2008 Hungarian Grand Prix

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Background

The Grand Prix was contested by 20 drivers, in ten teams of two. The teams, also known as "constructors", were Ferrari, McLaren-Mercedes, Renault, Honda, Force India-Ferrari, BMW Sauber, Toyota, Red Bull-Renault, Williams-Toyota and Toro Rosso-Ferrari. Prior to the race, McLaren driver Lewis Hamilton led the Drivers' Championship with 58 points, ahead of Ferrari team-mates Felipe Massa and Kimi Rikknen, who were on 54 and 51 points respectively. BMW drivers Robert Kubica (48) and Nick Heidfeld (41) were fourth and fifth in the championship, followed by Heikki Kovalainen, who had amassed 28 points in the second McLaren. In the Constructors' Championship, Ferrari were in the lead with 105 points, 16 ahead of BMW Sauber and a further three in front of McLaren. Further behind, the battle for fourth place between Toyota, Red Bull and Renault was covered by two points. ntn ball bearings

Following the preceding German Grand Prix, all of the teams conducted testing sessions at the Jerez circuit from July 2225. Sebastian Vettel (Toro Rosso) set the fastest time of the first day and second days, Mark Webber (Red Bull) topped the third day's running and Heikki Kovalainen was fastest on the final day of testing. Several teams tested using Bridgestone slick tyres, as a preparation for the switch from grooved to slick tyres for the 2009 season. BMW Sauber's test driver, Christian Klien, tested the new Kinetic Energy Recovery System (KERS), which was installed in the team's modified F1.07C car; the test formed part of the team's preparation for the system's race introduction under revised 2009 technical regulations. Testing of the system suffered a setback when, after a brief first run, one of the mechanics suffered an electric shock when the car came into the pit lane and he touched it. The team hence decided to halt its KERS testing until the cause of the shock could be ascertained. Amongst the other teams, Force India's test driver, Vitantonio Liuzzi, tested the team's new "seamless-shift" gearbox with a view to giving the system its race debut later in the year, whilst Timo Glock returned to the cockpit for the first time since his heavy crash at the German Grand Prix and encountered no ill-effects in the process. ntn ball bearing

Ferrari chairman Luca di Montezemolo founded the Formula One Teams Association (FOTA) in the week before the race. bulkhead fitting

In the week leading up to the race, a meeting between the teams at Ferrari's headquarters in Maranello resulted in the formation of a new representative body, the Formula One Teams Association (FOTA), which was led by Ferrari president Luca di Montezemolo. McLaren team principal Ron Dennis explained that the establishment of FOTA was intended to encourage greater co-operation between the teams, particularly in framing new sporting and technical regulations, and also to act as a counterweight to the sport's existing governing body, the Fdration Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA) and the company responsible for its commercial management, Formula One Management (FOM). Some new contracts were also signed: on Thursday, the day before the first free practice sessions, McLaren confirmed that the team would retain Kovalainen for 2009 alongside Hamilton, whilst the organisers of the Hungarian Grand Prix signed a deal with Bernie Ecclestone, the president of FOM, to continue hosting the race until 2016.

Several teams made technical changes to their cars for the Grand Prix. Ferrari increased the size of the F2008 chassis's brake cooling ducts following high brake wear at the German Grand Prix, and also introduced a high, "shark-fin", engine cover, in addition to louvres in the bodywork to improve the car's cooling around its radiators. McLaren introduced a revised aerodynamic package for the MP4-23, which comprised a five-piece front wing, winglets atop the nosecone and redesigned bargeboards, all aimed at increasing the amount of downforce, and therefore grip, produced by the chassis. Force India introduced revised turning vanes to improve airflow over the VJM01 chassis, and also brought their seamless-shift gearbox to the event. Honda and Toyota also debuted shark-fin engine covers, and the former team additionally introduced a new rear suspension package.

The sport's sole tyre supplier, Bridgestone, provided two specifications of dry tyres for the race, designated Soft (also referred to as the "prime" tyre) and Super Soft (also referred to as the "option" tyre). The Super Soft compound was distinguished by a white stripe in one of the tyre's grooves. The rules stipulated that all cars should use both types of tyre during the course of the race.

Practice and qualifying

Three practice sessions were held before the Sunday racewo on Friday, and a third on Saturday. The Friday morning session took place from 10:00 to 11:30 local time, and the afternoon session lasted from 14:00 to 15:30. The third session was held between 11:00 and 12:00 on Saturday morning.

