Ferrari and Kimi Raikkonen are back in the title hunt with the defending world Champions winning the second race of the Formula One 2008 season.
Raikkonen who started second on the grid won the race ahead of Robert Kubica of BMW and Heikki Kovalainen of Mclaren Mercedes. Pole sitter Felipe Massa spun out to retirement at half-distance of the race, which spoiled the chances of a dominant one-two finish for Ferrari. Lewis Hamilton, who started from 9th due to a penalty, came in 5th despite a disastrous first pit stop. Jarno Trulli managed to fend off a late charge from Hamilton and came in 4th.
Earlier, Massa started out well from the pole fending off a strong challenge from Raikkonen into the first corner. However he never managed to pull away from the Finn, who was always about 2 seconds behind him. Raikkonen did one lap extra than Massa and a superb in-lap allowed him to rejoin ahead of Massa after the pit stops. He continued to pull away from the Brazilian thereafter, before Massa spun out into the gravel and ending his race.
Nick Heidfeld came in 6th in his Williams ahead of Mark Webber in Red Bull and Fernando Alonso in Renault, who rounded up the top eight cars. David Coulthard in the Red Bull overcame mid-race pressure from Honda's Jenson Button and Renault's Nelson Piquet to take ninth position.
Good news for Force India supporters that Giancarlo Fisichella finished the race in 12th position ahead of Honda's Rubens Barichello. The other Force India car of Adrian Sutil retired on lap 7.
Major disappointment came for the Williams team after a podium finish in Melbourne. Nico Rosberg tangled with Timo Glock on the first lap, taking the Toyota out of the race and breaking the Williams' front wing.
The German could only recover to 14th, while his teammate Kazuki Nakajima fell off the pace in the closing laps and dropped to last, behind the two Super Aguris.
Both the Toro Rosso cars of Sebastian Bourdais and Sebastian Vettel failed to finish the race.
We head into Bahrain in a couple of weeks. In two races we have had different podium finishers. The season 2008 looks to be a promising one with things being a lot more open. Until the next race, Drive safely everyone!!
Raikkonen who started second on the grid won the race ahead of Robert Kubica of BMW and Heikki Kovalainen of Mclaren Mercedes. Pole sitter Felipe Massa spun out to retirement at half-distance of the race, which spoiled the chances of a dominant one-two finish for Ferrari. Lewis Hamilton, who started from 9th due to a penalty, came in 5th despite a disastrous first pit stop. Jarno Trulli managed to fend off a late charge from Hamilton and came in 4th.
Earlier, Massa started out well from the pole fending off a strong challenge from Raikkonen into the first corner. However he never managed to pull away from the Finn, who was always about 2 seconds behind him. Raikkonen did one lap extra than Massa and a superb in-lap allowed him to rejoin ahead of Massa after the pit stops. He continued to pull away from the Brazilian thereafter, before Massa spun out into the gravel and ending his race.
Nick Heidfeld came in 6th in his Williams ahead of Mark Webber in Red Bull and Fernando Alonso in Renault, who rounded up the top eight cars. David Coulthard in the Red Bull overcame mid-race pressure from Honda's Jenson Button and Renault's Nelson Piquet to take ninth position.
Good news for Force India supporters that Giancarlo Fisichella finished the race in 12th position ahead of Honda's Rubens Barichello. The other Force India car of Adrian Sutil retired on lap 7.
Major disappointment came for the Williams team after a podium finish in Melbourne. Nico Rosberg tangled with Timo Glock on the first lap, taking the Toyota out of the race and breaking the Williams' front wing.
The German could only recover to 14th, while his teammate Kazuki Nakajima fell off the pace in the closing laps and dropped to last, behind the two Super Aguris.
Both the Toro Rosso cars of Sebastian Bourdais and Sebastian Vettel failed to finish the race.
We head into Bahrain in a couple of weeks. In two races we have had different podium finishers. The season 2008 looks to be a promising one with things being a lot more open. Until the next race, Drive safely everyone!!
Picture source: F1-live.com
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four out of five ferraris didnt finish the race. maranello should do some thing soon or its reliability issues and soon
Kimi was at his best... and teh pace was also a beauty to see. Masa did a mistake and he got paid. hope next time itz a red wash @ podium...
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