2008 Brazilian Grand Prix

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Race details
Race 18 of 18 in the 2008 Formula One season.

Date November 2, 2008
Official name XXXVII Grande Prêmio Santander do Brasil
Location Autódromo José Carlos Pace, São Paulo, Brazil
Course Permanent racing facility
4.309 km (2.677 mi)
Distance 71 laps, 305.909 km (190.067 mi)
Weather Rain at beginning and end, otherwise drying
Pole position
Driver Flag of Brazil Felipe Massa Ferrari
Time 1:12.368
Fastest lap
Driver Flag of Brazil Felipe Massa Ferrari
Time 1:13.736 on lap 36
Podium
First Flag of Brazil Felipe Massa Ferrari
Second Flag of Spain Fernando Alonso Renault
Third Flag of Finland Kimi Räikkönen Ferrari

The 2008 Brazilian Grand Prix (formally the XXXVII Grande Prêmio Santander do Brasil) was a Formula One motor race held on November 2, 2008 at the Autódromo José Carlos Pace, Interlagos, in São Paulo, Brazil. It was the 18th and final race of the 2008 Formula One season. The race, contested over 71 laps, was won by Felipe Massa after starting from pole position. Fernando Alonso finished second in a Renault, and Kimi Räikkönen third in a Ferrari.

Before the race, Drivers' Championship leader Lewis Hamilton had received heated criticism in the British press for his aggressive driving style at the Japanese Grand Prix three weeks previously. There, Hamilton's late braking at the first corner sent Räikkönen off the road and saw the McLaren driver relegated to the back of the field after a penalty.

Massa started the race alongside Toyota driver Jarno Trulli. Massa's Ferrari team-mate Räikkönen began from third next to Hamilton. Rain fell minutes before the race, delaying the start, and as the track dried Massa established a lead of several seconds. More rain in the closing laps did not prevent Hamilton from finishing the race in fifth position, securing him the points needed to take the Championship.

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[edit] Report

[edit] Background

Heading into the final race of the season, McLaren driver Lewis Hamilton was leading the Drivers' Championship with 94 points; Ferrari driver Felipe Massa was second on 87 points, seven points behind Hamilton. A maximum of ten points were available for the final race, which meant that Massa could still win the title if Hamilton finished in sixth place or lower. Otherwise, Hamilton would be champion. In the event of a points tie, Massa would win the Championship on a count-back, having more wins. Behind Hamilton and Massa in the Drivers' Championship, Robert Kubica was third on 75 points in a BMW, with Massa's Ferrari team-mate Kimi Räikkönen fourth on 69 points.[1][2][3] In the Constructors' Championship, Ferrari were leading on 156 points and McLaren were second on 145 points, 11 points behind, with a maximum of 18 points available. As long as the two Ferraris finished in the top six, Ferrari would have secured the Constructors' Championship, even if the McLaren drivers were to finish as the top two.[1][2] Prior to this race, Hamilton was criticised by many pundits for not keeping a cool head at the 2008 Japanese Grand Prix.[4][5][6] Times columnist Edward Gorman said that Hamilton should win the Championship, but:

Alternatively Hamilton may suffer another one of his rushes of blood to the head and do something utterly unnecessary at Interlagos, just as he did in Japan eight days ago and in Brazil last year, and throw it all away ... Suddenly defending even a seven-point lead sounds a tall order.[7]

Former Formula One team owner Eddie Jordan created controversy when he said that "if Massa tries to take him out as he did in Japan in order to steal the title then Lewis has to be ready for it,"[4] adding "If he tries that on then Lewis has to turn his wheel into Massa to ensure he does not finish the race either - he has to take his wheel off."[4] Both Hamilton and Massa rejected the comments; Massa said "Playing dirty has never been part of my game. I don't want anything to do with it. The only thing on my mind is winning the race."[6]

The weekend marked David Coulthard's final race. Coulthard's Red Bull RB4 was decorated in the colours of "Wings for Life", a charity dedicated to raising awareness of spinal cord injuries. Coulthard said "I'm dedicating my last race to the vision of making paraplegia curable".[8] Red Bull Racing received approval from the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile, Formula One's governing body, to run Coulthard's car in different colours than his team-mate Mark Webber.[8] This was also the last Formula One race broadcast by ITV in the United Kingdom and Telecinco in Spain; the rights now go to the BBC and La Sexta, respectively.[9][10]

