FORMULA 1 GRAN PREMIO DE ESPANA TELEFONICA 2009

So it’s F1 time Number of Laps: 66…… Circuit Length: 4.655 km…… Race Distance: 307.104 km….. Lap Record: 1:21.670 – Kimi Räikkönen last year (2008)…

Very interesting race this will be! Ferrari seems to have solved some of the technical problems at last and Massa will be starting gin P4! But the problem is that no one since 2000 (if I remember right it was Häkkinen winning after starting from P2) has won this race without being in pole position! So I will not get excited for Ferrari but hoping at least top 3 for Massa! As it is almost impossible for Räikkönen to get there from P16!

Lap 1; Massa passes Vettel, huge collide on turn one still not sure who’s involved! Seems like Toyota! Safety car is out! Lots of marshals out on track to clear up the track!

Lap 2; So from the live timing I see Trulli, Buemi, Bourdais and Sutil all out of the race! Hamilton seems to be the fastest man on track with 2:24.326… but from P15!

Lap 3; Our TV (LTV) channel goes to advertisements and just pisses me off! I see from live timing Nakajima Pits from P12.

Lap 4; Rosberg now is fastest man on track with 2:17.745. And also from the live timing it says Further examination of the reply suggest Trulli was tagged by Rosberg tipping the Toyota into spin! But I still can’t see it with all the replays! Maybe I’m just missing something!

Lap 5; Nakajima is fastest man on track now with 2:15.374… Safety car going in this lap!

Lap 6; Barrichello in first starts the racing! Alonso and Webber go into beautiful over taking and fight for P5… but seems like Webber will be keeping it for at least some time more!

Lap 7; Barrichello fast fast fast with 2 fastest laps till now! Hamilton passes Piquet for P13! Kovalainen in the other hand seems to be bit low!

Lap 8; Kovalainen has gone to pit after dropping to last place! Hi car pushed in to the garage… seems his race is over!?

Lap 9; Button is fastest man right now! 1.1 seconds down on his teammate who is in P1!! Vettel is closing up on Massa… and it’s getting me nerves!

Lap 10; Barrichello and Button trading fastest laps and we hear Button telling his teammate if he could drive bit faster!

Lap 13; we see Räikkönen and Heidfeld fighting for P9! About 0.2s what is between Räikkönen and P9!

Lap 14; Barrichello seems pulling off at last with his fastest laps! From live timing I read Alonso and Button will be going for their first pit stop in the next 5 laps!

Lap 15; Räikkönen seems to be so close to pass Heidfeld but the BMW Sauber seems to not making it any easy and keep him back!

Lap 17; LTV goes to commercials again!!! Live timing I love you!!! Not sure how to survive with out you!!! As it tells me the battle is still going on between Räikkönen and Heidfeld but no changes yet!

Lap 18; Glock pits… Button pits… Alonso in too!

Lap 19; LTV is back to the race! Just in time for me to see Räikkönen having a problem slowing down and stops!

Lap 20; Massa and Vettel pit… Massa rejoins in P4 and Vettel in P5…

Lap 21; Barrichello leads again with Rosberg who didn’t pit yet in P2!

Lap 22; I see Räikkönen talking to press after this year’s new rule that the driver has to answers to questions of press after any misfortunes on track to explain what happened! Piquet Pits from P11…

Lap 24; Brown’s radio goes on telling Button that they are back to plan A and not doing plan B! Does that mean more stops for his teammate?? Kubica pits! Hamilton now in P7 !!!

Lap 26; Rosberg pits from P2 and rejoins in P9! And I read from the Live timing that the reason for Kovalainen’s stopped race is the gearbox!

Lap 27; Barrichello making the gap between him and his teammate (Button) bigger! Vettel in the other hand not letting Massa relax in his P3 and pushing!

Lap 28; only Heidfeld and Hamilton who hasn’t stopped yet!

Lap 31; the Brown team getting ready for a pit! Barrichello going in for the bit and Fisichella pits too!

Lap 32; Heidfeld pits and so does Hamilton! Hamilton rejoins in P10! Kubica seems to have pushed passed Glock that ended up with a short run on the grass!

Lap 35; LTV goes once again to commercials! Live timing back to you!

Lap 36; live timing makes a very interesting statement with pointing to the battle between the Brown team mates! It will be interesting how it will develop and end!

Lap 37; LTV is back to the race! Nakajima pitting!

Lap 39; Button now is far a head in front!! And Vettel is still close to Massa trying to fight for his position! And seems will not let him relax! And Barrichello who is in P4 after his rejoin from his last pit seems tot be loosing time and ground!

Lap 40; Rely shows Massa loosing his front left wheel rim that goes flying off the circuit!

Lap 41; Vettel is pushing hard!

