FORMULA 1 GROSSER PREIS SANTANDER VON DEUTSCHLAND 2008

I have to mention also as I’m feeling really bad for an F1 pilot that left the field some years ago… the champion Mika Häikkinen who by some accident got his French house on fire and as a result lost all his F1 trophies that he treasured… it is a real lost!

Back to the race…

Number of laps: 67… circuit Length: 4.574 km… race distance: 306.458 km… lap record: 1:13.780 - Kimi Räikkönen (2004)

Most cars started with the harder tyre…

Lap 1; Hamilton kept the lead, Vettel passed Webber, Kubica passed Trulli… Coulthard had the worst start as he fell off 10^th P to 15^th.

Lap 2; Barrichello passed Nakajima…

Lap 3; Coulthard get’s to P14…

Lap 4; Räikkönen passed Alonso and got his 6^th P back as the Spanish fails to pull off his try to pass Trulli.

Lap 5; Trulli under pressure as having Räikkönen, Alonso and Vettel close behind him…

Lap 7; Hamilton gets the fastest lap with 1:16.378.

Lap 8; button under very high pressure from Coulthard… Hamilton leads up to 5.5s…

Lap10; Button’s hard time was also shared by his team mate Barrichello who was getting pressured from Nakajima and Piquet… and Hamilton sets another fastest lap with 1:16.078…

Lap 12; no progress with the battle between Räikkönen and Trulli..

Lap 13; Trulli was told he needs to extend his advantage over Vettel in P8 in anticipation of the first pit stop…

Lap 14; Coulthard passed Button and as a result Rosberg was behind the Honda…

Lap 15; Räikkönen seems to have hard time catching up with Trulli and having Alonso behind him didn’t help!

Lap16; Sutil has re passed Force India team mate Fisichella..

Lap 17; Hamilton sets another fastest time with 1:16.039.

Lap 18; Nakajima has a spin and piquet and Sutil pass him as a result… Fisichella straggles for pace at the back of the field… Hamilton pits and get’s out with harder tyre…

Lap 19; Kubica pits, Hamilton joins the race a head of Trulli…

Lap 20; Trulli pits, Alonso pits too and both leave with softer tyres… Massa pits and goes with softer too…

Lap 22; Vettel and Coulthard pit…

Lap 23; Räikkönen pits and goes like his team mate with softer tyre and rejoins right behind Glock…

Lap 24; Webber pits and so does Bourdais…

Lap 26; Sutil pits from P18…

Lap 28; Heidfeld pits from P5… button and Fisichella pit too…

Lap 29; Rosberg pits…

Lap 30; Glock pits from P3 and rejoins behind Trulli… and Nakajima pits too…

Lap 31; Barrichello and Piquet are the only still to pit…

Lap 32; Barrichello pits….

Lap 33; The only action I see is the battle for P7…

Lap 35; Nakajima runs off track but recovers…

Lap 36; Piquet pits… Glock is out after some kind of accident and safety car is deployed…

Lap37; Button has pit and what seemed before the safety car… and reply to Glock’s horrible accident… spin and breakage of the right front tyre before him impacted to the wall where the car was pushed to the other way and what showed a fully broken car…

Lap 38; pit lane open and most when in…

Lap 39; smoke out of Webbers car showing there is a problem with Red Bull… and the replay shows how Alonso was forced over the white line as Vettel passes him by… and lapped cars got the permeation to overtake…

Lap 40; still with the safety car in front and Hamilton leads…

Lap 41; Webber retires and safety car is in!

Lap 42; Hamilton leads the restart… Alonso all over Vettel and Räikkönen is right behind Alonso…

Lap 43; Kovalainen passes Kubica…

Lap 44; Räikkönen takes over Alonso just as he did earlier in the race in lap 4 as Alonso did the same mistake again…

Lap 45; Räikkönen passed Vettel and was P8… Hamilton is pulling away in the lead but seems not fast enough…

Lap 46; Räikkönen passes Trulli and was in P7…

Lap 48 Räikkönen gets closer to Kubica and will be fighting for the P6…

Lap 50; Barrichello hits Coulthard and both spin and both continue to pit and repair… Hamilton pits from 1^st and rejoins behind Kovalainen meaning he has most probably lost his first place…

Lap 52; Kovalainen let’s his team mate pass him as seems that was the orders given… and Heidfeld sets fastest lap with 1:15.987.

