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Welcome to WPF1. Ther is a Newsletter exclusive to WPF1 members. All we ask are things listed. Chubbennaitor 16:54, 9 May 2008 (UTC)
Lucas Di Grassi
Hi Cdhaptomos. I've reverted your change of moving
Talk:Lucas Di Grassi, but if the consensus is that it needs to be changed, then we need to change it everywhere throughout Wikipedia. Regards. DH85868993 (talk
) 22:24, 14 May 2008 (UTC)
WD
Could I ask y u removed the WD for the Monaco Grand Prix of Sato and Davidson. Chubbennaitor 20:59, 25 May 2008 (UTC)
What I don't understand is y for SA but not the drivers. I'd understand not every one and update per race but not just one WD and expect people to automatically know that they withdrew from every race ( as far as we know). Chubbennaitor 21:07, 25 May 2008 (UTC)
I know they weren't expected but they still withdrew didn't they. I know that if I'd just got interested in F1 and I saw the page I'd want to know why they haven't been marked down. They don't need WD but the white boxes would be fine. Chubbennaitor 10:34, 26 May 2008 (UTC)
Never mind. They withdrew from everything but the decision is ok. Chubbennaitor 13:07, 27 May 2008 (UTC)
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Individual Explorer Scout units are just not going to meet our requirements for
notability. Unlike, say, Vijay Mallya or Aberystwyth (subjects on which you have edited in the past), the DESU is simply not of international relevance or interest. --Orange Mike | Talk
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NW recipient
Welcome to the NW. If you want to edit it you may after adding your name to the contributors list. Chubbennaitor 16:42, 11 June 2008 (UTC)
Lewis Hamilton lived up to McLaren's expectations with a memorable win at a rainswept Monaco Grand Prix.Carnage after the pit lane pile-up. Rosberg just becomes untangled while Hamilton and Raikkonen get out of their carsCarnage after the pit lane pile-up. Hamilton and Raikkonen's cars left stranded on the pit-lane exit.
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) which is decided on every 25th-27th of each month. The picture has to be one uploaded that month and only from the current season.
It is exclusive to the Newsletter.
May picture-Jenson Button at the Malaysian Grand Prix, notice the difference of the wings from what now stars.
(and there is more there for the championship) for complete standings and statistics. ^Note 1 : Super Aguri withdrew from the championship on the Wednesday before the Turkish Grand Prix.
^Note 3 : Sebastian Vettel, Fisichella and David Coulthard got five plae grid penalties for changing their gearbox. [1] ^Note 4 : Car #17 and #21 were under investigation for reasons undiscovered and there wasn't an outcome in the end
Note 1: Vettel didn't qualify after hitting the wall and damaging his STR3 in Saturday morning practice.
Note 2: Bourdais changed his engine after qualifying and got a five-place grid penalty (to the back of the grid.
Note 3:
Toro Rossos
.
^Note 4 : Mark Webber spun at the end of Q2 but with a secured place in Q3. He did not set a time due to the car not being suitable to drive.
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21:05, 12 June 2008 (UTC)
Former F1 team infoboxes
Hi Cdhaptomos. I notice you are adding {{
Former F1 team}} infoboxes to several articles. Good work! But may I make a request to save some rework later - would you be able to insert a space between flagicons and the associated text (e.g. Craig Pollock rather than Craig Pollock), per WP:F1 standard practice? There's no need to go back and update the ones you've already done, but if you could do this for any future ones that would be good. Thanks. DH85868993 (talk
) 17:24, 14 June 2008 (UTC)
On second thoughts, again in the interests of saving possible future rework, you might want to hold off on adding too many flags into the infoboxes - we have discussed the issue of flags in infoboxes a couple of times at WP:F1 (see
, then click "Edit this page" and add the tag to the image's description. If there doesn't seem to be a suitable tag, the image is probably not appropriate for use on Wikipedia.
Thanks for fixing my error of accidentally removing Stirling Moss from the list of notable drivers for Connaught Engineering. DH85868993 (talk) 02:53, 18 June 2008 (UTC)
Congratulations
Congrats on your excellent Connaught engineering page! Keep working to make it better! 195.194.57.194 (talk) 12:24, 23 June 2008 (UTC)
Wikicookies for Editing
Just giving out some Wikicookies as you seem to have been working hardPreceeding Wikicookie placed by EoinMahon, 18:59, 23 June 2008
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as Williams could not pass Benetton's points total with only one race remaining.
