06-Jul-08: Hamilton Wins a Wet British Grand Prix
Today is the 6th July 2008, and you’re listening to F1 Minute.
It’s always hard to get a full picture of what’s happening in a race from the side of the track, but I will do my best for you, and give you a rundown of what happened at Silverstone today.
Hamilton had an amazing start, overtaking a couple of cars to sit behind team mate Heikki who was in the lead. It was only a matter of laps though, before the spirit of the crowd cheered Lewis on to overtake. From then on, despite a few rain showers, and some close calls with spinning cars, Hamilton was cool, calm and collected and took a win at his home Grand Prix.
The spins I was talking about? That would be Webber, Nakajima, Massa, Coulthard, Vettel, Massa again, Sutil, Button, Kubica, Piquet, and probably Massa once more. Essentially, it was a wet race and only those who kept clear heads and more importantly, their cars on track, were successful. The final podium was Hamilton, Heidfeld and Barrichello. The championship now has three leaders all on 48 points, although Hamilton is actually in first place.
That’s all for today, I’ll be back tomorrow with another F1 Minute.
Steven Roy on Sun, 6th Jul 2008 21:48
Great job Christine. It is difficult to keep track of a normal race from trackside. Today’s was hard enough to track on TV with all the other data we had. I think Massa’s spin total was five but it could have been 6. At times it was hard to know what was a new spin and what was a replay of the last one.
Christine on Mon, 7th Jul 2008 08:30
The man really doesn’t like the wet. I thought he was starting to prove us wrong, but this race appears to be a bit of a step backwards for him.
I know Ferrari screwed up, but at least Kimi kept it on the road - albeit behind everyone else!
Ray on Fri, 11th Jul 2008 21:37
Bit of a belated comment but, Massa has apparently set a new record for the most number of spins in one race. what a monkey.