2008 French Grand Prix - Kimi grabs Pole, Ferrari's 200th Pole

Kimi Raikkonen in his Red Ferrari grabs pole position for Sunday's race in 2008 De France Grand Prix, on Staurday, 21st June, 2008. This was 200th pole position for Ferrari as both Kimi and Massa dominated qualifying for the French Grand Prix.

Lewis Hamilton was third despite admitting to making mistakes, will start 13th when his ten-place grid penalty from Montreal is taken into account.

Fernando Alonso took 4th place in Renault and Toyota’s Jarno Trulli got 5th place, Heikki Kovalainen was sixth fastest with 1m 16.944s in the second McLaren. Force India drivers Giancarlo Fisichella and Adrian Sutil got 18th and 19th place respectively.

Top Ten positions for Sunday, 22nd June 2008 Race:

1. Kimi Raikkonen, Ferrari
2. Felipe Massa, Ferrari
3. Fernando Alonso, Renault
4. Jarno Trulli, Toyota
5. Robert Kubica, BMW Sauber
6. Mark Webber, Red Bull
7. David Coulthard, Red Bull
8. Timo Glock, Toyota
9. Nelson Piquet, Renault
10. Heikki Kovalainen, McLaren

Raikkonen won Spanish Grand Prix - Heikki Kovalainen crashed

World Champion Ferrari's Kimi Raikkonen cruised to victory in a Spanish Grand Prix on Sunday, 27th April 2008 at the Circuit de Catalunya in Barcelona. The race was hit by an horrendous accident involving Heikki Kovalainen.

The McLaren driver miraculously suffered nothing more than concussion after ploughing into a tyre wall nose first at 150mp. He was eventually airlifted to a nearby hospital with his neck in a brace to undergo a series of precautionary checks.

Raikkonen, meanwhile, led from pole to flag, the eighth successive occasion that has occurred at this track to strengthen his lead at the top of the drivers' standings.

Alonso had started second on the grid, but off the line was unable to defend his position as Massa passed him.

Although he was also predictably running light on fuel, he was on course for a decent points finish as he was running in fifth when he pulled off the track, as did Nico Rosberg in his Williams that also sustained a blown engine.

Raikkonen now has a nine-point lead over Hamilton, with BMW Sauber's Robert Kubica a further point back in third after he came home fourth.

Red Bull's Mark Webber was fifth, with Jenson Button picking up Honda's first points of the season in sixth, while Kazuki Nakajima broke his duck for Williams in finishing seventh, followed by the Toyota of Jarno Trulli.

2008 Spanish Grand Prix - Kimi Raikkonen takes Pole Position

Kimi Raikkonen takes pole position for Ferrari right at the end of a dramatic qualifying session for the Sunday's 2008 Spanish Grand Prix. The Spanish crowd went mad when Alonso planted his Renault on pole with 1m 20.904s, but then Raikkonen rained on their parade with 1m 20.813s.

Fastest man Felipe Massa third on 1m 22.058s, from Kubica (1m 22.065s) and Hamilton (1m 22.096s), with Kovalainen joining his McLaren team mate on the third row with 1m 22.231s.

Webber was seventh on for Red Bull, ahead of Trulli for Toyota . Heidfeld was ninth for BMW Sauber on and Piquet 10th in the second Renault.

Force India F1 drivers Giancarlo Fisichella and Adrian Sutil are on 19th and 20th place respectively.

So wait and watch for Sunday, 27th April, 2008 for the results, the last seven pole sitters have gone on to win the Spanish Grand Prix.

Kimi Raikkonen won the Malaysian Grand Prix at Sepang

Kimi Raikkonen put the Australian Grand Prix disaster behind to win the 2008 Malaysian Grand Prix in a flawless piece of driving on Sunday 23rd March at Sepang, Kuala Lampur. Starting from the second on the grid he overcome the team mate Massa after the first pit stop and claimed a comfortable victory.

The Ferrari driver cruised home 19.5 seconds ahead of Robert Kubica's BMW Sauber with Heikki Kovalainen finishing third for McLaren. Lewis Hamilton finished fifth behind Jarno Trulli's Toyota after a bungled pit stop cost the Brit a chance of a podium.

Pole-sitter Ferrari's Felipe Massa saw his race end after 30 laps by spinning out of an easy second place.

A Ferrari victory had looked odds-on before the race as chief rivals Kovalainen and Hamilton had both been hit by five-place grid penalties for impeding Nick Heidfeld and Fernando Alonso at the end of yesterday's qualifying session, meaning they lined up eighth and ninth respectively.

Nick Heidfeld set fastest lap in the closing stages as he thirsted after Hamilton, while Webber was able to hold off a challenging Fernando Alonso in the Renault as they wrapped up the final points.

David Coulthard had a relatively quiet race to ninth in the second Red Bull ahead of fellow Briton, Jenson Button, who survived a late off-track moment in his Honda to lead home Renault’s Nelson Piquet, the Brazilian rookie recording his first Grand Prix finish.

Giancarlo Fisichella was 12th for Force India, a lap down, taking the place after Honda’s Rubens Barrichello had to serve a drive-through penalty for pit lane speeding.


Top 3 Drivers at 2008 Malaysian Grand Prix

Kimi Raikkonen - Ferrari

Robert Kubica - BMW

Heikki Kovalainen - McLaren


Standing after 2nd Race in 2008


Driver's Championship

Lewis Hamilton (McLaren) - 14 points

Kimi Raikkonen (Ferrari) - 11 points

Nick Heidfeld (BMW) - 11 points

Heikki Kovalainen (McLaren) - 10 points


Constructor's Championship

McLaren-Mercedese - 24 points

BMW - 19 points

Ferrari - 11 points

Williams - 9 points