The Telegraph India (Free subscription) | 02/10/2008
Ferrari president Luca di Montezemolo has called Sunday's inaugural Singapore Grand Prix a "humiliation" for the sport, claiming the track used for Formula One's first night race would be "more suitable for staging a circus".
Skysports.com (Free subscription) | 24/09/2008
Felipe Massa has highlighted the importance of a strong qualifying session ahead of Sunday's crucial Singapore Grand Prix.
BlogF1 (Free subscription) | 07/09/2008
Kimi Raikkonen hasn’t performed well in recent races, and following the last post about the Scuderia and their tactics for the remainder of the year, it seems there are many possible reasons for the Finn’s slump. However, after today’s Belgian Grand Prix, Raikkonen is looking less and less like a Formula One world champion. The question is should Ferrari still maintain their faith in Kimi, or...
BlogF1 (Free subscription) | 27/08/2008
On the first day of testing at Monza this season, Felipe Massa has topped the tables and continued his impressive pace from last weekend’s European Grand Prix. With the Italian circuit due to host the fourteenth round of the championship in mid-September, most teams were working on their aerodynamic packages to give them a better [...]
F1 Fanatic (Free subscription) | 23/08/2008
So much for Mercedes giving McLaren a 25 horsepower advantage - the engine doing the business at Valencia this weekend is the Ferrari. Here’s who set the top four maximum speeds in the second sector of the lap at Valencia (where the highest speeds are reached) during qualifying today: Position Drivers Car Speed 1 Sebastian Vettel Toro Rosso-Ferrari 308.4kph 2 Kimi Raikkonen Ferrari...
BlogF1 (Free subscription) | 27/09/2008
Felipe Massa has charged to Formula One’s first ever night-time pole position at Singapore. The Ferrari pilot edged out Lewis Hamilton in the final session to take the top spot, and comfortably beat his team mate Kimi Raikkonen by 0.8s. After Moncao and Valencia, Massa is looking to be a street-circuit specialist. Heikki Kovalainen ran [...]
All OF F1 (Free subscription) | 28/09/2008
Pos No Driver Team Q1 Q2 Q3 Laps 1 2 Felipe Massa Ferrari 1:44.519 1:44.014 1:44.801 16 2 22 Lewis Hamilton McLaren-Mercedes 1:44.501 1:44.932 1:45.465 14 3 1 Kimi Räikkönen Ferrari 1:44.282 1:44.232 1:45.617 16 4 4 Robert Kubica BMW Sauber 1:44.740 1:44.519 1:45.779 18 5 23 Heikki Kovalainen McLaren-Mercedes 1:44.311 1:44.207 1:45.873 19 6 3 Nick Heidfeld BMW
BlogF1 (Free subscription) | 27/09/2008
The grid has been decided for the very first Singapore Grand Prix, and Felipe Massa is on the top spot, followed by Lewis Hamilton, Kimi Raikkonen and Robert Kubica. BMW team mate Nick Heidfeld has received a three-grid place penalty following an altercation with Rubens Barrichello, where the Honda driver was impeded and then struggled [...]
BlogF1 (Free subscription) | 27/09/2008
The second session, which was brought forward slightly to maximise the running, saw Fernando Alonso put in an impressive performance for Renault, topping the timing sheet with a margin of a tenth to Lewis Hamilton. Felipe Massa was third, ahead of McLaren’s other driver Heikki Kovalainen. Kimi Raikkonen finished down in seventh, and a few [...]
The Telegraph India (Free subscription) | 29/09/2008
... under the floodlights on the Marina Bay Street Circuit, the only rain that fell was on pole sitter Felipe Massa’s parade after the Brazilian suffered a miserable evening of mishaps.A disastrous pitstop when the safety car had been deployed after a Nelson Piquet crash on the 15th lap took Ferrari’s title contender Massa from first to last.“It’s a street circuit like Monaco...
Planet-F1 News (Free subscription) | 28/09/2008
Kimi Raikkonen may be the fastest man in Formula One but that did little to help the Ferrari driver in Singapore."
BlogF1 (Free subscription) | 27/09/2008
... airborne situations for the pilots. Lewis Hamilton went fastest in the morning session, but both Ferraris were very close behind and Felipe Massa was within a tenth of the McLaren drivers’ time. Mark Webber could only complete four laps before breaking the front of this car at the tunnel, and Jarno Trulli decided, after spinning on the start/finish straight, to drive the wrong...
BlogF1 (Free subscription) | 28/09/2008
... 10. Heikki Kovalainen McLaren 11. Robert Kubica BMW 12. Sebastien Bourdais Scuderia Toro Rosso 13. Felipe Massa Ferrari 14. Giancarlo Fisichella Force India 15. Kimi Raikkonen Ferrari Retired 16. Jarno Trulli Toyota Retired 17. Adrian Sutil Force India Retired 18. Mark Webber Red Bull Racing Retired 19. Rubens Barrichello Honda Retired 20. Nelson Piquet Jr. Renault Retired...
BlogF1 (Free subscription) | 13/09/2008
With Lewis Hamilton back in fifteenth and Kimi Raikkonen just ahead in fourteenth, tomorrow’s Italian Grand Prix is going to be belter, especially if the weather continues to throw up a few surprises. Felipe Massa qualified sixth, but engineer Rob Smedley has hinted at the Brazilian being on a heavy fuel strategy. Heikki Kovalainen has [...]
Formula 1 Blog (Free subscription) | 15/09/2008
21 year old Sebastian Vettel and Toro Rosso get their maiden win at a wet but entertaining Monza. Can I possibly be the only one who enjoyed hearing the German and Italian national anthems on the podium again from someone other than The Schum and the red car? I think not. As for the title, Hamilton is one point ahead of Massa, Kimi is all but out and Kubs could have a shot if the planet align...
