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Monday, October 20th, 2008
One race and we will know the 2008 F1 champion. Last year we had the same situation with but Kimi in the title battle for Ferrari.
Last year Hamilton was leader with 107 points, followed by Kimi with 100 points. This year Hamilton is again in top with 94 points followed with 87 points by Massa.
Hamilton starts from 2nd row but finished just on position 7. Kimi starts that race behind Lewis and finish first, in this way he won his first F1 title by 1 point.
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Monday, August 11th, 2008
This week will be the first F1 street race in Valencia. Until now we had F1 races in Spain on tracks like : Catalunya, Montjuich Park, Jerez, Jarama and Pedralbes.
Since this will be the first race at Valencia I will made the top ten points scored in all Spanish tracks. The leader of this statistics is Michael Schumacher. Alonso is the only spanish driver in this top10
- Michael Schumacher 108
- Nigel Mansell 48
- Alain Prost 48
- Mika Hakkinen 46
- Fernando Alonso 37
- David Coulthard 36
- Ayrton Senna 31
- Jackie Stewart 27
- Mario Andretti 26
- Felipe Massa 25
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Sunday, August 3rd, 2008
The Hungaroring 2008 F1 race brings a new driver to the first position on podium, Heikki Kovalainen. Timo Glock finish on 2nd place, his ever best position in a F1 race and the best position for Toyota in the last years.
Heikki Kovalainen won the first F1 GP at 26 years, 9 months and 15 days. Kovalainen won a GP after 28 races in F1. This season he got the first pole position at Silverstone but finish that race just in position 5. In 2007 in the Japan GP he finish on 2nd place and this year at Sepang he got the 3rd place. The 2008 Hungaroring F1 GP, was won by Heikki after he start from 2nd position.
The Toyota driver Timo Glock got the 2nd place, this is the best ever place he finish a F1 race. Until this race best result for Timo Glock was place 4 on Montreal this year.
Toyota is again on the podium, this is the best position in the last years for the team. Toyota finish on 2nd place in another 2 races, both in 2005 Jarno Trulli in 2 consecutive races at Sepang and Bahrain. In 2008 this is the best performance after Timo finish on 4 palce at Montreal and Trully finish on 4 at Sepang and on 3rd at Magny Cours.
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Friday, August 1st, 2008
11 drivers had pole position in the past on Hungaroring, only 4 of them had the pole more than once. Michael Schumacher lead this statistics, and some years will lead it, because he had 7 pole positions on Hungaroring. Next in this stat is Ayrton Senna with 3 poles. Others two drivers had pole twice : Mika Hakkinen and Riccardo Patrese.
Schumacher start in 14 races on Hungaroring and in half of tham had the pole. Third race for Schumacher on Hungaroring brings the pole, victory and fastest lap in 1994. He succed this performance in 2004. On Hungaroring he got pole position in 1994, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2001, 2004 and 2005.
Drivers with one fastest lap:
- Alain Prost
- Fernando Alonso
- Kimi Raikkonen
- Lewis Hamilton
- Nigel Mansell
- Rubens Barrichello
- Thierry Boutsen
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Monday, July 28th, 2008
The top points driver statistics on Hungaroring is lead by 3 F1 Champions Schumacher, Senna and Hill. Teams statistics is lead by McLaren, Williams and Ferrari.
Top drivers at Hungaroring
- 65 Michael Schumacher
- 53 Ayrton Senna
- 42 Damon Hill
- 36 David Coulthard
- 35 Rubens Barrichello
- 29 Kimi Raikkonen
- 29 Mika Hakkinen
- 28 Ralf Schumacher
- 25 Nigel Mansell
- 24 Jacques Villeneuve
Top teams at Hungaroring
- 160 McLaren
- 153 Williams
- 122 Ferrari
- 40 Benetton
- 20 Lotus
- 19 Renault
- 17 Toyota
- 15 Honda
- 15 Sauber
- 12 BAR and Jordan
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Sunday, July 20th, 2008
The 2008 F1 race at Hockenheim was won by Lewis Hamilton at his first race on this track. Hamilton was followed by 2 brazilians Nelsinho Piquet and Felipe Massa.