Lap 53; Barrichello retires from the race…

Lap 54; Heidfeld pits and joins in front of Kovalainen… Piquet leads…

Lap 55; Piquet will face hard time with Massa and Hamilton behind him…

Lap 56; Hamilton is giving hard time to Massa… seems he might be passing him…

Lap 57 Hamilton passes Massa after pushing him off track…

Lap 58; Alonso spins but rejoins right a way losing his place to Rosberg… and Piquet leads with 2s…

Lap 60; Hamilton passes Piquet … Räikkönen passes Kubica and Heidfeld still putting pressure on Massa…

Lap 62; still seems good for Piquet and I’m hoping for him to stand on the podium…

Lap 63; replay of Trulli’s running off wide and as a result Vettel passing him to take P8…

Lap 65; got news from Toyota about Glock been sent to the hospital after his accident…

Last lap; Seemed Piquet will be on the podium after all… Hamilton first… Piquet 2^nd and Massa 3^rd…

FORMULA 1 GRAND PRIX DE FRANCE 2008

Kimi Räikkönen starting in pole position as he won for Ferrari the 200 pole position and Massa right behind him witch made me excited about this race… Hamilton last the 10 positions and so Alonso took his place in third!

The race has 308.586 km in distance made in 70 laps on a 4.411 km circuit… lap record is still held by Michael Schumacher in 2004.

The race started with the forecast saying a possible rain in 30 min or less!

Lap 1; Trulli take over Alonso from the take off, and Hamilton passes Vettel. But the bad luck hit Coulthard who dropped down from 11^th to 16^th. And Hamilton touched Kovalainen but not sure if any damage happened!

Lap 2; Räikkönen sets the fastest lap… Hamilton fighting behind Kovalainen.

Lap 4; Barrichello got to P17 as he started in the back because of his gearbox change.

Lap 5; Räikkönen sets the fastest lap record ones again for the race… and keeps getting the gap between him and Massa bigger… Hamilton takes over Kovalainen but in my opinion he is being bit too impatient and might be having an accident for that!

Lap6; the impatient Hamilton seems to try to take over Piquet but seems the Renault is keeping the McLaren to the back!

Lap 8; the fight continues with Hamilton and Piquet and seems Hamilton is under investigation for cutting the chicane earlier.

Lap 10; Räikkönen is far a head and sets another fast time.

Lap 12; and Hamilton still hasn’t passed Piquet… and another fastest lap for Räikkönen.

Lap 14; Hamilton did get the penalty because and goes a drive in penalty… drops back to his 13^th P!

Lap 16; and once again Räikkönen sets fastest lap! Alonso pits and Bourdais closing on Nakajima.

Lap 17; Räikkönen is almost five seconds clear from Massa. And Hamilton flying again.

Lap 18 button goes to the pit for the second time and stops his race.

Lap 19; Alonso got under pressure from Hamilton.

Lap 20; Hamilton passes Alonso and pits right after and switches to harder tyres which make me think if rain is coming he will be losing so much time as he will need to pit again.

Lap 21; Trulli pits, Kubica too and both stay on harder tyres… Räikkönen pits and keeps the harder tyres as well.

Lap 22; Glock pits, and so does Sutil.

Lap 23; Massa pits and rejoins in second.

Lap 24; Webber pits from third and seems McLaren is getting ready for a stop.

Lap 26; Piquet and Kovalainen pit and rejoin in the same order.

Lap 27; Coulthard and Bourdais pit and Kovalainen takes over piquet.

Lap 28; Hamilton takes over Rosberg for the 16^th P and we hear rain is expected for at least 5 minutes.

Lap 30; and no rain yet. And Vettel pits.

Lap 33; Trulli fights for P3 with Kubica. And Fisichella makes his first pit which make you think if he is a one-stopper.

Lap 35; seems Massa catching up with Kimi bit too fast… made me wonder if there is something wrong with the my Ica-Man.

Lap 36; Nakajima pits.

Lap 38; Massa caught up with Räikkönen… Seems Räikkönen does have a problem.

Lap 39 shows the movement on the exhaust which might be the problem! And Massa takes Räikkönen over.

Lap 41; was the lap that Rosberg stops for first time…

Lap 43 Kovalainen passes Webber… Alonso pits and joins in P12.

Lap 44; Räikkönen seems to keep his speed but doesn’t seem that as the rest are catching up with him!

Lap 47; Kubica pits and switches to softer tyre.

Lap 48 Hamilton passes Alonso and Bourdais pits… Räikkönen pushing so hard to keep his P2…

Lap 50; Webber and Glock pit.

Lap 51; Trulli pits for P3 and swaps to softer tyres… Piquet pits as well.

Lap 53; Räikkönen pits, takes softer tyres. And Kovalainen pits right after.

Lap 54; Massa pits from 1^st P and rejoins just to keep his position on the track.

Lap 58; Barrichello pits and Hamilton passes Glock for P10.

Lap 59; drops of rain seem to be in only few small places on the track… Massa’s speed drops…

Lap 60; Kovalainen giving so much pressure on Trulli. And Nakajima makes his second stop and proves my thoughts of him being one-stopper wrong!

Lap 63; Trulli fighting well for his first podium since 2005… seems he will not be losing it easy!!!

Lap 69; piquet passes Alonso and Kovalainen passes Trulli just to make a touch and lose the control for Trulli to get his 3^rd P back.

Last lap; Massa passes the finish line as first followed by Räikkönen in second and Trulli makes it and he is third!

