Malaysian Grand Prix 2009: Jenson Button Wins Abaondoned GP

Jenson Button has taken top spot for the second race running in a Malaysian Grand Prix which was abaondoned due to adverse weather conditions with some 24 laps to go.  This means that only half points will be awarded.

Nick Heidfeld takes second, and Glock 3rd.

Race Review

The weather dominated race build up after the heavy rain that fell during the GP2 race which preceeded the F1.  Being at this time of the evening, everyone knew there was a high chance of rain.

The race began, and Button got a poor start.  Trulli got a decent start but this was nothing compared to Nico Rosberg of Williams who rocketed away from his grid box and made the early pace.

Kimi Raikkonen also made good progress, pulling a few positions up to 4th at one point but got a little pinned on the outside of turn 1 which didn’t help his charge in what would be another catastrophic Grand Prix for Ferrari.

Despite a heavy fuel load Fernando Alonso found himself ahead of pole sitter Button, but the Brit swiftly dealt with the Spaniard in the superior Brawn BGP001.

The rain hadn’t arrived, but the dark clouds were over the Sepang Circuit.  Scuderia Ferrari pulled Kimi Raikkonen into the pits, and made a catastrophic error.  They put the Finn onto extreme wet tyres.  When the track was bone dry.  Kimi, the 2007 World Champion, was crusing around the circuit losing positions and doing laps well over the 2 minute mark.

About 5 laps later, some rain began to fall but by this point Kimi’s tyres were shredded, as he so beautifully put it on the radio “The tyres are screwed, they’re completely shot, thanks a lot”.

When this rain began, everyone pitted for wets except Timo Glock who put intermediates on. This was a fantastic choice, as he overtook many cars and was fighting for the lead with Jenson Button.

Cars were spinning off the track all over the place as the monsoon fell, Vettel spun out, Heidfeld nearly stalled the car stuck on the astro-turf, Lewis Hamilton went off a few times, and Fernando Alonso crawled back down a back road used for service vehicles behind a massive gravel trap.  Fisichella flew into the gravel on the way into the pitlane, a disappointing end to the Italian’s charge.

The downpour was pretty intense by this point and the safety car was called, before the red flag was shown.

The cars sat on the grid in farcical conditions for an hour, while the FIA decided the race could not continue.

It was a disapointing end for fans all over the world, and as 75% race distance was not completed only half points will be awarded.

RACE RESULTS

Classified:

The Petronas Malaysian Grand Prix 2009;

Sepang Circuit, Kuala Lumpur;

56 Laps [Race Distance Not Completed];

Cloudy then wet;

Pos	Driver	Team	Time
1	J. Button	Brawn Mercedes	55.30.622
2	N. Heidfeld	BMW Sauber	+22.722
3	T. Glock	Toyota	+23.513
4	J. Trulli	Toyota	+46.173
5	R. Barrichello	Brawn Mercedes	+47.360
6	M. Webber	Red Bull Renault	+52.333
7	L. Hamilton	McLaren Mercedes	+60.733
8	N. Rosberg	Williams Toyota	+71.576
9	F. Massa	Ferrari	+76.932
10	S. Bourdais	Toro Rosso Ferrari	+102.164
11	F. Alonso	Renault	+109.422
12	K. Nakajima	Williams Toyota	+116.130
13	N. Piquet	Renault	+116.731
14	K. Raikkonen	Ferrari	+142.841
15	S. Vettel	Red Bull Renault	+1 lap
16	S. Buemi	Toro Rosso Ferrari	+1 lap
17	A. Sutil	Force India Merc	+1 lap
18	G. Fisichella	Force India Merc	+2 laps

Fastest Lap: J. Button, Brawn – 1.36.641

Retirements

Driver	Team	Laps	Reason
R. Kubica	BMW Sauber	2	Engine
H. Kovalainen	McLaren Mercedes	0	Accident

INTERVIEWS/COMMENT

Jenson Button (Brawn) 1st - “What a crazy race!”

Nick Heidfeld (BMW) 2nd - “It was a very difficult choice in these conditions.  We didn’t do perfect tyre choice – I went straight to extremes as normally it’s heavy rainfall here.  I just tried to stay on the circuit.”

Timo Glock (Toyota) 3rd – “It was a tricky race, I have to say, but at the end one of the best races I could ever do.”