Jean Alesi, driving for Ferrari, started second beside Schumacher. However, since his car had moved forward before the start, he was forced to serve a 10-second stop and go penalty. Alesi climbed up to second, before retiring on lap 25.
(and there is more there for the championship) for complete standings and statistics. ^Note 1 : Super Aguri withdrew from the championship on the Wednesday before the Turkish Grand Prix.
I've copied the text of the last revision to User:Cdhaptomos/TwoChairs. However, the only way it will be able to become an article eventually is to back it up with multiple independent reliable sources. Please don't attempt to recreate the article until you have some. Thanks.--SarekOfVulcan (talk) 12:22, 10 July 2008 (UTC)
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Images
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It is exclusive to the Newsletter.
Article of the month: Forti (current GA candidate)
Forti Corse, commonly known as Forti, was an Italianmotor racing team chiefly known for its brief, and unsuccessful, involvement in Formula One in the mid-1990s. It was established in the 1970s and competed in lower formulae for two decades, with some success. The team graduated to F1 as a constructor and entrant in 1995 and continued into 1996, before succumbing to financial problems mid-season. The team competed in a total of 27 Grands Prix, scoring no points, and is recognised as one of the last truly privateer teams to race in an era when many large car manufacturers were increasing their involvement in the sport.
(and there is more there for the championship) for complete standings and statistics. ^Note 1 : Super Aguri withdrew from the championship on the Wednesday before the Turkish Grand Prix.
Hi I'm back. See you're part of the NW. Hope you sty and hope get to know each other more. Chubbennaitor 18:05, 12 August 2008 (UTC)
Great! Just ell me wat you want to do to be a part of it. The last other roles we had were people writing articles for us but we've decided against that if you see what you want to do it ill be done. (There is the role of finding out all the article specifications which Diniz is doing (He knows what he's doing moe than me)). Chubbennaitor 07:12, 13 August 2008 (UTC)
RE: Welsh translation request
Thanks. :D I need the Wikimedia Foundation's donation form translated into Welsh (Cymraeg). The existing translation hasn't been updated since 2005. :'( If you would be willing to help, the source and workspace can be found on Meta-Wiki: m:Donate/cy. Thanks again for your help with this, it's very much appreciated. Cbrown1023talk 21:30, 15 August 2008 (UTC)
Wow, that was incredibly quick, I'm impressed. :-) If you happen to know anyone else who speaks cy who would be willing to review your translation (we try to get the pages reviewed by at least one other person before we upload them), could you point them to the page? About the English pages, that is exactly what I would have told you to do, so thanks. :-) Cbrown1023talk 23:45, 15 August 2008 (UTC)
Vanwall. I've filled in the missing information. For future reference, information such as number of races, wins, poles, fastest laps, etc for former F1 teams can be found here. Regards. DH85868993 (talk
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Could you explain what Two Chairs is and how you became a part of it? I'm still trying to understand this because it doesn't have a proper explanation on what it is. Chubbennaitor 17:10, 20 August 2008 (UTC)
How do you become a citizen and does that become my official nationality and all those pages as a sub-page for you concerning Two Chairs might need to become actual pages. Chubbennaitor 16:40, 21 August 2008 (UTC)
Send out tomorrow
I think the NW should go out tomorrow due there's no other things going on. Chubbennaitor 17:52, 28 August 2008 (UTC)
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It is exclusive to the Newsletter. REMEMBER, YOU CAN VOTE.
August picture - Felipe Massa at the European GP Friday Practice session.
New images
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2006
2007
2008
Circuits
Article of the month -
Good Article
Max Rufus Mosley (born April 13, 1940) is president of the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA), a non-profit association that represents the interests of motoring organisations and car users worldwide. The FIA is also the governing body for Formula One and other international motorsports.
Mosley is a former
car safety
performance assessment programme. He has also promoted increased safety and the use of green technologies in motor racing. In 2008, Mosley retained his position after stories about his sex life appeared in the British press.
(and there is more there for the championship) for complete standings and statistics. ^Note 1 : Super Aguri withdrew from the championship on the Wednesday before the Turkish Grand Prix.