SOME ONE SAID: OH MY GOD NORA… YOU’RE ALIVE!!!

What am I writing about!!!??? Oh god I can’t still believe what happened did happen… I’m still living in a day dream type of world…

So I have a tagged account… something like facebook if you don’t know what tagged is! So this story happens on tagged… but first is first!

Most my readers know I have been through therapy and a lot of counseling to get over past! After years of hate I was suddenly back craving for contact from Kuwait, family and past friends… I joined facebook, my space, tagged and hi5… I mean I was looking for every name came to my head… I did make great new friends… found few old ones from Finland and I got back in contact with my brother… all nice things but still no past… and what I was waiting for happened! But never thought it would feel this way!

So Monday was a holiday here and I was cooking myself topless on the beach and my daughter with me running and playing!! And in the late afternoon about 4ish I went and had a 2 hours nap… which after I went out to Napa to see the last day of the festivals… and for my daughter to have some fun! In other words didn’t even have time to check my emails, facebook, tagged and all the rest…

Now yesterday at work… 4pm had at last time to sit and read some of my stuff… my friend from Bahrain was asking if I could change my birthday party from fist weekend of September to first weekend of October as from first of September should be Ramadan!! But that I answered by I’ll check with friends and it wasn’t the big story!

I had another friend saying I saw you on the beach but didn’t want to talk with you as I was with some stupid friends from Nicosia and you were topless and you know how they are (meaning his friends)… that was answered it was cool and no worries as I appreciate your respect for my feelings!

Then was a message on tagged asking me for my email which I just deleted… and some other crab…. Until… I read a message saying I’m coming to your country (meaning Cyprus) in 3 days alone… I was confused as I had no idea who it was…

Next message (which actually is the message sent before as the messages get arranged in my inbox from newer to older) said… you didn’t change at all… still as sexy as you were and I want to apologize for not being to able to help you 10 years ago… by this time I was lost, nervous and confused!!!

Message after that said you are still (7elwa) meaning sweet or used when want to say beautiful in Arabic… still no clue of who the hell is this guy!?!?!?!

Comes the big message which in fact was the second message he has sent… says… hi Nora; nice family you have there… nice husband as it seems and sweet daughter… this is T… saying hi…

Oh my god… I was shaking… T!!!! Oh my god… oh s^*%… oh f*^#…. oh my god… and didn’t know if I was going to cry, laugh, or die… this guy I knew for years… I knew him when were kids… there was time when he thought he was in love with me, and well I didn’t help him not to be! Oh my god… T is coming to Cyprus!!! Shit, what am I going to do??? When, where and how??? I was going to throw up!! I felt so sick… but soon Cheryl came in… took me to her room… laid down the angel cards and fairy cards and in both picks came a good card saying something about reunion and good time…

By then I have sent a message back after reading T’s first message which he wrote oh my god Nora… you’re alive!!! My answer for him was pretty same as oh god… oh f*^#… oh s*^#… oh god it’s you T!!!! Oh s*^#… how are you??? Oh… oh … and more oh’s… but he got the message from between those oh’s! and he said he was coming and staying in Larnaca… I said no!!! He will have to change everything and come and stay in Agia Napa!!! And sent him my emails and phone number (which I would never do with a stranger)…

So as he called me after 2 hours of arguing on the net… I listened to his voice… oh my god it hasn’t changed a bit… my sweet friend I just want to hug and cry my past away… my sweet friend that I always truly loved as a brother…. My sweet friend that always looked at me as the sweetest girl even when I was doing horrible things in my teenage years… even though I was sleeping with his friend and still he would hold my hand and tell me Nora you are best girl I have knew in my life he says… I would say sorry for breaking your heart and being so bad to you… he said Nora sorry for not being able to help you out and you were never bad!!!

I will be chatting my nights away and my days with him as he will arrive at 3 am on Friday morning!!! Oh god… oh s*#^… I am so excited I couldn’t sleep at all!!! I’m going to be so tired in 2 days when he comes if I don’t get a rest!!! Oh I have to go to work soon, so rest has to wait till tonight!

I don’t know if anyone understands how I feel… but I’m glad I have Stelios to hold my hand and help me through my messed up brain at the moment!

IT ALWAYS HURTS WHEN YOU LOSE A FRIEND!!! :(

I though I made a friend last year… I just thought! I’m bit hurt at the moment! Now I am the type of person I don’t get upset for someone not liking me, or not being able to be my friend… as we all are different and have different opinions about people and life! So no way I will find that all the people in this world loving me… and no way would they all hate me!

This story is different… a person used to read my blog, and I read and still read his/her blog… the he/she came to visit me with some friends… we had or thought we had 3 lovely days! We kept in contact, and got few small chats of him/her, few messages and few comments on my blog… then… then suddenly everything stopped… I sent messages, I commented on his/her blog every now and then, but nothing came back!

