Chinese Grand Prix: 19 Oct '08

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Track: Shanghai International Circuit
Laps: 56
Race start: 1500HRS SIN

We're in Shanghai for the penultimate round of the world championship. The circuit is technically demanding with a mixture of slow and medium-speed corners, but not a great degree of elevation change. Good traction out of the banked turn 13 is required to avoid getting overtaken on the 1.2km back straight, where most of the overtaking takes place.

Race has been forcast once again for the weekend. We had a drying track during last year's race, which was most memorable for Lewis Hamilton beaching his car in the gravel trap after wearing out his intermediate tyres, thus taking the drivers' championship down to the wire. Hamilton goes into this race with a smaller lead, a 5-point gap to Felipe Massa and 12 points over Robert Kubica, after the dramatic events at Fuji.

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Chinese Grand Prix free practice session 1 times

1. HAMILTON McLaren 1m35.630s
2. MASSA Ferrari 1m36.020s
3. RAIKKONEN Ferrari 1m36.052s
4. KOVALAINEN McLaren 1m36.103s
5. KUBICA BMW 1m36.507s
6. ALONSO Renault 1m36.661s
7. HEIDFELD BMW 1m37.040s
8. BOURDAIS Toro Rosso 1m37.070s
9. PIQUET Renault 1m37.180s
10. VETTEL Toro Rosso 1m37.278s
11. WEBBER Red Bull 1m37.491s
12. BUTTON Honda 1m37.619s
13. NAKAJIMA Williams 1m37.630s
14. COULTHARD Red Bull 1m37.638s
15. ROSBERG Williams 1m37.638s
16. GLOCK Toyota 1m37.664s
17. BARRICHELLO Honda 1m37.827s
18. TRULLI Toyota 1m38.219s
19. SUTIL Force India 1m38.285s
20. FISICHELLA Force India 1m38.479s

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Chinese Grand Prix free practice session 2 times

1. HAMILTON McLaren 1m35.750s
2. ALONSO Renault 1m36.024s
3. PIQUET Renault 1m36.094s
4. TRULLI Toyota 1m36.159s
5. WEBBER Red Bull 1m36.375s
6. MASSA Ferrari 1m36.480s
7. BOURDAIS Toro Rosso 1m36.529s
8. RAIKKONEN Ferrari 1m36.542s
9. HEIDFELD BMW 1m36.553s
10. ROSBERG Williams 1m36.556s
11. GLOCK Toyota 1m36.615s
12. KUBICA BMW 1m36.775s
13. KOVALAINEN McLaren 1m36.797s
14. COULTHARD Red Bull 1m36.808s
15. VETTEL Toro Rosso 1m36.925s
16. NAKAJIMA Williams 1m36.975s
17. FISICHELLA Force India 1m37.473s
18. SUTIL Force India 1m37.617s
19. BUTTON Honda 1m37.800s
20. BARRICHELLO Honda 1m37.904s

the Bear SG

will the cardboard track hold out better than Hamilton's nerves?

sand king SG

Spin Hamilton! SPIN!

566117 SG

Chinese Grand Prix free practice session 3 times

1. HEIDFELD BMW 1m36.061s

2. HAMILTON McLaren 1m36.135s

3. KUBICA BMW 1m36.150s

4. KOVALAINEN McLaren 1m36.324s

5. TRULLI Toyota 1m36.396s

6. ROSBERG Williams 1m36.427s

7. BOURDAIS Toro Rosso 1m36.642s

8. COULTHARD Red Bull 1m36.712s

9. NAKAJIMA Williams 1m36.713s

10. PIQUET Renault 1m36.789s

11. BARRICHELLO Honda 1m36.839s

12. MASSA Ferrari 1m36.842s

13. RAIKKONEN Ferrari 1m36.901s

14. VETTEL Toro Rosso 1m36.902s

15. BUTTON Honda 1m36.958s

16. ALONSO Renault 1m36.996s

17. GLOCK Toyota 1m37.053s

18. WEBBER Red Bull 1m37.566s

19. SUTIL Force India 1m37.648s

20. FISICHELLA Force India 1m37.964s

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Chinese GP grid

1. HAMILTON McLaren
2. RAIKKONEN Ferrari

3. MASSA Ferrari

4. ALONSO Renault

5. KOVALAINEN McLaren

6. VETTEL Toro Rosso

7. TRULLI Toyota

8. BOURDAIS Toro Rosso

9. HEIDFELD BMW*
10. PIQUET Renault

11. KUBICA BMW

12. GLOCK Toyota

13. BARRICHELLO Honda

14. ROSBERG Williams

15. COULTHARD Red Bull

16. WEBBER Red Bull**

17. NAKAJIMA Williams
18. BUTTON Honda

19. SUTIL Force India

20. FISICHELLA Force India

* penalised three places for impeding Coulthard
** penalised 10 places for engine change

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Heidfeld drops 3 places to 9th for impeding Coulthard in Q1.

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will the cardboard track hold out better than Hamilton's nerves?

The bottom of Hamilton's trophy came out!

the Bear SG

The bottom of Hamilton's trophy came out!

i saw that!

cardboard trophy!!

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Chinese Grand Prix result (56 laps)

1. HAMILTON McLaren
2. MASSA Ferrari +14.9s
3. RAIKKONEN Ferrari +16.4s
4. ALONSO Renault +18.3s
5. HEIDFELD BMW +28.9s
6. KUBICA BMW +33.2s
7. GLOCK Toyota +41.7s
8. PIQUET Renault +56.6s
9. VETTEL Toro Rosso +64.3s
10. COULTHARD Red Bull +74.8s
11. BARRICHELLO Honda +85.0s
12. NAKAJIMA Williams +90.8s
13. BOURDAIS Toro Rosso +91.4s
14. WEBBER Red Bull +92.4s
15. ROSBERG Williams +1 lap
16. BUTTON Honda +1 lap
17. FISICHELLA Force India +1 lap
R. KOVALAINEN McLaren +7 laps
R. SUTIL Force India +43 laps
R. TRULLI Toyota +54 laps

Pitot SG

boring race =/

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boring race =/

The trophy coming apart livened it up though.

redDUST SG

so the title's for hamilton to lose (again) eh.....i hope he has the temperament this time in brazil.

(unless massa's teammate take him out, if you know what i mean )

Pitot SG

so the title's for hamilton to lose (again) eh.....i hope he has the temperament this time in brazil.

(unless massa's teammate take him out, if you know what i mean )

torpedo. maybe kimi can return the favour by rear ending hamilton.

redDUST SG

torpedo. maybe kimi can return the favour by rear ending hamilton.

stranger things have happened, so i wouldn't bet against that.

the 1 way to prevent this is for hamilton's team mate to take kimi out first....

to make things easier, FIA shld just banned these 2 `supporting cast' drivers from competing so we can have another boring race just like this one.

4Justice SG

lol great race really

566117 SG

torpedo. maybe kimi can return the favour by rear ending hamilton.

In the pitlane!

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the 1 way to prevent this is for hamilton's team mate to take kimi out first....

Kimi is faster than Kovy... which is good because I'm a Kimi fan.

BrUtUs SG

stranger things have happened, so i wouldn't bet against that.

the 1 way to prevent this is for hamilton's team mate to take kimi out first....

to make things easier, FIA shld just banned these 2 `supporting cast' drivers from competing so we can have another boring race just like this one.

like tis very drama leh... alot of cars kissing 1 another...