F1: German Grand Prix in six words
By LJ Hutchins
Sunday, July 20th, 2008
Short of time, patience or attention? Get the low-down on the German Grand Prix in less than a minute with our six-word summaries of drivers, teams and the overall race:
Overall race report
Hamilton gets McLaren off the hook
Drivers
- 1. Lewis Hamilton
- Cool head, fast car, race saved
- 2. Nelson A Piquet
- Congratulations on a well-deserved podium
- 3. Felipe Massa
- Neither car nor driver performed today
- 4. Nick Heidfeld
- Calm, solid performance on home turf
- 5. Heikki Kovalainen
- Held his own, did no better
- 6. Kimi Raikkonen
- Lap 44: pit crew replaced batteries
- 7. Robert Kubica
- Spent race battling for little reward
- 8. Sebastian Vettel
- Showed Red Bull made right decision
- 9. Jarno Trulli
- Fought valiantly but out of points
- 10. Nico Rosberg
- Colleague’s woes made him look better
- 11. Fernando Alonso
- Lost golden opportunity to make mark
- 12. Sebastien Bourdais
- Did OK, still outclassed by Vettel
- 13. David Coulthard
- Had another avoidable accident, lost places
- 14. Giancarlo Fisichella
- Kept awkward car going until end
- 15. Kazuki Nakajima
- He never really turned up today
- 16. Adrian Sutil
- Did nothing noteworthy at home race
- 17. Jenson Button
- This wasn’t world championship standard driving
- DNF: Timo Glock
- Suspension broke, suffered a horrible crash
- DNF: Mark Webber
- Competitive until debris damaged his engine
- DNF: Rubens Barrichello
- Cursing DC for ending decent run
Teams
- McLaren
- Bloody lucky Hamilton pulled this off
- Renault
- Not the podium-winner they expected
- Ferrari
- Need an answer to revamped McLaren
- BMW
- Refusing to relinquish hopes of glory
- Toro Rosso
- Showed up Red Bull nicely today
- Toyota
- Poor return on undoubted qualifying success
- Williams
- Two drivers home, otherwise nothing doing
- Red Bull
- DC clumsy, Webber unlucky, race unrewarding
- Force India
- Didn’t finish last, courtesy of Honda
- Honda
- November just can’t come soon enough
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Author: LJ Hutchins. Supports McLaren, kind of. Thinks James May gets a rough deal off the other two. Drives a Subaru Impreza but regrets its lack of bright blue paint and gold wheels. Is very nearly old enough to know better but probably never will. Is a supporter member of the BWRDC. LJ has written 1119 articles for us.
