Sebastian Vettel produced a faultless drive at Silverstone to lead a Red Bull one-two in the British Grand Prix. The 21-year-old tyro finished 15.188 secs ahead of Red Bull team-mate Mark Webber to prove that the much-improved Milton Keynes-based team have the potential to challenge for world championship honours in the second half of the season. Vettel started from the fourth pole of his career and was never challenged as he pulled clear from the start and delivered a perfectly-judged drive to secure the third win of his brief career - and his first in dry weather.
Il tedesco Sebastian Vettel precede il compagno di squadra Webber e la BrawnGP di Barrichello. Felipe quarto con la prima rossa davanti a Rosberg, Button e Trulli. Raikkonen ottavo.
Jenson Button of Brawn GP extended his lead in the World Championship standings to 26 points by winning the Turkish Grand Prix in Istanbul from Red Bull duo Mark Webber and Sebastian Vettel. Button’s team-mate Rubens Barrichello, who had said earlier in the week that he expected to fight for the title, lost ground after retiring late in the race. McLaren’s reigning world champion Lewis Hamilton finished 13th after being lapped by his British compatriot for the second successive race. Jarno Trulli (Toyota), Nico Rosberg (Williams), Felipe Massa (Ferrari), Robert Kubica (BMW) and Timo Glock (Toyota) filled the points places.
L’inglese della BrawnGP Button trionfa nella settima prova del Mondiale davanti alle Red Bull di Webber e Vettel e a Trulli. Poi Rosberg e la prima Ferrari, quella di Felipe. Raikkonen è nono.
Briton Jenson Button took a dominant victory in the Monaco Grand Prix from Brawn GP team-mate Rubens Barrichello, with Ferrari’s Kimi Raikkonen completing the podium. Raikkonen’s colleague Felipe Massa was fourth ahead of Mark Webber of Red Bull and Nico Rosberg of Williams, while Fernando Alonso of Renault and Sebastien Bourdais of Toro Rosso completed the points positions. McLaren’s reigning world champion Lewis Hamilton, who won in Monaco last year, trundled home in 12th after six retirements.
Button si aggiudica il quinto successo stagionale e consolida la leadership mondiale. Dietro di lui Barrichello e le Rosse di Raikkonen e Massa.
Formula One leader Jenson Button banked his fourth victory in five races after a Spanish Grand Prix strategy switch that stunned his downcast Brawn GP team-mate Rubens Barrichello. For the ninth year in a row, victory at the Circuit de Catalunya went to the driver on pole position with the Briton taking the chequered flag 13.0 seconds ahead of Barrichello for Brawn’s second one-two of the season.
Quarto successo per l’inglese Button, davanti a Barrichello. Terzo Webber. Primi punti della stagione per Massa, 6°, superato nell’ultimo giro da Alonso. Raikkonen ritirato. Incidente alla prima chicane con Trulli, Sutil e le Toro Rosso.
Britain’s Jenson Button won the Bahrain Grand Prix on Sunday for the Formula One championship leader’s third victory in four races with newcomers Brawn GP this season. The 29-year-old’s success at Sakhir dashed Toyota’s hopes of a breakthrough first win after the Japanese manufacturer had started with both their cars on the front row for the first time. Germany’s Sebastian Vettel was second for Red Bull with Toyota’s Italian Jarno Trulli finishing third from pole position.
A Sakhir l’inglese Button della BrawnGP vince la quarta prova del Mondiale davanti a Vettel e Trulli. Poi Hamilton. Raikkonen è sesto e rompe il digiuno per la rossa. Massa 14°.
German Sebastian Vettel gave Red Bull their first Formula One win with a pole to chequered flag victory ahead of team mate Mark Webber in the rain-soaked Chinese Grand Prix. The 21-year-old claimed the second victory of his career, with Australian Webber taking his best result to date, in a Red Bull one-two on a track that resembled a skidpan for much of the race. Briton Jenson Button, who won the first two races of the season, finished third to extend his championship lead to six points over Brawn GP team mate Rubens Barrichello, who was fourth.
