The first day of tests got underway in rain with Williams, Red Bull, Renault and Toyota present. Follow your favorite team and driver's progress with daily updates Alonso won again in Japan with Kubica second. This was the last season for the Honda team before they pulled out of F1 later in December due to the financial difficulties. Itinerary. F1 2008 GP11 HUNGARY Budapest Race ITV. The new Valencia Street Circuit was the new host of the European Grand Prix, Massa taking pole and winning with Hamilton second. The Official F1® YouTube Channel – See more at www.Formula1.com [65] It also saw racist abuse directed at Lewis Hamilton. Kubica finished second and Massa was third. Formula 1 on Sky Sports - get the latest F1 news, results, standings, videos and photos, plus watch live races in HD and read about top drivers. Teams taking part in Q3 would no longer be allowed to add fuel back to the car after qualifying to eliminate 'fuel-burn' phase. Double world champion Fernando Alonso left McLaren after a single season to rejoin Renault. Lewis Hamilton won the Drivers' title by a point – by overtaking Toyota's Timo Glock on the final corner of the final lap of the final Grand Prix of the season to claim the required 5th-place finish – from Brazilian Felipe Massa while Massa's teammate, the 2007 world champion, Kimi Räikkönen was ranked third, with two wins. The race saw a downfall for the big teams, Kovalainen doing a good job for second. Massa took pole and won for the third successive Istanbul race, Hamilton splitting the Ferraris on the podium. BMW Sauber's Robert Kubica finished second for the first time with McLaren's Heikki Kovalainen third. Hamilton eventually regained fifth place, however, by passing Glock, who was struggling on dry tyres, and finished fifth to take the title by one point from Massa. For a Lap Record to stand, it must be posted during the race, not in practice or qualifying. Massa was leading ahead of Hamilton, however, when he pitted under the safety car his fuel hose remained attached meaning that the pit crew had to run down the pit lane to detach it. 2007 GP2 champion Timo Glock, who had also been the test driver for BMW Sauber, returned to a Formula One race seat in place of Schumacher. 16. This page contains the Top 200 results of the players in the competition for the Formula 1 racing season from each round of the competition. McLaren joined on the final day and Williams finished on top with Nakajima. Massa won the race with teammate Räikkönen in second. Despite an engine problem, Toro Rosso debutant Sébastien Bourdais completed over 90% of the race distance, earning him points in seventh. See all 2008 F1 results for each race, driver and team. Lewis Hamilton dominated the Belgian Grand Prix at Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps for his fifth victory in the last six Formula 1 races. 01-03.10.2021 (Provisional date) Tickets See the complete 2008 Australian Grand Prix Formula 1 classification: Check out the race … – 17. Formula 1 on Sky Sports - get the latest F1 news, results, standings, videos and photos, plus watch live races in HD and read about top drivers. Cerny Edge. This was also the last Formula One season to race with grooved tyres, used since 1998, before slick tyres returned to Formula One in 2009. The championship was contested over eighteen races commencing in Australia on 16 March and ending in Brazil on 2 November. He was back to winning ways for the first time since Hockenheim, though, victorious at Shanghai. Hamilton won back-to-back at Silverstone and Hockenheim. Honda, Toro Rosso, Super Aguri and Force India also attended. They blamed circumstances beyond their control. Ferrari, McLaren and Toyota all tested their 2008 cars. Singapore was Formula One's first ever night race. At Belgium, Hamilton qualified on pole and finished in first, though he received a 25-second penalty for gaining an advantage during a scrap with Räikkönen. The 2008 FIA Formula One World Championship was the 62nd season of Formula One motor racing, recognised by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA) – the governing body of motorsport – as the highest class of competition for open-wheel racing cars. DNQ = Did Not Qualify, DNS = Did Not Start, Ret = Retired, DSQ = Disqualified, NC = Not Classified. New technical rules for 2008 included the banning of traction control after it was re-introduced in 2001, at the Spanish Grand Prix. Reactions: KAVACHI, zuno toto, deudonils and 12 others. Due to the cars in the 2017 Formula One season being widened, many Lap Records on current circuits are from the 2018, 2019 and 2020 Formula One seasons. Stats. At this point, Hamilton had a seven-point lead over Massa, meaning if Massa was to be the victor at his home race in Brazil, Hamilton would need to finish fifth, and he was holding this position though being stalked by Vettel, who eventually passed him on lap 69, as Massa won to momentarily take the title. The 2008 season saw the debut of the Singapore Grand Prix, which was held at the Marina Bay Street Circuit, in Marina Bay, Singapore and was the first Formula One race held at night. Then, Ross Brawn bought the team and renamed it to Brawn GP in February 2009 using the Mercedes-Benz engines. No competing team was allowed to carry out more than 30,000 km (18,641 mi) of testing during the 2008 calendar year. 2008 F1 Drivers Statistics Table Get all the race results from 2021, right here at ESPN.com. When Piquet admitted this to the press in 2009 Renault team-principal Briatore resigned. On the second day Ferrari turned up and topped the time sheets with Felipe Massa on another wet track. Sébastien Bourdais, who won his fourth consecutive Champ Car title in 2007, joined Toro Rosso in 2008, replacing Vitantonio Liuzzi, who moved to Force India as their test driver. Super Aguri withdrew from the Formula One World Championship on 6 May 2008, with immediate effect. Räikkönen started the French Grand Prix on pole, but exhaust problems allowed teammate Massa to get the better of him, and he took his third season victory. Each competing team would not be allowed to have more than two cars available for use at any time. Some journalists dubbed this "Crashgate". Fisichella's place at Renault was taken by the team's test driver Nelson Piquet Jr. (son of the three-time World Drivers' Champion Nelson Piquet). Kubica (who also got caught up in the mess but made it through safely) won for the first time with teammate Heidfeld second. Hamilton was on pole position at Montreal for the first time since the beginning of the season, a drought of five races, however a pit lane mishap involving himself and Räikkönen eliminated both drivers from the race. The following teams and drivers competed in the 2008 FIA Formula One World Championship:[3] Teams competed with tyres supplied by Bridgestone. 