Lap 43; Hamilton seems to have a problem with his rear tyres!

Lap 44; Massa pits, so does Vettel and they do rejoin in same order Massa in P5 and Vettel in P6!

Lap 45; Alonso pits! And we hear the brown radio telling Barrichello that the drivers in front of him went to the pit faster than they thought! Alonso rejoins right in front of Hamilton that is not making it easy for him!

Lap 47; Kubica pits! Piquet pits too!

Lap 48; Glock pits, Button pits from lead…

Lap 49 Hamilton pits! Rejoins in P10!

Lap 50; Rosberg pits and rejoins in P6. Barrichello o pits and so does Webber! Barrichello rejoins in P2… and Webber in P3!

Lap 51; Heidfeld pits… Webber now seems to have kicked off Massa from P3 and maybe Ferrari will not be standing in podium in this race either!

Lap 52; LTV went to commercials AGAIN!!!! Live timing says Nakajima makes his third stop! Button much quicker on the harder tyres!!!!

Lap 53; still on live timing Vettel close enough to try to pass Massa! Fisichella pits from P 13!

Lap 54; Massa being told from his engineer to conserve fuel!!!

Lap 55; Fisichella pits for the fourth time! Does he have a problem?

Lap 57; I hear the Ferrari radio going on again telling Massa he is using a lot of fuel! He answers back that he needs to push for the position and so he can’t do anything! And Vettel is like stuck on his back!!! I’m thinking is it better if he settles for P5 just so he won’t need to stop again and get even further!

Lap 59; Glock chasing Hamilton!

Lap 63; Vettel passes Massa! I think he is going for the P5 just so he won’t do another spot! How come a big team like Ferrari keeps doing so stupid mistakes??? I mean for god sake they don’t know how much fuel needed till the end of the race???

Lap 65; Hamilton gets lapped by Button!!! Glad the chimp is doing worse than Massa!

Last Lap; Alonso trying to over take Massa! The race finishes with Button ion first followed by Barrichello, Webber, Vettel, Alonso who took Massa over and then Massa in P6!

AND JUST SO YOU KNOW…… BAHRAIN IS PERFECT!!!!

Sorry everyone for not posting about the F1 as usual!!! I’m too busy in Bahrain and won’t have time at all to be posting!!! So I will try to post as soon as I’m back in Cyprus!!

And just so you know…… Bahrain is perfect!!!!

NORA CASSANDRA IS GOING TO BAHRAIN…

So I’m going to Bahrain!!! For the F1 race!!! Got my free tickets from a good friend!!!

So what else??/ I will be going all alone, so no my man no my girl!!! … it was first planned as the whole family… but seems money problems didn’t help or allow doing so!!!

I will be staying at my good friend’s place Leen… she is the lovely lady who came for my big 30^th birthday party back in October!!! I did wish Emmi could come at least for few days too… but I guess I only can hope she finishes here thesis soon so she will be a free woman again!!!!! Emmi… do it girl… and I’ll see you soon after!!!

I will be meeting up with Aladdin who is another friend who came over for my birthday too… then of course few other friends!!

I will enjoy the race up close…. And my god the food, tanning, all the crazy stuff going around… I am so excited!!!

I also might be getting close to some real expensive cars and taking a lot of pictures!

2009 FORMULA 1 PETRONAS MALAYSIAN GRAND PRIX

It’s noon time here in Cyprus on 5th of April 2009 getting ready for the second race of the season… The number of laps is 56 on a circuit length of 5.543 km that makes the race distance 310.408 km… The lap record was made by Juan Pablo Montoya in 2004 with a time of 1:34.223.

So I complained to LTV last week about the commenters… so did another friend of mine who thought the older man from the 2 commenters is just horrible!!! Now I got an email back telling me:

Thank you for your email but unfortunately we cannot understand why you are attacking the two commentaries we have. Have in mind that Mr. Frixos and Mr. Vanezos have a good knowledge about F1 because in the last 3 years they were doing F1 in LTV which was taped. We can understand by changing the commentaries you were used to be watching in RIK is a big change for you but even though they were people you were shouting about also.

We believe if you give a chance to our commentaries you will be satisfied because first of all they have the knowledge and secondly they are opened to your suggestions.

Unfortunately we cannot change our commentaries as you have requested but a whole team is behind them and they will give them the support needed to improve them selves.

As we said we are opened to any suggestions so please feel free to send us any comments you have.

Please do not hesitate to contact us for any more information or clarifications.

So I sent them back I am not sure who are who from the guys… but the younger guy is ok… so I can advice by changing him to be the main commenter!