A Shanghai pioggia intensa e partenza dietro alla Safety car: il tedesco Vettel è perfetto e vince con merito davanti a Webber per una doppietta storica. Terzo Button. Raikkonen 10°, Massa fuori per un problema al 21° giro.
Britain’s Jenson Button won a Malaysian Grand Prix cut short by heavy rain for his second victory in a row for the new Brawn GP team. Half points were awarded because only 32 of the scheduled 56 laps had been completed. The race was red-flagged when a torrential downpour, with thunderclaps and lightning streaking across the darkened Sepang skies, made driving conditions impossible even behind the safety car. Button, the championship leader who had again started from pole position after a Brawn one-two in the Australian season-opener last weekend, was leading behind the safety car when officials called a halt.
A Sepang gara chiusa in anticipo per il diluvio: il successo va comunque all’inglese della BrawnGP che precede Heidfeld (Bmw), Glock (Toyota) e il nostro Trulli. Male le Ferrari: Massa 9° e Raikkonen (cui montano le rain troppo presto) 14° con guai al kers.
Britain’s Jenson Button produced a flawless display to win the Australian Grand Prix on the Brawn team’s Formula One debut. Button left team boss Ross Brawn after leading an an astonishing one-two ahead of Brazilian veteran Rubens Barrichello. The 29-year-old, written off as on overpaid has-been after two dismal seasons with Honda, made it look like a walk in the park while his two closest rivals drove each other off the track in the twilight. Barrichello started and finished second but only after Red Bull’s Sebastian Vettel and BMW-Sauber’s Robert Kubica collided three laps from the end while second and third respectively.
GP d’Australia: doppietta del team inglese BrawnGP al suo esordio, con Button davanti a Barrichello. Grande Trulli (Toyota) terzo, Hamilton 4°. Fuori nel finale per un contatto, quando erano da podio, Vettel e Kubica. Delusione Ferrari: ritiro per Massa e Raikkonen. Il pilota Toyota è stato retrocesso per aver sorpassato con le bandiere gialle esposte Hamilton, che diventa 3°.
McLaren’s Lewis Hamilton roared into the record books as Formula One’s youngest champion when he snatched the title in last lap drama at the Brazilian Grand Prix. The 23-year-old, needing only a fifth place finish in the season-ending race to become Britain’s first champion since Damon Hill in 1996, was seconds from failure for the second year in a row as Ferrari rival Felipe Massa swept to victory. Hamilton entered the last lap in sixth place after a late shower forced a change to wet weather tyres and saw Sebastian Vettel’s Ferrari-powered Toro Rosso overtake the McLaren. With the title disappearing as fast as Massa’s Ferrari approached the chequered flag, Hamilton had Toyota’s Timo Glock to thank after the German stayed out on dry tyres and was unable to hold on to his fifth place.
Felipe Massa ha vinto il GP del Brasile, Lewis Hamilton, quinto, è il campione del mondo del 2008. Ma dietro a tutto questo c’è la storia del GP forse più indimenticabile ed emozionante della storia di questo sport. Che oggi ha eletto il più giovane iridato del suo albo d’oro. Un campione degno, oggi sull’orlo di una seconda clamorosa batosta come l’anno scorso: a due giri dalla fine si è visto togliere il quinto posto da Sebastian Vettel.
Britain’s Lewis Hamilton has moved to the brink of the Formula One title by winning the Chinese Grand Prix ahead of Felipe Massa. The McLaren driver led from start to finish, producing a superbly controlled display, but Massa kept the championship race alive by finishing second, 14.9 seconds adrift. Hamilton leads the drivers’ standings by seven points, with 94 to Massa’s 87 ahead of the final race of the season at the Brazilian’s home track of Interlagos. BMW’s Robert Kubica has been mathematically eliminated from contention.
Fondamentale vittoria dell’inglese della McLaren Hamilton che domina a Shanghai davanti alle Ferrari del brasiliano e di Raikkonen. Ipotecato il titolo Mondiale: in Brasile potrà anche non vincere.