Suddenly one night I god a text message very late and it was from him/her… saying he/she is coming with some friends… so I sent back a message saying when next morning… but guess what??? No answer!

Last night was the last thing which really hurt me! I was walking in Agia Napa when I suddenly heard someone calls my name… I look and it was one of this person’s friends that came with him/her last summer!!! I hugged him/her, chatted for few minutes and huge smile on my face! Until he/she tells me that they told my friend about him/her coming so my friend would tell me!! Then went back to the Stelios’ work place and suddenly it hit… this person really has never been my friend… it was just for fun, or curiosity about this crazy ½ Kuwaiti girl that lives and strange life and maybe it was my F1 posts, or maybe just because I seemed different!

Now if you don’t think well about me, or you don’t like me, I have no problem with that what so ever! If you don’t want to have any contact with me that is ok too! But it is rude for a person to be sending me messages at 2am drunk telling me friend I’m coming to Agia Napa then ignores my messages next morning… and it’s rude when you are told to tell me that someone is coming as I saw clearly this person have been looking for me, and was shocked as I wasn’t told he/she was coming!!!

So my friend that I thought you was my friend! I did really care and still care about you as I thought you were a lovely person! But please delete my name from your phone, emails and your msn so I wouldn’t get messages again from you at 2am!!!

It always hurts when you lose a friend!!!

FORMULA 1 GRAND PRIX DU CANADA 2008

So writing this bit late! Most have seen it and know the results… I am writing thins while watching the repeat of the race!!! The sad part I have no live timing comment to help me understand everything happening as the commentary from the recorded race is all in Greek!

So this race was in Canada! Number of laps of this race 70, the circuit length 4.361km, race distance is 305.270km… and the lap record is held by Barrichello from 2004!!

I started watching the race and the first 10 laps thinking it will be boring action free race… until Sutil had the smoke coming out of the left front side of his car and had to retire… as the flames came out of his car the safety car joined the race… slowed things down… I saw Button going to the pit and knew the pit lane was not open yet so I knew there was a penalty coming there just to hear from the race Team radio about he will be getting a penalty!

Then it was the 18th lap when the pit lane opened and suddenly beautiful view of everyone getting to the pit… there was Räikkönen, Kubica, Hamilton, Rosberg and few more… the shock come right at the time when it’s time to get out! As Räikkönen and Kubica beat Hamilton’s team work speed and well the location of the McLaren didn’t help him much in the pit either! So Hamilton got nervous lost concentration as all he thought of is the two guys beating him back to the race… so as he speeds to get out he didn’t even notice that the lights were red so Räikkönen and Kubica were waiting to be allowed to get out of the pit lane… Hamilton’s miscalculations and mental stage got him hit Räikkönen and as a result both cars were straight out of the race… sadly for me to see Räikkönen is out because of Hamilton! But the strange part for me was Kimi tapping on Hamilton’s shoulder and telling him the lights were red quite calmly as I knew if this has happened 5 years ago he would be shouting and out of his brains for the same situation!

So Rosberg had to get in the pit the next to get the nose he lost as he hit Hamilton in the clash and lost his nose…

As the best two drivers were out the race was ready for anything… not knowing what could happen was so exciting!!!

It was sad to see Piquet spin off… as he was given few more races to prove himself and if he doesn’t he’ll be replaced! But he joined the race with my prayers for him to do better!

Heidfeld pits close to the 30th lap and comes out right between Kubica and Alonso… as I call it the sandwich! So the sandwich was tight as those 3 will be fighting hard!

Watching seemed Massa was suffering, and getting few clear mistakes out there… but as he is he, he just continues strong!

By the time it was 38th lap I was thinking Kubica will have this one! And it might be his first ever win! I would like to see Kubica with a Ferrari or McLaren’s car…

Massa kept taking over other pilots which made me feel quite happy! But wasn’t sure if he could get himself in the point position…

29 laps left when I was watching the fight between Alonsos trying to take Heidfeld over and Heidfeld fight so keep his position… it was really beautiful fight… sadly right after I see Piquet out of the race… I really wish that young boy better luck in the next few races!

26 laps to go and all I see was Alonso fighting hard and suddenly loosing control and was out of the race!!! Sad as he had the chance of standing with the first three… seems he has no luck this year!

Kubica was flying… he was clearly the leader of this race… just hoping he will be the one… but was too early to be happy for him!

Massa climbed to 6th position! That was all what I was thinking of when I see Nakajima crashing in the pit as he lost his nose and got it stuck under his front tyres…

22 laps to go and I see Kubica pitting from the lead making a 7.5s stop… to come out just to claim his lead back… at this point I was sure if everything goes right, Kubica will stand as first on the podium and that was in my opinion as a great thing for the talented pilot!

20 laps to go when I was Massa taking over Barrichello and Kovalainen in one beautiful over taking!!!