And of course no answer from them and now I will have to wait and see how today will go… I hope I won’t hear something like Massa comes out of the pit in front of Massa in position 12 (when it’s should be Massa come out of the pit in front of Vettel and take P9)… yeeh those are the kind of mistakes the commenter with the good knowledge that only ever did recorded repeat shows of F1 races in past!!!

Yes!! This is me!!! I deleted you by mistake!!!

Lap 1; Rosberg, Alonso, Räikkönen had great starts… Barrichello passes Räikkönen… Kovalainen is out of the race… button passes Alonso fro P3… and Rosberg leading the race! Wow what a start!!!

Lap 2; Barrichello now is after Alonso for P4…

Lap 3; Button has the fastest lap with 1:38.217… Buemi pits for a new nose… and Kubica is out of the race… his car showed flames coming out and he did complain and said something was wrong with his car earlier!

Lap 4; Rosberg now holds the fastest lap 1:38.041 and still running fast in the lead… Barrichello passes Alonso for P4… Vettel seems to be running light!

Lap 5; button gets closer to Trulli… and I see a replay with Vettel passing Hamilton for P10… and expecting rain in 10 minutes…. And showing Glock and Webber fighting for P7 and almost touching!!!

Lap 6; Vettel trying to for P9 with Heidfeld…

Lap 7; heavy rain is expected… we hear that from Brawn’s radio…

Lap 9; Barrichello now the fastest on track… but Trulli takes it with 1:37.887 before even I could see what was Barrichello’s time! …. Heidfeld makes a mistake and loses control for a blink of an eye and was enough time for Vettel to pass him and for Heidfeld to drop to P11…

Lap 10; McLaren is predicting rain now on their radio…

Lap 11; Rosberg is leading and sets a fastest lap… Räikkönen passes Alonso and now runs in P5… and button makes the fastest lap with 1:37.579…

Lap 12; button is so close to Trulli now!

Lap 13; Webber passes Alonso…

Lap 14; Vettel is in the pit goes for soft tyres and 10.7s stop and rejoins in P17.

Lap 15; button records a new fastest time 1:37.555… Rosberg heads to the pit 9.7s stop and rejoins in P4 with his new set of softs!

Lap 16; Glock pits and Sutil…

Lap 17; Webber pits and stay with soft tyres and rejoins in P14. Trulli pits from lead and now button leading…

Lap 18; Barrichello makes the fastest time on track for sometime just for button to take back again for himself! Räikkönen pits and goes for wet tyres… seems like a gamble… we will wait and see!

Lap 19; Sutil makes a second stop…

Lap 20; button pits from the lead stay with soft’s and rejoins in P2… and Räikkönen going slow on his wet tyres…

Lap 21; Barrichello pits and go with soft tyres and rejoins in P4… rain drops on the camera!!! yeepeeee!!!!!!!

Lap 22; Räikkönen is the only one with wet tyres on track… Alonso looses control and was in very bad position where thought is he going to be out of the race!?!?!? But he makes it back!!

Lap 23; button in pit, Barrichello, Trulli, Hamilton, I mean every one… except for Räikkönen, but he is running behind because of his early gamble! … It doesn’t seem that early wet tyres were in right time!!!

Lap 24; we hear the McLaren’s radio saying Räikkönen’s tyres are completely destroyed… so maybe he will have to go in as well soon! Webber passes Hamilton but Hamilton fights back and takes the P6 back!!! But Webber passes him again…

Lap 25; Vettel passes Nakajima for P11…

Lap 26; Glock is doing very well and passes Heidfeld…

Lap 27; Vettel pits… Barrichello is in P3 now…

Lap 28; Barrichello passes Rosberg… Webber passes Trulli… and Hamilton pits…

Lap 29; Barrichello and Trulli pit… Glock now is running in P2… Alonso pits and so does Nakajima… and button pits from lead… Webber is in too!

Lap 30; Massa pits… and replay of Vettel passing Piquet for P10… button gets the lead as Glock pits…

Lap 31; Webber, Rosberg and Massa are in the pit… Hamilton pits… every one is going for full wet!! Fisichella spins out of the track but get back in… Vettel has stopped and his race is over!

Lap 32; button pits once again and takes the full wet and rejoins back in lead… Trulli and Barrichello is in pit… safety car is out…

Lap 33; red flag… every one heading to the grid… drivers out of their cars so the pit team could work on their cars… we hear Massa freaking out asking for his wipers as he can’t see anymore… and we hear his control team to try to relaxing him and telling him to calm down as it’s on it’s way! Seems for it to be a 10 min stop before restart… Race been suspended and most drivers are out of their cars…

If the race can’t be resumed seems ½ points will be given for the drivers who have completed 75% of the scheduled race distance. Hamilton is the one of the only few drivers still in his car. The race can’t stop before the 2 hours has passed… and seems the rain is calming down…

Less than 20 minutes left for the race… Räikkönen in his garage so I don’t know what his plan is if the race starts… other cars in grid getting moved around and seems they will continue the race! The first 2 cars will have to start 1,5 minute earlier than the rest as they are one lap a head of everyone else…

We Räikkönen out of his race suit and eating ice cream he stopped his race…

Less that tem minutes left for the 2 hours and the control revealed the race will not be restarted… the race is over and button is the one with highest points with 5 points which is ½ of the 10… and Heidfeld is second with 4 points… Glock in third with 3 points…

Been a while since I have seen a race that was stopped this fast… it was interesting but u did not want to watch just ½ a race!

