Eeh welcome to the world of winning Heikki, the first of many.
The words of Ron Dennis, Mclaren f1 team principal his tone sounding a little unhappy and unexcited . That is because he and Heikki know very well that the win was handed to the team by Fillipe Massa’s unfortunate retirement just three laps before the end of the race. Timo Glock finished second while Kimmi Raikkonnen took the final podium position.
Massa looked like an outright winner from the first lap when he jumped both Lewis Hamilton and Heikki Kovalainen from the start and was then able of pull away from Lewis Hamilton for the next laps. By the first lap the racing order was one that would not have been anticipated with both Maclarens behind Massa who qualified third and and Timmo Glock in fourth place. Kimi Raikonne was then stuck behind Fernando Alonso for most of the race.
The first event to change the final outcome of the race was on lap 50 with Hamilton suffering a puncture which forced him to pit only to rejoin in eleventh place. He did make forward grounds overtaking a number of cars to end up 6th some way behind the fight got 5th and 6th (Raikonnen vs Alonso).
But the big event of the race was the leader Massa stopping with just three laps to finish. Very unfortunate as he had put in a very spirited drive.
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What a race. Massa was definately the driver of the day. A shame that he did not finish. Ferrari is definately back
This was one unpredictable race. Weird stuff kept on happening including the pit lane fires. But Hamilton is always the one to pucture his tires. Apparantely his tire was flat spotted before it gave up. So his racing style is not that friendly on the bridgestones.
Whats up with kimmi pulling fastest laps only at the end of the gran prix? And why did it take him so long to overtake Alonso? I mean a Toyota finishing ahead of a Ferrari? Ferrari clearly will struggle to find a replacement for Schumacher.
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