18 laps to go and another car was out… Fisichella seems to have lost control and was out! And Massa got me nervous when he went to pit and I was not so sure if it was green light to pit! But seems he’s clear!

Less than 10 laps to go and all my eyes and brain were saying Kubica will be the winner! And seeing Massa taking over Barrichello got me back to the race! Now he had a chance of taking over Trulli for 5th position!

6 laps to go and I see Kovalainen having hard time… if he keeps it that way not him nor McLaren will be walking out this race with any points.

Seems BMW Sauber will be passing McLaren with points if the race ends up this way…

3 laps to go and Massa did pass Trulli and trying hard to pass the other Toyota with Glock… but don’t know if he has the time! But one thing for sure… he will be on top of Räikkönen in the point list!

Last lap and the first Polish man crosses the finish line as first and climbs up the point list to take over Hamilton by 4 points…

Amazing race… nothing as I expected… yes disappointed as my ice man lost for a fault which wasn’t his… but glad to see a good surprising race! And as I see Kubica is a true winner… glad he did win! He truly disserved it! If a man looses 7kgs to make his car lighter to help him win… this man deserve to win!!

So Kubica finished first, Heidfeld second and Coulthard in third!

Oh I just remembered Kubica’s situation last year on this track!!! I’m so happy it was different this year!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DEAR EEVA

Sorry as I will not be posting about the F1 tonight but I will do it by tomorrow after I see the repeat as sadly I will be out at the time of the race! But I’m writing this post to say few things I need to say to a lovely woman!

It’s my mother’s birthday today! Yes a lovely strong woman I know! EEVA… she keeps saying that the day she saw my bottom and breathed after hours of labor and smiled saying: it’s a girl!!! She keeps saying how proud she for having a strong woman like me for a daughter…

Well I really want to say this out loud… I’m nothing of a woman if it wasn’t for her! This woman went through hell and still walked out with head up and strong as any woman can ever be! This woman had her daughter kidnapped from her, lost her for 15 years with quite few hopes through out that period of time that made her think that life is coming back to her, just to loose it again… but she kept strong, what if that girl would show up one day on her door step!? And so that little girl did one day, but she was no little girl anymore… she was a woman and a mother herself.. she was lost, and didn’t know what to do! She was weak and she felt so lost even when she was over 20… so the next few years this amazing woman keeps teaching her lost girl how to be strong like her… if it wasn’t for her and her love, strength and advice her little girl would have grown to be as wise as I am today!

I love this wonderful mother of mine!!! I am so sad I can’t be with her today… even though she knows I am with her with all my heart as I was for in the 15 years I was forced to be far away from her! At least I was able to send her a lovely leather Gabor hand bag and some hallumi and Cyprus sausages for her to enjoy! I am truly lucky and honored to have Eeva as my wonderful mother!

FORMULA 1 GRAND PRIX DE MONACO 2008

So I took longer than usual to post the details about this race… I know usually I do it in 10-20 mi9n after the race… but today I had to go to work, and as I came back home the race was on and we had to have lunch while watching the race as I have been on empty stomach all day…

So this is the race that makes Barrichello the pilot with biggest number of grand prixes in the F1’s all time!!

Another highlight was this race is 200th race for Fisichella…

As always Monaco is the most amazing race… non stop action and accidents… but that is Monaco and that is why we love watching that race every year!

So race details… circuit length is 3.340 km, which will have 78 laps so covering distance of 260.520 km… the lap record is held my Michael Schumacher in 2004 with 1:14.439

It was raining before the race started and it was expected for the rain to continue for a while and so it did…

In the warm up lap or the formation lap… Kovalainen was stuck on the grid and got pushed into the pit… and that was where he started from.

Lap 1; Hamilton takes Räikkönen over from take off! He was second right behind Massa. And Rosberg tapped Alonso, but both continue.

Lap2; Button pits because of his ran into Heidfeld. And joins the race in last place.

Lap 3; Very wet roads and seems Massa is still going to keep his lead.

Lap 4; Rosberg pits and get a new nose because of the touch with Alonso in first lap.

Lap 5; Massa sets a new fastest lap and his lead keeps getting further away from the rest of the pilots. And Glock pits for a new nose as hi did a spin in the last corner and lost the nose. And the rain was just getting harder… and pilots will start pitting for extreme wet tyres.

Lap6; Hamilton hits lightly the barrier and get punctured because of that and pits.

Lap 7; we see Kubica pushing Räikkönen to try to take P2.

Lap 8; the pace was slowing down… seemed that the pilots truly were in need of the extreme wet set of tyres… and we see Bourdais taking over Sutil for P12. and Alonso get a rear puncture, and Coulthard lost the control and ran right to the barriers aright after him Bourdais lose it too and runs into Coulthard’s back and both cars badly damaged and waiting for lift up. And safety car is out…

Lap 9; Alonso pits… and a replay of Coulthard and Bourdais’s collision was played.