2009 FORMULA 1 ING AUSTRALIAN GRAND PRIX

It’s Sunday 29.3.2009… First race is Australian grand prix… The number of laps is 58. On a circuit length of 5.303 km… Making the race distance: 307.574 km! And of course as no one has still broke the lap record of 1:24.125 it’s still held by Michael Schumacher which he made in 2004.

My bad luck is the F1 has changed its TV channel in Cyprus… It’s now shown on LTV which is a paid channel while last year it was on Rik (TV) which was the main Cyprus free TV… The commentary was amazing on rik… Now on LTV the old man commenting sounds like a dead old man! He is really horrible and the young man with him (who is quite ok) keeps correcting his mistakes at all times… I mean for god sakes I am paying to watch this… I think the least they can do is put great commenter!!!

So as it seems the race will be very interesting! And great new surprises were shown yesterday in the qualification! Now the race will start so to the race!

Lap 1; red lights went off, the cars lounged and a horrible start for Barrichello… But great one for my favorite man (Räikkönen) and for Massa… Räikkönen who is now in 5^th and Massa who is P3 now! Seems good for the red team! Heidfeld pits because of the puncture in his rear tyre… Webber pits too… and seems Kovalainen follows them!

Lap 2; seems Kovalainen having problems and might be stopping… the team still working on him!

Lap 3; Hamilton passes Fisichella and in P11 now… Button seems to be doing well in the front of the pack and keeping his lead! And yes… sadly Kovalainen is out… too bad for the Finnish man on his first race for this season!

Lap 4; fastest lap for Vettel with 1:28.999. And we hear Barrichello’s radio telling him he has damage on his left side!

Lap 5; Vettel goes faster and closes the gap between him and button… Hamilton is trying to pass Piquet for P9…

Lap 6; Button pushes and goes faster to set a new fastest best lap…

Lap 7; But Vettel is behind him pushing harder and takes back the best lap time from Button… Hamilton passes Piquet and now driving in P9.

Lap 8; Button and Vettel seem to be swapping fastest lap time… Rosberg is trying to pass Räikkönen…

Lap 9; Button is about 4 seconds leading the pack…

Lap 10; Rosberg passes Räikkönen on turn 1… Barrichello tyres to pass Räikkönen but end up touching his car and sending him to pit! Trulli pits too.

Lap 12; Massa pits and takes the medium tyre… Hamilton pits and goes for harder tyres…

Lap 13; Kubica pits and changes to medium!

Lap 14; button and Vettel are still there in the head of the pack leading the race!

Lap 15; Barrichello still carrying the damage in his front wing from touching Räikkönen’s car in lap 10!

Lap 16; Vettel closing on Button…

Lap 17; Vettel pits and goes harder tyre… Rosberg pits and seems to have a slow pit and problems with his front left tyre comes out in p12 and see Räikkönen passing him!

Lap 18; button sets the fastest lap… Nakajima hits the wall and gets out of his car and he seems ok! And safety car been asked out!

Lap 19; Barrichello pits and takes a new nose… Buemi pits and so does Glock… Button pits and stays on hard tyre…

Lap 20; safety car is out… Heidfeld pits… Piquet pits… Fisichella and Alonso pit too… and seems Fisichella forgot where his pit stop is and made it a mess causing him much longer in the pit!

Lap 21; Button leads behind the safety car and making his gap shorter with the pack behind him!

Lap 22; Bourdais pits… and race control tells the lapped cars to take over so they would take the right position they should be in behind the safety car…. it seems all Button’s hard work just went to waste and has to do it all over now…

Lap 23; Sutil pits… Hamilton reporting that lack of temperature in his new harder tyres could be a problem!

Lap 24; safety car is going back in after this lap… and we see Massa and his trick in keeping his tyres warm… …. Piquet spins out of the track!

Lap 25; and the cars recharge… Hamilton passes few cars to take P11… Alonso passes Glock… and a replay to Piquet’s incident which shows he just got nervous when Rosberg came out of the pit as he thought they might touch and lost his control!

Lap 27 ; button is leading with 2 seconds now… Vettel behind him in second… Massa in P3 followed by Kubica in P4 and P 5 is Kimi Räikkönen!

