12-Oct-08: Second Consecutive Victory for Renault and Alonso
Welcome to F1 Minute for the 12th October 2008.
Alonso has taken a second surprise win in Japan, following his first victory of the season at the last race in Singapore. Both Ferraris and Hamilton ran wide at the first corner, which pushed them down the order, and allowed Alonso, Kubica and Kovalainen through into the lead. Massa tried to overtake Hamilton moments later, and spun the McLaren round. He received a drive through for this incident, whilst Hamilton was given a drive through for forcing Raikkonen off the road at the start.
After the penalties were taken, Hamilton and Massa were well down the order, and it looked to be a fight between Kimi and Heikki. However, Kovi’s engine blew up in a rare show of McLaren unreliability. Raikkonen kept his speed up but ended up third on the podium behind Alonso and Kubica.
Massa managed to claw his way back up to 8th, and after an incident with Bourdais as the Toro Rosso came out of the pit lane, found himself in 7th when the Frenchman was given a post-race 25 second penalty.
That’s it for today, I’ll be back tomorrow with another F1 Minute.
Published by Christine on 12 Oct 2008 at 05:39 pm
Tags: Felipe Massa, Fernando Alonso, Ferrari, Heikki Kovalainen, Japan, Kimi Raikkonen, Lewis Hamilton, McLaren, Robert Kubica, Sebastien Bourdais, Singapore, Toro Rosso
| « 11-Oct-08: Hamilton... | 13-Oct-08: Hamilton... » |
What others have said...
2 Comments
Steve Boston on 12 Oct 2008 at 6:12 pm #
I have been getting more and more frustrated with F1 as the events of last 2 years have unfolded. I have been attending races since the late sixties (Monaco,Watkins Glen and all the Canadian GPs) and the recent rulings have completely soured the “sport” . I have decided that the World Wide Wrestling Entertainment people put on the same show now ( lots of noise, fixed contoversial decisions, soap opera storylines) at much more affordable venues. Bernie Ecclestone and Vince McMahon were brothers separated at birth. Such a sorry state for what was once a beautiful event. I give. I am turing off Speed channel. I am so disappointed. Its new hobby time. And I will miss Christine’s wonderful commentary of Ferraris award when it occurs this year. See if you can get a copy of Bernie’s script.
Christine on 13 Oct 2008 at 7:48 pm #
I’m sorry to hear that Steve.
I can understand your frustrations. The only thing I would say, is that if you ignore the penalties and FIA interference, we’ve still seen some of the closest racing in these past few years.
However, ignoring the FIA is the tricky part to get through.