grr is all I can say. I think Massa will eat the beemer for breakfast but if he cant get past him at the start it'll be a waste of the speed advantage they have.
Well done to Kubica though. great lap.

No, not until they give a point for pole position in the championship. LOL

So, if Alonso is investigated and found guilty of lifting and "brake testing" Lewis from high telemetary...


...I'd hope he gets a lengthy sin-binning. Very little more dangerous that you can deliberately do.

Can't see it happening though - where's the next GP?

well that was fun
Safe to say that was as thought a killing.

Alonso and Hamilton: http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/66448

Make of it what you will.

I'd ilke to know why DC has no-one asking about his move. This is the third time in recent history that he's had someone run into him and not counting the belgium incident, I think its time someone sat him down and told him what those reflective bits of glass on the side of his car are for. It's sure as hell not for shaving that square jaw of his.

I dont think BMW were quite as close as they finished, Kimi backed off after the last pitstop at least 3/4's of a second + per lap while Kubica and heidfeld stayed on the pace. When Kimi was told he picked up the pace just enough to stay ahead still nothing special. But I cant complain if its not Ferrari at the top its beemer I want there until williams are on the pace.

I think renault has been one of the hardest hit teams by the lack of TC. Remember a few years back they had the best traction on the grid, the systems which controlled it all were considered the best especially on the starts. So they are right back to square one, ferrari also had trouble but while renaults system was focused on delivering the power in a smooth curve and basically giving you more traction in the lower end of the band, the ferrari's system was aimed at sacrificing low end low gear traction for the higher speed corner traction which is where they were super quick. Both teams have had to learn to adapt to their weakness. And something tells me ferrari have either found a way to deliver the power more smoothly throughout the band, or their drivers are a lot better at it than the renault drivers. Or Renault have not set their engine map up to give their drivers the right amount of power through out the rev range.

I enjoyed the race, I also agree that DC is causing involved in more than his fair share of incidents...

Massa was supreme today, as was Ferrari in general and BMW look to have caught McLaren up now, they may well end the season second to Ferrari.

Results up shortly

expat wrote on Apr 6^th, 2008 at 2:38pm:


To be fair, a bad start. If it had been a normal start Alonso would have been several places behing him when he had the poor turn exit...

As for the start, you wonder if there was a technical snag of some description.