Lap 29; we hear from Buemi’s radio a warning that Rosberg is closing up to him!

Lap 30; we see Button’s father in the pit sitting and watching with all his nerves!!

Lap 31; Button leads over 4 seconds…

Lap 32; Massa pits and takes harder tyres. And rejoins in P14 behind Fisichella…

Lap 33; Trulli pits from P6, takes harder tyres… in P13 right behind Fisichella as well!

Lap 35; Kubica is the fastest man on the track… 1:27.989… Sutil pits from P17…

Lap 36; seems Räikkönen, Hamilton and Glock all pushing hard and set personal best laps… Webber who has been not the best race in his home race. He goes in for his second pit stop!

Lap 37; Kubica is the fastest man on track in P3!!!

Lap 38; seems BMW Sauber getting ready for a pit stop!

Lap 40; Kubica pits from P3 and harder tyres for him… Räikkönen pits and harder tyres for him too… they rejoin to have two cars between them!

Lap 41; Kimi Räikkönen in 10^th while Kubica in P7… but Räikkönen passes Glock after he span and now Räikkönen is in P9…

Lap 42; Buemi makes his second stop from P8. And we see Button leading the race with about 5 seconds!

Lap 43 Hamilton is closing up to Rosberg and makes us think would he be trying for P4 before he goes in for the second pit?

Lap 44; Hamilton pits from P5 and harder tyres for him… out in front of Massa…

Lap 45; Rosberg in the pit… Heidfeld pits… and Räikkönen hits the wall!!! At least he is still running!

Lap 46; Vettel pits from P2 and out in front of Barrichello… Barrichello tries to take him over but it was a lost attempt!

Lap 47; Massa has a problem… seems he is going in! Button is in the pit too!

Lap 48; Massa is pushed in the garage. He is out of the race …. Button still in the lead!!! And Räikkönen in P15!

Lap 49 Rosberg sets fastest lap with 1:27.706… a slow lap for button and Vettel closing up!

Lap 50; Hamilton trying hard to pass Trulli but still can’t!!! Fisichella pits… Kubica will be trying to pass Barrichello sometime soon for P3!!!

Lap 51; Glock pits! Softer tyres…

Lap 52; Barrichello pits from P3 and rejoins behind Rosberg in P5… Alonso pits…

Lap 53; Barrichello passes Rosberg for P4… but far from Kubica who is over 20 seconds in P3!!!

Lap 54; Hamilton is in 6^th now after passing Glock and Rosberg! … (Yes I still really don’t like the guy)…

Lap 55; Alonso also takes over Rosberg for P8!!!

Lap 56; 3 laps to go. And sadly Kubica and Vettel collide when Kubica tries to take Vettel over… and both out of the race!!!

Lap 57; Vettel still on track on three wheels driving his car to the pit…

Lap 58; Räikkönen pits for the fifth time and seems he stays in… and Vettel couldn’t make it to the pit and stopped his car on the side of the track!

Last lap; Trulli third, Barrichello second, Button first!!! Passed the finish line! It was a sad race to Vettel that I would have liked to see him on the podium after his hard work… and very sad race for the red Ferrari… as both drivers out of the first race of the season!

SOME CHRISTMAS HAPPINESS AND MADNESS! :-D

So Christmas went well. Had few nice gifts… And Iida had bit too many! Hehehe!

Well my good lovely friend Anne is visiting. She is from Finland and long time friend! Great friend we are talking about!!! She is a friend of Emmi and other friends of mine too… glad to have her! As I haven’t seen her for about 3 years! And she couldn’t make it to my birthday party in October!

So we went out with sweet Kia and few other friends on Saturday in Agia Napa… we started in jasmine from there headed to Babylon and from there to car wash… and well ended in piazza then went for early morning snack at 5…

Now a story happened. Of course when Nora Cassandra is out some kind of stories has to happen… I don’t know it might be my crazy energy that attracts them!!! So… I was dancing… oh yeh moving with the grove with Anne on the dance floor in car wash, and… AND!!!! This man seems sober enough! Comes dancing close to me and Anne… ok we ignore as you get many of those… but as I was wearing my new baby look dress and my push up bra my boobs looked great… I mean amazing!!! So he was looking at them and I didn’t really care… but…BUT… he comes closer and puts his eyes like 10cm from my boobs… stairs for like 30sec… takes few steps back and looks at me and smile… now me… I did not smile… I was so pissed off how men could be so disrespectful and disgusting! So… SO!!!! I slapped! I slapped him really hard and looked at him so angry… he almost cries… and looks at me in such a shock… then leaves the night club…

Yep now I feel bit sorry for the man… but maybe next time he would think before doing such things!