Sebastian Vettel completed minimal running during the Friday practice sessions due to a recurring problem with his Toro Rosso car's hydraulic system.

The first practice session took place in dry weather conditions. The ambient temperature was between 2728 C (8182 F), and the track temperature ranged from 3134 C (8893 F) during the hour-long period. Massa set the session's fastest time with a lap of 1:20.981, almost four tenths of a second ahead of team-mate Rikknen. The two McLaren drivers were third and fourth, with Kovalainen ahead of Hamilton. Fernando Alonso and Nelson Piquet, Jr. set the fifth and eighth-fastest times respectively for Renault; they were separated by Glock (Toyota) and Kubica (BMW Sauber). Their team-mates, Heidfeld and Jarno Trulli, completed the top ten. Elsewhere in the pit lane, Vettel's Toro Rosso car was afflicted by a hydraulics problem. This restricted him to completing only four timed laps, and he was slowest overall.

The second practice session was held in very similar weather conditions to the first; the only difference being a slightly higher peak track temperature of 37 C (99 F). During this session, Hamilton set a fastest lap time of 1:20.554 to go quickest overall on Friday, with Kovalainen in third. The Renault drivers again showed well, with Piquet in second and Alonso fourth, although the team's Technical Director, Pat Symonds, admitted that both cars were running with slightly lower fuel loads than normal. Massa and Rikknen slipped to sixth and fifth respectivelyheir best times one-thousandth of a second aparthead of Heidfeld, Kubica, Trulli and Nico Rosberg for Williams. Vettel's car was still suffering from the hydraulics problem and he completed a mere five laps, again setting the slowest time of the session.

Saturday's weather was again dry for the third and final practice session, with ambient temperatures between 2729 C (8184 F) and track temperatures from 32 to 36 C (90 to 97 F). Hamilton again set the pace, cutting his fastest lap to a time of 1:20.228 which put him ahead of Massa, Glock, Kovalainen and Piquet. Heidfeld was much happier with the setup of his car and set the sixth-fastest time, but Kubica suffered a mechanical problem that restricted him to 18th position. Vettel had a trouble-free session and set the eighth-fastest time, a position behind team-mate Sbastien Bourdais. Rikknen and Rosberg completed the top ten ahead of qualifying.

Lewis Hamilton took his fourth pole position of the season, and the tenth of his career.

Saturday afternoon's qualifying session was divided into three parts. In the first 20-minute period, cars finishing 16th or lower were eliminated. The second qualifying period lasted for 15 minutes, at the end of which the fastest ten cars went into the final period, to determine their grid positions for the race. Cars failing to make the final period were allowed to be refuelled before the race but those competing in it were not, and so carried more fuel than they had done in the earlier qualifying sessions. The session was held in dry weather conditions that were slightly hotter than any of the free practice sessions; the ambient temperature ranged between 30 and 31 C (86 and 88 F), whilst track temperatures were between 38 and 41 C (100 and 106 F).

"The team has done a fantastic job of continually improving the car over the past few weeks, so I'm really proud of what we've achieved today. It's great to have locked out the front row with Heikki - we've been threatening to do it for a number of races, so to achieve it at a track where it's tricky to pass is really satisfying. There's a great harmony within the team at the moment and we really deserved this. I couldn ask to be in a better position, we've both got good strategies for tomorrow and we'll be challenging for the win."

ewis Hamilton, commenting on taking pole position.

Hamilton set the pace in the first and final parts of the session, and duly took pole position on the starting grid with a time of 1:20.899. He was delighted with the handling of his McLaren, saying that he had never been more comfortable in the car. He did, however, believe that he could have recorded a faster lap, as he made a slight mistake going into Turn Five. Hamilton was joined on the front row by his team-mate Kovalainen, who was fuelled for an additional two laps in the race, and recorded a lap time 0.241 seconds slower. Massa set the session's fastest time of 1:19.068 during its second part, but was unable to heat his tyres sufficiently due to traffic and dropped to third overall in the final part of qualifying. Rikknen was on a heavier fuel load than his team-mate, but also made a mistake on his final flying lap that restricted him to sixth place. That left him behind Kubica and Glock on the grid; the BMW Sauber driver achieving his competitive time despite handling problems that led him to describe his lap as his best so far of the season, whilst the Toyota driver recorded the best qualifying result of his career thus far. Alonso qualified in seventh position with Piquet in tenth on a heavy fuel load; the Renault team-mates were split by Webber and Trulli. Crucially, both McLaren drivers had used one fewer set of the Soft tyreshich were expected to be more favourable in the race than the Super Softshan Ferrari during the qualifying session, suggesting that Hamilton and Kovalainen might have a tyre performance advantage in the race. This was because the Soft tyre had turned out to be the fastest tyre choice over the course of a single lap, despite the theoretical performance advantage of the Super Soft; Ferrari used an additional set of Soft tyres to McLaren before realising this was the case.

