LAST RACE RESULT - FORMULA 1 GRAND PRIX DE FRANCE 2008

It was an interesting race on last Sunday, 22 June 2008. The race was won by Felipe Massa (Ferrari) where he recorded a time of 1:30:50.245 for a total of 70 laps. Felipe start the race on second grid while the 2007 world champion, Kimi Raikkonen, was the one who is in the pole position. But, the fortune was not on Kimi’s side for he unfortunately had to hand over his chance to stand on the first place of podium to his team mate Felipe Massa because Kimi Raikkonen had an incident of having a technical problem on his exhaust pipe.

Different story was experienced by Lewis Hamilton. On qualifying session, he was the third fastest, but since he got penalty for bumping into Kimi Raikkonen's car on pit lane on Cananda F1 GP, so he had to start from the 13th grid, then he gain no point at the end of the race for his move of passing Vettel on the opening lap was considered as ‘illegal’ by the stewards force Hamilton to have a drive-through penalty and cost him time and a tenth place at the end of the race.

An unfortunate also went along with Jenson Button, because he had to retire from the race due to his accident damage. And the rest of time on the race was filled with so many incident and drama, giving below result at the end of the race:

Position - Driver (Time)
1.) Felipe Massa (1:31:50)
2.) Kimi Raikkonen (+17.9)
3.) Jarno Trully (+28.2)
4.) Heikki Kovalainen (+28.9)
5.) Robert Kubica (+30.5)
6.) Mark Webber (+40.3)
7.) Nelsinho Piquet (+41.0)
8.) Fernando Alonso (+43.3)
9.) David Coulthard (+51.0)
10.) Lewis Hamilton (+54.5)
11.) Timo Glock (+57.7)
12.) Sebastian Vettel (+58.0)
13.) Nick Heidfeld (+62.0)
14.) Rubens Barrichello (+1 lap)
15.) Kazuki Nakajima (+1 lap)
16.) Nico Rosberg (+1 lap)
17.) Sebastian Bourdais (+1 lap)
18.) Giancarlo Fisichella (+1 lap)
19.) Adrian Sutil (+1 lap)
Ret. Jenson Button (Accident damage)


Driver standings (top ten):
1. Felipe Massa
2. Robert Kubica
3. Kimi Raikkonen
4. Lewis Hamilton
5. Nick Heidfeld
6. Heikki Kovalainen
7. Jarno Trully
8. Mark Webber
9. Fernando Alonso
10. Nico Rosberg


Constructor Standings (top five):
1. Ferrari
2. BMW Sauber
3. McLaren – Mercedes
4. Red Bull – Renault
5. Toyota


Sources: http://www.formula1.com, http://www.gpupdates.net

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