Lap 10; safety car is back in and racing is back…

Lap 11; Räikkönen gets a drive through penalty for not having his tyres fitted the required 3mins before the start… that ruins the race for my ice man…

Lap12; We hear that the weather will be improving and the rain might even stop. Alonso passes Webber, as seems his extreme wet set are helping him a lot.

Lap13; Räikkönen takes his drive-through penalty and rejoins P4 behind Hamilton.

Lap 14; Alonso hits Heidfeld and the spin on my favorite corner of Monaco. They continue though right away.

Lap 15; Alonso pits, Massa loses control and spins to get back in track right after Kubica has taken him over.

Lap 17; Kubica leads with over 2s over Massa. Webber passes Heidfeld for P5 and Sutil passes him too… seems Heidfeld is having a problem.

Lap 18; Heidfeld pits and rejoins in P11. Rain stopped but the track is so wet. Kubica sets a new fastest lap.

Lap 19; seemed Heidfeld had a rear puncture and that’s why he was slow before his pit in the previous lap!!

Lap 20; Massa sets a fastest lap and Rosberg is flying and is the fastest in S1 and S2.

Lap 22; Sutil proving himself today… from P18 he is in P6… amazing driving for Sutil…

Lap 23; we see dry land at last… Not much but just a hint… Kovalainen and Piquet’s fight for P11…

Lap24; Kubica and Massa trading fastest laps… and as Piquet locks up for the Mirabeau Kovalainen takes him over and so does Vettel.

Lap 26; Kubica pits from the lead and stays on standard wet set of tyres… and rejoins in P4 behind Räikkönen, but seems Räikkönen has a front damaged wing..

Lap28; Räikkönen pits and changes the broken nose, keeps the on set of wet tyres. After 16s pit rejoins in P6. Keeps me wondering if he’ll be a one stopper.

Lap 31; I hear from Trulli’s radio telling him to try to keep the tyres. And we see Webber sets the fastest lap with 1:30.096.

Lap 32; Hamilton gets fastest lap, just for Webber to take it from him and Massa comes to take it from them both…

Lap 33; Ferrari ready for Massa to pit, stays with wet set, and after 11s stop rejoins a head of Kubica.

Lap 34; Webber sets fastest lap… but not for long…

Lap 35; Hamilton who is leading the race takes the fastest lap to himself with 1:29.420. and Kovalainen pits and rejoins in P15.

Lap 37; Sutil steals the fastest lap to himself with 1:29.055. while Hamilton leads after him comes Massa and Kubica.

Lap 38; Trulli pits and Hamilton sets the fastest lap. Trulli change the extreme wet set to standard as every one else been doing.

Lap 39; Glock spins but continues even with the damage he got to his rear wing. Fisichella who seem he was just in to pit retires from his 200th grand prix. I was very sad for that.

Lap 40; Glock pits… and Hamilton sets another fastest lap.

Lap 41; Barrichello sets the fastest lap… 1:27.168.

Lap 42; me and my husband arguing about Hamilton’s plan with the pit! But at least we were agreeing on one thing… Hamilton will need to stop, while Massa and Kubica might not!!!

Lap 46; Renault seems ready for a stop, and rain is expected in six minutes… strangely Alonso stops and changes to dry set even with the expected rain.

Lap 47; Rosberg takes over piquet in the tunnel… I get always excited with takeovers in that tunnel!

Lap 48; Piquet pits and takes dry harder set if tyres. And Alonso almost loses control with the new dry set he has on! And Rosberg took hold of the fastest lap.

Lap 49; And as Stelios was expecting piquet lost control with the dry set that was forced on him… and was out of the race… I think Renault needs to get their heads checked for this decision that was made and as a result lost a pilot off the race!

Lap 51; Button pits, followed by Glock and Kovalainen.

Lap 54; shows Glock’s spin which was his third for today… Alonso is with the fastest lap… and Räikkönen passes Sutil.

Lap 55; Trulli pits, Barrichello pits and Rosberg too. A replay for button’s spinning.

Lap56; Ferrari ready for a stop.

Lap57; Massa pits and rejoins right behind Kubica.

Lap 58; Kovalainen sets an amazing new fastest lap 1:20.801. and Räikkönen pits and gets softer tyres.

Lap 62; a huge accident or shunt for Rosberg… I was really glad to know he got out safely and un hurt… oils on the ground everywhere and marshals lifting up the remaining for the car… yellow flag and that meant Kubica and Massa will get close to Hamilton.

Lap 63; Heidfeld pits… but is the pit lane open??

Lap67; safety car is out…. And the racing starts again….

Lap 68; Räikkönen hits Sutil and get big damage!!! What a horrible mistake don’t by my ice man… so Sutil and Räikkönen end up in pit… Sutil retires… so sad for Sutil… force India wad almost there… in first 5… so sad!!!

Lap 71; shows Sutil crying… my god I feel I need to cry with him… I really feel like giving him a long hug! Räikkönen sets fastest lap in the mean while I’m still feeling bad for Sutil.

