Lewis Hamilton wins US Grand Prix ahead of Alonso
Lewis : Hey Alonso , is it me , or the 1st place champagne tastes better than the second place one 
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Lewis Hamilton must love everything about North America now. the young rookie won his second consecutive formula one race on Sunday at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, taking the formula one United States Grand Prix in grand style. This time Fernando Alonso did challenge him, but failed to get past. A thing about Alonso i notice is that he is arrogant and a snob. Seeing him in the post race celebrations left me fuming. He was frowning and seemed the least bit happy for Lewis. Even Felipe Massa looked happier than Alonso. Felipe Massa was able to ward off a late challenge by teammate Kimi Raikkonen and took third place. Kimi completed the Ferrari 3-4.
The start was exciting as Alonso went on to Lewis Hamilton like a vulture, but Lewis was quick to shut the door on Alonso’s face by moving across.
There was an incident on lap 1 only, but the stupid TV directors only showed it on lap 3. FIA really stinks at managing TV production.David Coulthard , Ralf Schumacher and Rubens Barrichello all retired at the first lap. I can see the Toyota guys kicking Ralf Schumacher out, you only give a guy so many chances. Jarno Trulli , the other Toyota driver gave a fabulous performance taking sixth place. Heikki Kovalainen of Renault (the dude you see in all those ING ads, came 4th) , a much needed good finish for the Renault team.
A person who is going to be a little red faced on his return to f1 would be Robert Kubica, Sebastian Vettel put up a gutsy performance and I am sure the BMW team must be looking at bigger things from the 19 year old rather than keeping him as the third driver. BMW Sauber’s Nick Heidfeld had a bad race with him having to retire with technical problems.
Nico Rosberg of Williams had a bad day at the office, with his car erupting in flames. He was later seen cursing his car and the fire on the back of his car (and his engineers ?). Also he was sen throwing his steering wheel , only to realize that he could be fined and putting that thing back again. Anger would not get you anywhere Nico.
And now we head back to Europe again and Lewis has raced on the next three circuits atleast, so Alonso might have to see Lewis’s rear a whole lot more !
Final Times and Positions of the Formula One United States Grand Prix 2007
1. Lewis Hamilton (Britain) McLaren Mercedes 1:31:09.965
2. Fernando Alonso (Spain) McLaren Mercedes +00:01.518
3. Felipe Massa (Brazil) Scuderia Ferrari 00:12.842
4. Kimi Raikkonen (Finland) Scuderia Ferrari 00:15.422
5. Heikki Kovalainen (Finland) ING Renault 00:41.402
6. Jarno Trulli (Italy) Toyota 01:06.703
7. Mark Webber (Australia) RedBull-Renault 01:07.331
8. Sebastian Vettel (Germany) BMW Sauber 01:07.783
9. Giancarlo Fisichella (Italy) ING Renault 1 lap
10. Alexander Wurz (Austria) Williams-Toyota 1 lap
11. Anthony Davidson (Britain) Super Aguri-Honda 1 lap
12. Jenson Button (Britain) Honda 1 lap
13. Scott Speed (U.S.) Toro Rosso-Ferrari 2 laps
14. Adrian Sutil (Germany) Spyker-Ferrari 2 laps
15. Christijan Albers (Netherlands) Spyker-Ferrari 3 laps
16. retired Nico Rosberg (Germany) Williams-Toyota 5 laps
17. retired Vitantonio Liuzzi (Italy) Toro Rosso-Ferrari 5 laps
R Nick Heidfeld (Germany) BMW Sauber 18 laps
R Takuma Sato (Japan) Super Aguri-Honda 60 laps
R David Coulthard (Britain) RedBull-Renault 73 laps
R Rubens Barrichello (Brazil) Honda 73 laps
R Ralf Schumacher (Germany) Toyota 73 laps
Fastest lap: Kimi Raikkonen, 1:13.117 on lap 49 of Scuderia Ferrari
The race was late at night, i was coughing like crazy (my sore throat), but somehow managed to see the wonderful race, a magical race.
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June 18th, 2007 06:37
well… the race was good.. lots of overtakings… and Hammy bunny was the high light of the evening.. with his calmness.. the way he held his nerve in the middle sec of the race was worth watching.. Kimi showed sum form.. hope that he regains his lost form.. heikki another young guy with kewl performance.. overall the race was good..
June 18th, 2007 07:10
Yeah , it was one of the hew races this season i enjoyed watching.
Yeah , really nice to see the young blood coming up, Ferrari would comeback into the picture in Europe hopefully with some proper testing.
June 18th, 2007 09:43
Alonso is showing his true colours at the moment. complaining that his teammate would not let him pass, even though they were on similar strategies. Half a sniff up the wrong side on turn 1, and that was all.
If he was that much faster, or wanted to make a point he should have made more attempts to pass, backed off for a lap or two and then charging back up to lewis’ gearbox, just to show that he could go faster if he was allowed past. He didn’t, and couldn’t.
Shoe might have been able to throw his weight around in a team that was built around him, but the Maccas have always been proud of running a two-man team. Alonso wants undisputed no.1 status? he should sign for a different team.
Nice one Lewis!
June 18th, 2007 15:07
Yeah Alonso is pretty unpopular among all.
As far as McLaren running a 2 member team goes, i think it was Lewis’s outburst in Monaco which actually prompted this change.