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Official Race Classification | Full Story
How did we live during the winter? F1 was back with a bang this morning in Aus, as Lewis Hamilton won a race that defines the word ‘action’.
Lap one, and already we were treated to a series of incidents; Fisichella, Piquet Button, Vettel, Webber and Davidson were involved in a crunch up at the first corner, Massa spun and Raikkonen made a great start to get up to 8th.
The safety car made several cameo appearances throughout the grand prix, with drivers failing to either deal with the loss of traction control this season, or each other.
Timo Glock made a spectacular error, going wide and destroying his car in the process. David Coulthard was a very unhappy victim of aggressive driving by Felipe Massa, as the Brazilian bumped the Scot off going through turn one. Interviewed by ITV, Coulthard’s take on the incident is best described as X-rated.
Turning our attention to the front, Hamilton was supreme and on route 1 to victory. Behind him, however, everything was up for grabs as, it seemed, everyone had their share of problems.
Finishing 2nd and 3rd, Nick Heidfeld and Nico Rosberg were the survivors in a battle of endurance. Kubica, 2nd on the grid, maintained his place for the initial period of the race before pitting, and was running in 5th with 11 laps to go when a collision with Nakajima forced him out. The Jap has subsequently been docked 10 grid slots for the Malaysian GP.
Champions Raikkonen had to battle all the way, finding himself behind Barrichello early on, then mistiming an overtaking manoeuvre for 2nd and hitting the gravel, then going on the grass, and finally repeating his qualifying crawl to retire just before the end.
Sebastien Bourdais, in his debut, slipped his way into 4th before his race was cut horribly only 3 laps short of the distance.
Fernando Alonso and Heikki Kovalainen finished 4th and 5th, but not before pure sporting brilliance in the antepenultimate lap. Passing Alonso in the closing sector, Kovalainen accidently triggered his pit speed limiter in the straight to allow the Spaniard to recapture 4th. Nakajima was awarded 6th place, owing to Barrichello’s disqualifying for passing red lights at the pit exit. This also gave Bourdais 7th and Kimi 8th.
If every race is like this, everyone will be talking about F1.
Drivers’ Championship
With Hamilton’s supposed main rivals for the title failing to score high, Australia is a dream start for the Brit.
Constructors’ Championship
The single point for Ferrari, and 14 on the board for McLaren provide a solid base for Ron Dennis’ team.
SupaLiga 2008
(Full table available in attachment)
Analoguesat leads SupaLiga for the first time ever, and he will hope that he can repeat Norm’s 2007 domination of the league. ScotBordersF1 finished 2007 in 11th, and such heights will be unfamiliar surroundings.
3 SupaLiga debutants find themselves in the top 5 – pgh13, pazinho and wod – and mrminibus’ Caravans are also in 7th. Surely a demonstration that SupaLiga shows no respect for reputations!
Team Oily, 9th in 2007, are 3rd, and rolfw’s Rubbers had a good start in 6th.
Lower down, champions F1 Aberdeen are 11th. The last 12 hours have proved disastrous across SupaLiga for Norm, as he also lost top spot in Premier League SupaLiga for the first time in the 2007/08 season.
2007 runners-up Creatures do little better, currently 8th, while 2007’s 3rd place team owner Topper will be proper tossed off to be bottom!
Norm in the Pure FF1 Cup > F1 SupaAberdeen, SupaLiga's representative in the Pure Fantasy F1 Cup, need to be placed in the top 32 after the Italian GP to qualify for the play-offs. They scored 47pts today, 18pts off 32nd place Red Racer Ultimate.
NEXT RACE > MALAYSIAN GP @ KUALA LUMPUR > MARCH 23
How did we live during the winter? F1 was back with a bang this morning in Aus, as Lewis Hamilton won a race that defines the word ‘action’.
Lap one, and already we were treated to a series of incidents; Fisichella, Piquet Button, Vettel, Webber and Davidson were involved in a crunch up at the first corner, Massa spun and Raikkonen made a great start to get up to 8th.
The safety car made several cameo appearances throughout the grand prix, with drivers failing to either deal with the loss of traction control this season, or each other.
Timo Glock made a spectacular error, going wide and destroying his car in the process. David Coulthard was a very unhappy victim of aggressive driving by Felipe Massa, as the Brazilian bumped the Scot off going through turn one. Interviewed by ITV, Coulthard’s take on the incident is best described as X-rated.
Turning our attention to the front, Hamilton was supreme and on route 1 to victory. Behind him, however, everything was up for grabs as, it seemed, everyone had their share of problems.
Finishing 2nd and 3rd, Nick Heidfeld and Nico Rosberg were the survivors in a battle of endurance. Kubica, 2nd on the grid, maintained his place for the initial period of the race before pitting, and was running in 5th with 11 laps to go when a collision with Nakajima forced him out. The Jap has subsequently been docked 10 grid slots for the Malaysian GP.
Champions Raikkonen had to battle all the way, finding himself behind Barrichello early on, then mistiming an overtaking manoeuvre for 2nd and hitting the gravel, then going on the grass, and finally repeating his qualifying crawl to retire just before the end.
Sebastien Bourdais, in his debut, slipped his way into 4th before his race was cut horribly only 3 laps short of the distance.
Fernando Alonso and Heikki Kovalainen finished 4th and 5th, but not before pure sporting brilliance in the antepenultimate lap. Passing Alonso in the closing sector, Kovalainen accidently triggered his pit speed limiter in the straight to allow the Spaniard to recapture 4th. Nakajima was awarded 6th place, owing to Barrichello’s disqualifying for passing red lights at the pit exit. This also gave Bourdais 7th and Kimi 8th.
If every race is like this, everyone will be talking about F1.
Drivers’ Championship
With Hamilton’s supposed main rivals for the title failing to score high, Australia is a dream start for the Brit.
Constructors’ Championship
The single point for Ferrari, and 14 on the board for McLaren provide a solid base for Ron Dennis’ team.
SupaLiga 2008
(Full table available in attachment)
Analoguesat leads SupaLiga for the first time ever, and he will hope that he can repeat Norm’s 2007 domination of the league. ScotBordersF1 finished 2007 in 11th, and such heights will be unfamiliar surroundings.
3 SupaLiga debutants find themselves in the top 5 – pgh13, pazinho and wod – and mrminibus’ Caravans are also in 7th. Surely a demonstration that SupaLiga shows no respect for reputations!
Team Oily, 9th in 2007, are 3rd, and rolfw’s Rubbers had a good start in 6th.
Lower down, champions F1 Aberdeen are 11th. The last 12 hours have proved disastrous across SupaLiga for Norm, as he also lost top spot in Premier League SupaLiga for the first time in the 2007/08 season.
2007 runners-up Creatures do little better, currently 8th, while 2007’s 3rd place team owner Topper will be proper tossed off to be bottom!
Norm in the Pure FF1 Cup > F1 SupaAberdeen, SupaLiga's representative in the Pure Fantasy F1 Cup, need to be placed in the top 32 after the Italian GP to qualify for the play-offs. They scored 47pts today, 18pts off 32nd place Red Racer Ultimate.
NEXT RACE > MALAYSIAN GP @ KUALA LUMPUR > MARCH 23