[edit] Practice and qualifying

Three practice sessions were held before the race; the first was held on Friday morning and the second on Friday afternoon. Both sessions lasted 1 hour and 30 minutes. The third session was held on Saturday morning and lasted an hour.[3] The two sessions on Friday were affected by occasionally damp conditions, which made the track moderately slippery.[11][12] Massa was quickest with a time of 1:12.305 in the first session, less than two-tenths of a second faster than Hamilton. Raikkönen was just off Hamilton's pace, followed by Kubica, Heikki Kovalainen, and Fernando Alonso. Webber was seventh, still within a second of Massa's time.[11] In the second practice session, Alonso was fastest with a time of 1:12.296, less than six-hundredths of a second quicker than second-placed Massa. Jarno Trulli took third place, ahead of Raikkönen, Webber and Sebastian Vettel. Hamilton only managed ninth place, locking his McLaren's wheels and struggling for grip.[12] Kovalainen was only quick enough for fifteenth position. The Saturday morning session was held on a much warmer track, which reached temperatures as high as 36 °C (97 °F).[13] Alonso was again quickest, posting a time of 1:12.141, narrowly faster than both McLaren drivers. Massa, Vettel, and Nick Heidfeld rounded out the top six positions. Raikkönen only managed twelfth, failing to improve on his times set early in the session.[14]

The qualifying session was split into three parts. The first part of qualifying ran for 20 minutes and eliminated the cars that finished the session 16th or lower. The second part of qualifying lasted 15 minutes and eliminated cars that finished in positions 11 to 15. The final part of qualifying determined the positions from first to tenth, and decided pole position. Cars which compete in the final session of qualifying are not allowed to refuel before the race, and as such carry more fuel than in the previous sessions.[3]

"Tomorrow, I will be focusing on my own race: it will be a tough afternoon but I'm comfortable with the fuel strategy we chose; the guys in front are probably on a different strategy. But we're in a good position to finish in the same place as we are today - and that's got to be our aim. We don't need to do anything spectacular."
—Lewis Hamilton, following the third qualifying session.[15]

Massa clinched his sixth pole position for the season, and his third consecutive pole at Interlagos, with a time of 1:12.368. He was joined on the front row of the grid by Trulli, in his best qualifying performance of the season.[16][17] Raikkönen qualified third, though was happy with beginning the race on the racing line behind his team-mate.[15] Hamilton qualified fourth, half a second behind Massa, having battled both Ferrari drivers for time during the first two qualifying sessions. Hamilton's slow pace in the final qualifying session compared to the first two suggested he was carrying more fuel than his title challengers.[17] Hamilton's team-mate Kovalainen qualified fifth. Alonso, Vettel, Heidfeld, Sébastien Bourdais and Timo Glock rounded out the top ten. Kubica only managed 13th, having struggled with overall grip for much of the day.[18] Coulthard, in his final Formula One race, qualified 14th; Rubens Barrichello was quicker than Honda team-mate Jenson Button in 15th. The Williams and Force India drivers qualified at the back of the grid, covering positions 16 to 20.[16]

[edit] Race

Felipe Massa, winner of the Grand Prix

The conditions on the grid were damp before the race, the air temperature at 28 °C (82 °F);[19] rain or thunderstorms were expected.[20] The race was due to begin at 15:00 local time (UTC-2), but was delayed by ten minutes when heavy rain hit the track at 14:56.[19] Every team but one changed the tyres on both their cars from dry-weather tyres to intermediate tyres. Kubica's car was the exception, remaining on the dry set-up.[19][21] Following the formation lap, Kubica returned to the pits, his team changing the car's tyres to intermediates.[22] This meant the Polish driver would start the race from the pit-lane.

