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What a nail biting time for a viewer as is always the case when it's wet, dry, wet.
But the result was probably right for the season. Massa has come on bounds and will surely win a championship soon. Now we can have a sleep for a few months. |
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Well what a finish!
Congrats to LH and Ferrari for winning the championships. Now Ferrari needs to build a car again that suits Kimi so he can rule the field.  |
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What I find very good is that for two years running the driver's championship has been won by a single point.
There are now a good bunch of top drivers and I don't think we're going to have predictable seasons as it was a few time when Schumi reigned. BBC now has the television rights here so we'll see if they can keep up the good coverage that ITV have developed. With the number of viewers the current racing has produced they may feel it's perhaps not the best time to switch to second tier football. |
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David Autumns
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Do you think it's safe yet to hail Lewis Hamilton Formula 1 World Champion
---------------------------------------- I still haven't seen the last race from Brazil maybe tonight Here's those LH stats from the http://www.itv-f1.com site Lewis's F1 career stats Race starts: 35 Wins: 9 Podium positions: 22 Points finishes: 29 Pole positions: 13 Front-row starts: 21 Fastest laps: 3 Points: 207 A new benchmark Youngest world champion – 23 years, 9 months, 26 days (Previously F Alonso – 24 years, 2 months, 17 days) Youngest world championship leader – 22 years, 4 months, six days (Spain 2007) Youngest driver to score pole, win, fastest lap hat-trick – Japan 2007 Fastest driver to reach 100 career points (15 races) Fastest driver to 20 podiums – 30 races (tied with Juan Manuel Fangio) Youngest British driver to win in F1 – 22 years, 5 months, 3 days (Canada 2007) Youngest British driver to score pole position – 22 years, 5 months, 2 days (Canada 2007) Youngest British driver to register fastest lap – 22 years, 3 months, 1 day (Malaysia 2007) Youngest British driver to finish on podium – 22 years, 2 months, 11 days (Australia 2007) Youngest British driver to qualify on front row – 22 years, 3 months, 8 days (Bahrain 2007) Youngest British driver to lead a race – 22 years, 2 months, 11 days (Australia 2007) Most points for a British driver in one season – 109 (Previous record Nigel Mansell, 108) The rookie wonder (2007) Most points in a debut season – 109 Most podiums in debut season – 12 Most races led in debut season – 12 Most pole positions in debut season – 6 Most front row starts in debut season – 12 Most consecutive podiums from debut race – 9 (Australia-Britain 2007) Most consecutive points finishes from debut race – 9 (Australia-Britain 2007) Most consecutive number of races led from debut race – 7 (Australia-USA 2007) First rookie to win, take pole position and set fastest lap in a McLaren I'm not sure but do you think he will ever amount to much  Congratulations Mr Lewis Hamilton Great Job. Congrats to Team Mclaren for world class engineering excellence http://www.mclaren.com/  Roll on 2009 back on the BBC no advert breaks and hopefully in HD It's been years since the Bass Guitar of Fleetwood Mac's The Chain 3 mins 5 seconds into this link http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Csatmi34YEk Bringing the start to the next race It's going to be great  |
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BBC now has the television rights here so we'll see if they can keep up the good coverage that ITV have developed. With the number of viewers the current racing has produced they may feel it's perhaps not the best time to switch to second tier football. I know what you mean. F1 went from one channel to another over here, fortunately the commentator moved along with it. Unfortunately F1 went to a channel a couple of years back that introduced commercial breaks during the race and they did it that often and long that they got a lot criticism for that. So then the commercial breaks stayed but less frequent and the race is still shown picture in picture. I think we never get rid of that and it's quite annoying to look at such a small view whithout commentary during breaks. So when it's commercial break time I switch to the Belgium public channel which shows the whole race without breaks, only their commentary is not that good. Ah well, most important is to see the race...and Ferrari..  |
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Honda to announce retirement on Friday?
http://f1.gpupdate.net/en/news/2008/12/04/hon...nce-retirement-on-friday/  |
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Ecclestone aiming for medals in 2009
http://f1.gpupdate.net/en/news/2008/11/26/ecclestone-aiming-for-medals-in-2009/ F1 boss Bernie Ecclestone is aiming to change the way the drivers' championship is decided as soon as the 2009 season, with the introduction of a medal system that would see the driver with the most race wins take the championship. Under Ecclestone's proposals Lewis Hamilton would not have won this year's championship. |
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