Vettel was the fastest driver not to advance into the final session, his eleventh-best time of 1:20.131 just over a second of Massa's pace in the second session. His team-mate, Bourdais, set the fourteenth-fastest lap, but was penalised five positions on the grid for impeding Heidfeld during the first part of qualifying; a delay which limited the BMW Sauber driver to the sixteenth-fastest time. The Toro Rosso drivers were split, prior to Bourdais's penalty, by Jenson Button, who found his Honda's revised suspension to be a significant improvement; and David Coulthard, who believed that the Hungaroring did not suit the handling characteristics of his Red Bull RB4 chassis. Rosberg made it into the second part of qualifying, but did not complete any laps thereafter due to his Williams car developing a hydraulics problem. Kazuki Nakajima (Williams), Rubens Barrichello (Honda) and the Force India team-mates Giancarlo Fisichella and Adrian Sutil joined Heidfeld in failing to advance beyond the first part of qualifying, thus completing the final rows of the grid. In the first part of qualifying (the only section in which all drivers took part), the entire field was covered by just under three seconds.

Race

The race took place in dry and sunny weather conditions, with an ambient temperature of between 30 and 31 C (86 and 88 F), and a track temperature ranging from 40 to 43 C (104 to 109 F). Every driver except Coulthard started on the Soft compound tyres. At the start of the race, Massa made a good start on his only remaining new set of Soft tyres, out-dragging Kovalainen off the starting grid and drawing alongside Hamilton into the first corner. Hamilton held the inside line for the turn, but Massa braked later than the McLaren driver and passed him around the outside. Behind the leading three in the run down to the first corner, Glock moved ahead of Kubica, whilst Alonso overtook Rikknen. Barrichello made the best start in the field, jumping from seventeenth to thirteenth place at the end of the first lap, whilst Vettel made a poor start and lost four places over the same distance. At the completion of the first lap, Massa led from Hamilton, Kovalainen, Glock, Kubica, Alonso, Rikknen, Webber, Trulli, Piquet, Coulthard, Heidfeld, Barrichello, Button, Vettel, Bourdais, Rosberg, Nakajima, Fisichella and Sutil.

Heikki Kovalainen benefited from problems that afflicted pace-setters Hamilton and Felipe Massa to take the first win of his Formula One career.

Massa and Hamilton immediately began to pull clear of Kovalainen. On lap 3, Button overtook his team-mate Barrichello for thirteenth position, but both Honda drivers were stuck behind Heidfeld, who was carrying a heavier fuel load than either of them. As the race progressed, Massa began to open up a small lead over Hamilton, who had put his McLaren into a "fuel-saving mode", in order to attempt to jump ahead of Massa later on in the race by making a pit stop after the Ferrari driver. In addition, the high track temperature was to the Ferrari chassis's advantage, as it was easier on its tyres than the McLaren and was able to run them at an operating temperature of up to 10 C (18 F) lower, resulting in lower tyre wear. By lap 18, Massa had a lead of 3.5 seconds over Hamilton, who in turn was almost eight seconds ahead of Kovalainen. Glock was a further three seconds behind the second McLaren driver, and there was a further gap back to Kubica, who was finding his BMW Sauber very difficult to drive in race conditions with a lack of grip and stability under braking, holding up the next few cars.