Lewis Hamilton (McLaren) 7th - “When the rain came down, it was impossible to drive. I was aquaplaning everywhere – these were the most dangerous conditions I’ve ever raced in.”

Felipe Massa (Ferrari) 9th - “I think we need to get together and we need to improve. We were not great before and stupid now. For sure the car is not strong enough. We need to work on that, and we did some mistakes on the strategy and this kind of thing.  It is always a problem when you don’t score points. So, for sure in this kind of race our aim is to score points, but it was not possible. Anyway, it is a bad result.”

Adrian Sutil (Force India) 17th - “When the rain started it was very difficult and just about impossible to drive. We were in second or first gear at 20kph and even then we were sliding around the circuit. It was unbelievable, so it was a good decision to stop the race.”

PHOTOS

Malaysian Grand Prix 2009: Button Takes Pole Again

Jenson Button sensationally grabbed pole in another close, tense affair in qualifying.

It is the second pole in two races for the British driver who many had written off in the running to this season.  the Brawn GP BGP001 car looks fantastically fast, and its only serious rival at the current time is Toyota.

Jarno Trulli in that Toyota was 2nd, and Sebastian Vettel was 3rd in the Red Bull but he will lose 10 places due to that penalty from the Australian GP.  As Barrichello, who finished 4th incurs a 5 place drop for a gearbox change, Trulli’s team-mate Timo Glock will start the race 3rd.

Kimi Raikkonen is down in 9th [but will start 7th], after a dismal qualifying session for Ferrari.  The Finnish driver looked quick, but in truth the F60 is just not as fast at those running with the diffusers.  The Finn also disabled his KERS system due to a major fire during free practice.  His team mate Felipe Massa went out in Q1, after a massive strategic error by the Ferrari team in not sending him out for another lap.  They thought they would be safe with a 1.35 time, but cars were getting the lap times down to 1.33’s at times during this qualifying session.  The Brazilian was not amused.

Fernando Alonso made a colossal effort to get 10th, despite an ear infection which is affecting his fitness and balance.  Miles faster than team mate Nelson Piquet Jr, who watched by his father the 3 time world champion, could do not better than 17th.  As Eddie Jordan suggested, it would be short odds on the Brazilian to be sacked first this season.

Both McLaren’s were out in Q2, 13th and 14th respectively.  Hamilton is still reeling after the “Liar Lewis” incidents, which filled the papers and question sessions again today.  With fellow Brit Button doing so well, Hamilton’s lies and damage to his image must be on the way to becoming irreparable.  Hamilton Fields will become Button Fields one can imagine at the forthcoming British Grand Prix, Silverstone.

The Force India’s made a valiant effort to get out of the first qualifying session, but could not – Adrian Sutil was fastest at one point, and no he was not the first car out!  Sebastien Buemi will start last.

Pos	Driver	Team	Q1	Q2	Q3
1	J. Button	Brawn	1.35.058	1.33.784	1.35.181
2	J. Trulli	Toyota	1.34.745	1.33.990	1.35.273
3	T. Glock	Toyota	1.34.907	1.34.258	1.35.690
4	N. Rosberg	Williams	1.35.083	1.34.547	1.35.750
5	M. Webber	Red Bull	1.35.027	1.34.222	1.35.797
6	R. Kubica	BMW Sauber	1.35.166	1.34.562	1.34.106
7	K. Raikkonen	Ferrari	1.35.476	1.34.456	1.36.170
8	F. Alonso	Renault	1.35.260	1.34.706	1.37.659
9	R. Barrichello	Brawn	Penalty	Gearbox	Change
10	N. Heidfeld	BMW Sauber	1.35.110	1.34.769
11	K. Nakajima	Williams	1.35.347	1.34.788
12	L. Hamilton	McLaren	1.35.280	1.34.905
13	S. Vettel	Red Bull	Penalty	From	Australia
14	H. Kovalainen	McLaren	1.35.023	1.34.924
15	S. Bourdais	Toro Rosso	1.35.507	1.35.431
16	F. Massa	Ferrari	1.35.642
17	N. Piquet	Renault	1.35.708
18	A. Sutil	Force India	1.35.908
19	G. Fisichella	Force India	1.35.951
20	S. Buemi	Toro Rosso	1.36.107

Malaysian Grand Prix 2009: Kimi Raikkonen Fastest In FP2

Kimi Raikkonen was fastest in FP2 at the Malaysian Grand Prix, leading a Ferrari resurgence as Felipe Massa got 2nd.