2008 FORMULA 1 SINOPEC CHINESE GRAND PRIX

Number of Laps: 56, Circuit Length: 5.451 km, Race Distance: 305.066 km, and Lap Record: M Schumacher (2004) – 1:32.238

Hamilton is starting from the pole position, Räikkönen second, Massa in third, Alonso in fourth and Kovalainen in fifth… it’s a very stressing race… If Hamilton finishes first and Massa by any chance drops under the fifth then the championship will be in Hamilton’s hands from today already! And well that is for sure what I don’t want!!!

We hear that there could be rain in sometime after the race starts from the BMW Sauber’s radio… and as it seems computers in the race saying there is 40% chance of rain during the race!!!

Lap 1; Kovalainen passes Alonso and almost passes Massa… just for Alonso taking back his position in fourth back right before getting to the second lap… Kubica moved from 11^th to 8^th. Heidfeld from 9^th to 6^th. And the Toyota who’s gone off th track in the begging gets to pit…

Lap 2; Hamilton leading with 1second… Webber passes Glock and in P11… and seems Bourdais fell from 8^th to 18^th… new nose for the Toyota…

Lap 4; Trulli is back in the pit climbs out of the car…

Lap 5; Hamilton leads with over 2 seconds… doesn’t seem that the Ferraris will be catching up anytime soon…

Lap 6; Bourdais passes Sutil now in P17…

Lap 7; Webber passes Barichello and runs now in P10…

Lap 8; Räikkönen seems to be pulling up and getting faster… he is keeping in touch with Hamilton while Massa seems he can’t keep up… and there seems Kovalainen might be having a prob… but still not clear!

Lap 9; Rosberg is stuck behind Glock fighting to take P12… Hamilton fastest lap again…

Lap 10; Webber passes Piquet… and Räikkönen takes over the fastest lap…

Lap 11; seems the sot tyres warmed up on the Ferrari at last… Räikkönen seems to be catching up and taking one fastest lap after another… from over 4 seconds between the Finn and Hamilton to 3,7seconds…

Lap 13; Rosberg passes Glock finally… Webber pits goes with softer tyre in 7.6s… Hamilton and Räikkönen almost the same pace now… and Hamilton takes the fastest lap back from Räikkönen…

Lap 14; Massa is getting faster…. Replay for Piquet’s off track brief incident in the final turn… seems Ferrari ready for a stop…

Lap 15; Massa pits… Alonso right behind him… Massa stays on softer tyre and Alonso changes to harder… Alonso rejoins right behind Piquet and Massa rejoins in P7… Hamilton pits…

Lap 16; Räikkönen right behind Hamilton in the pit… Hamilton stays with harder tyre and in a 9.4s stop… Räikkönen goes harder tyre in a 9.3s stop… Rosberg pits… Kovalainen leading… Replay explains Sutil’s back in pit as seems smoke coming from the back of his car…

Lap 17; The first stops are playing in Hamilton’s advantage…

Lap 18; Heidfeld makes first stop… stays harder tyre and takes 8.3s in pit… and rejoins in front of Glock.

Lap 19; Kovalainen pits from lead… 10.3s and harder tyres for the Finnish… Vettel pits and keeps harder tyre in a 10.7s stop…

Lap 20; Barichello pits…

Lap 21 Massa still seems to be in the back not catching up with the leader, I’m not sure the soft tyre was a good choice for him…

Lap 22; Räikkönen is getting faster than Hamilton… And Renault telling Alonso that Kovalainen has more gas and will run at least 6 laps longer than he would…

Lap 23; it’s showing that Kubica is taking the chance and might be going for the one stopper on this race!!! Very difficult if that’s his plan! Button P12… Hamilton seems to have a good adjusts on the front wing and easing away from Räikkönen…

Lap 24; Bourdais pits.

Lap 25; Piquet pits from P6… Massa’s speed seems to be improving…

Lap 26; Kubica pits… stays on harder tyre in a 6.7s stop… that means he is a 2 stopper!

Lap 28; Räikkönen is getting closer to Hamilton…

Lap 29; Coulthard makes his first stop from P9… Fisichella pits too.

Lap 30; Räikkönen is half a second closer to Hamilton because of the traffic that slowed Hamilton a little!