9. Can you please edit the NW. I don't know your last edit to it. I know it doesn't need much help but an edit once in a while it would be nice; I'm sorry for it sounding rude. Chubbennaitor 16:38, 4 September 2008 (UTC)
If you look at the old Newsletters you'll see that that was deducted. The Newsletter was td that it was leaving it's point, the WikiProject. I had to fight for the results part of the NW and I won but everything you see is everything we can think of to do with the NW. If you can thin of anything else please mention it in the Next NW talk page. Chubbennaitor 19:10, 4 September 2008 (UTC)
I know you're going to be busy this ear and so am I but pleeeaaasssee edit the Newsletter because me and Diniz cannot do it by ourselves. Chubbennaitor 19:47, 10 September 2008 (UTC)
Hey there is no need to be snappy. I'm busy to. It is actually quite hrd it might not seem like it is but it's hard to keep up. Chubbennaitor 08:32, 21 September 2008 (UTC)
Oxford Wikimania 2010 and Wikimedia UK v2.0 Notice
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As a regularly contributing UK Wikipedian, we were wondering if you wanted to contribute to the Oxford bid to host the 2010 Wikimania conference. Please see here for details of how to get involved, we need all the help we can get if we are to put in a compelling bid.
We are also in the process of forming a new UK Wikimedia chapter to replace the soon to be folded old one. If you are interested in helping shape our plans, showing your support or becoming a future member or board member, please head over to the Wikimedia UK v2.0 page and let us know. We plan on holding an election in the next month to find the initial board, who will oversee the process of founding the company and accepting membership applications. They will then call an AGM to formally elect a new board who after obtaining charitable status will start the fund raising, promotion and active support for the UK Wikimedian community for which the chapter is being founded.
You may also wish to attend the next London meet-up at which both of these issues will be discussed. If you can't attend this meetup, you may want to watch Wikipedia:Meetup, for updates on future meets.
We look forward to hearing from you soon, and we send our apologies for this automated intrusion onto your talk page!
Allegations of cheating in the 1994 Formula One season
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as Hill could not pass Schumacher's points total with only two races remaining.
Hill started the race alongside Coulthard on the front row, amidst pressure from the British media for not being "forceful" enough in battles. Schumacher attempted to drive around the outside of Hill at the first corner, but Hill held Schumacher off as
slick tyres
, to close on Coulthard who was on a two-stop strategy. Schumacher opened up a gap of 21 seconds by lapping two seconds faster per lap than Coulthard, so that when his third stop came, he still led the race.
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*Hamilton was given a 25 second + to his racing time demoting him to 3rd place gifting Felipe Massa the win 1. McLaren appealed with hard evidence 2. Timo Glock also recieved this penalty for overtaking under the yellow flag dropping him to ninth place out of the points.
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It is exclusive to the Newsletter. REMEMBER, YOU CAN VOTE.
October picture - Massa driving out of Eau Rouge over the crest of the hill at the 2008 Belgian Grand Prix.
New images
2007
2008
Article of the month -
Good Article Candidate
The 2008 Belgian Grand Prix (formally the LXIV ING Belgian Grand Prix) was a
2008 Formula One season. The race, contested over 44 laps, was won by Felipe Massa for the Ferrari team, after the initial winner, McLaren driver Lewis Hamilton, was penalised for cutting a chicane and gaining an advantage over Ferrari's Kimi Räikkönen
.
Hamilton started from
BMW Sauber
.
Hamilton received a drive-through penalty, which demoted him to third place and advanced Massa and Heidfeld to first and second positions. McLaren appealed the decision at the FIA International Court of Appeal. Their case, however, was judged inadmissible, with the Court ruling that drive-through penalties cannot be challenged. The penalty created a large amount of criticism from the global press, mainly from the United Kingdom and Italy, with several former drivers questioning the decision. Massa's retrospective win, with Hamilton demoted to third, narrowed the gap in the Championship from six points to just two.
(and there is more there for the championship) for complete standings and statistics. ^Note 1 : Super Aguri withdrew from the championship on the Wednesday before the Turkish Grand Prix.
The Newsletter regrets that it has to inform readers of the death of WP:F1 member Pete Fenelon, who passed away in October (please see Wikipedia:Deceased Wikipedians for more information).
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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.