Massa retained his pole position lead into the first corner, followed by Trulli, Räikkönen, Hamilton and Kovalainen. Coulthard was hit from behind by Nico Rosberg into turn two, spinning him around. The Red Bull car then collided with Rosberg's Williams team-mate Kazuki Nakajima. This damaged the suspension and forced Coulthard to retire in his final race.[23][24][25] Piquet spun off at the next corner, his car hitting the barriers. Kovalainen was passed by Alonso and Vettel mid-lap, dropping him to seventh.[19] The accidents of Coulthard and Piquet prompted the deployment of the safety car at the end of the first lap. The track conditions began to dry early on; Force India's Giancarlo Fisichella was the first driver to stop for dry-weather tyres, pitting at the end of lap two. He remained in 18th position.[26][27] Racing resumed on lap five when the safety car pulled into the pit-lane.[22] Rosberg and Button both pitted on lap seven, each changing to dry-weather tyres. Bourdais, Glock, Adrian Sutil and Nakajima followed a lap later. By lap 11, the rest of the field had changed to dry-weather tyres.[19][28] Fisichella benefited from pitting the earliest for dry tyres, moving up the order to a high of fifth position.[26]

Nakajima spun on lap 13, losing five seconds on the lap.[19] On lap 15, Massa set a new fastest lap of 1:16.888, and extended his lead over Vettel.[19] Hamilton remained behind Fisichella, and though his McLaren car appeared quicker, he was unable to pass the Force India driver until lap 18.[19] Glock passed Fisichella two laps later. Trulli and Bourdais collided on lap 20 into turn one, sending the Toro Rosso driver across the grass. Bourdais lost six places and rejoined in 13th place.[22][29] Trulli's Toyota team-mate, Timo Glock, passed Fisichella later on in the same lap for sixth. Massa and Sebastian Vettel traded fastest lap times; Vettel's 1:14.214 on lap 25 was surpassed by Massa's 1:14.161 a lap later.[22][30] However, Vettel pitted soon after, having been lighter-fuelled than his Ferrari opponent.[28] He rejoined in sixth position, behind Glock.[26] Kovalainen passed Trulli and Fisichella in separate manoeuvres, gaining seventh position.[19] On lap 36 Massa set the fastest lap of the race, a 1:13.736.[30]

Lewis Hamilton, winner of the 2008 Formula One season

Timo Glock was fuelled so he could complete the racing without stopping again, when he pitted on lap 36.[19] Massa was the first of the Championship frontrunners to pit, on lap 38; Alonso and Hamilton pitted two laps after. When Räikkönen pitted three laps later, Massa had regained the lead, ahead of Alonso; his team-mate rejoined ahead of Hamilton in third place.[26][28] Fisichella's stop was marred by transmission problems, dropping him to 18th position when he resumed.[19][31] Vettel pitted again on lap 51, his team fuelling him to the finish. He rejoined in fifth.[19] By lap 54, Massa had extended his already comfortable lead over Alonso to 9.6 seconds. Vettel was closing in quickly on Hamilton, the McLaren driver needing to finish no lower than fifth to win the Championship.[19]

Light rain began to fall on lap 63.[22] Heidfeld pitted and his BMW pitcrew changed his tyres to intermediates, echoing their strategy at the Belgian Grand Prix which granted the German a podium position. Kovalainen pitted on lap 65; Alonso and Räikkönen pitted a lap later. Hamilton and Vettel halted their battle for fourth position when they came into the pits to change onto intermediate tyres on the lap 66.[19][28] As a result, Glock managed to jump to fourth on the road, choosing to remaining on his dry-weather tyres.[32] Massa pitted on lap 67, meaning that all of the frontrunners, with the exception of Glock, were now on intermediate tyres. Rain began to fall heavily on lap 69, as Hamilton ran wide and allowed Vettel to take fifth position. As Massa crossed the finish line, Hamilton battled Vettel for the crucial point needed to win the Championship. However, premature joy in the Ferrari garage soon turned to disappointment as both drivers passed Glock in the final corners, the Toyota driver struggling for grip as his dry-weather tyres slid on the wet track.[19][32] Hamilton finished the race in fifth position, enough to become Formula One's youngest Championship winner, clinching the Championship by a single point. Räikkönen's third-place finish behind Alonso was enough to secure Ferrari the constructors' title.

