After this morning’s last gasp effort by Heikki Kovalainen to land himself third spot on the grid for tomorrow’s grand prix, Lewis Hamilton will certainly owe him a few pints if, come the end of the season, Lewis finds himself as world champion.
I think it’s hard not to oversell the importance of the gap that will exist on the grid tomorrow, Lewis being four cars up the road from main championship title rival Felipe Massa, who himself must be a bit surprised to find his Ferrari down in fifth.
Kimi Raikkonen’s found a rich seam of form again, and was pushing Lewis hard all morning for the top spot, but the Brit dug deep and pulled out a blinding lap at the end of the session.
Fernando Alonso again continued with his quick pace to get fourth, with Kubica in sixth, Trulli seventh, Glock eighth, and the two STR’s of Vettel and Bourdais respectively in ninth and tenth.
Tomorrow’s race is going to be exciting for sure, and, personally, I think Kimi’s going to win.
Do you…?
Yeah, me too. Raikkonen needs a win, he will have to get ahead soon though!
I am still hoping for Hamilton, but Ferrari has shown latley when the going gets tough they make mistakes.
lewis just has to keep his composure and not do anything stupid. The Ferrari’s are quick but im not sure the can handle the pressure. The only question is can hamilton?
History has shown us that Massa isn’t very good when he’s tied up in the pack and tends to make mistakes. I reckon if by lap 10 he’s still in 5th he might even crash out.
As for Lewis and Kimi it doesn’t matter which one wins as long as Lewis is ahead of Massa.
Looking at form, Massa works best from pole, and apart from when he did Lewis and Heikki in Valencia he has a hard time starting off the front row.
Lewis’s job tomorrow is stay ahead of Massa and stay out of trouble.
I also think Alonso could be in contention at the end of the race. Im happy back to proper circuits now where hopefully a safety car shouldnt turn it all upside down.
Kimi has now good change to steal some points from Ham’, IF Massa can improve on race. He surely is faster than qualify showed. Kimi has more fuel than ham’.
Could there be a possibility of Kimi taking out Lewis at the first corner ?
That’d be good teamwork and all Massa has to do is cruise home and ensure he picks up points, with only Kimi being penalised.
Ofcourse it wont happen, but it’d be logical for Ferrari to do that as I don’t think Heikkie could beat Massa.
You’re right Simon. Raikonnen could take him out.
However, as a Ferrari, he wouldn’t be given a penalty remember; that’s not how the FIA works… Although if Raikonnen did shunt him out, i reckon a stop and go penalty for Lewis for obstructing a Ferrari… or a £10m Fine for McLaren… or both?
That is the biggest load of s**t you can possibly give me. Raikkonen has stuffed his Ferrari every time he has been given a chance of some points. Remember Belgium, Singapore… has no-one taken notice?
Let’s hope Kimi wins to prove again how good he really is. Untill now he didn’t do much good…
Lewis can do with 2nd to become World Champion
Sabs, remember Canada, Valencia he’s had some bad luck also. 10 fastets laps this season show’s he’s still one of the quickest out there. I think he will win tomorrow of course Hamilton would love to but he isn’t going to jepodise his race just to win,
yeak i think its kimi’s race.
he’s pretty depserate to win again.
lewis wont wanna jeopardise his championship chances, if kimi poses to much of a threat he’ll let him past.
hopefully kimi wins
their needs to be a late shower to spice things up as a dry race will boring. The only passing place might be at turn 1. the race will be decided in the pits where raikkonen can attack hamilton if he don’t nail him on lap 1.
Massa should expect fierce resistance by Kovaleinen but Alonso won’t fight too much as as button put it, he would hate to see lew win the title. Im supportin lewis but one of the top 4 run into trouble every race and i can’t help but feel this is where lews challenge will go tits up. he cant afford one mistake until massa makes one so expect a conservative approach to the race. not too conservatively obviously.
oh and watch lewis pull away. he wasnt two tenths faster for nothing!
i think kimi’s probably got this race in the bag.
lewis is safe with 2nd. as long as he’s doing better than massa, his world championship title’s safe.
Brooksy said…
You’re right Simon. Raikonnen could take him out.
