Grand Prix Reviews - 2/9 - F1 Fanatic archive
Sebastian Vettel brushes title rivals aside to win (2008 Italian GP review) 14th September 2008, 16:09
Sebastian Vettel announced his arrival as a force in F1 with a masterful win in slippery conditions in the Italian Grand Prix. He led from the start on the wet track and held the lead for most of the race, switching from extreme wet tyres in the later stages. Meanwhile the championship rivals struggled: Felipe [...]
Lewis Hamilton is moral victor in Spa thriller (2008 Belgian Grand Prix review) 7th September 2008, 23:35
Lewis Hamilton won a thrilling Belgian Grand Prix – but the stewards’ decision to strip him of his hard-earned victory soured what would otherwise have been remembered as a magnificent race. Kimi Raikkonen was poised to score a fourth consecutive win at Spa but Hamilton capitalised on a late rain shower to attack the Ferrari [...]
Felipe Massa scores flawless win at Valencia (2008 European GP review) 24th August 2008, 15:25
Felipe Massa is a hard man to beat from pole position and so it proved once again in the European Grand Prix. Lewis Hamilton never managed to get on terms with the Ferrari driver but second place means he retains the lead in the drivers’ championship. But Massa is being investigated by the FIA stewards [...]
Massa loses Hungary win to Kovalainen (2008 Hungarian Grand Prix review) 3rd August 2008, 17:41
Felipe Massa was three laps away from victory in the Hungarian Grand Prix – and the lead of the world championship – when a shock engine failure ended an excellent drive by the Brazilian. Massa had muscled his way past Lewis Hamilton at the start and had been poised to take seven points off the [...]
Lewis Hamilton wins despite strategy blunder (2008 German GP review) 20th July 2008, 17:09
Lewis Hamilton was dominating the German Grand Prix until a safety car appearance threw his race into disarray. His McLaren team made a clear mistake by failing to bring him into the pits – leaving him to fight his way back to the front of the field the hard way. After taking his delayed stop [...]
British Grand Prix 2008: Lewis Hamilton scores home win as Ferrari flounder 6th July 2008, 15:56
Lewis Hamilton won a thrilling British Grand Prix at Silverstone as McLaren capitalised on a strategic blunder by Ferrari. McLaren called the changing conditions perfectly while Ferrari got their strategy badly wrong for Kimi Raikkonen, leaving him to battle his way up to fourth. Hamilton’s win sets up a three-way tie at the top of [...]
2008 Canadian GP review: Kubica takes maiden win as Hamilton hits Raikkonen 8th June 2008, 22:17
Everyone expected drama on the track during today’s Canadian Grand Prix but the most remarkable incident of the afternoon occured in the pits as Lewis Hamilton slammed his McLaren into the back of Kimi Raikkonen’s Ferrari. That handed Robert Kubica the opportunity to win his first Grand Prix and he did so in excellent fashion [...]
2008 Turkish GP review: Massa wins third consecutive race at Istanbul 11th May 2008, 20:17
Felipe Massa remains the man to beat at Istanbul after his third win from pole position at the track in as many years. But he was chased all the way and even headed for a while by the McLaren of Lewis Hamilton. Kimi Raikkonen finished third after run-in with Heikki Kovalainen at the first corner. [...]
2008 Spanish Grand Prix review: Raikkonen leads crushing Ferrari 1-2 27th April 2008, 18:31
Kimi Raikkonen and Felipe Massa’s winning margin of 0.9s over Lewis Hamilton suggests the Spanish Grand Prix was a close run thing. In fact it was anything but, and a Ferrari one-two looked like an inevitability from the first corner. Hamilton came out on top of a three-way fight for third that was contested entirely [...]
2008 Bahrain Grand Prix review: Ferrari pair cruise to easy one-two 6th April 2008, 16:40
Ferrari made it look easy in the Bahrain Grand Prix as Lewis Hamilton’s bid for victory self-destructed once again and the speed of the BMWs in qualifying was not matched by their race pace. It left Felipe Massa to take a straightforward win from Kimi Raikkonen, the world champion unable to reproduce the form we [...]