Nelsinho Piquet finish on 2nd place, his ever best F1 finish. In other 3 finish races he was on place 7 at Magny Cours, 11 at Sepang and 15 at Istanbul.
In 2008 he is the driver with the best jump from the start. Piquet start at Hockenheim from 17 and finish on 2nd, this is a jump of 15 places. He is followed in this stat by Vettle with 14 places at Monte Carlo and Barrichello with 13 at Silverstone (2008 F1 Best Jump Statistics)
Heidfeld is another driver with a good jump in this race, he start from position 12 and finish on 4.
After 2008 Hockenheim Hamilton lead the standing with 58 points, behind him there is Massa 54, Raikkonen 51, Kubica with 48.
On team standing Ferrari lead with 105 points followed by BMW with 89 and McLaren 86
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Monday, May 12th, 2008
First official F1 race on Monte Carlo was on 21 may 1950. In that race 19 drivers were on the grid, but the first lap take out from this race 10 driver after an accident. Etancelin retire after 36 laps and Villoresi after 63 laps. In this way just 7 drivers finish the race.
Fangio starts from pole position and won this race, this is the first F1 race he won it after more than 3 hours of driving.
- Juan Manuel Fangio - 9pts
- Alberto Ascari - 6pts
- Louis Chiron - 4pts
- Raymond Sommer - 3pts
- Prince Bira - 2pts
Fastest lap 1:51.000 by Juan Manuel Fangio
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Monday, April 21st, 2008
There are four drivers who run in more than 10 races at Catalunya F1. They are Barrichello 15, Coulthard 14, Fisichella 12 and Trulli with 11.
There are 3 drivers who won a race each : Raikkonen, Alonso and Massa
. This drivers are those who had pole position on Catalunya from this season driver list.
We have 5 drivers who will debut on this circuit, and they are : Piquet, Vettel, Glock, Nakajima and Bourdais
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Tuesday, April 1st, 2008
In this season Bahrain race a part of drivers will start for the first time in this formula1 track, but exactly half of those who will start in Bahrain 2008 F1 race drive in all the races from the start of this circuit.
They are:
Kimi Raikkonen
Felipe Massa
Nick Heidfeld
Fernando Alonso
David Coulthard
Mark Webber
Jarno Trulli
Jenson Button
Rubens Barrichello
Takuma Sato
Giancarlo Fisichella
From this list top drivers regarding the points scored are : Fernando Alonso (27), Kimi Raikkonen (18), Jarno Trulli (15)
Only 2 drivers have victory here and they are Fernando Alonso with 2 and a victory for Felipe Massa
On the podium Kimi Raikkonen (3), Fernando Alonso (2) and once for Jarno Trulli, Felipe Massa, Jenson Button, Rubens Barrichello and Lewis Hamilton
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Sunday, March 23rd, 2008
1 ) A race won by Kimi Raikkonen and he won again on the track where in 2003 he get the fist victory in Formula1
2 ) Robert Kubica the driver on the position 2 in this race get the highest position in F1. Until this the best place for Kubica was 3 in 2006 at Monza while drive for Sauber.
3 ) Heikki Kovalainen is the 2nd time on the podium, last time he was in 2007 at Fuji driving for Renault. There he finish the race on 2nd place.
4 ) For Jarno Trulli (like for other drivers) this was the race number 10 at Sepang and in this race he set his 2nd best finish on this track. In 2005 he finish the Sepang race on 2nd place.
5 ) Lewis Hamilton on his 2nd season in F1 and 2nd race at Sepang, succeed to get just half of the points he get last year on this track. I think at this race he was penalized for the first time.
6 ) Nick Heildfeld set for the first time in his career the fastest lap in a F1 race.
7 ) Mark Webber in 7 races driving on Sepang in formula1 this is the first time when he get points.
8 ) Fernando Alonso finish in points in his career in 73 races. This was the 2nd time he got just 1 point, the last one was in 2003 Monza
This was race number 10 for Sebastian Vettel
For Felipe Massa this was the 90th race and the 10th pole position.
2008 Sepang F1 results
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