Lap 72; the Finns will me fighting for the P8… both breaking each other’s fastest laps one after another…

Lap 73; the commenter reminds me that Barrichello will be getting his first point since 2006..

Lap 75; Räikkönen flying and keeps the fastest lap with 1:16.689.

Last lap as the time ends for the 2 hour race… Hamilton is fist, Kubica in P2 and Massa in 3… Räikkönen is in P9 with no point for today.

Amazing race full of action… Next race will be in two weeks… how can I last that long??

A JUST HAD TO ARGUE ABOUT HAPPINESS!!! :(

Ok people… first of all… I really don’t want you to take this personally, nor think I am trying to attack your believes or religion… remember ½ of my family are muslims and I love them truly!
I had a big fight with a friend today! He was telling about how he is happy as he is a muslim, and how I’m not happy because I’m a free spirited woman who is non muslim!!!
First thing came one was how happy I will be when my daughter decides to have sex… now my daughter is 8… she will always be a baby in my eyes… I will not even be able to imagine her having a husband and children… but it’s a fact she will grow up! Now I said I can’t stop her as I believe she has the full freedom and right to do what she wants after an age (here it’s 16-18)… he said so you’ll be ok if she has sex with a man that is his age (now he is 37 so by then it would be 45-47)… now I said no I will not be happy, but I can’t force her not to… and as I learned from my mother I am allowed to tell her I’m not happy about it, but if she is happy, then I am happy that she is happy!!! (now here he says I’m living an unhappy life because I can’t force my daughter to not to do what makes me unhappy)…
Later on he talks about islam and marrying other women… with my respect I did study islam and the woman has to know when he will do that and marry some one else while she is still his wife!!! Right??? Well here her agreed and said his wife is ok with it… now here when I said so you trying to convince me your wife is happy that you are having sex with another woman??? He said yes! Now he got angry when I told him there is no woman on earth that is happy that her husband is with someone else!!! Not even a sick woman that can’t give pleasure to her husband… she will still feel bitter and sad that he had to go with someone else!!!! And as I told him that (ok I was also using dirty words and he going and ******* another woman’s ***** and then coming home to put his **** in her *****)… so it was more of a fight!!!!
Now my question is… you as a man do you really believe your wife is happy (even when says ok you can get married to another) when you are sleeping with another woman????
And you woman… leave the religion aside and tell me the truth… will you be happy if your husband did that???
It might be just me that can’t see how a woman is happy when she is not allowed to complain and I am un happy because I have the freedom of choice and walking out with ½ of the house, car and everything else as well as kids will belong fully to me and he’ll have visiting rights if he ever touched another woman!!!
Please remember i’m NOT talking about islam… but about happiness in one subject!!!

2008 FORMULA 1 PETROL OFISI TURKISH GRAND PRIX

This circuit is one of the very few (this season only 3) which the direction of the race is opposite clock wise… as most races’ direction is clock wise… as a result this race is quite hard and heavy on the drivers necks, as their bodies and necks are more used to the usual direction…

Number of laps: 58, circuit length: 5.338 km, race distance: 309.396 km, and lap record held by JP Montoya: 1:24.770 in (2005)

As Kimi Räikkönen had problems with his gear box yesterday I was quite worried with him starting at 4^th position…

And as I was happy to see Heikki Kovalainen is back in track with out any problems… And he even started in second position!

Lap1; safety car was out already… Kovalainen pushed Räikkönen back so ended up behind Alonso is 6^th… Kovalainen lost his second position for that act and was 4^th, and also as a result of his act Hamilton got the 2^nd as he was 3^rd…

Lap 2; Vettel, Sutil and Nakajima pit…

Lap 3; Kovalainen pits. And Räikkönen takes a pass on Alonso and with no problems gets 4^th position back to his hands…

Lap 4; Massa sets a lap record with 1:28.174…

Lap5; Kovalainen 18^th and Räikkönen closing up on Kubica.

Lap 7; Hamilton gets the lap record with 1:27.427.

Lap 9; Kovalainen seemed to be too heavy as he was going relatively slow… Trulli closing on Coulthard…

Lap 10; Hamilton pushing hard and he sets a new lap record with 1:27.162….

Lap12; A new fastest lap for Hamilton…

Lap13; Kovalainen finally passed Sutil and was 17^th position.

Lap14; Trulli is catching up Coulthard… and Hamilton sets a new lap just to break it again…

Lap15; 1:26.641 even a faster lap for Hamilton. And we saw the replay for Piquet passing Vettel.

Lap16; Alonso pits, Hamilton after him from position 2… earlier than most expected… Massa still leads…

Lap 18; Kovalainen passes Vettel and in 16^th… Hamilton in 6^th position…

Lap 19; Webber pits, and takes harder tyres… Massa pits, takes harder tyres and gets out in front of Hamilton..