Merry Christmas. Chubbennaitor 17:16, 18 December 2008 (UTC)
WPF1 Newsletter (December)
The WikiProject Formula One Newsletter wishes you a Merry Christmas and all the best for 2009. Year I · Issue 12 · December 3, 2008 – December 31, 2008
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Autódromo Internacional do Algarve
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New images
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1991
2008
Article of the month -
Featured Article
status after review.
Damon Graham Devereux HillOBE (born 17 September 1960) is a retired British racing driver from England. In 1996 Hill won the Formula One World Championship; as the son of the late Graham Hill, he is the only son of a world champion to win the title. His father died in a plane crash when Hill was 15, leaving the family in reduced circumstances and Hill came to professional motorsports at the relatively late age of 23 by racing motorcycles. After some minor success, he moved on to single-seater racing cars, and progressed steadily up the ranks to the International Formula 3000 championship by 1989, where although often competitive he never won a race.
Hill became a test driver for the Formula One title-winning
1996 World Drivers' Championship, but was dropped by Williams for the following season. He went on to drive for the less competitive Arrows and Jordan
teams, and in 1998 gave Jordan its first win.
Hill retired from racing after the 1999 season. He has since launched several businesses as well as making appearances playing the guitar with celebrity bands. In 2006, he became president of the British Racing Drivers' Club, succeeding Jackie Stewart.
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Thanks for your help with the article. Can I just say though, it would make more sense for me (as the nominator) to respond directly to comments from other users on the review page. While I agree with the comments you have left there, there is a general expectation that it is the nominator who deals directly with the reviewers. Apterygial 23:20, 19 January 2009 (UTC)
Wikimania Oxford bid
Some time ago you indicated your support of the Oxford 2010 Wikimania Bid, and it was recieved with much gratitude. I now ask if you could could help support our bid by contributing to the bid page that is located at: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_2010/Bids/Oxford. Now is the critical period for work to continue on the bid as the official bidding period has now started and the jury has been formed.
I do not ask for huge swathes of time, just enough that with eveyrone working on this, it can be completed in time to the high standard required in a bid. For the bid page, an excellent source of information is the travel wiki article on the City of Oxford which is found at: http://wikitravel.org/en/Oxford. The chance of bringing Wikimania to the UK is the best so far and i expect the best chance for many years. With a fresh and stong UK chapter we have an amazing opportunity to put ourselves on the map. If you have any questions, please mail them to the Wikimedia UK mailing list, email me or post a message on my talk page and i will answer as quickly as possible.
I look forward to working with you on the bid page. Many Thanks. Seddσntalk 15:13, 31 January 2009 (UTC)
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open-wheeled auto racing defined by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA), motorsport's world governing body. The "formula" in the name refers to a set of rules to which all participants and cars must conform. The F1 world championship season consists of a series of races, known as Grands Prix, held usually on purpose-built circuits, and in a few cases on closed city streets. The most famous Grand Prix is the Monaco Grand Prix in Monte Carlo. The results of each race are combined to determine two annual Championships, one for drivers and one for constructors
.
Michael Schumacher holds the record for the most Grand Prix victories, having won 91 times. Alain Prost, is second with 51 wins, and Ayrton Senna is third, with 41 wins. Michael Schumacher holds the distinction of having the longest time between his first win and his last. He won his first Grand Prix in 1992 at the Belgian Grand Prix, and his last in 2006 at the Chinese Grand Prix, a gap that spans 14 years, 1 month and 1 day. The youngest winner of a Grand Prix is Sebastian Vettel, who was 21 years, 73 days old when he won the 2008 Italian Grand Prix. Luigi Fagioli is the oldest winner of a Formula One Grand Prix; he was 53 years and 22 days old when he won the 1951 French Grand Prix.
Hey there! I'm making a centralised "library" if you will of books that Wikipedians own; the idea is to give a single place of reference where users can go to find other users who might have texts on a subject they are writing about, rather than what we have at the moment (various users having books they own scattered around in places). Would you have any problem with me including your texts given here in the library? Ironholds (talk) 22:58, 10 February 2009 (UTC)
I would have no problem at all. The list isn't fully up-to-date, so I'll try and do this ASAP and let you know when I have done.
You may also be interested in the WikiProject Motorsport library, which lists all books owned by various members on the subject of motorsport.
