Ferrari Win 2008 French Grand Prix

Felipe Massa's French Grand Prix victory was his third for the 2008 season and leaves him leading the championship race. The final standings included Massa, Raikkonen, Trulli, Kovalainen, Kubica, Webber, Piquet and Alonso. Massa followed fellow Ferrari team mate Kimi Raikkonen, maintaining second position completed also than half of the race. The Ferrari team kept a obtain on the top two positions for the duration of the race. Raikkonen's car suffered from a cracked exhaust that caused him to drop from beginning position to second.

"I just kept losing power and then it came back. A few more laps and I don't deem I would hold finished the race," Raikkonen revealed the immensity of his problems after the race. He continued with, "I had a fine van all weekend, was easily on the poll, on the other hand then I retain a problem with the car. I almost stopped a sporadic times at the end." Raikkonen is blithe he received eight points for his second-place win, keeping him in the running for the championship.

In a announce pursuit interview Massa said, "Sometimes you necessitate a bit of luck, and we got that with Kimi's exhaust. It was a skilled present." He went on to say, "It was a great race. We showed our performance here, we are heading in the right direction, with the line-up doing a great job." The score and moment position district were greet victories for the Ferrari team.

Toyota team chauffeur Jarno Trulli completed the contest in third position, the first off podium placement finish for the Toyota organization since 2006. Trulli may compass been able to catch Raikkonen and take second position if he hadn't had to defend his third situate position from Heikki Kovalainen. Kovalainen nearly overtook Trulli tardy in the race.

Trulli said he enjoyed doing that and it is what he wants to be doing, when asked about the near-miss with Kovalainen. "I don't think we touched, even-handed wheel-to-wheel like we did in go-karting. I'd allegiance to clash every race like that," he said. Trulli dedicated his third abode win to Toyota's former bunch boss, Ove Andersson who was killed in a rally accident the week before the race.

Barcelona winner Robert Kubica completed the chase in fifth position. Although Massa is these days leading the championship chase, Kubica is much a close second.

For Claret Bull driver End Webber, the French Grand Prix also proved to be the most competitive race of his 2008 season. He was indurated pressed to hold off Nelson Piquet Jr. and Fernando Alonso for his sixth position win. Piquet finished in seventh, and his team friend Alonso came in eighth.

McLaren driver, Lewis Hamilton, began the race at a disadvantage in that of an accident involving Raikkonen in the pits during the ultimate race. Hamilton was penalized 10 grid positions and completed the French Grand Prix in 10th position last David Coulthard. Hamilton is nowadays 10 points endure Massa in championship standings, a disappointment after his splendid win at the Monte Carlo Grand Prix
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