[edit] Post-race

"Before it started to rain I was quite comfortable, and I was just focused on having a clean race. Then it started to drizzle and I didn't want to take any risks - but Sebastian [Vettel] got past me and I was told that I had to get back in front of him. I couldn’t believe it. Then at the very last corner I managed to get past Timo [Glock] - it was just amazing. This was one of the toughest races of my life, if not the toughest. I was shouting, ‘Do I have it? Do I have it?’ on the radio. It was only when I took the chequered flag and got to turn one that the team told me I was world champion. I was ecstatic."
—Lewis Hamilton, speaking after the race about the final lap.[33]

As the race winner, Felipe Massa appeared on the podium and in the subsequent press conference. The Ferrari driver said that he had "almost done everything perfectly", and expressed his disappointment that despite winning the race he had not won the Championship.[34] However, he gave his congratulations to Hamilton for his title win:

We need to congratulate Lewis because he did a great championship and he scored more points than us, so he deserves to be champion. I know how to lose and I know how to win and as I said before it is another day of my life from which I am going to learn a lot.[34]

Massa's Ferrari team-mate Kimi Räikkönen expressed disappointment in the outcome of the drivers' Championship, but acknowledged the support of his team, saying "we won at least the team championship."[34] Ferrari president Luca di Montezemolo was reportedly so angry with the result, however, that he destroyed the television he was viewing the race on.[35] McLaren boss Ron Dennis praised Hamilton, saying "He just keeps delivering and, at the end of the day, he's just two years into his career. So there's a long way to go."[36]

Hamilton received official congratulations from Queen Elizabeth II, following similar plaudits from British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and Opposition Leader David Cameron.[37] Former Formula One champions also congratulated Hamilton; 1996 Formula One Champion Damon Hill called the McLaren driver "one of the greatest drivers we have had in this country."[38] Multiple champion Michael Schumacher praised both Hamilton and Massa, saying the Ferrari driver's performance indicated his winning abilities.[39] Massa was praised for his sportsmanship after the race;[40][41] Joe Saward of GrandPrix.com said "He took defeat with a grace and a style that one rarely sees in modern sport."[42]

Timo Glock remained certain the decision to stay on dry-weather tyres when other teams were pitting for wet-weather tyres was a correct one: "We were running seventh before the rain came and we would have probably finished there if it had been totally dry. Instead we finished sixth so that shows the strategy was the right one."[43] Glock added that the conditions were so poor "I didn't even know that Lewis had overtaken me until after the race."[43]

Kubica's finish in 11th position meant that he lost third place in the Championship to Räikkönen. After the race, Kubica said "We made too many mistakes during the weekend and this is the result."[21] The team said that they had received the wrong information about track conditions at the start of the race, which led them to keep the Polish driver's car on dry-weather tyres when the rest of the field had changed to intermediates.[21]

David Coulthard expressed his disappointment in his early exit from his final Formula One race, saying that "I’m pretty gutted, it’s not how I wanted to end my career." The Scottish driver said that he had planned to perform doughnuts for the crowd, a celebration discouraged in Formula One.[25] Coulthard left Formula One after 15 years with 246 race starts and 13 wins. Red Bull team principal Christian Horner said "It’s a great shame for David to be eliminated from his last Grand Prix at the first corner, but he can look back on a long and illustrious career where he’s achieved a great deal."[25] Coulthard will continue to work for Red Bull Racing in 2009 as a testing and development consultant.[44]

