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Kimi Raikkonen dominated the first of this mornings free practice seasons, placing his Ferrari F2007 ahead of the pack at the top of the timing sheet. Unfortunately for Ferrari they, Kimi’s performance was overshadowed by his team mates, Felipe Massa, who crashed very early in the day. Massa went straight on at Rivage and nosed his car into the tyre barrier. However, the lap from Raikkonen would have bolstered the Ferrari team and his lap of 1m47.339s put him 0.5s clear of second placed driver Lewis Hamilton. Continue Reading…

The Italian Grand Prix was always going to be a pressure-filled kettle steadily boiling away in the simmering heat of Northern Milan. With all the political shenanigans that are taking place in the background, it was a surprise that McLaren were able to completely lock out the front row in such a convincing way. But with the professional operation still working away with the two cars, Fernando Alonso and Lewis Hamilton have converted their qualifying grid slots into ten and eight points respectively with a dominating one-two at Monza. Continue Reading…

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McLaren Mercedes have dominated the Italian Grand Prix qualifying, with Fernando Alonso pushing his MP4-22 Formula One car to the limit to snatch pole position from his young team mate. The silver cars out-paced the red ones, with Ferrari looking somewhat on their back foot while contending their home race. Felipe Massa managed to keep his third slot, but late in the final qualifying session, Nick Heidfeld propelled his BMW ahead of Kimi Raikkonen to take fourth. With a comfortable margin over Ferrari, it seems as though tomorrow’s race has already been sewn up by McLaren. Continue Reading…

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Ferrari set the pace in the first practice session at Monza this morning by going first and second fastest in an interesting run that seemed to reverse the achievements of McLaren in the recent test here last week. Raikkonen got the upper hand by lunchtime, pipping his team mate Felipe Massa by 0.15s who was himself only a tiny amount faster than Lewis Hamilton. Fernando Alonso took fourth for the troubled Woking-based squad, although the reigning world champion was 0.2s down on his own partner in the sister car. Continue Reading…

Following the Turkish Grand Prix last weekend, Bridgestone have been working hard to work out exactly what happened to Lewis Hamilton’s front-right tyre that caused it to delaminate and essentially fail. Watching the race, it appeared to just go while under braking for turn nine, but the experts at Bridgestone have taken the tyre back to their headquarters to check it thoroughly. Continue Reading…

Felipe Massa has won his second Turkish Grand Prix in succession today, conquering the McLarens and beating his team mate in a fair and square fight that the young Brazilian dominated from the start through to the chequered flag. Converting his pole position yesterday, Felipe looked strong for the win, and the blunder Kimi Raikkonen made in qualifying, along with an under-performing Fernando Alonso and a tyre blow out for Lewis Hamilton, the Ferrari team took a one-two and some points away from the current title leaders. Continue Reading…

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