Lewis was able to bring himself up to 11th by the second lap. He continued to attack his McLaren-Mercedes to its full potential and even beyond to bring himself up to 4th by the end of the race.
When Kubica and Vettel (who I had bets on to win) crashed out at turn 3 with only 3 laps to go, making me very angry and making the safety car deploy. The official timings however claimed that Hamilton was 3rd, but suddenly changed to 4th.
After the race, officials have decided to penalise Juano Trulli and smack him with a 25 second penalty leaving him feeling low in twelth place. Trulli had apparently according to sources slid of the track after managing to retain his 3rd spot behind the safety car allowing Hamilton through. Trulli obviously thought that he was entitled to retake his position and overtook Hamilton during the safety car, which is not allowed.
The McLaren Mercedes team also saw Hekki Kovalinen have to retire after the turn one incident involving him knocking into Reubens Barrichello who then pushed into Mark Webber, who took out Nick Heidfeld and forced the Spaniard Alonso to vacate the incident using the grass.
In conclusion in this race we have seen that the McLaren Mercedes team have a lot of work to do to be as fast as the Brawn GP team, however with Lewis able to overtake using his supreme skills, we could see McLaren back at the top soon. Hopefully Hekki still has the fighting spirit in him.
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To get 3rd the way he did isn't what you like to see,
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exactly at least give trulli 4th, this is clearly mclarens fault if they only carried on and took 3rd and trulli took 4th everyone would go home happy eg macca trulli toyota lewis, stewards fia and the fans.
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exactly at least give trulli 4th, this is clearly mclarens fault if they only carried on and took 3rd and trulli took 4th everyone would go home happy eg macca trulli toyota lewis, stewards fia and the fans.
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Hall_Green_Wolf - You are very, very wrong. Can't understand you in any point. If you really are thinking this way, it is a catastrophe. All top 5 drivers deserved the result. It was just great. What's wrong with you, go away...
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