Formula One 2007.....

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This Week-end without Shumi.....

Australia GP

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I can't wait until they come to Bahrain.

I will be the first one to attend.

[FORTUNATO]

I can't wait until they come to Bahrain.

I will be the first one to attend.

Bahrain is soon



Kimi Raikkonen kicked off his challenge for the 2007 Formula One world title in dominant fashion as he cruised to an easy win in the Australian Grand Prix.

The 27-year-old Finn, who was making his first start for Ferrari, led away from pole position and, save for the few laps either side of his two pit-stops, stayed at the front for the entire 58 laps at Melbourne's Albert Park circuit.

After building his lead as high as 17 seconds, he was able to ease off over the final ten laps and eventually came home 7.242 seconds ahead of the McLaren of world champion Fernando Alonso.

The victory was Raikkonen's first since the 2005 Japanese Grand Prix, the tenth of his career, and gave him an early two-point lead in the drivers' championship over Alonso.

"The weekend has been very good," said Raikkonen. "Today the race was not easy - before the start my radio broke so it was bit complicated.

"At least we had a plan so I knew pretty much what I had to do, even though it wasn't ideal. I just tried to pace myself and not push too hard."

Raikkonen essentially won the race after building a 16-second lead before his first pit stop on lap 18.

He was helped by a bad start from Alonso that dropped him behind both Nick Heidfeld and Lewis Hamilton in the second McLaren, but managed to maintain his pace advantage even after the BMW Sauber man had dropped back with a lap 14-stop.

After the German had dropped back it was left to the McLarens to fight it out for second. The gap between Hamilton and Alonso waxed and waned but always remained less than 2.5 seconds as the British rookie made a number of minor errors due to the rate at which he was pushing.

One of his mistakes was key to Alonso's second place. With his final pit-stop imminent on lap 42, Hamilton was baulked by Takuma Sato's Super Aguri while he was trying to lap him.

His failure to lap him quickly resulted in him having to follow the Japanese down the pit lane at a slower speed than he would have liked.

It was all the incentive Alonso needed as he banged in a number of quick laps while low on fuel and took second when he pitted for the last time three laps later.

Nevertheless it was still a sensational performance from Hamilton, who became the first British driver to finish on a Formula One podium on their debut for 41 years.

Heidfeld's early pit-stop cost him track position to his Polish team-mate Robert Kubica, but he re-inherited fourth on lap 38 when the latter retired with gearbox problems and went on to finish in the position, proving BMW's winter form was not at all deceptive.

Fifth was the first of the Renaults in the hands of Giancarlo Fisichella, who had a quite race until the final stint when he was caught by Felipe Massa's Ferrari.

Massa, who started 22nd and last following a pre-race engine change, made steady progress throughout the race as he made the most of his one-stop strategy.

He was into the top ten by half-distance and then passed eventual seventh and eighth place finishers Nico Rosberg and Ralf Schumacher when they pitted for the final time, before going on to finish less than half a second behind the Renault.

Rosberg should get special credit for a great performance in his Williams, and he pulled off the move of the race too as he dived down the inside of Schumacher's Toyota with his front wheels locked on lap 40.

Schumacher looked set to lose another place to Renault rookie Heikki Kovalainen, but was appeased when the Finn let over-exuberance get the better of him and spun at turn one, losing what was then eighth to Massa, after putting wheels on the grass on two occasions earlier on.

He eventually finished ninth, ahead of the second Toyota of Jarno Trulli.

Right behind them was a classic battle for 11th between Alex Wurz's Williams and David Coulthard's Red Bull.

But that came to an end when Coulthard proved Red Bull really does give you wings by trying an audacious move at turn three that launched him over the top of the Austrian's car and left him lucky not to flip over.

Earlier on, the race had seen retirements for Scott Speed's Toro Rosso when a front-right tyre blew at 180 mph and terrifyingly pitched him off the track, and Christijan Albers, who crashed his Spyker while trying to untangle a cable inside his earplugs.