Massa, Kubica and Webber were the first three drivers to make pit stops by coming in on lap 18. Hamilton made his own first stop on the next lap; the McLaren mechanics had timed Massa's stop to estimate the amount of fuel he received and duly fuelled Hamilton to run for three laps longer than the Ferrari in the second stint of the race. Kovalainen then took over the lead of the race for two laps, before his pit stop on lap 21 returned it to Massa. Glock was cost a few seconds during his pit stop by the fuel rig failing to connect properly with his car, but did not lose any positions. Piquet was the last of the leading runners to make a pit stop, on lap 25, allowing him to jump ahead of Kubica, Trulli and Webber. Further down the order, Vettel made an unscheduled pit stop on lap 20, and retired two laps later with an overheating engine. By the end of lap 26, Massa, Hamilton, Kovalainen, Glock, Alonso, Rikknen, Trulli, Kubica, Webber and Vettel had all made pit stops. The race order was Massa leading from Hamilton, Kovalainen, Glock, Coulthard (yet to pit), Alonso, Rikknen, Piquet, Trulli, Kubica, Webber, Heidfeld, Button, Barrichello, Bourdais, Rosberg, Nakajima, Fisichella and Sutil.

Timo Glock also took the best result of his career by finishing in second place.

Hamilton rejoined the race following his first pit stop 2.6 seconds behind Massa, and needed to stay within approximately 3.5 seconds of the Ferrari driver in order to gain track position after the second round of pit stops. Massa began to pull away again, easing the gap open to four seconds by lap 32, whilst Hamilton locked his front-left wheel as he tried to keep up with the Ferrari, flat-spotting the tyre in the process. The two continued to set fastest laps as they pulled away from the rest of the field. On lap 29, Coulthard made his first pit stop, dropping back to twelfth place as a result. Button, Barrichello, Bourdais, Rosberg, Nakajima, Fisichella and Sutil also made their first pit stops at this stage of the race. Three of these drivers experienced delays during their pit stops which dropped them down the running order: Barrichello and Bourdais both suffered flash fires, whilst Rosberg's fuel hose jammed, losing him time.

At the front of the field, Massa continued to pull away gradually from Hamilton; the gap between the two had risen to five seconds by the end of lap 40. On the following lap, Hamilton's front-left tyre deflated approaching Turn Two, the resultant slow lap back to the pit lane and stop for a replacement tyre dropping him back to tenth place. Massa now had a 23-second lead over Kovalainen and slackened his pace accordingly, adjusting the performance of the engine to place it under less mechanical stress. He made his final pit stop on lap 44, allowing Kovalainen to take the lead until his own visit to the pit lane four laps later, handing Massa back his comfortable lead. On lap 41, Heidfeld made his one and only pit stop, dropping from eleventh to twelfth position, and in the following laps the other drivers made their second stops, except Nakajima, who had converted to a one-stop strategy at his first visit to his pit box. Behind the leading trio of Massa, Kovalainen and Glock, Rikknen moved ahead of Alonso despite running off the road just prior to his pit stop, whilst Piquet fended off Trulli has they battled for position following the former's exit from the pit lane. The pit stop sequence allowed Hamilton to move back up the order, to sixth place behind Alonso. Further back, Bourdais suffered another flash fire on lap 45, and made another visit to the pit lane one lap later to have his helmet visor cleansed of fire extinguisher foam. Rosberg was the final scheduled driver to make a pit stop, on lap 58. The majority of the drivers ran with Soft tyres for the first two stints of the race, and then switched to the Super Soft compound for the final stint.

Massa walks away from his car, having suffered an engine failure whilst leading with three laps to go.

At the conclusion of lap 59, the running order was Massa leading from Kovalainen, Glock, Rikknen, Alonso, Hamilton, Piquet, Trulli, Kubica, Webber, Heidfeld, Coulthard, Button, Nakajima, Rosberg, Fisichella, Sutil, Barrichello and Bourdais. Running in clear air for the first time, Rikknen set the fastest lap of the race, 1:21.195, on lap 61 as he closed the nine-second gap to Glock at a rate of a second per lap. Hamilton caught Alonso at a similar rate, but his rear Super Soft tyres began to overheat and he was unable to make any further impression after closing the gap to 1.5 seconds. On lap 62, Sutil suffered a puncture caused by a brake failure and became the second retirement of the race. Into the closing laps, Kovalainen had reduced his deficit to Massa to 15 seconds, but the Ferrari driver appeared to be in command of the race. However, as Massa started lap 68 and changed up into seventh gear, his engine failed, retiring him from the lead with three laps remaining. Kovalainen was thus promoted into first position, which he held to take the first victory of his Formula One career in a time of 1'37:27.067, at an average speed of 117.309 miles per hour (188.791 km/h). He was also the 100th driver to win a Formula One World Championship race, and it was the first time that a car bearing the number 23 had won a race since Jim Clark at the 1964 Belgian Grand Prix. Glock likewise claimed the best result of his career, and first podium finish, with second position, whilst Rikknen took the final place on the podium despite a failure in his car's rear suspension in the final few laps. Alonso and Piquet finished on either side of Hamilton in fifth position, leading Renault's Engineering Director, Pat Symonds, to describe the race as his team's best of the year so far. Trulli finished seventh, ahead of Kubica, who was extremely disappointed with the uncompetitive performance of his car at the Grand Prix closest to his home country of Poland. His team-mate, Heidfeld, finished in tenth place between the two Red Bull drivers, both of whom were also dismayed by their team's performance. Button, Nakajima, Rosberg and Fisichella filled the next places, a lap behind the leader, whilst Barrichello was two laps down in 16th position after the delay at his first pit stop. Massa was classified in 17th place, ahead of Bourdais, who was the final finisher.