0:58. [citation needed] However, despite the Prodrive application being accepted, Richards later announced that the team would not race in 2008 due to a dispute over the legality of customer cars.[37]. Here you can find the 2008 F1 teams overview, we also have all other F1 results since 1950. O campeonato foi disputado em dezoito etapas, iniciando na Austrália em 16 de março e terminando no Brasil em 2 de novembro. The 2008 FIA Formula One World Championship was the 62nd season of Formula One motor racing, recognised by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA) – the governing body of motorsport – as the highest class of competition for open-wheel racing cars. Follow your favorite team and driver's progress with daily updates All starters classified as finishers, regardless if they retired during the rally. The 2014 FIA Formula One World Championship was the 68th season of FIA Formula One motor racing. 1:46. Lewis Hamilton delivered two successive record breaking qualifying laps to claim his sixth Belgian Grand Prix pole position and a record-increasing 93rd of his career with a … 2008 RACE RESULTS Grand Prix Date Winner Car Laps Time; Australia 16 Mar 2008: … There were 21 applications in total, several new teams applying included European Minardi F1 Team Ltd, Jordan Grand Prix, Direxiv and Carlin Motorsport. I commence à piloter sur une Porsche RS60 avec laquelle il remporte sa première victoire en course au Grand Prix de Sundown à Harewood en 1961. FIA disassembled Bottas' car for 3 hours after last race, Secrets of Merc's F1 rake problems with Scarbs & Windsor, In the Fast Lane Episode 29: James Gay-Rees, Hamilton to discuss kneeling routine with drivers at first GP. RaceHistory from Johann Alboretto. Kovalainen took advantage of Massa's engine failure to take his first career victory at Hungary. F1 2008 GP13 Belgien Spa-Francorchamps Premiere part 1. Nico Rosberg topped the time sheets for Williams. Scuderia Ferrari Marlboro won the Constructors' title. Browse through 2021 Formula 1 Bahrain GP results, statistics, rankings and championship standings. Christian Klien, previously the test driver for Honda, and the Estonian driver Marko Asmer took up test driver roles at BMW Sauber. The final multi-team test began on 25 February with every team but Super Aguri attending. Belgium, Spa Francorchamps race track, eau rogue flat out, F1 2009. 2008 F1 results distribution of points: 1st = 10, 2nd = 6, 3rd =4, 4th = 3, 5th = 2, 6th = 1 point * = this driver has driven the fastest lap of the race. F1 Belgian Grand Prix results: ... Leclerc, who won from the pole, became the first driver to take his maiden F1 win at Spa-Francorchamps since Michael Schumacher back in 1992. [36] All eleven current teams applied, as well as several others. Formula 1 Singapore Grand Prix. The race saw only seven drivers finish the race, reduced to six after Honda's Rubens Barrichello was disqualified for exiting the pits under a red light. Singapore hosted its first ever F1 race and F1's first ever night race, taking place at the Marina Bay Street Circuit. He was back in the points at Barcelona, while Räikkönen took Ferrari's third consecutive victory, Massa making it another 1–2. Ce jeune canadien était en train de construire une bonne réputation en course automobile mais le sort en a décidé autrement. At Monaco, Ferrari locked out the front row with Massa on pole, but on a bad day for Ferrari, with Räikkönen ruining what could have been Sutil's chance to score, Hamilton won the race despite a mid-race barrier scrape causing him a puncture. 2008, Spa • asphalt 144.36 km • Other years. Hamilton took pole and his fifth career victory at the first race in Australia. [67], On 12 February testing returned to Jerez. Renault and Williams were the only teams on the track for the first day of testing. Author ... - Bridgestone - Martini - Allianz New red and white curbs and barriers, like in the 2008 real track. McLaren continued to outpace Ferrari on day two with both drivers on top and Toyota were fastest with Jarno Trulli on the final day. Again, all teams but Super Aguri were in action. From 8 May 2008, the FIA announced that, following, This page was last edited on 10 April 2021, at 03:25. Kubica made it onto the podium, while Hamilton had a bad race, finishing 13th. In this context, a car was considered as such if it was a partially assembled survival cell, fitted with an engine, any front suspension, bodywork, radiators, oil tanks or heat exchangers. A minimum lap time for each qualifying session was implemented from Round 3 in Bahrain to stop cars coasting back to the pits at dangerously low speeds as seen in Round 2 in Malaysia. Williams tested a modified version of the FW29 whilst Renault and Red Bull tested their 2007 entries. The championship was contested over eighteen races commencing in Australia on 16 March and ending in Brazil on 2 November. 2. BMW were instead testing on their own in Jerez. [63] Testing then moved to Valencia on 22 January. An engine freeze to last five years was started in 2008. Meanwhile, on 4 February, Ferrari and Toyota moved to Bahrain to continue testing the F2008 and TF108.