Lap 31; Räikkönen hits traffic… Now he slowed down while Hamilton got his act together…

Lap 32; Nakajima finally makes his stop which seems to be his only stop… Webber is in the pit also… Bourdais is in P14 after passing Coulthard…

Lap 33; Glock is the last man to stop… Hamilton leads now 8s…

Lap 34; Kubica is in P7 now… and we hear Renault or the radio telling Alonso to push more… and Alonso doesn’t disappoint them and pushes to get a better personal lap…

Lap 35; McLaren ready for stop… the plan must have been for Hamilton to go in, but Kovalainen’s front right tyre punctured and it was Kovalainen in pit… rejoins the race in P17…

Lap 37; Alonso pits from 4^th takes softer tyres in a 7.8s… Massa pits and take the harder and gets out after a 7.5s stop and rejoins in fourth…

Lap 39; Hamilton and Räikkönen pit… both change to softer tyres… Piquet makes his second stop…

Lap 40; Heidfeld pits from P2… Hamilton leads… Bourdais and Rosberg pit…

Lap 41; Kubica pits…6.2s stop and takes the softer and rejoins in 7^th… and we see the gap between Räikkönen and Massa getting smaller… he will have to give his position to Massa for the points…

Lap 42; Vettel pits, Kovalainen makes up to P16…

Lap 43; Massa is very close to Räikkönen who will not make it hard for his team mate to pass him…

Lap 44; Button makes his second stop…

Lap 45; Kovalainen and Webber fighting for P15… and Nakajima and Bourdais fighting for P13…

Lap 48; the game has to played right… as it’s not allowed any more to be given your position to any one even if it is a team mate… so that is what taking Massa a long time to pass Räikkönen with now is less than 2s close…

Lap 50; Finally Massa passes Räikkönen… Kovalainen pits for third time and park in the garage…

Lap 51; Alonso is closing up on Räikkönen…

Lap 54; Alonso sets a personal best lap as trying to chase the podium!

Final lap; Hamilton leads and seems to have slowed himself down so no chances for any accidents… will he be the champion of 2008???

Hamilton in first, second Massa, third Räikkönen and Alonso in fourth… and Kubica finished in 6^th which means he is out of the title!!!

2008 FORMULA 1 SINGTEL SINGAPORE GRAND PRIX

Number of Laps: 61 Circuit Length: 5.067 km Race Distance: 309.087 km and the lap record still to be made today!

First night race… over 1600 lights used to light up the track…

Lap 1; Massa leads… Hamilton right after him followed by Räikkönen! Vettel and Glock pass Kovalainen…Alonso made it to P12.

Lap 2; Hamilton set the fastest lap and a reply shows the between Kubica and Kovalainen that caused the fin to lose 2 positions…

Lap 4; Massa takes the fastest lap from Hamilton…

Lap 6; new fastest lap for Massa… Räikkönen is over 8sec behind so that’s almost 6sec behind Hamilton! … and yellow flag showing… something on the track that I can’t still understand what… looks like a piece of a front wing…

Lap 7; Rosberg takes over Trulli after a long fight…

Lap 8; seems Massa took the piece from the track and has it under his car… hope it won’t make big damage!

Lap 9; Alonso takes over Trulli as well… Räikkönen now with the fastest lap and about 4sec from Hamilton!

Lap 10; Räikkönen seem to be catching up well… he sets even another fastest lap and he is closing up to Hamilton!

Lap 11; and another fastest lap for the fin!!! My ice man is flying!!!

Lap 13; Alonso in pit (super soft tyre and 9.8sec)… and Räikkönen is closer to Hamilton… and Massa takes the fastest lap.

Lap 15; Rosberg pushing and flying in his sectors… new fastest lap for Räikkönen… Barichello pits… and an accident by Piquet… and safety car is out… and a reply for piquet’s accident coming out of turn 17… he was unhurt and safely out of his car!

Lap 16; Rosberg pits… and seems he will be penalized as what it seems the pit line not open…

Lap 17; Kubica pits… and surly will get a penalty for it!

Lap 18; pit line open… Ferrari pits… Massa… what a disaster… it was horrible… he left on his green light but it wasn’t ready… he ended up pulling the gas hose and break it with him, and one mechanics might be hurt… Räikkönen pits and get out while Massa still waiting for the mechanics to take off the hose that was stuck…

Lap 19; Rosberg leads but he seems to have a penalty waiting for him… and what seems safety car is going in, in the end of the lap… and Rosberg’s stop might have been ok!

Lap 20; Massa is last after the pit disaster…

Lap 21; Massa is under investigation…

Lap 23; Rosberg still leads and pulling away in the front… Räikkönen P15…

Lap 24; Massa gets a drive through penalty because coming out in front of Sutil in the pit…

Lap 25; Rosberg and Kubica both were found to have to serve a 10sec stop penalty for pitting when the pit lain was still closed!

Lap 26; the control telling Rosberg to stay out and keep pushing till they call him in for the penalty… seems also that is good news for Alonso who is running in P5.

Lap 28; Kubica get in the pit for his penalty… and he rejoins the race in last position.