The Finnish driver did the fastest lap of the weekend so far, on a circuit he seems to like!

Pos  Driver       Team                       Time              Laps
 1.  Raikkonen    Ferrari               (B)  1:35.707            40
 2.  Massa        Ferrari               (B)  1:35.832  + 0.125   38
 3.  Vettel       Red Bull-Renault      (B)  1:35.954  + 0.247   40
 4.  Rosberg      Williams-Toyota       (B)  1:36.015  + 0.308   39
 5.  Webber       Red Bull-Renault      (B)  1:36.026  + 0.319   36
 6.  Barrichello  Brawn-Mercedes        (B)  1:36.161  + 0.454   37
 7.  Button       Brawn-Mercedes        (B)  1:36.254  + 0.547   31
 8.  Nakajima     Williams-Toyota       (B)  1:36.290  + 0.583   35
 9.  Kovalainen   McLaren-Mercedes      (B)  1:36.397  + 0.690   40
10.  Piquet       Renault               (B)  1:36.401  + 0.694   35
11.  Hamilton     McLaren-Mercedes      (B)  1:36.515  + 0.808   30
12.  Trulli       Toyota                (B)  1:36.516  + 0.809   34
13.  Buemi        Toro Rosso-Ferrari    (B)  1:36.628  + 0.921   32
14.  Glock        Toyota                (B)  1:36.639  + 0.932   29
15.  Alonso       Renault               (B)  1:36.640  + 0.933   20
16.  Sutil        Force India-Mercedes  (B)  1:36.875  + 1.168   36
17.  Kubica       BMW-Sauber            (B)  1:37.267  + 1.560   38
18.  Bourdais     Toro Rosso-Ferrari    (B)  1:37.278  + 1.571   30
19.  Fisichella   Force India-Mercedes  (B)  1:37.432  + 1.725   27
20.  Heidfeld     BMW-Sauber            (B)  1:37.930  + 2.223   37

Malaysian Grand Prix 2009: Rosberg Fastest In FP1

Nico Rosberg was fastest in FP1 at Malaysia, followed by his team mate Kazuki Nakajima.  Teams with the questionable diffuser did well again, prompting discussion over its legality.

However most discussion in the paddock is over Lewis Hamilton spouting lies to the stewards over the Jarno Trulli incident.

Pos  Driver        Team                      Time              Laps
 1.  Rosberg       Williams-Toyota      (B)  1:36.260           27
 2.  Nakajima      Williams-Toyota      (B)  1:36.305 + 0.045   25
 3.  Button        Brawn GP-Mercedes    (B)  1:36.430 + 0.170   20
 4.  Barrichello   Brawn GP-Mercedes    (B)  1:36.487 + 0.227   22
 5.  Massa         Ferrari              (B)  1:36.561 + 0.301   21
 6.  Raikkonen     Ferrari              (B)  1:36.646 + 0.386   18
 7.  Hamilton      McLaren-Mercedes     (B)  1:36.699 + 0.439   16
 8.  Webber        Red Bull-Renault     (B)  1:36.703 + 0.443   23
 9.  Vettel        Red Bull-Renault     (B)  1:36.747 + 0.487   25
10.  Glock         Toyota               (B)  1:36.980 + 0.720   27
11.  Trulli        Toyota               (B)  1:36.982 + 0.722   26
12.  Fisichella    Force India-Mercedes (B)  1:37.025 + 0.765   20
13.  Kubica        BMW Sauber           (B)  1:37.039 + 0.779   18
14.  Piquet        Renault              (B)  1:37.199 + 0.939   20
15.  Sutil         Force India-Mercedes (B)  1:37.241 + 0.981   18
16.  Alonso        Renault              (B)  1:37.395 + 1.135   12
17.  Buemi         Toro Rosso-Ferrari   (B)  1:37.634 + 1.374   22
18.  Heidfeld      BMW Sauber           (B)  1:37.640 + 1.380   17
19.  Bourdais      Toro Rosso-Ferrari   (B)  1:38.022 + 1.762   19

20.  Kovalainen    McLaren-Mercedes     (B)  1:38.483 + 2.223    7

2009 Petronas Malaysian Grand Prix Preview

After last week’s epic and exciting start to the season, we head immediately to another amazing circuit, Sepang, for the 2009 Petronas Malaysian Grand Prix.