Post-race

"There have been various incidents this year and we have been in the position after Saturday quite a few times to fight for the victory, but always something has gone wrong and it hasn't functioned perfectly. Today obviously I knew Massa and Lewis were both very fast at the beginning of the race but half way through the race I felt it was starting to work for me a little bit better and then at the end I just tried to put pressure on Massa and hoped something would happen and obviously it looked like he had a mechanical failure, so it all worked fine for me today and I am very, very happy about it. All the hard work that the whole team has put in the last few months, through difficult times, we just kept pushing and it is very respectable and I am very, very glad to score my first victory."

eikki Kovalainen, speaking during the post-race FIA press conference for the podium finishers.

Kovalainen was delighted with his maiden Formula One victory, but was aware that his win owed something to good fortune. After the race, he said that "I feel a bit sorry for Felipe and Lewis. They both drove great races, but I know how it feels when things go wrong've had a few similar moments this year. I tried to put pressure on Felipe, especially during the last stint. I felt something might happen if I did that, you never know, but I still found it hard to believe when I saw his Ferrari on fire." The race remains Kovalainen's sole Formula One win to date. Glock was similarly pleased with second position, and spoke of how he had worked hard in recent times to improve his race starts, and how he had focussed on not making any mistakes instead of attempting to respond to Rikknen's pace in the closing laps. Rikknen described his race as "frustrating and boring" due to the amount of time he spent stuck behind slower cars.

The podium finishers were overshadowed by media coverage of the ill fortune of both the weekend's pace-setters, Hamilton and Massa. Massa was praised in particular for his performance: Ferrari team principal, Stefano Domenicali, termed it "the best race of his career. It was fantastic the way he managed the race." Journalist Mark Hughes described it as "almost certainly his best race to date", and colleague Simon Arron similarly termed it as "one of the finest afternoons of his F1 career". Both drew attention to his controlled aggression at the first corner of the race, followed by his relentless, mistake-free pace for the rest of his race. Arron, in particular, noted that Massa's first-corner passing move was reminiscent of something that observers had come to expect from Hamilton in the past, and was a watershed moment in Massa's championship campaign. Hamilton himself later expressed surprise that Massa had been able to overtake him in such a manner, and warned his rival that "it won't happen again". Hughes described the Grand Prix as "a throwback race", in that the leaders had suffered from unreliability, and the winner had not been in contention on speed alone; a situation reminiscent of earlier times in the sport when the cars were generally less reliable.

Regarding Hamilton's puncture, Hirohide Hamashima of Bridgestone said that it was probably caused by debris, although the precise nature of the failure was impossible to determine as a result of the damage the tyre had sustained. He also stated that Hamilton's tyre was more vulnerable to sustaining debris damage due to the fact that he had flat-spotted it earlier in the race. Massa said that he had no prior indication of his engine failure. The problem was later traced to a connecting rod failure caused by an impurity with the constructed material. An identical problem caused Rikknen to retire from the following race, the 2008 European Grand Prix.

As a consequence of the race result, Hamilton extended his lead in the Drivers' Championship to five points ahead of Rikknen, who moved ahead of Massa in the standings. Kubica and Heidfeld maintained their fourth and fifth placings, but Kovalainen moved to within three points of the latter due to his maximum points score. In the Constructors' Championship, McLaren jumped ahead of BMW Sauber for second position, behind Ferrari. Behind Toyota, Renault moved ahead of Red Bull. Despite his increased lead, Hamilton acknowledged that he expected the Ferrari drivers to be formidable opponents over the season's seven remaining races.

