Heikki High: Sunday’s Hungarian Grand Prix belonged to Ferrari’s Felipe Massa but victory went to Finland’s Heikki Kovalainen in his McLaren, who becomes the 100th. driver to win a Formula 1 race. The Brazilian shot into the lead from the second row at the start and never looked back, till a rare engine failure […]
Lewis Hamilton takes a career tenth pole! Heikki alongside for a McLaren front row. Ferrari and Massa struggling! settle for third with Kimi sixth. Pos Driver Team Q1 Q2 Q3 Laps 1. Hamilton McLaren-Mercedes 1:19.376 1:19.473 1:20.899 12 2. Kovalainen McLaren-Mercedes 1:19.945 1:19.480 1:21.140 16 3. Massa Ferrari 1:19.578 1:19.068 1:21.191 16 4. Kubica […]
Lewis Hamilton on top in second practice. Heikki to stay at McLaren through 2009. Loeb extends his lead in Finland. Second practice times: Pos Driver Team Time Laps 1. Hamilton McLaren-Mercedes (B) 1:20.554 35 2. Piquet Renault (B) 1:20.748 + 0.194 38 3. Kovalainen McLaren-Mercedes (B) 1:20.760 + 0.206 33 4. Alonso Renault (B) […]
Hungaroring: Sunday’s Formula 1 event in Budapest is round 11 in the 2008 Formula 1 World Championship. The Magyar Grand Prix has featured some memorable Hungarian dances over the years. The inaugural event in 1986 saw an unbelievable slipping and sliding pass on the outside by Nelson Piquet over arch rival and fellow Brazilian countryman Ayrton […]
Ferrari’s Shark Attack: With Lewis Hamilton on a winning prowl after dominating wins in England and Germany, the Italian team will be looking to take a bite out of McLaren’s resurgence in Hungary next weekend. Felipe Massa tried the team’s new shark fin engine cover in recent testing at Jerez, Spain. The Adrian Newey innovation […]
Weber’s New Grill: Rising German talent Nico Hulkenberg celebrates after winning Saturday’s F3 Euro Series race at Nurburgring. Nico also set the fastest lap of the race and is now joint second in the championship with Finnish driver Mika Maki, only six points behind championship leader Italian Edoardo Mortara, who dropped out on the […]