The Track

The Sepang circuit has been open for 10 years now, but is still incredibly modern and striking with its parasol/fan roofs across the grandstands of the pit and back straight.  The facilities are also fantastic and still marvel all this time in.

Sepang has provided some good races in the past few years, but could soon become a night event otherwise it could lose its place on the calendar.

A lap of the track

Flat out across the start finish line, the car should be blipped into 7th as you go across the start finish line and catch the amazing grandstands in the left mirror before braking into the tight right hander that makes up turn 1.  The car will glide slowly in 2nd gear to the right before you throw it back across turn 2, and catch the apex on the inside.  Feather the throttle unloading the back-end a little onto the right hand apex before cruising through turn 3 accelerating and pushing through the gears in the run up to turn 4.  Before T4 the track rises a little making the view into turn 4 itself a little tough.  Hammer hard onto the brakes pushing the car to the right, catch the apex on the inside then the outside – its a real classic racing car corner.  Turn 5 requires a little lift of the throttle, allowing the car to drift from left to right before coming back to the left as you brake a little for turn 6, and then hard onto the brakes for turn 7 – a difficult right hander.  Throttle into T8, a slightly easier right hander than turn 7.  Power down into turn 9, its a bit bumpy on the entrance make sure you are on the right hand side of the circuit.  Push the car to the left, catching the slightest amount of apex on the inside.  Its pretty uphill and bumpy here, trust the front end and catch the kerb on the right of T10.  Accelerate into turn 11, which requires some braking.  Flat out through turn 12, a modern F1 car has the grip -and again for T13.  Turn 14 is a late braking contest, but don’t leave it too late, push the car out to the left in preparation and catch the slightest amount of inside apex.  Keep it smooth as you have the long back straight to deal with – this should be the site of multiple overtakes now the cars can follow and slipstream each other and also with the KERS.  Turn 15 is just a long hairpin, and then flat out into the main straight to complete the lap.

Enjoy an on-board lap of the circuit with 2006 pole sitter Giancarlo Fisichella in the Mild Seven Renault R26.

Pre-Event Thoughts

Felipe Massa (Ferrari): “We need to recover, we need to start scoring points and start the championship in a good way here. And we need to develop the car. It’s not such a different start to what I had last year, so we need a similar mentality.”

Jenson Button (Brawn): “It is a great feeling after the weekend in Australia, it was a very special weekend not just for myself but the whole team, but we are quickly looking forward to the next chapter at this race weekend.”

Lewis Hamilton (McLaren): “My experiences here haven’t been so bad. For sure we have not had the best result here the last year. I would have been third but we had a bit of a problem with the pit stop. But generally it has not been one of my strongest circuits but one that I am working very hard on and one that I really enjoy.”

Kimi Raikkonen (Ferrari): “I like the circuit. Sometimes it can be a bit tricky. It is a nice place, quite a bit different from others. It is very humid here. When it rains, it rains heavily, so we will see how it is this weekend.”

Pre-Event Photos

Alonso Suffering From Minor Illness

Former 2 time F1 World Champion Fernando Alonso could be thrown off form into this weekend’s Malaysian Grand Prix as he suffers from illness.

The Spaniard has a nasty ear infection, which is seriously hampering his preparations for the race in the very hot and humid environment.

The driver, who is fighting with the Renault team this season left the track yesterday to give himself some rest.

A Renault team spokeswoman said: “He should be fine for tomorrow. It was better he left the track today to allow himself some rest.”

Prost’s Son Shows Good A1 Pace

Alain Prost’s son Nicolas has shown very good pace for the A1GP Team France in practice for the Malaysian round of the series.

He was second in the first session of rookie practice, and fastest in the second.

He will be looking to follow in his father’s footsteps to F1 at some point no doubt, but matching the 4 world championship wins and racing with both McLaren and Ferrari would be tough for anyone.

“Chengdu was mostly about bumps rather than turns but this track is really amazing,” said Prost.

“I was really looking forward to coming here because it’s one of the nicest tracks in the world, and I think it was the first time we could get the real potential out the car, especially in the quick corners. Turns five and six, the quick left and right, in particular were pretty good.”

Prost added: “I worked a lot learning the track on a PlayStation before I came here but I wasn’t ready for the temperature, which will make the race very tough.”

Nicolas Prost. Look at the eyes, he looks just like his father!!

