One point.

That’s what separates Felipe Massa from championship leader Lewis Hamilton coming to the Singapore Grand Prix where the 2008 F1 season resumes this Sunday.

Coming to the first night race in Formula One, Felipe Massa has 77 championship points to the 78 markers owned by Lewis Hamilton. And with the way this season has been, Massa knows every single detail of every single race is important.

Coming to the 2008 F1 Singapore Grand Prix, Massa believes qualifying good is as important as the race itself.

‘’Saturday will be very important,'’ Felipe Massa said of the qualifying session that will be held a day before raceday. ‘’I've never driven on the Singapore track but it’ll be even more difficult to overtake compared to Valencia, because the straights are even shorter.'’

Singapore will have quite a few overtaking possibilities but Massa admits that, with the way the cars are designed today, overtaking will be difficult, especially on street circuits like the one they’ll be racing on in Singapore.

‘’These days it is not very easy to overtake in Formula One, the cars have great aerodynamic downforce,'’ Massa said. ‘’When you are behind a car, you lose downforce.'’

Rain is another potential hazard come Sunday. Singapore was lashed by wet weather on Wednesday, and Massa would prefer a dry track.

‘’I would prefer it to be dry in Singapore, but we can do well and have a…'’

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And this may have cast a dark cloud over what has been one of the best finishes ever seen in a Formula One race.

After what has become one of the best races of the 2008 F1 season, Lewis Hamilton was stripped of the win in Belgium after coming up with a rather wild maneuver to overtake then race leader Kimi Raikkonen.

McLaren’s Lewis Hamilton was penalized for cutting the chicane and gaining an advantage over Kimi Raikkonen to force the Ferrari driver to lose 25 precious seconds and deny him of what looked like a sure win in Belgium.

And since Raikkonen’s teammate, Felipe Massa, finished second fastest after Raikkonen smacked the tire wall spinning after Hamilton’s antics, he was awarded with the win and the full 10 championship points.

Hamilton is credited with six.

That leaves us with yet another close finish for the championship. Lewis Hamilton still leads the championship standings with 76 but now by just the slimmest of margins. Felipe Massa, after being awarded with the win in Belgium, now has 74.

Kimi Raikkonen, on the other hand, may have lost his…

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Isn’t it ironic that F1 returns to the home of Ferrari after coming up with a way to help the Italian team score precious points just a week ago?

Yes, after what has been one of the best races of the 2008 F1 season, the FIA stripped Lewis Hamilton of the win in Belgium and instead, awarded second place finisher Felipe Massa with the full ten points to give the Ferrari driver 74, closing in on Hamilton’s 76.

Lewis Hamilton was penalized for shortcutting the chicane, giving him an advantage over then race leader Kimi Raikkonen, who crashed out in Belgium after Hamilton’s antics.

You can bet your ass that Lewis Hamilton will try to bounce back despite the fact that he’ll be racing in Ferrari’s playground this Sunday at the 2008 F1 Italian Grand Prix. With Felipe Massa ready to overtake him from his championship lead, we’re certainly in for another classic.

The 53-lap race is staged at the 5.793km (3.600-mile) Autodromo Nazionale di Monza and marks the end of F1’s European leg this season.

Monza is the oldest and fastest track on this year’s calendar. The circuit was built in 1922 and since the inception of the World Championship in 1950, has staged the Italian Grand Prix every year with the exception of 1980.

McLaren driver Lewis Hamilton, with 76 points, still leads the…

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Yes, you read it, because he’s going to move in with one.

The 2008 F1 season is almost over and McLaren - Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton is still leading by just two points. He has 76 championship points to Felipe Massa’s 74, his closest competitor, with only five more races to go.

Yep, it seems it was only yesterday when a young rookie named Lewis Hamilton entered Formula One last season to compete as a solid backup to then McLaren no.1 driver, two-time champion Fernando Alonso.

Not many people expected Hamilton to be this good that early. Hell, he was so good that he eventually became the premiere driver for McLaren - Mercedes, forcing the double world champion to return to Renault where he won his two world titles with.

And while Felipe Massa could give Hamilton a run for his money this season, many people are still expecting the young British sensation to win his first F1 world title in only his second year in Formula One.

Yep, the guy sure has it all. Which will probably make you hate the guy even more after learning what I have to share with you.

Aside from tearing up the tracks in Formula One, Lewis Hamilton will now have the privilege…

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It’s crunch time in Formula One people.

You read it, the 2008 F1 season is closing in on the culmination of what has been another excellent season and the Belgian Grand Prix might just be the turning point for the top three Formula 1 drivers of the season in their quest for the world championship.

The 2008 F1 Belgium Grand Prix is on September 7 at the Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps, Spa, Belgium. This racetrack has been one of the most revered racetracks in F1. Spa-Francorchamps has been a mainstay of the world championship calendar since it began in 1950.

Renowned for its thrilling, high-speed corners and the capricious local micro-climate which can throw up blazing sunshine and heavy showers in equal measure, the mighty seven-kilometer circuit is still considered one of modern racing’s greatest challenges.

Looking at the drivers’ championship standings, McLaren - Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton still leads the pack with 70 points, six points better than Brazilian driver Felipe Massa of Ferrari. Third is Massa’s Ferrari teammate Kimi Raikkonen with 57 points.