Please let me know where this list is: I am willing to help you, if you wish. Cdhaptomostalk–contribs 09:25, 11 February 2009 (UTC)
Well it turns out the project existed before I had my bright idea; see
Wikipedia:Library. I'm just shoving all the books in there since it seems incredibly underused. Ironholds (talk
) 09:34, 11 February 2009 (UTC)
Webber
Hi
Thanks for doing that - my eyes were starting to go lol
just a couple of little things, I would have preferred if you had left the editorial notes in, they are there to point out to others who may have already edited. One of the ones you removed now says "stall" which means he would have stalled his engine and there is no way he would have been able to start the engine and be in 10th place at the first corner, so I have had to put that one back - it was simply there to remind the editors to change the wording after they had researched what happened, or to point out to the original editor that it may be wrong. Those hidden things aren't part of the GAR assessment as far as I am aware and are ok to leave in.
Please don't think I am in any way ungrateful for you reading it through, I am grateful, very !
Sorry about that, I didn't see the point in leaving them in as I thought the problems has been resolved. I am still reading through (I'm at 2007 now), so I will be finished in a bit. Cdhaptomostalk–contribs 12:54, 16 February 2009 (UTC)
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The result extended Ferrari's lead over McLaren in the Constructors' Championship from seven to 11 points. Third-placed in the Drivers' Championship, Robert Kubica's sixth place at the Grand Prix eliminated his hopes of winning the Championship, and reduced his lead over fourth-placed Räikkönen to six points.
Explanation: Since I'm not allowed to ruthlessly take over the F1 project's newsletter (the urge is a local thing, I live in the same city Rupert Murdoch started off), I figured I could whet my appetite for doing something a little different by producing what should be a one-off newsletter. It's packed full of information about the project's *ahem* 19 articles, where they're going and who is taking them there.
The path of the 2008 Japanese Grand Prix article was not so smooth. Lasting an incredible 26 days, and making rare use of the talk page, the FAC was somewhat of a marathon, but with the help of several members of the project, and many concessions, passage was made.
One of my favourite pictures, from the 2008 Chinese Grand Prix
2008 Belgian Grand Prix was the first 2008 race report to attain Good article status, way back in November, after a truly horrific GAN (my first article assessment on Wikipedia, incidentally). In the end, it doesn't really matter, as I intend to carry out a major re-write on the article later this year, and have a shot at FA.
In stark contrast,
FAC
, but as this was around the time the Japanese article was there, I had no intention on following him up on it, and still don't.
Remember that
AlexJ
.
Current nominations:
2008 Bahrain Grand Prix. Great shot!
After another
GAN
. Not a lot to report back here, so we'll move on.
peer review as part of this project to be listed by someone other than me, when Darth Newdarasked
the community for suggestions. So far, reviews have come from me and AlexJ, and I believe I can speak on behalf of the Sith when I say "more, please!"
Another of my favourite pictures, this time from the 2008 Belgian Grand Prix
If you are reading this because you are scavenging through someone else's talk page, allow me to explain the point of this project. We are here, in our electronic capacity, to make the
. This means at least seven articles to FA status, and the rest to GA status. Currently, as you should have been able to work out, we have two FAs and three GAs. While content writing is the key aspect, others such as copyediting, helping with peers reviews or just pointing out where the articles are just plain wrong are quite important.
Reminders
Rather than spam everyone when an article reaches PR or FAC, it would be better simply to leave a message on the project's talk page. For this reason, it may be a good idea to put the page on your watchlists if you want to be alerted to such things.
Everybody loves this picture, from the 2008 Australian Grand Prix
If you are writing an article, don't be afraid to take your lead from the existing GAs and FAs, particularly the later ones. This includes not just the format (with one section for Practice and qualifying) but paragraphs as well; the explanation of qualifying (which most recently appeared in the Bahrain article), originally written by D.M.N., has been hammered out across several PRs and FACs, to the point that I believe it is quite watertight. It is an important explanation, because modern qualifying practices in F1 are actually fairly hard to understand if you have never come across them before.
There is a project userbox, if you're interested. I don't even use it, but you can if you want.
The status box should be updated whenever an article changes class, which I believe people have been doing to this point anyway. I also use it to indicate (with links) whether an article is at PR, GAN or FAC, so it can be quite a useful page to keep an eye on.