[edit] Classification

[edit] Qualifying

Pos No Name Constructor Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Grid
1 2 Flag of Brazil Felipe Massa Ferrari 1:11.830 1:11.875 1:12.368 1
2 11 Flag of Italy Jarno Trulli Toyota 1:12.226 1:12.107 1:12.737 2
3 1 Flag of Finland Kimi Räikkönen Ferrari 1:12.083 1:11.950 1:12.825 3
4 22 Flag of the United Kingdom Lewis Hamilton McLaren-Mercedes 1:12.213 1:11.856 1:12.830 4
5 23 Flag of Finland Heikki Kovalainen McLaren-Mercedes 1:12.366 1:11.768 1:12.917 5
6 5 Flag of Spain Fernando Alonso Renault 1:12.214 1:12.090 1:12.967 6
7 15 Flag of Germany Sebastian Vettel Toro Rosso-Ferrari 1:12.390 1:11.845 1:13.082 7
8 3 Flag of Germany Nick Heidfeld BMW Sauber 1:12.371 1:12.026 1:13.297 8
9 14 Flag of France Sébastien Bourdais Toro Rosso-Ferrari 1:12.498 1:12.075 1:14.105 9
10 12 Flag of Germany Timo Glock Toyota 1:12.223 1:11.909 1:14.230 10
11 6 Flag of Brazil Nelson Piquet Jr. Renault 1:12.348 1:12.137 11
12 10 Flag of Australia Mark Webber Red Bull-Renault 1:12.409 1:12.289 12
13 4 Flag of Poland Robert Kubica BMW Sauber 1:12.381 1:12.300 13
14 9 Flag of the United Kingdom David Coulthard Red Bull-Renault 1:12.690 1:12.717 14
15 17 Flag of Brazil Rubens Barrichello Honda 1:12.548 1:13.139 15
16 8 Flag of Japan Kazuki Nakajima Williams-Toyota 1:12.800 16
17 16 Flag of the United Kingdom Jenson Button Honda 1:12.810 17
18 7 Flag of Germany Nico Rosberg Williams-Toyota 1:13.002 18
19 21 Flag of Italy Giancarlo Fisichella Force India-Ferrari 1:13.426 19
20 20 Flag of Germany Adrian Sutil Force India-Ferrari 1:13.508 20

[edit] Race

Pos No Driver Constructor Laps Time/Retired Grid Points
1 2 Flag of Brazil Felipe Massa Ferrari 71 1:34:11.435 1 10
2 5 Flag of Spain Fernando Alonso Renault 71 +13.298 6 8
3 1 Flag of Finland Kimi Räikkönen Ferrari 71 +16.235 3 6
4 15 Flag of Germany Sebastian Vettel Toro Rosso-Ferrari 71 +38.011 7 5
5 22 Flag of the United Kingdom Lewis Hamilton McLaren-Mercedes 71 +38.907 4 4
6 12 Flag of Germany Timo Glock Toyota 71 +44.368 10 3
7 23 Flag of Finland Heikki Kovalainen McLaren-Mercedes 71 +55.074 5 2
8 11 Flag of Italy Jarno Trulli Toyota 71 +1:08.433 2 1
9 10 Flag of Australia Mark Webber Red Bull-Renault 71 +1:19.666 12
10 3 Flag of Germany Nick Heidfeld BMW Sauber 70 +1 lap 8
11 4 Flag of Poland Robert Kubica BMW Sauber 70 +1 lap 13
12 7 Flag of Germany Nico Rosberg Williams-Toyota 70 +1 lap 18
13 16 Flag of the United Kingdom Jenson Button Honda 70 +1 lap 17
14 14 Flag of France Sébastien Bourdais Toro Rosso-Ferrari 70 +1 lap 9
15 17 Flag of Brazil Rubens Barrichello Honda 70 +1 lap 15
16 20 Flag of Germany Adrian Sutil Force India-Ferrari 69 +2 laps 20
17 8 Flag of Japan Kazuki Nakajima Williams-Toyota 69 +2 laps 16
18 21 Flag of Italy Giancarlo Fisichella Force India-Ferrari 69 +2 laps 19
Ret 6 Flag of Brazil Nelson Piquet Jr. Renault 0 Accident 11
Ret 9 Flag of the United Kingdom David Coulthard Red Bull-Renault 0 Collision 14

[edit] Standings after the race

Note, only the top five positions are included for both sets of standings.

Drivers' Championship standings
Pos Driver Points
1 Flag of the United Kingdom Lewis Hamilton 98
2 Flag of Brazil Felipe Massa 97
3 Flag of Finland Kimi Räikkönen 75
4 Flag of Poland Robert Kubica 75
5 Flag of Spain Fernando Alonso 61
Constructors' Championship standings
Pos Constructor Points
1 Flag of Italy Ferrari 172
2 Flag of the United Kingdom McLaren–Mercedes 151
3 Flag of Germany BMW Sauber 135
4 Flag of France Renault 80
5 Flag of Japan Toyota 56

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