertheless, Lewis starting from the second row of the grid is still a good starting position, he could even be in 2nd after the first few corners, well have to wait and see ;-) especially as it is very likely to rain - that’s quite typical in England, but it sure can make an exciting race!

Silverstone 2008 Starting Grid:

1.  KOVALAINEN      McLaren
2.  WEBBER          Red Bull
3.  RAIKKONEN       Ferrari
4.  HAMILTON        McLaren
5.  HEIDFELD        BMW
6.  ALONSO          Renault
7.  PIQUET          Renault
8.  VETTEL          Toro Rosso
9.  MASSA           Ferrari
10. KUBICA          BMW
11. COULTHARD       Red Bull
12. GLOCK           Toyota
13. BOURDAIS        Toro Rosso
14. TRULLI          Toyota
15. NAKAJIMA        Williams
16. BARRICHELLO     Honda
17. BUTTON          Honda
18. ROSBERG         Williams
19. SUTIL           Force India
20. FISICHELLA      Force India

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Tough French Magny-Cour Race For Hamilton

June 22nd, 2008

We’ve gotta admit that this must have been a really tough race for Lewis Hamilton who is fighting for his maiden Formula 1 World Championship. Unfortunately the FIA penalty from last race lost him 10 starting-grid positions. There are different opinions about this and Lewis had to take a lot of sh*t for it.

What mattered most today is that he could not have a competitive race starting way back in 13th position as there is only one real overtaking opportunity at Magny-Cour. The lack of overtaking chances really made it a very tough French Grand Prix for him because he just couldn’t pass the car in front even though it was 0.5 seconds a lap slower. This is his second no-points-finish in a row! This has got to change

Current Formula 1 Championship Standings:

48 Felipe Massa
46 Robert Kubica
43 Kimi Raikkonen
38 Lewis Hamilton
28 Nick Heidfeld

Lewis is already 10 points behind F1 Championship leader Felipe Massa now. Let’s hope things will turn around for him in the next races. The season is long and a lot of things can still happen, but he needs to finish well consistently from now on.

French Formula 1 Race Results 2008:

1.  MASSA        Ferrari
2.  RAIKKONEN    Ferrari       +17.9s
3.  TRULLI       Toyota        +28.2s
4.  KOVALAINEN   McLaren       +28.9s
5.  KUBICA       BMW           +30.5s
6.  WEBBER       Red Bull      +40.3s
7.  PIQUET       Renault       +41.0s
8.  ALONSO       Renault       +43.3s
9.  COULTHARD    Red Bull      +51.0s
10. HAMILTON     McLaren       +54.5s
11. GLOCK        Toyota        +57.7s
12. VETTEL       Toro Rosso    +58.0s
13. HEIDFELD     BMW           +62.0s
14. BARRICHELLO  Honda         +1 lap
15. NAKAJIMA     Williams      +1 lap
16. ROSBERG      Williams      +1 lap
17. BOURDAIS     Toro Rosso    +1 lap
18. FISICHELLA   Force India   +1 lap
19. SUTIL        Force India   +1 lap
R.  BUTTON       Honda         +54 laps

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Hamilton Qualifies 13th in France

June 21st, 2008

Lewis Hamilton managed to get up to 3rd in qualifying at the Magny-Cours circuit. Unfortunately the racing incident from Canada race resulted in Lewis having a 10-position grid penalty, which means Hamilton’s going to start from 13th position.

Meanwhile the Ferrari of Raikkonen and Massa are starting from the front of the grid followed by Renault’s Alonso. Canada GP winner Kubica will start from 6th position. It should be a very close race as the pack is very bunched up during the qualifying sessions with only a few hundredths of a second between racing drivers.

It could be a very interesting race to watch Hamilton going through the field at the Magny-Cours track, which is notorious for the lack of overtaking possibilities, but

1.  RAIKKONEN     Ferrari
2.  MASSA         Ferrari
3.  ALONSO        Renault
4.  TRULLI        Toyota
5.  KOVALAINEN    McLaren
6.  KUBICA        BMW
7.  WEBBER        Red Bull
8.  COULTHARD     Red Bull
9.  GLOCK         Toyota
10. PIQUET        Renault
11. HEIDFELD      BMW
12. VETTEL        Toro Rosso
13. HAMILTON      McLaren
14. BOURDAIS      Toro Rosso
15. NAKAJIMA      Williams
16. BUTTON        Honda
17. BARRICHELLO   Honda
18. FISICHELLA    Force India
19. SUTIL         Force India
20. ROSBERG       Williams

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Hamilton’s Unlucky DNF In Montreal

June 8th, 2008

The 2008 Montreal, Canada Formula 1 race is one Lewis Hamilton probably wants to forget about after crashing into the back of Kimi who was waiting for the red light to go off at the pit lane exit.

But these things can happen to the best of them. It’s just very unfortunate as Hamilton was leading the race comfortably before the safety car, and then this.

Robert Kubica decided to grab the opportunity of the usual front runners missing out on the points to win his maiden grand prix victory and to lead the Formula 1 World Championship.

Let’s just hope the next race (in two weeks) will be better - I’m sure it will be!