Malaysia Rejects Night Race – Moves Times Back

Malaysian Grand Prix organisers have rejected proposals to turn Sepang into a night race similar to that in Singapore.

Despite the successes of last weekend’s event, Sepang doesn’t want to invest huge sums of money to get the track ready for such an event, which would happen once a year.

Instead, they have reached a comprimise and the race will now start at 5pm local time, instead of 3pm. This means that a UK GMT viewer would see the race at 10am instead of 8am.

“It will still be daylight and about 7pm when the new race finishes and for fans in Europe and Britain, it would be about 10am. We are not going to lose out,” Sepang International Circuit chairman Datuk Mokhzani Mahathir told the Malaysian Star newspaper

“The lighting costs quite a bit and this is an effort to keep the cost of F1 in Malaysia down. And Bernie Ecclestone has agreed.”

2009 Malaysian GP To Be Run At Night

Bernie Ecclestone has confirmed that the 2009 Malaysian Grand Prix will be run at night.

The asian event is very popular, but in the wrong timezone to appeal to the main European audience.  Thus, it has taken a leaf from neighbouring Singapore’s book and is having floodlights installed for night racing to take place.

It will become the 2nd night event, with many more planned possibly in Australia and Japan.

The race will begin at 7pm Malaysian time.

“The organizers here in Malaysia know it is necessary [to race at night], both to attract television audiences in Europe and the public here,” Ecclestone said at Sepang.

“It will be very good for the people in Malaysia and anyone coming to visit the race as it will be very exciting.”

Raikkonen Wins The 2008 Malaysian Grand Prix

Reigning world champion Kimi Raikkonen has turned around his fortunes after a disastorous Australia, taking the chequered flag and all 10 points on a day in which his main competitors to the crown faultered.

The Finnhad to start second, but easily made it past Massa who later made a mistake, leading to his retirement.

From there on in, Raikkonen had it easy and cruised to victory.

Race Review and Results

Right from the start, it was going to be action packed.  With Hamilton and Kovalainen being moved back 5 places each, they were going to have to cut the midfield up on their lighter loads.

The lights went out, and Raikkonen got a fanatstic start despite being on the dirty side of the track.  Massa moved across, and in his stupidity nearly caused Raikkonen to crash into the pitwall.

They scrapped into turn 1.  Further back, Heidfeld made a move on Trulli around the outside in T1.  Trulli defended, tapping the German driver on his way through the corner.  Hamilton took advantage of drivers chopping each other up, and moved up to behind Webber.

Scuderia Toro Rosso driver Sebastien Bourdais didn’t have such a good GP as he did in Australia.  The Frenchman crashed off on the first lap of the race at turn 3.

Nico Rosberg also had a bad start, coming onto the back-straight he smashed into the back of Glock.  Rosberg lost his wing, but unaware to this he attempted to start another lap, and had to crwal around the circuit back to the pits.  Glock pitted and had to retire with suspected suspension damage.  The stewards will be taking a good look at that incident.

As the race continued, Hamilton was jostling for position with Webber.  The Red Bull driver keeping him at arms length until the first pitstop.  Webber pitted the lap before Hamilton, allowing the British driver to do a clean and fast in-lap.

Hamilton had a good in lap and flew into the pitlane.  He raced into the box, and as his tyres were being removed huge clouds of black brake dust were flying into the air.  He was really pushing hard on those brakes.  However, for a change it didn’t all go swimmingly for the rookie.  HIs right front tyre wouldn’t come off, the wheel rim cover was stuck!  The McLaren mechanics eventually pulling the black cover off while breathing in huge plumes of smoke from the front brakes.  The new tyres on, he was away but it cost him 10 seconds and he rejoined in traffic – Webber was still ahead.

During this time, Massa had pitted for Ferrari.  Raikkonen was going one lap longer, he set the fastest lap time, and on his in-lap he was the fastest man on every single corner except the last one because he had to peel off half way through into the pitlane.  A faultless stop by Ferrari, as ever, saw the World Champion come out of the pitlane ahead of Massa.  A 1st place he was going to keep.

With the pitstops well underway, drivers were jumping around the field, Kovalainen making up 3 places to go from 7th to 4th.  Massa was pushing hard, but Raikkonen was continually pulling away from him.  Massa pushed into turn 7, but lost the Ferrari and threw it into the gravel where he beached it.  The Brazilian force dot retire, throwing away 8 good points for himself and Ferrari.  With Australia being a retirement too, and having many crashes related to lack of control, his position as a driver within Ferrari must be under pressure surely?