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well done Ferrari ^^ , but Schumi is missing ...
I'm really impressed by Mclaren and Hamilton

for the Germans :: Heidfeld did a good job , and we can say after Ferrari and Mclaren comes BMW ;-) very good

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well done Ferrari ^^ , but Schumi is missing ...
I'm really impressed by Mclaren and Hamilton

for the Germans :: Heidfeld did a good job , and we can say after Ferrari and Mclaren comes BMW ;-) very good

Yes Hamilton and McLaren, Did a double, one two, it is a suprise...
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Fernando Alonso grabbed the lead of the Formula One World Championship with a dominant victory in the Malaysian Grand Prix.

The 25-year-old Spaniard took the lead on the opening lap of the race and never put a wheel out of line thereafter to take his first win in McLaren colours by a commanding 17.557 seconds.

His British team-mate Lewis Hamilton completed a superb McLaren one-two - the first time the team had achieved such a feat since the 2005 Brazilian Grand Prix - as he held off a hard-charging Kimi Raikkonen right to the end.

Alonso's victory was the 16th of his career and gives him a slim two-point lead over Ferrari driver Raikkonen, who won in Australia three weeks ago.

Alonso won the race in the first few hundred yards as he dived inside pole-sitter Felipe Massa at the first corner of the race and disappeared into a lead he would only briefly lose during the pit-stop sequences.

Key to the race was Hamilton's audacious move around the outside of Massa at the very next turn, which left the Ferrari driver desperate to get back past.

So desperate in fact that after an earlier unsuccessful attempt at turn four, he stuck his red machine up the inside of Hamilton's Mercedes-Benz powered vehicle at turn four on the fifth lap but left his braking far too late and careered off the track and onto the grass – dropping two places to fifth.

Raikkonen took up the challenge for second, but looked to be out of the picture by two thirds distance, at which point he was 13 seconds behind the Brit.

Hamilton though, was not at all comfortable on the hard tyres his team fitted at his final pit stop. It was all the incentive the flying Finn needed as he carved over seven tenths of a second per lap out of his rival's advantage.

The GP2 champion though, belied the fact that it was only his second Grand Prix, and hung on to finish a brilliant second with Raikkonen's third keeping him well and truly in the championship hunt.

Fourth, for the second race running, was German Nick Heidfeld for BMW Sauber, who again performed masterfully to finish ahead of Massa's Ferrari.

The battle for sixth began with a brilliant scrap between Robert Kubica and Nico Rosberg, but the Polish driver's charge was interrupted by a faulty traction control system, which forced him to pit for repairs on lap 12.

The lengthy stop dropped him to the back of the pack, with a late-race spin at turn seven resulting in him finishing there too.

German Nico Rosberg looked to have the position sewn up but his Williams ground to a halt with only five laps to go with a hydraulic failure, moving Giancarlo Fisichella's Renault into the place.

After Renault's problems in qualifying, sixth was at least a solid result for the world champion squad, who also saw their Finnish charger Heikki Kovalainen score his first Formula One point in eighth place behind Jarno Trulli's Toyota.

Mark Webber provided some entertainment at the end of the race as he closed in on Alex Wurz – the man who took his Williams seat during the winter – but could not pass him as the pair completed the top ten.

Honda raced far better than they qualified with Rubens Barrichello and Britain's Jenson Button rescuing some pride in 11th and 12th – which was at least ahead of the Super Aguris who use the same engines as them.

The latter squad's British charger Anthony Davidson took 16th – one spot ahead of Vitantonio Liuzzi, who had to change his Toro Rosso's front wing at the end of the opening lap following a collision with Adrian Sutil that put the Spyker driver out of the race.

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I can't wait until they come to Bahrain.

I will be the first one to attend.

So next week is BAHRAIN GP

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Actually FORTUNATO I live in Bahrain, and after tomorrow I will get the ticket, and hopefully I will post the pictures in the forum.