Malaysia turns out to be one of the more interesting races I’ve seen lately. From the start Lewis Hamilton once again showed that he really does belong in F1. Only his second race in F1 and he’s already showing the skill, courage and determination that makes a champion. I think he will learn much from his team mate Fernando Alonso. I just hope his determination doesn’t get him into trouble.
McLaren also seems to be back (Finally) after a long winless stint. Perhaps the combination of Fernando, Lewis and McLaren is going to be one of those magic combinations. I’ll admit it’s a little early to tell but things are looking good so far.
Massa, whom I thought would do better seems to have been bested by Lewis, It was fascinating watching his frustration at not being able to get by Hamilton slowly force him to make mistake after mistake, which he never recovered from.
Kimi put on a good push near the end. I’m sure there was some serious nail biting going on for those last few laps. In the end Lewis managed to keep it together and left Kimi with 3rd place.
Things are shaping up to be a real epic battle between McLaren and Ferrari this season, I hope things remain this competitive for the rest of the season!
After one of the best final qualifying sessions in a while we have a very interesting looking grid for the start of tomorrows race. With Massa, Alonso, Kimi and Hamilton making up the first four places it’s going to be one hell of a start.
While watching the qualifying I found my self wondering about Ferrari. Everyone has been talking about Kimi being the Ferrari number one but the more I watch the more I think that Massa is actually turning out to be a little better than Kimi, perhaps even a lot better.
It also looks like Renault is really struggling these days. I’m not sure what their problem is but they just seem to have fallen on some hard times so far this season. Perhaps they will get their act together but they better do it soon. It was hard to believe that both their cars were out before the finally qualifying session.
I’m looking forward to tomorrows race. It looks like it’s gonna be a real Mclaren / Ferrari battle!
With Coulthard and Barrichello taking an engine penalty the final grid looks like this:
Felipe Massa
Fernando Alonso
Kimi Räikkönen
Lewis Hamilton
Nick Heidfeld
Nico Rosberg
Robert Kubica
Jarno Trulli
Ralf Schumacher
Mark Webber
Heikki Kovalainen
Giancarlo Fisichella
Takuma Sato
Vitantonio Liuzzi
Jenson Button
Scott Speed
Anthony Davidson
Alexander Wurz
Christijan Albers
Adrian Sutil
David Coulthard
Rubens Barrichello
Well, Yet another $1.5 Million dollar Ferrari Enzo suffers at the hands of an unskilled driver who has no business driving such a wonderful machine. Just a note to all you people who have one of the remaining Enzos ( Only 400 were made), Please stop letting unskilled drivers behind the wheel. It’s a bit like giving the Mona Lisa to your kid as a colouring book. It’s just not a good Idea. See the video below and try not to cry.
It seems that Ferrari is concerned that Raikkonen’s engine was running too hot approaching the end of the last GP. It seems the cooling system was leaking as well.
If Ferrari chooses to change the engine they would suffer a grid penalty. The question is, if they choose not to change the engine will it last the duration of another race with the performance it needs.
Ferrari has already said that reliability could be an issue with their car and I guess this is the sort of balance every team has to work on. Push it too hard and it just might break.
I guess we will have to wait until the next race to see what they choose to do. This might end up working in Mclaren’s favour.
An interesting article over at SPEEDtv.com where McLaren boss Ron Dennis is suggesting that the new Ferrari may have some illegal aerodynamic features that are outside the rules. Specifically he is claiming that the new Ferrari has a mechanism that allows the front of the floor to drop at speed which would give it an advantage.
Ron Dennis says that this would be clearly outside the rules. It would seem that people noticed a rather complex arrangement with regards to the floor mounts on the Ferrari and this has caused some people to become concerned.
Ferrari says if people have a complaint the should talk to the FIA.
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