German Car Zone

is the mechanic guy okey? It looked really bad.

Way to be Ferrari, you bunch of punks...

Let's go Massa, show Hamilton how it's done

PROVISIONAL RACE RESULTS

The European Grand Prix
Valencia, Spain;
57 laps; 310.080km;
Weather: Sunny.

Classified:

Pos Driver Team Time
1. Massa Ferrari (B) 1h35:32.339
2. Hamilton McLaren-Mercedes (B) + 5.611
3. Kubica BMW Sauber (B) + 37.353
4. Kovalainen McLaren-Mercedes (B) + 39.703
5. Trulli Toyota (B) + 50.684
6. Vettel Toro Rosso-Ferrari (B) + 52.625
7. Glock Toyota (B) + 1:07.990
8. Rosberg Williams-Toyota (B) + 1:11.457
9. Heidfeld BMW Sauber (B) + 1:22.177
10. Bourdais Toro Rosso-Ferrari (B) + 1:29.794
11. Piquet Renault (B) + 1:32.717
12. Webber Red Bull-Renault (B) + 1 lap
13. Button Honda (B) + 1 lap
14. Fisichella Force India-Ferrari (B) + 1 lap
15. Nakajima Williams-Toyota (B) + 1 lap
16. Barrichello Honda (B) + 1 lap
17. Coulthard Red Bull-Renault (B) + 1 lap

Fastest lap: Massa, 1:38.708

Not classified/retirements:

Driver Team On lap
Raikkonen Ferrari (B) 46
Sutil Force India-Ferrari (B) 42
Alonso Renault (B) 1

World Championship standings, round 12:

Drivers:
1. Hamilton 70
2. Massa 64
3. Raikkonen 57
4. Kubica 55
5. Kovalainen 43
6. Heidfeld 41
7. Trulli 26
8. Alonso 18
9. Webber 18
10. Glock 15
11. Piquet 13
12. Barrichello 11
13. Vettel 9
14. Rosberg 9
15. Nakajima 8
16. Coulthard 6
17. Button 3
18. Bourdais 2

Constructors:
1. Ferrari 121
2. McLaren-Mercedes 113
3. BMW Sauber 96
4. Toyota 41
5. Renault 31
6. Red Bull-Renault 24
7. Williams-Toyota 17
8. Honda 14
9. Toro Rosso-Ferrari 11

First of all, ITV broadcasting sucks! Thank god F1 is moving over to BBC next season.

I thought the race would be more entertaining but apparently Valenica is such a long semi-narrow track which is ridiculously easy to drive making the top performer dwell away into the horizon increasing the gap with each lap. Just look at how Massa and Hamilton finished over 30 second ahead of the field. I can't recall one single overtaking from the race! It it wasn't for Ferrari's messing up, the reace would have been a complete bore just like Barcelona.

Massa loves it when the weather is hot and this is another proof of it. He drives like a master when the track temperature is exotic. Sadly he's not going to retain his deserved victory for this lap. Given how strict FIA are when it comes to breech of regulations in the pit there is no question in my mind that Massa will get penalized for it. That was one of most unsafe pit releases I've ever seen and could have resulted in disaster. Ferrari obviously wanted to release him ahead Sutil in order not to ruin his pace getting stuck behind slow car giving Hamilton a chance to catch up. Kimi's engine turning into Italian toast is another embarrassment from Ferrari.

LOL.. they should change the name from
Scuderia Ferrari to Scuderia Fuckup..
It would just be the icing on the cake if he lost his 1st place..

There would have been a stop-and-go penalty if it was a McLaren driver who came out of the pits like Massa did.

I just hope if something like this happens to the McLaren drivers, the FIA stewards would treat them with similar leniency.

Otherwise a great drive from Massa.

haha, you'd be jumping for joy if that happened

I dont expect anything to happen. If there was going to be a punishment, that would have been a drive through which didn't happen. What are they going to do strip him of his win? Anyone would agree that that would be extremely harsh (minus the McL fans of course).

I find it pretty amazing that after all this, Massa is only 6 points behind Hamilton. That's pretty good if you looked at it in Ferrari's perspective.

Well looks like Massa got away with this one, the FIA is giving him a $10 000 Euro fine instead. I agree with Massa on this one, why is Sutil fighting with him when Sutil isn't really fighting for track position.

As for the race, this is the 1st time ever that I have switched off the TV before the race finished. It was utterly boring, Í don't mind if there are no overtaking, but the cars aren't even remotely close to each other on the track, so there is virtually zero chances of any pit stop overtaking at all.

I am very disappointed with Ferrari and Kimi. The Ferrari team had another average performance, and someone really need to sort out what the hell is going on with that Ferrari engine. Despite Massa's domination, I cannot overlook the numerous mistakes the team made during the GP. The pit stop mistakes, the team strategy for Kimi, and Kimi's extremely underwhelming performances, perhaps he knew his engine won't last the distance so he was being extremely conservative?

I hope this is not the beginning of another dark era for Ferrari. This year, the championship is yet again for Lewis to loose.