1.  KUBICA       BMW
2.  HEIDFELD     BMW           +16.4s
3.  COULTHARD    Red Bull      +23.3s
4.  GLOCK        Toyota        +42.6s
5.  MASSA        Ferrari       +43.9s
6.  TRULLI       Toyota        +47.7s
7.  BARRICHELLO  Honda         +53.5s
8.  VETTEL       Toro Rosso    +54.1s
9.  KOVALAINEN   McLaren       +54.4s
10. ROSBERG      Williams      +57.7s
11. BUTTON       Honda         +67.5s
12. WEBBER       Red Bull      +71.2s
13. BOURDAIS     Toro Rosso    +1 lap
R.  FISICHELLA   Force India   +19 laps
R.  NAKAJIMA     Williams      +24 laps
R . ALONSO       Renault       +26 laps
R.  PIQUET       Renault       +31 laps
R.  RAIKKONEN    Ferrari       +51 laps
R.  HAMILTON     McLaren       +51 laps
R.  SUTIL        Force India   +57 laps

Hamilton Clinches Montreal Pole

June 7th, 2008

Lewis Hamilton clinches the Montreal pole position from Robert Kubica in the final seconds of qualifying.

A fantastically exciting qualifying in Montreal, Canada resulted in our man Lewis Hamilton finishing in pole position leaving the Ferrari’s behind. It’s the perfect opportunity to extend his Formula 1 Championship lead.

Also well done to Robert Kubica who is really starting to shine recently. I’m looking forward to another exciting race tomorrow - let’s not forget Kimi who is starting right behind Lewis.

Montreal F1 Qualifying Results

1.  HAMILTON       McLaren
2.  KUBICA         BMW
3.  RAIKKONEN      Ferrari
4.  ALONSO         Renault
5.  ROSBERG        Williams
6.  MASSA          Ferrari
7.  KOVALAINEN     McLaren
8.  HEIDFELD       BMW
9.  BARRICHELLO    Honda
10. WEBBER         Red Bull
11. GLOCK          Toyota
12. NAKAJIMA       Williams
13. COULTHARD      Red Bull
14. TRULLI         Toyota
15. PIQUET         Renault
16. SUTIL          Force India
17. FISICHELLA     Force India
18. BUTTON         Honda
19. BOURDAIS       Toro Rosso
20. VETTEL         Toro Rosso

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Fantastic Lewis Hamilton Wins In Monaco!

May 25th, 2008

A fantastic race win today by Lewis Hamilton, who had qualified third in Monaco on Saturday.

The Formula 1 Monte Carlo Grand Prix race is well known for the near impossible overtaking around the city-circuit, and Lewis starting in third, didn’t have the as good a chance as he could have had. BUT, Hamilton managed to get into second position, overtaking current Formula 1 World Champion Kimi Raikkonen , by the first corner.

Of course there was the rain which made conditions very tricky around the street circuit - but it made things the more interesting to watch. There were quite a few cars in the barriers, lots of mistakes happening all around, including Lewis who got too close to a barrier and needed new tyres.

Congratulations to Lewis Hamilton who achieved a life-long ambition by winning the Monaco Grand Prix. :D

Formula 1 Monaco Grand Prix Race Results

1.  HAMILTON     McLaren
2.  KUBICA       BMW           +3.0s
3.  MASSA        Ferrari       +4.8s
4.  WEBBER       Red Bull      +19.2s
5.  VETTEL       Toro Rosso    +24.6s
6.  BARRICHELLO  Honda         +28.4s
7.  NAKAJIMA     Williams      +30.1s
8.  KOVALAINEN   McLaren       +33.1s
9.  RAIKKONEN    Ferrari       +33.7s
10. ALONSO       Renault       +1 lap
11. BUTTON       Honda         +1 lap
12. GLOCK        Toyota        +1 lap
13. TRULLI       Toyota        +1 lap
14. HEIDFELD     BMW           +4 laps
R.  SUTIL        Force India   +9 laps
R . ROSBERG      Williams      +17 laps
R.  PIQUET       Renault       +29 laps
R.  FISICHELLA   Force India   +40 laps
R.  COULTHARD    Red Bull      +69 laps
R.  BOURDAIS     Toro Rosso    +69 laps

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Hamilton Starts Third In Monaco

May 24th, 2008

Lewis Hamilton will start the Formula 1 Monaco Grand Prix from third position.

Hamilton looked strong since arriving in Monaco topping Thursday’s second practice session. Somehow Ferrari manage to grab the 1-2 starting position with Kimi starting behing Massa. The race tomorrow should be super interesting, as it always is in Monaco - I bet the fuel strategy’s going to be interesting as it can mix things up a bit and will play a big part tomorrow.

I can’t wait to see the race of the season! :-)

F1 Monaco 2008 Starting Grid:

1.  MASSA         Ferrari       1m15.787s
2.  RAIKKONEN     Ferrari       1m15.815s
3.  HAMILTON      McLaren       1m15.839s
4.  KOVALAINEN    McLaren       1m16.165s
5.  KUBICA        BMW           1m16.171s
6.  ROSBERG       Williams      1m16.548s
7.  ALONSO        Renault       1m16.852s
8.  TRULLI        Toyota        1m17.203s
9.  WEBBER        Red Bull      1m17.343s
10. COULTHARD     Red Bull      no time
11. GLOCK         Toyota        1m15.907s
12. BUTTON        Honda         1m16.101s
13. HEIDFELD      BMW           1m16.455s
14. NAKAJIMA      Williams      1m16.479s
15. BARRICHELLO   Honda         1m16.537s
16. BOURDAIS      Toro Rosso    1m16.806s
17. PIQUET        Renault       1m16.933s
18. VETTEL        Toro Rosso    1m16.955s
19. SUTIL         Force India   1m17.225s
20. FISICHELLA    Force India   1m17.823s