Massa Triumph in Magny-Cours

After Kimi Raikkonen’s exhaust problem, teammate Felipe Massa aggresively step down the throttle leading a 1 & 2 Ferrari Victory. 3rd place belongs to Jarno Trulli of Toyota who gave his team their 1st Podium finish for a long time. The heroic Toyota driver successfully defended his position from a late Heikki Kovalainen challenge. The weekend ended, w/ some happy faces and sad faces in Magny-Cours, France, Sunday, June 22, 2008.

Heikki Kovalainen brought home his Maclaren car in 4th place, while his teammate Lewis Hamilton finished a disappointing 10th place. The englishman had to serve a drive-through penalty for overtaking Toro Rosso’s Sebastian Vettel in a straight-lining turn seven on lap 1.

5th place belongs to BMW’s Robert Kubica who had his Maiden Win last race in Canada. Mark Webber took 6th place and his teammate David Coulthard placed 9th. The 2 Renault Drivers placed themselves in 7th for Nelsinho Piquet who had his best result of the season & 8th for the 2 time champion Fernando Alonso.

The other Toyota Driver Timo Glock had a rough race finishing in 11th place, next to him in 12th place is Toro Rosso’s Sebastian Vettel and in 13th place is BMW’s Nick Heidfeld who had a very disappointing race.

The lap down drivers are as follows, Honda’s Rubens Barrichello in 14th, the 2 Williams in 15th place for Kazuki Nakajima and 16th place for Nico Rosberg, 17th is the other Toro Rosso Driver Sebastien Bourdais, and next to him are the 2 Force India Drivers, Giancarlo Fisichella who got 18th and Adrian Sutil who managed to get 19th place.

Honda’s Jenson Button was the only driver who didn’t finish because of an accident in lap 16th. He’ll take 20th place.

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Here is the result of the race:

Pos	No	Driver	Team	Laps	Time/Retired	Grid	Pts
1	2	Felipe Massa	Ferrari	70	1:31:50.245	2	10
2	1	Kimi Räikkönen	Ferrari	70	+17.9 secs	1	8
3	11	Jarno Trulli	Toyota	70	+28.2 secs	4	6
4	23	Heikki Kovalainen	McLaren-Mercedes	70	+28.9 secs	10	5
5	4	Robert Kubica	BMW Sauber	70	+30.5 secs	5	4
6	10	Mark Webber	Red Bull-Renault	70	+40.3 secs	6	3
7	6	Nelsinho Piquet	Renault	70	+41.0 secs	9	2
8	5	Fernando Alonso	Renault	70	+43.3 secs	3	1
9	9	David Coulthard	Red Bull-Renault	70	+51.0 secs	7
10	22	Lewis Hamilton	McLaren-Mercedes	70	+54.5 secs	13
11	12	Timo Glock	Toyota	70	+57.7 secs	8
12	15	Sebastian Vettel	STR-Ferrari	70	+58.0 secs	12
13	3	Nick Heidfeld	BMW Sauber	70	+62.0 secs	11
14	17	Rubens Barrichello	Honda	69	+1 Lap	20
15	8	Kazuki Nakajima	Williams-Toyota	69	+1 Lap	15
16	7	Nico Rosberg	Williams-Toyota	69	+1 Lap	19
17	14	Sebastien Bourdais	STR-Ferrari	69	+1 Lap	14
18	21	Giancarlo Fisichella	Force India-Ferrari	69	+1 Lap	17
19	20	Adrian Sutil	Force India-Ferrari	69	+1 Lap	18
Ret	16	Jenson Button	Honda	16	Accident damage	16

The Drivers Standings:

Pos	Driver	Nationality	Team	Points
1	Felipe Massa	Brazilian	Ferrari	48
2	Robert Kubica	Polish	BMW Sauber	46
3	Kimi Räikkönen	Finnish	Ferrari	43
4	Lewis Hamilton	British	McLaren-Mercedes	38
5	Nick Heidfeld	German	BMW Sauber	28
6	Heikki Kovalainen	Finnish	McLaren-Mercedes	20
7	Jarno Trulli	Italian	Toyota	18
8	Mark Webber	Australian	Red Bull-Renault	18
9	Fernando Alonso	Spanish	Renault	10
10	Nico Rosberg	German	Williams-Toyota	8
11	Kazuki Nakajima	Japanese	Williams-Toyota	7
12	David Coulthard	British	Red Bull-Renault	6
13	Timo Glock	German	Toyota	5
14	Sebastian Vettel	German	STR-Ferrari	5
15	Rubens Barrichello	Brazilian	Honda	5
16	Jenson Button	British	Honda	3
17	Nelsinho Piquet	Brazilian	Renault	2
18	Sebastien Bourdais	French	STR-Ferrari	2
19	Giancarlo Fisichella	Italian	Force India-Ferrari	0
20	Takuma Sato	Japanese	Super Aguri-Honda	0
21	Anthony Davidson	British	Super Aguri-Honda	0
22	Adrian Sutil	German	Force India-Ferrari	0

Note – Super Aguri withdrew from the championship after round four.

The Constructor Standings:

Pos	Team	Points
1	Ferrari	91
2	BMW Sauber	74
3	McLaren-Mercedes	58
4	Red Bull-Renault	24
5	Toyota	23
6	Williams-Toyota	15
7	Renault	12
8	Honda	8
9	STR-Ferrari	7
10	Force India-Ferrari	0
11	Super Aguri-Honda	0

Note – Super Aguri withdrew from the championship after round four.