Lap 20; Räikkönen sets fastest lap with 1:26.506…

Lap 21; Räikkönen pits and gets out in front of Kubica.

Lap 22; Massa leads, Hamilton in second and Räikkönen in 3^rd… and Sutil pits from 18^th position..

Lap 23; Vettel pits from 16^th position..

Lap 24; Hamilton passes Massa and takes the lead… Coulthard pits, and Vettel pits again (seems he had a problem).

Lap 25; Rosberg pits from 5^th… and Hamilton seems so light that he just flies in the lead…

Lap 26; Hamilton pulls even feather from Massa… Bourdais is out after spinning off to the gravel…

Lap 27; Kovalainen pits…

Lap 28; Barrichello pits from 9^th position…

Lap 31; Hamilton still flying… and seemed Kubica was having some problems with the radio with the team…

Lap 32; Button and Glock pit…

Lap 34; Hamilton pits and seems he’s going for 3 stops strategy… coming out behind Räikkönen in 3^rd!

Lap 35; Kovalainen fighting hard with Glock for the 13^th position… amazing pass… it was really great one!!!

Lap 36; Piquet gives a nice show passing Button… but just to find Kovalainen pressing on him for position 11.

Lap 39; Hamilton getting closer to Räikkönen… and Sutil goes for his 3^rd stop.

Lap 41; Massa pits and Räikkönen takes the lead… and Hamilton in 2^nd… seems Ferrari is racing Hamilton.

Lap 43; Heidfeld pits from position 4.

Lap 44; Räikkönen pits from the lead and takes harder tyres and gets out to take 3^rd position.

Lap 45; Hamilton pits from the lead and get out in front of Räikkönen in second position.

Lap 46; Coulthard pits, following him Piquet… and Kovalainen get his place in 12^th position.

Lap 47; Hamilton is between the Ferraris with Räikkönen pressing hard on him. And as he came out with softer tyres which he doesn’t really like, that gives Räikkönen a better chance to pass him, but that we needed to wait and see…

Lap 49; Kovalainen passes Coulthard and I thought he would be getting a point… just to see him pit in the next lap…

Lap 51; Kimi is so close to Hamilton… big chance to take over… but all I could do is hold my breath and wait!

Lap 53; Hamilton is still under pressure from Räikkönen!!!

Lap 55; Kovalainen passes Glock taking 12^th position.

Final lap; Massa finishes 1^st for the third time in a raw… 2^nd Hamilton and third for Räikkönen.

Great race… with only 3 retirements… I did enjoy it even my hopes were for Räikkönen in second, but it’s a race and never know what the results may be…

I WILL NEED MORE TIME… OR WILL I??

So I was asked today if I stopped writing… I wonder why!!!

Yes I know the last few posts were only about F1… I know I seem out of the world… and I know I have left you all who read my posts sometimes out of it…

Well I have come back with a strange post… I know many of you disagree with me and my way of thinking… but this is the way I found my peace…

So… I joined tagged… another time of place on the net where you meet strange people that send you strange messages… there are few games and stuff I liked going other than calling stupid men names… I actually met few respectful people that shocked me with at least having manners to be able to write a nice polite message… it’s so funny at this age and after all I have seen and done to still find some people being polite as a very amazing thing!

Well that is not the story I wanted to tell… but is how it started.

I clicked on search and wrote down my dad’s first name… and chose the country China… and guess what… there he was… on a horse… I got in his profile looking for some time of feelings… I thought I was too tired to find anything coming through my heart at the moment, so I closed and went to bed… I told Stelios I saw my dad on tagged… so when we came home on Wednesday after having a long dinner with my friends at his work place, and myself had a ¾ bottle of wine… he asked me to get my dad’s profile on, he wanted to see him… then I noticed there was a website address too… I clicked on it. There was my dad’s face staring at me and having his smile that I always thought looked so fake… still didn’t feel anything… I started reading the part where he talks about himself just to realize nothing has changed in him… he said in one part he was married to a Chinese woman from 84-91 who died tragically leaving him as a single father to two boys… now he was really married to a Philippines woman from a Chinese origin from 84-88 when she just woke up one day and packed her bags and ran away from him… then after that he was married to a woman from Iran… the funny thing he did have a son from each of them… and he said he is still single, when he has been married at least 3 times since… well that wasn’t even the main part of the story… I always knew what my dad did and what he is still doing…

The strange part is I just laughed… I didn’t feel happy, nor sad… I tried to understand my feelings… but there were no feelings… I even tried to read his poems, but I just felt bla :P… nothing…

What does it mean??? Am I over him??? Did I forgive him? I’m not angry… I called him my dad with no hate… but still with no love… with nothing… I don’t know if it is time to start writing? Should I start my book now when I have no hate, and I don’t really want people to hate him… will I be fair? I don’t know if it is time… but I’m sure I’m getting there!

I am very happy I had this… and I’m sorry people as I don’t really care about hurting him so I won’t be writing down his website nor his name!!!