2008 Chinese Grand Prix

Safin

Hamilton has taken the pole for Chinese grand prix tomorrow but he is in a dicey position with both the Ferrari's taking the second and third place on the grid.

McLaren's Lewis Hamilton looked to be in trouble when his first Q3 qualifying run Shanghai yielded only third place as he got into a big slide in Turn Eight, but he put that right when it mattered to grab pole position for the Chinese Grand Prix with a lap of 1m 36.303s.

That comfortably outpaced the Ferrari of 2007 winner Kimi Raikkonen, who lapped in 1m 36.645s to beat team mate Felipe Massa. The Brazilian recorded 1m 36.889s. Right at the end Fernando Alonso jumped up to fourth for Renault with 1m 36.927s, while early pacesetter Heikki Kovalainen made an error on his second run and had to be content with fifth on 1m 36.930s.

Final Position
1. Lewis Hamilton 1′36.303
2. Kimi Raikkonen 1′36.645
3. Felipe Massa 1′36.889
4. Fernando Alonso 1′36.927
5. Heikki Kovalainen 1′36.930
6. Mark Webber 1′37.083
7. Nick Heidfeld 1′37.201
8. Sebastian Vettel 1′37.685
9. Jarno Trulli 1′37.934
10. Sebastien Bourdais 1′38.885

Safin

Meanwhile, Ham's biggest hater, Alonso

has come out openly to say that he will do all he can to help, Massa

to win the title
He told a press conference

Yes, no doubt, if I can help, I will help Massa

When I said this in Fuji what I meant is that now we have a competitive car it seems that we are able to fight sometimes with Ferrari and McLaren and first of all we need to have a competitive, hard car here in Shanghai and Brazil to be fighting with Ferrari and McLaren. If we do that and Felipe wins the race and I can be second or third I will be happy to help Felipe to take as many points as possible and this is the only approach.

Ninja

This guy even beats ganguly hands down when it comes to facing media

Agnel

^

We've not heard the crying episodes of alonso for a while

damn

soggy316

Originally Posted by Alonso

"I have raced karts since I was three years old. In the last 24 years I have been fine with all of my teams, except for one," Alonso said with reference to his disastrous spell at McLaren last season.

"It was the same team that had problems with Senna, Prost, Raikkonen and Montoya. Perhaps the problem is with the team rather than with the driver," he told Germany's

This was in an interview in which he was maska-maarofiying (buttering up) Ferrari for a race seat in the future

Safin

End of the most boring race of the season.

I fell asleep in between

Hamilton has won and really he will have to drive real badly to lose from here

in Brazil and we know he has a habit of falling asleep in the car

so fingers crossed

Hamilton on way to the championship win and Ferrari have almost wrapped up the Constructors championship.

ApeX

couldn't watch the race due to stupid cable wallas...

damn..I shud seriously start considering DTH...
now that the season is almost over, maybe next year.

soggy316

^You didn't miss much

On to Brazil with a 7 point lead, man, talk about Deja Vu

I'm almost certian Massa will win at Sao Paolo, but hammy looks to have the c'ship in the bag (barring some temporary insanity ofcourse

)

bottle

start of the race was good but then became quite boring. even the pitstops failed to shake things up

ApeX

Originally Posted by soggy316

^You didn't miss much

On to Brazil with a 7 point lead, man, talk about Deja Vu

I'm almost certian Massa will win at Sao Paolo, but hammy looks to have the c'ship in the bag (barring some temporary insanity ofcourse )

Now its Lewis' championship to lose. There's no Alonso this time to support Ferrari's cause (although he could still play a major role

). Remember last year Hamilton had a brain fade desperately tried to pass his own team-mate and then when he failed, he accidentally hit the pit-limiter button.