2008 FORMULA1 AUSTRALIAN GRAND PRIX
damn. still irritated over the pesky insect bites that turned into mean allergice reaction to my skin >_<
But luckily last sunday was a great Formula1 weedend :)
What an opening for this years formula1 season!
Alber park was nothing short of a drama and spectacular wheel to wheel banging to the chequered flag!
Not to mention... only 8 cars finished the race! it was definitely a race of altrition and the safety car coming out a couple of times!
What a sunday for Kimi Raikkonen! An amazing opening lap and overtaking around 8 cars and to think he started the grid on 15th!
But that was not all! With 21 laps to out (out of the 58 laps of the Australian Grandprix), he battles Heike Kovalalainen's McLaren for 2nd place. I don't know if it was due to the new regulation of removing traction control or some break problems... OR Kimi overbreaking... he drfts over the kitty litter and almost kissing the barriers. Close Call. He still gets his engine running and charges back to the pack for points.
Ofcourse this is not enough for Kimi, he still continues to charge even if he's behind the pack, this time with 16 laps remaining, he charges on Timo Glock for the last championship point. I guess Kimi is either pushing too hard or missing the traction control that "helps" the drivers control the car. He puts a rear wheel in the grass and sends him out of control. Luckily he still manages to get the engine running.
Unfortunately with just 2 more laps to go, that red F2008 finally had to give. Sad for both Ferraris not finishing.
Big Win for McLaren's Lewis Hamilton.
~ Honestly this is a good win, just after all the scandal McLaren went through last year!
A very nice jumping up and down for good friends Lewis and Williams' Nico Roseberg.
Horrible weekend for Honda and Reubens Barrichelo! After fighting up and down the order, he gets a 10 second stop and go penalty for jumping into the pitts on a red light when safety car was out. Bad was that when the lollipop guy got the lollipop out, fuel rig still in result is pitt crew down and fuel spilled over the Honda camp.
Worst, was that Reubens was robbed of his championship point for getting out of the pitts in red light!
Talk about pitt stop shambles! To think that Barrichelo is one of the most experienced race car drivers out there!
No disrespect!
Happy that even though Kimi retired the race, he still was classified as 8th and got a championship point!
What a race!!!!
1
L. HamiltonMcLaren
1:34:50.6162
N. HeidfeldBMW
+ 5.4783
N. RosbergWilliams
+ 8.1634
F. AlonsoRenault
+ 17.1815
H. KovalainenMcLaren
+ 18.0146
K. NakajimaWilliams
+ 1 laps
Did not finish.. but still with points
7
S. BourdaisScuderia Toro Rosso
+ 3 laps8
K. RäikkönenFerrari
+ 5 laps
Others did not finish...
9
R. KubicaBMW
+ 10 laps10
T. GlockToyota
+ 14 laps11
T. SatoSuper Aguri
+ 27 laps12
N. Piquet jr.Renault
+ 28 laps13
F. MassaFerrari
+ 29 laps14
D. CoulthardRed Bull
+ 33 laps15
J. TrulliToyota
+ 38 laps16
A. SutilForce India F1
+ 49 laps17
M. WebberRed Bull
+ 57 laps18
J. ButtonHonda
+ 57 laps19
A. DavidsonSuper Aguri
+ 58 laps20
S. VettelScuderia Toro Rosso
+ 58 laps21
G. FisichellaForce India F1
+ 58 laps22
R. BarrichelloHonda
no time
* pictures and complete list and time by f1racing.net
on another note...
while doing this F1 review...
i came across this...
(fine i kinda stumbled on this when i was searching for another arashi...)
uwahhhh Ohno! i just dropped from my chair.
he really is talented! and cute... and HOT!
now...
Kimi or Ohno???
it's like saying one hot masculine Finn.....or..... an eyebrow-plucking-pretty-Jap-boy (Ohno does have muscles too!)
a race car driver..... or..... dancing singing stage acting artist
a rich play boy.... or.... a mama's boy?
hahahahaha
maybe a 50million dollar contract Ferrari contract with a yacht should answer my question.
Nope it doesn't...
I just love to compare the guys i like! hahahahaha
Irony!