Classification

Qualifying

Pos

No

Name

Constructor

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Grid

1

22

Lewis Hamilton

McLaren-Mercedes

1:19.376

1:19.473

1:20.899

1

2

23

Heikki Kovalainen

McLaren-Mercedes

1:19.945

1:19.480

1:21.140

2

3

2

Felipe Massa

Ferrari

1:19.578

1:19.068

1:21.191

3

4

4

Robert Kubica

BMW Sauber

1:20.053

1:19.776

1:21.281

4

5

12

Timo Glock

Toyota

1:19.980

1:19.246

1:21.326

5

6

1

Kimi Rikknen

Ferrari

1:20.006

1:19.546

1:21.516

6

7

5

Fernando Alonso

Renault

1:20.229

1:19.816

1:21.698

7

8

10

Mark Webber

Red Bull-Renault

1:20.073

1:20.046

1:21.732

8

9

11

Jarno Trulli

Toyota

1:19.942

1:19.486

1:21.767

9

10

6

Nelson Piquet, Jr.

Renault

1:20.583

1:20.131

1:22.371

10

11

15

Sebastian Vettel

Toro Rosso-Ferrari

1:20.157

1:20.144

11

12

16

Jenson Button

Honda

1:20.888

1:20.332

12

13

9

David Coulthard

Red Bull-Renault

1:20.505

1:20.502

13

14

14

Sbastien Bourdais

Toro Rosso-Ferrari

1:20.640

1:20.963

191

15

7

Nico Rosberg

Williams-Toyota

1:20.748

no time

14

16

3

Nick Heidfeld

BMW Sauber

1:21.045

15

17

8

Kazuki Nakajima

Williams-Toyota

1:21.085

16

18

17

Rubens Barrichello

Honda

1:21.332

17

19

21

Giancarlo Fisichella

Force India-Ferrari

1:21.670

18

20

20

Adrian Sutil

Force India-Ferrari

1:22.113

20

Source:

Note 1: Sbastien Bourdais was penalised five places on the grid for impeding Nick Heidfeld during first qualifying.

Race

Pos

No

Driver

Constructor

Laps

Time/Retired

Grid

Points

1

23

Heikki Kovalainen

McLaren-Mercedes

70

1:37:27.067

2

10

2

12

Timo Glock

Toyota

70

+11.061

5

8

3

1

Kimi Rikknen

Ferrari

70

+16.856

6

6

4

5

Fernando Alonso

Renault

70

+21.614

7

5

5

22

Lewis Hamilton

McLaren-Mercedes

70

+23.048

1

4

6

6

Nelson Piquet, Jr.

Renault

70

+32.298

10

3

7

11

Jarno Trulli

Toyota

70

+36.449

9

2

8

4

Robert Kubica

BMW Sauber

70

+48.321

4

1

9

10

Mark Webber

Red Bull-Renault

70

+58.834

8

10

3

Nick Heidfeld

BMW Sauber

70

+1:07.709

15

11

9

David Coulthard

Red Bull-Renault

70

+1:10.407

13

12

16

Jenson Button

Honda

69

+1 Lap

12

13

8

Kazuki Nakajima

Williams-Toyota

69

+1 Lap

16

14

7

Nico Rosberg

Williams-Toyota

69

+1 Lap

14

15

21

Giancarlo Fisichella

Force India-Ferrari

69

+1 Lap

18

16

17

Rubens Barrichello

Honda

68

+2 Laps

17

17

2

Felipe Massa

Ferrari

67

Engine

3

18

14

Sbastien Bourdais

Toro Rosso-Ferrari

67

+3 Laps

19

Ret

20

Adrian Sutil

Force India-Ferrari

62

Brakes

20

Ret

15

Sebastian Vettel

Toro Rosso-Ferrari

22

Overheating

11

Source:

Standings after the race

Drivers' Championship standings

Pos

Driver

Points

1

Lewis Hamilton

62

2

Kimi Rikknen

57

3

Felipe Massa

54

4

Robert Kubica

49

5

Nick Heidfeld

41

Constructors' Championship standings

Pos

Constructor

Points

1

Ferrari

111

2

McLarenercedes

100

3

BMW Sauber

90

4

Toyota

35

5

Renault

31

Note: Only the top five positions are included for both sets of standings.

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