For Felipe Massa, he will ride on his momentum after winning the Telefonica Grand Prix of Europe. After coming so close to…

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Because if he wants to win his first F1 world championship, he better finish strong in the final six races of the year.

The 2008 F1 season is about to close with only six more races to go starting with Belgium. Lewis Hamilton, coming off a remarkable rookie season, is on the verge of winning the first F1 title of his career but since he still has six races to keep his championship lead in the standings, he knows letting up now would be a very very bad idea.

At this point of the season, Lewis Hamilton is still leading the drivers championship with 70 points.

Not far behind are the two drivers from Ferrari, Felipe Massa with 64 and defending world champion Kimi Raikkonen with 57. And if last season’s conclusion of the championship race was to tell us anything, it would have to be the fact that nothing is settled until the last race is completed.

In case you have no idea what I’m stressing here, Kimi Raikkonen literally stole last season’s world championship away from the two competing McLaren - Mercedes drivers, Hamilton and Fernando Alonso, both were then dubbed as the odds-on favorite to win it all.

It’s ironic that Lewis Hamilton finds himself in a similar situation, the only difference is, he IS the championship leader this time trying to fend off two competing drivers from Ferrari.

That’s why winning Sunday’s 2008 F1 Belgium Grand Prix is very important because that could be the first step towards his goal of becoming a bona fide F1 world champion.

‘’From a human and physical perspective, these two races are…'’

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They could, because at this point of the season, Massa is showing Ferrari why his team should do just that.

Much to everybody’s surprise, Felipe Massa has overtaken his more popular Ferrari teammate, Kimi Raikkonen, in the race for the drivers championship this 2008 F1 season with only six more races to go.

After playing second fiddle to Michael Schumacher and then Kimi, Felipe Massa has come to his own this year with 64 championship points to Kimi’s 57. And although Lewis Hamilton is still in first place, leading the two Ferrari drivers with 70, Massa definitely has a better shot of winning this year’s title than Kimi, despite the fact that Kimi still is THE defending champ.

That’s probably why the Ferrari team should start lining up behind Massa now or they could see their run for the drivers title end up with nothing.

We all saw that last season when McLaren - Mercedes let Lewis Hamilton and Fernando Alonso settle for themselves who’s going to take home the title. It backfired when Kimi came out of nowhere to steal the drivers championship away from the two competing McLaren stars.

It’s ironic that Kimi Raikkonen finds himself in the same position and it’ll be up to him if he wants to cooperate with Massa or just go all out and try to compete with his teammate for…

Read More » Will Ferrari line up behind Felipe Massa for the 2008 F1 World Championship and leave Kimi Raikkonen alone?

After three weeks of absence, F1 racing returns.

Yep, the 2008 F1 season continues after a three-week absence probably to pave the way for the Beijing Games. Seven more races are left and at this point of the year, there’s no clear cut winner for the world championship yet.

Still leading the drivers’ championship standings is Lewis Hamilton. The McLaren - Mercedes driver has 62 championship points, overcoming a somewhat slow start to the season thanks to a pair of wins in his home country Britain and in Germany.

Defending world champion, Kimi Raikkonen, on the other hand, is not far behind. He only trails the young British phenom by five, scoring 57 championship points to pull within striking distance of winning the world title again with seven more races to go.

Raikkonen knows the F1 season is nearing its conclusion and in these last seven races, the fiery Finn is hoping to finish strong. It all begins in the 2008 European Grand Prix in Valencia where he looks to start well.

‘’We have to start well at Valencia, where it’s more important than in other places to drive with continuity from Friday on,'’ Kimi Raikkonen said.

‘’I hope I’ll have a trouble-free weekend to try to set up the…'’

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And he wants to do that WITHOUT winning this year’s title.

WTF?!? My sentiments exactly. We all know that his current team, Renault, this 2008 F1 season can’t compete with the Ferraris and the McLarens. Alonso, a double world champion in Formula One, has fallen from No.1 the last few years to eight place as far as this year’s drivers championship standings is concerned.

However, being the competitor that Fernando Alonso is, he believes he still can prove that he is the best without winning the championship. How in the hell can this sick fuck do that? Performing better than the Renault car that he’s driving.

‘’I'll keep fighting for a podium or even a victory this year because that will prove that I’m still here,'’ Fernando Alonso said.

‘’I want to prove to everybody that I’m still the best so I need a super performance to do that, which means a podium or a win.'’

‘’And I’ll be trying to do it in the second part of the season.'’

At this point of the season, Lewis Hamilton is still leading the drivers championship with 62 points. Now the No.1 guy in…

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With the price of gasoline these days, Coulthard’s idea not only aims to help F1, but to conserve oil supply as well.

It is probably the fuel fire in Hungary in the 2008 F1 season that gave the retiring David Coulthard this idea. And that idea is banning refuelling in pit stops during races.

According to David Coulthard, putting a stop to refuelling during races not only will help F1, it will also help drivers develop into better competitors and not just rely on how fast can his team perform in the pitlane.

‘’The spate of fuel fires in Hungary were all extinguished quickly and no one was hurt, but they did serve to remind us how potentially volatile pit stops are,'’ David Coulthard said.

‘’From my point of view a bigger drawback of refuelling is that it detracts from the racing by turning the grand prix into a series of low-fuel sprints between pit stops.'’

‘’In the days (pre-1994) when you carried your entire race fuel…'’

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