Sebastian Vettel soon retired, his Ferrari engine giving up the go on lap 41.  Sutil also retired on lap 7, his Ferrari engine breaking.

Cars and drivers were jostling for position in the midfield around the second stops, with another fanatstic overtaking manoeuvre harking back to the good old days of racing.  Heidfeld and Alonso made a great move around Coulthard.  They were on the back straight heading for the final corner.  Alonso looking to pass coulthard went down the right hand side of the RBR.  Heidfeld smelt an opportunity, and took the left hand side.  Coulthard was stuck in the middle as the Renault and BMW Sauber flew around the outside, harking back to when Hakkinen and Schumacher flew past Zonta at Spa 2000, but this time all 3 were racing.  Heidfeld passed them both, Alonso losing out.

Webber fell back in the field after the pitstops, but managed to hold Alonso off, who had struggled all day with a heavy fuel load.  Hamilton was chasing down Trulli in the last few laps, but just couldn’t make anything stick.

The Honda’s had issues late on.  Rubens Barrichello got another stop/go penalty for speeding in the pitlane, is there something wrong with his button?  He ended up losing position to Fisichella in the Force India, who made a sterling effort just to keep going in the circumstances.  Jenson Button lost it on the grass late on, and took a great detour well off track.

The calamities from the back didn’t affect Raikkonen though, as he crossed the line to score a victory for Ferrari, in the 10th running of the Malaysian Grand Prix, from Sepang.  Kimi won his first ever GP here back in 2003, and looked remarkably fresh compared to 2007 when he jumped out of the Ferrari.  He didn’t like the champagne being sprayed in his eyes on the podium though!

Results

2008 Petronas Malaysian GP;

Sepang Circuit, Kuala Lumpur;

56 laps;

Sunny, hot and humid – 39oC avt.

Results, Classified

Pos	Driver	Team	Time
1	K. Raikkonen	Ferrari	1.31.18.555
2	R. Kubica	BMW Sauber	+19.570
3	H. Kovalainen	McLaren	+38.450
4	J. Trulli	Toyota	+45.832
5	L. Hamilton	McLaren	+46.548
6	N. Heidfeld	BMW Sauber	+49.833
7	M. Webber	Red Bull Racing	+1.08.130
8	F. Alonso	Renault	+1.10.041
9	D. Coulthard	Red Bull Racing	+1.16.220
10	J. Button	Honda	+1.26.214
11	N. Piquet	Renault	+1.32.202
12	G. Fisichella	Force India	+1 lap
13	R. Barrichello	Honda	+1 lap
14	N. Rosberg	Williams	+1 lap
15	A. Davidson	Super Aguri	+1 lap
16	T. Sato	Super Aguri	+2 laps
17	K. Nakajima	Williams	+2 laps

Retirements

Driver	Team	Laps	Reason
S. Vettel	Toro Rosso	41	Engine
F. Massa	Ferrari	31	Accident
A. Sutil	Force India	7	Engine
T. Glock	Toyota	2	Accident
S. Bourdais	Toro Rosso	1	Accident

Driver Thoughts on the racing

Kimi Raikkonen, Ferrari (1st Place): “Everything worked perfectly here and we took it easy to make sure nothing went wrong. We saved the engine. It was a perfect job by the team to come back. I would have been happier with Felipe in second but things go wrong.”

Robert Kubica, BMW Sauber (2nd Place): “I think it is a fantastic result for the team.  I tried to keep a consistent pace. We knew we could not match Ferrari but we kept pushing.”

Jarno Trulli, Toyota (4th Place): “It’s nice to be back in the points after such a strong race”

Fernando Alonso, Renault (8th Place): “I did the best that I could today and I scored the final point”

Jenson Button, Honda (10th Place):  “I’m pretty satisfied with 10th place as that is where the performance of the car is right now. With the majority of cars ahead of us also finishing, it is a good reflection of our overall position.”

Giancarlo Fisichella, (12th Place): “I think we honestly did our best here”

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Press Conference

Read the Post Race Press Conference, in full including bits not shown on TV and questions from the floor (ITV Cut most off!) :

http://f1fanatics.wordpress.com/2008-season/2008-press-conferences/

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