Lap 29; Rosberg pits for his penalty too… and rejoins in P4…

Lap 30; Trulli leads… Alonso in P2… Fisichella get to make his first and what seems his only pit stop with 13.1sec stop meaning a lot of fuel… and Webber is out of the race!

Lap 32; Massa pits (super-softs and 7.3sec stop)

Lap 33; Trulli pits from lead (super- softs for him too in 9.9sec stop)…

Lap 34; Kubica pits…

Lap 35; Massa passes Bourdais… Kovalainen pits from P11. And Alonso is pulling away from Rosberg…

Lap 37; Hamilton stuck behind Coulthard in P4.

Lap 38; Räikkönen starts going after point for the Ferrari…

Lap 40; Alonso still leads… Sutil makes his second stop…

Lap 41 Rosberg pits (soft tyre and 8.7sec stop)… and Renault getting ready for a stop. Alonso pits from lead (stays on harder tyres and 7.6 sec stop) and he rejoins in the lead…

Lap 42; Hamilton tries to pass Coulthard… Hamilton pits from P2 (swaps to softer tyres in a 7.7 stop)… Coulthard is in too but he tries to get more fuel… Hamilton rejoins in P7 and Coulthard rejoins in P9.

Lap 44; Vettel and Heidfeld both make their second stop. And a replay shows Kubica passing Fisichella for P13.

Lap 47; Glock pits…

Lap 48 Glock drops to P5 after the stop… and we hear Coulthard telling his team that he’s having problems with the breaks…

Lap 50; Räikkönen is doing so well behind Rosberg, but I’m sure he has to stop again!

Lap 51; Trulli going slow seems heading to the pit… Räikkönen does pit (6.6sec and harder tyres) to rejoin in P5… Sutil hits the barriers at turn 18… safety cars out again…

Lap 52; Trulli pits and seems to retire… and reply for Sutil’s accident… and Trulli is out of his car and the race!

Lap 53; safety car is in, in this lap…

Lap 54; racing continues… Alonso leading, Rosberg in second, Hamilton P3, Glock P4 and Räikkönen P5…

Lap 55; Hamilton pressuring on Rosberg…

Lap 56; seems Alonso got this race…

Lap 57; I hope Räikkönen passes Glock… but will need to wait and see!

Lap 58; But instead in the turn 10 of this lap he runs to the wall and breaks his right side of the car totally… he is out once again! This now seems to give the chance for Williams to be the only team with both cars in the top 8!!!

Last lap; Alonso’s victory this year… ok it’s his very first podium this year too… Rosberg (1/2 Finnish ) in second… and Hamilton in P3! Glock in P4…

I HAVE BEEN HAVING LOADS OF FUN

So yes… I have been having loads of fun… I will be adding so many pics to my facebook as soon as I get back home!

So movie on Friday ended up being fully booked and we didn’t get in… Yes sad even though the movie has been in the theaters for many many weeks! Well maybe next time… so story continues… so Emmi and I decide to call and make our dinner reservations bit earlier!! And I still didn’t know what the restaurant we were going to is! And so we end up in Katajanukka which is a beautiful area in Helsinki… and then she walks with me to a hotel… my surprise is that hotel used to be a jail just 4 years ago or so… so here we are in this jail that looks so amazing as a hotel from inside… it was cool… then we go downstairs for the amazing meal in jailbird… http://www.jailbird.fi/ … the meal was perfect, service was amazing… and the tour to the jail cell was so fun…

Then we head to the party… and we were going to barfly… where my friends where playing… I saw DJ Defkut… my god he hasn’t changed… still good music amazing style and perfect smile!!! and of course I had my good friend Olga and her man DJ Rahim… yes it was great having them around as they have been some of my best friends in Finland for years! You can see some photos of me and the party in this web add… http://www.playerscrib.net/images/albums/Back-2-Back/ …

the day after was my cousin Lauri’s wedding… it was nice as well… so seems I couldn’t get any rest… as my birthday was on Sunday… and I can officially say and smile about being over 30!!!

Story will continue later!!! :*

HOLIDAYS IN FINLAND

Holidays in Finland… Well good things… I mean amazing stuff… Emmi keeps making me happier everyday for being her friend… my mum look amazing after loosing the extra kilos she had on when I saw her last… so many friends and family to see…

So I arrived on the 13^th… saw my mum, out of the door with Emmi for the evening as we went to a lovely Moroccan restaurant… Fez the name if I remember right… beautiful food, service and place!!!

Next day… missed my F1 … as I had to joined friends for lunch and bowling… in this new place called flamingo… I was impressed!! Well I don’t think I would have been the most excited one seeing Räikköenen loosing more points as I’m enjoying my time in Finland… spent the end of the evening with my mum…

Then came the week… much more to continue later as I have to run again to join Emmi for a movie, dinner and nightclubbing!!!

Kisses to all…