However, as a Ferrari, he wouldn’t be given a penalty remember; that’s not how the FIA works… Although if Raikonnen did shunt him out, i reckon a stop and go penalty for Lewis for obstructing a Ferrari… or a £10m Fine for McLaren… or both?
you’re whining about about a mistaken interpretation (on your part) about past events, in preparation for whining about unlikely future events.
i thought this overwhelming victim mentality was confined to my fellow americans, but obviously the uk has plenty of tears to shed over nothing.
what say ye, ozzies? i’m told you guys have a pair.
lewis FTW!!~!
No.. i don’t think so.
Kimi’s now curse by God. He had so many sins (and ferrari too). Since too many ‘unfair’ things happen in FIA biased ferrari. The power of God show it all.. Everything just going wrong to kimi (and ferrari too).
He (kimi) might be win today, but again, with FIA biased ferrari help.. or maybe something worst to be happen to them!.
Remember.. beside of A ferrari, there’s another 18 othes car or another 8 team!. Not all F1 fan ARE ferrari fan!..
My wish on Kubica and Hamilton today.
Lewis fucked it up!!!!!!
wohooo!!!!
I see the Hamilton haters have been using the dicktionary: “..c*ntish..” ?
Once again the Ferrari Intervention Alliance has inervened by giving Bourdais a pentaly pushing Massa up to a very undeserved 7th how that is allowed i do not know Now Lewis’ lead is reduced to just 6 points!!!!!
Oh my gosh just read on F1.com that bourdais has been given a penalty by the Ferrari International Alliance, now Massa is in 7th meaning that hamiltons lead is cut to 6 points complete bias!!!
As I said earlier.
Rubbish and crap (FIA)Ferrari Intervention Alliance help again and again ..
now.. there’s something ‘like to be happen if hamilton not cut the corner’ vs raikonen in the past race.
Now what are FIA think?
The penalty is actually fair, though the incident should have been sorted during the race. I watched the video and to me it seems Bourdais swerves, ever so slightly, and ends up touching Massa. Its the same as what happened at the chicane between Massa and Hamilton, an avoidable accident caused by Massa resulting in him recieving a penalty. Hamilton’s lead is actually down to five points now by the way. Would have been six if Massa was eigth.
Onto the important matters, seems like we had another stellar drive from Alonso, you cant help but feel that given the right car he’d have run away with this championship. I also think the same with Kubica. He’s twelve behind Hamilton and ready to pounce and maybe do what Kimi did last year should Hamilton and Massa mess up in both China and Brazil. Its unlikely they’ll cock up three races in a row, but still, I’d love to see Kubica and BMW take the drivers crown from right under the big boys at McLaren and Ferrari’s noses !
I started this season as a Hamilton fan but after all his imature performances this season I’m starting to think Mclaren should’ve let him find his own way to F1 and then sign him once he’s earnt his stripes. He’s still got a lot to learn and perhaps he would’ve done better that way. As has been said many time before you can’t win a championship at the 1st corner but you can lose it.
Another excellent performance from Alonso and Kubica (many drivers in better cars could not have held Kimi at bay like he did).
OMG…..here we go again…..”The decision was odd in that most observers thought that the investigation into the incident would consider whether Massa should be punished as Bourdais appeared to be ahead when the collision occurred”…when will thy ask the stewards to remove the we luv ferrai glasses..!!.
Im starting to think that this year championship is fixed
penaty for Bordais for really no reason so there championship can be closer..
martin lol the whole thing has been a fix since the start but now the FIA have really ruined the sport now its clear what its all about it is the most bent sport in the world ive never seen so much s**t in my life ive had enough of this rubbish and im not watching it anymore its pointless and i hope everybody else stops watching it so that the F1 sport goes down the drain cos with now fans no money if i was hamilton i would leave formula 1 its really bad it said it all when the FIA are looking to hire Juan Todd which is telling me that the FIA are Ferrari ffs F! is Shit
^^ To be frank, F1 could do without one-eyed supporters such as yourself who care more about one driver than the sport itself. For anyone else still wondering over the Bourdais incident with Massa, he was exiting pitlane, and the blue flag was out, meaning ‘let faster cars overtake you’, as is required for all pitlane exits. He didn’t let Massa pass, hence he got penalised. Simple. Its amusing to read Hamilton fanatics try and spin some perceived injustice out of a very fair race, your boy had a bad race, get over it.
well don lewsi brillant job and hpe you can repeat you quilie at China
GO LEWIS