Members
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Hamilton maintained his startline advantage and led until he made his first pit stop on lap 18. As other cars made their pit stops, Hamilton regained the lead on lap 22. On lap 36 Timo Glock crashed, and the race was neutralized by the deployment of the safety car. Hamilton, on a two-stop strategy, did not stop to get more fuel during this period, while all the cars around him did. Thus when he did eventually stop on lap 50, he rejoined the race in fifth. In the closing stages of the race, Hamilton overtook first his team-mate Heikki Kovalainen, then Massa, and finally Piquet, to take the lead again on lap 60, which he maintained to win the race.
The victory was Hamilton's second consecutive win, having won the preceding
BMW Sauber and Ferrari. Ferrari still led by 15 points from McLaren, and 12 from BMW, whose drivers – Nick Heidfeld and Robert Kubica
† After the race, Trulli was originally given a 25-second penalty for passing Lewis Hamilton (4th, +2.914) under yellow flags.[2] However, due to misleading the stewards, Hamilton was disqualified and Trulli's penalty was overturned. [3]
* Timo Glock (1:26.975, 6th) and Trulli (1:27.127, 8th) were both disqualified from qualifying and sent to the back of the grid, as their Toyotas' rear wing elements were in breach of the rules.
The race was red flagged on lap 33 and the results were taken from lap 31.
* Sebastian Vettel (3rd, 1:35.518) got a 10 place grid penalty for his collision with Kubica at the previous Grand Prix. [4]
^ Rubens Barrichello (4th, 1:35.651) got a 5 place grid penalty for a gearbox change. [5]
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Woddup
Two things, first, although I'm not hugely keen on your idea for the Portal, I have no major problems to you implementing it, though I would ask that you wait until it has gone through
WP:MII that you signed up to write 2008 Monaco Grand Prix. I would love to write the article to FA standard, starting this week. I think for your first GP article you would be better off writing something a little less epic. :) I made the mistake of making 2008 Belgian Grand Prix my first, and really didn't do a very good job. Would you mind if I took over responsibility for Monaco? Cheers, Apterygial
11:17, 19 April 2009 (UTC)
Thanks for both. I'll keep Malaysia on ice for you. Apterygial 11:20, 20 April 2009 (UTC)
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Renault a lap later, breaking off the McLaren's front wing
and dropping Hamilton to the back of the field.
Kubica's strong finish promoted BMW Sauber to the lead in the
points
behind, respectively. Räikkönen took the lead in the Drivers' Championship, with 19 points, three points ahead of Heidfeld and five ahead of Hamilton, Kubica and Kovalainen, with 15 races remaining in the season.
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Super Aguri team had withdrawn from Formula One, due to financial problems, leaving the sport with only ten teams. Massa's victory was his third consecutive pole position and victory in Turkey, having also won the race from pole in 2006 and 2007. This was also Rubens Barrichello's 257th Grand Prix start, breaking Riccardo Patrese's previous record of 256. Due to the race result, Räikkönen's lead in the Drivers' Championship was lowered to seven points. Massa rose to second from fourth, whilst Hamilton dropped to third, both drivers tying on 28 points but separated by Massa's two wins thus far to Hamilton's one. In the Constructors' Championship
, Ferrari increased their lead to 22 points ahead of BMW Sauber, with McLaren a further two points behind in third.
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Conditions were wet at the start of the race. Massa maintained his lead into the first corner, but his teammate
grid. Hamilton suffered a punctured tyre on lap six, forcing him to make a pit stop from which he re-entered the race in fifth place. As the track dried and his rivals made their own pit stops Hamilton became the race leader, a position he held until the end of the race. Kubica's strategy allowed him to pass Massa during their second pit stops, after the latter's Ferrari was forced to change from wet to dry tyres. Räikkönen dropped back from fifth position to ninth after colliding with Adrian Sutil's Force India late in the race. Sutil had started from 18th on the grid and was in fourth position before the incident, which allowed Red Bull driver Mark Webber to finish fourth, ahead of Toro Rosso driver Sebastian Vettel
in fifth.
The race was Hamilton's second win of the season, his first in Monaco, and the result meant that he led the Drivers' Championship, seven
points ahead of Räikkönen and eight ahead of Massa. Ferrari maintained their lead in the Constructors' Championship
, 16 points ahead of McLaren and 17 ahead of BMW Sauber, with 12 races of the season remaining.
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