[SPOILER] 2008 Bahrain GP

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Round 3: Gulf Air Bahrain Grand Prix
Sakhir, Bahrain

Hopefully the race weekend is more exciting than the ongoing off-track drama concerning Mosley.

Free Practice 1:

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Free Practice 2
Massa remains on top of the timesheets and leads a Ferrari 1-2. Meanwhile, championship leader, Hamilton, crashes.

The Briton lost control of his car on the exit of Turn 7 and spun across the track, hitting the opposite barriers side-on and causing heavy damage to the right-hand side of the car. Hamilton was unharmed in the incident.

Pos Driver Team Time Laps
1. Massa Ferrari (B) 1:31.420 30
2. Raikkonen Ferrari (B) 1:32.327 + 0.907 30
3. Kovalainen McLaren-Mercedes (B) 1:32.752 + 1.332 30
4. Hamilton McLaren-Mercedes (B) 1:32.847 + 1.427 26
5. Kubica BMW Sauber (B) 1:32.915 + 1.495 29
6. Rosberg Williams-Toyota (B) 1:33.022 + 1.602 34
7. Coulthard Red Bull-Renault (B) 1:33.048 + 1.628 27
8. Nakajima Williams-Toyota (B) 1:33.098 + 1.678 33
9. Bourdais Toro Rosso-Ferrari (B) 1:33.197 + 1.777 37
10. Piquet Renault (B) 1:33.247 + 1.827 37
11. Button Honda (B) 1:33.710 + 2.290 33
12. Alonso Renault (B) 1:33.755 + 2.335 26
13. Webber Red Bull-Renault (B) 1:33.782 + 2.362 34
14. Trulli Toyota (B) 1:33.822 + 2.402 38
15. Glock Toyota (B) 1:33.856 + 2.436 30
16. Barrichello Honda (B) 1:33.966 + 2.546 35
17. Heidfeld BMW Sauber (B) 1:34.023 + 2.603 36
18. Fisichella Force India-Ferrari (B) 1:34.388 + 2.968 35
19. Sutil Force India-Ferrari (B) 1:34.405 + 2.985 34
20. Vettel Toro Rosso-Ferrari (B) 1:34.787 + 3.367 30
21. Sato Super Aguri-Honda (B) 1:35.288 + 3.868 24
22. Davidson Super Aguri-Honda (B) 1:35.712 + 4.292 25

[Mattk]

Massa showing good speed again. Perhaps this race he can finish without stuffing up.

[toffytofik]

Kubica's on pole!!!!

[zondamaniac]

BMW is really catching up, this will be an interesting season with 3 teams fighting for wins!

[nthfinity]

Ol' Feliipe Massa took a road in the Fail Boat this morning..... lets see how the race goes, and see if he can actually manage to go a race distance w/out spinning

Kimi needs some work to do to have a good result.

Well done Kubica

[styla21]

BMW on Pole!!
*Runs around house with shirt pulled over head

[blackbird51]

Robert Kubica (my fellow countryman) was very fast. I hope he will keep his pace in the race In my opinion his main rival won't be always spinning Massa but Iceman - Raikkonen.

[yellky]

GO ROBERT GO !!

oh btw - proper way to pronounce: KubiTZa (not KubiKa)

[5vz-fe]

BMW sure is impressive this season. It only took them 2 season to get sauber into speed, that's some insane progress.

[Mattk]

Yeah, they've got some good speed on those cars, and a couple of solid, consistent drivers.

[yellky]

poor poor start by KUB :/
but HAM was even worse..

and HEI is flying!

:: edit ::
MAS is still on track

[Jona]

WTF is wrong with Hamilton? Why is he giving hand signals to everybody he passes?

They are on the same goddamn lap, there is no reason to do that. It is not their fault that he is not anywhere near the top positions today. Does he think that everybody should just let him go past? It is a competition! Extremely bad behaviour.

Is he just so frustrated because he is slow and makes a lot of mistakes? If yes, it is his fault. He shouldn't be pissed to the other drivers just because they are faster.

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I don't get Hamilton's hand signals either... didn't seem appropriate.
Great day for BMW, despite Kubica's poor start. They're leading the constructors' championship now! Between today and Barcelona, I bet we'll be hearing a lot of Hamilton vs Alonso all over again!!Excellent performance by Massa and Raikkonen! Hopefully, throughout the next 15 rounds, it will be a three-horse race for the constructors' championship with 6 drivers in contention (too good to be true though)

I am slightly disappointed by the TV coverage as there were a number of incidences that weren't shown.

[zondamaniac]

yeah...ron dennis should tell hamilton that he's not lapping others...