F1 2005-2012

Kai Petri,

Turn off your TV! It is not good for your eyes to watch so much!

Sunday 15,10 (Swedish time)



Mats

 

Ferrari taking positions 1 and 2. Massa winning. Kimi second. And a great fourth place by Kovalainen.

 

I found it a flat race.

Well,well LH dose another silly stunt that cost him a 10 second penalty, someone please give LH a copy of the rule book to read.

 

Are the smell of burning tyres in the air it must be the British GP weekend.

And here is some British news...............

David Coulthard announces his retirement
The Official Formula 1 Website


British Grand Prix at Donington Park from 2010 http://www.formula1.com/news/headlines/2008/7/8039.html

 

David, you´re too young to quit....no, I did not say too fast....



BTW, David remember? You forgot to turn right...?!

YouTube - 1995-Adelaida-Accidente de David Coulthard

Anyway, great career if you think how many drive for such a long time! Well done!

 

No - those must be the Silverstone hot dog stalls.....

 

Kovalainen just took his first pole position ever...Well done! I think nobody saw it coming...

 

I did not like the race....under such circumstances it isn´t always your driving skills that show if you can drive in rain or not. No points for Ferrari making a horrible mistake with weather tactics! Anyway great victory for Hamilton and congrats for that! Massa was definitely the king of spins, I reckon he did some eight or nine spins. Not so much a fan of Kimi as with Heikki this season but I thought Heikki would have deserved more.

And Kimi showing who´s the boss here. Don´t stand on my equipment!

YouTube - Raikkonen rude with a photographer

If Senna had done this in his time it would have been considered normal behaviour....

 

Well I liked it made the race far more interesting. I wonder if LH is the new rain man taking over from MS, we shall see.

 

We went to Silverstone on Sunday to watch the race.
My wife and I arrived there at 7am and set up our seats on the banking at Club Corner.
It only took an hour from our house to the carpark and hour and twenty minutes to go back home.
No trouble with traffic at all .
We then got rained on until the sun came out about 2.30pm.
It was our first Grand Prix, even though we've been fans for 11 years we haven't had the spare money to be able to go, a shame that it won't be at Silverstone for much longer.
I'll post a few photos and images when I've uploaded them to Photobucket.
I was really pleased that Heikki wa son Pole, I think I was the only British fan to give Lewis the "V" sign when he went past Heikki.

 

At Club, watching the cars on Lap 1.

 

Lewis on his way to Victory.

 

View from under our umbrella.


Drivers Parade.


Lewis.




Heikki


Kimi




Kubica


Alonso


The Williams boys.


Glock

 

Two views of me & Mrs .

A bit miserable under the brolly.


Happy the sun came out and we've just been to the GP Party.
Saw lots of drivers being interviewed.

 

Some of the static displays.

 

DC admits he's been asked to work on the BBC F1 coverage next year.

 

Didn't spend much money at the GP, just 4 cups of tea at £1.70 a cup.
Mrs bought a Nico Rosberg t-shirt & I bought this Heikki one.
Not very good at supporting the British drivers are we?



PS.......can you tell I was quite excited about going?

 

See they already at Hockenheim testing.
Hamilton fastest on first day of test - F1 | ITV Sport

Lewis Hamilton comfortably set the pace on the first of three days of testing at Hockenheim in preparation for the German Grand Prix.

Testing times from Hockenheim (Tuesday 8 July)



1. HAMILTON McLaren 1m15.483s
2. RAIKKONEN Ferrari 1m15.803s
3. ROSBERG Williams 1m16.099s
4. SUTIL Force India 1m16.516s
5. BOURDAIS Toro Rosso 1m16.533s
6. KOBAYASHI Toyota 1m16.570s
7. HEIDFELD BMW 1m16.593s
8. PIQUET Renault 1m16.856s
9. COULTHARD Red Bull 1m17.361s
10. WURZ Honda 1m17.825s


McLaren has a new anvil wing.

 

Great victory for Hamilton! Also good to see young Piquet get some reward for his efforts. Kimi starting to lose the grip? Well, still several races left so we´ll see...