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Ferrari is back in the game, Massa did a good job here. Kubica is 4-th on his first race after that accident. Alonso with mechanical problems didn’t make the last qualifying session, he must be very frustrated. Alonso is now on 10-th, but we don’t know if his engine shuld be changed.

Here are the qualifying results:

1 F Massa (BRA) Ferrari 1:15.034
2 L Hamilton (GBR) McLaren Mercedes 1:15.104
3 K Raikkonen (FIN) Ferrari 1:15.257
4 R Kubica (POL) BMW 1:15.493
5 G Fisichella (ITA) Renault 1:16.674
6 H Kovalainen (FIN) Renault 1:16.826
7 N Heidfeld (DEU) BMW 1:15.900
8 J Trulli (ITA) Toyota 1:15.935
9 N Rosberg (DEU) Williams BMW 1:16.328
10 F Alonso (ESP) McLaren Mercedes 0:00.000
11 R Schumacher (DEU) Toyota 1:15.534
12 J Button (GBR) BAR Honda 1:15.584
13 R Barrichello (BRA) BAR Honda 1:15.761
14 M Webber (AUS) Red Bull 1:15.806
15 S Speed (USA) Red Bull 1:16.049
16 D Coulthard (GBR) Red Bull 1:15.915
17 V Liuzzi (ITA) Red Bull 1:16.142
18 A Wurz (AUT) Williams BMW 1:16.241
19 T Sato (JPN) Super Aguri Formula One 1:16.244
20 A Davidson (GBR) Super Aguri Formula One 1:16.366
21 C Albers (NLD) Spyker 1:16.826
22 A Sutil (DEU) Spyker 1:17.915

Hamilton was the quickest, but with soft tyres, followed by the Ferrari pilots on the medium tyres.

Ferrari seems to be very determined to do a good job here, at they French Grand Prix.
In the first session Ferrari were the only team under 1:16:00, and in the second, Hamilton came fourth after Speed. Liuzzi, the other Toro Rosso-Ferrari pilot came in 5 place. Coulthard was the last pilot to came under 1:16:00 in this session.
Kimi’s time from the first session remain unbeaten.
First practice session results:
1. Raikkonen Ferrari (B) 1:15.382 22
2. Massa Ferrari (B) 1:15.447 + 0.065 22
3. Alonso McLaren-Mercedes (B) 1:16.154 + 0.772 19
4. Rosberg Williams-Toyota (B) 1:16.214 + 0.832 24
5. Coulthard Red Bull-Renault (B) 1:16.268 + 0.886 24
6. Hamilton McLaren-Mercedes (B) 1:16.277 + 0.895 20
7. Heidfeld BMW Sauber (B) 1:16.338 + 0.956 25
8. Wurz Williams-Toyota (B) 1:16.407 + 1.025 23
9. Kubica BMW Sauber (B) 1:16.441 + 1.059 19
10. Trulli Toyota (B) 1:16.603 + 1.221 26
11. Liuzzi Toro Rosso-Ferrari (B) 1:16.895 + 1.513 32
12. Sato Super Aguri-Honda (B) 1:16.967 + 1.585 22
13. Barrichello Honda (B) 1:16.990 + 1.608 25
14. Button Honda (B) 1:17.047 + 1.665 24
15. Speed Toro Rosso-Ferrari (B) 1:17.103 + 1.721 33
16. Davidson Super Aguri-Honda (B) 1:17.166 + 1.784 26
17. R.Schumacher Toyota (B) 1:17.168 + 1.786 26
18. Fisichella Renault (B) 1:17.226 + 1.844 20
19. Kovalainen Renault (B) 1:17.348 + 1.966 21
20. Webber Red Bull-Renault (B) 1:17.435 + 2.053 26
21. Albers Spyker-Ferrari (B) 1:18.178 + 2.796 28
22. Sutil Spyker-Ferrari (B) 1:18.419 + 3.037 15

Second practice session results:

1. Massa Ferrari (B) 1:15.453 38
2. Raikkonen Ferrari (B) 1:15.488 + 0.035 28
3. Speed Toro Rosso-Ferrari (B) 1:15.773 + 0.320 21
4. Hamilton McLaren-Mercedes (B) 1:15.780 + 0.327 36
5. Liuzzi Toro Rosso-Ferrari (B) 1:15.952 + 0.499 40
6. Coulthard Red Bull-Renault (B) 1:15.958 + 0.505 36
7. Rosberg Williams-Toyota (B) 1:16.003 + 0.550 39
8. Alonso McLaren-Mercedes (B) 1:16.049 + 0.596 32
9. Davidson Super Aguri-Honda (B) 1:16.162 + 0.709 25
10. R.Schumacher Toyota (B) 1:16.184 + 0.731 41
11. Fisichella Renault (B) 1:16.205 + 0.752 43
12. Kubica BMW Sauber (B) 1:16.236 + 0.783 42
13. Wurz Williams-Toyota (B) 1:16.260 + 0.807 38
14. Trulli Toyota (B) 1:16.285 + 0.832 46
15. Button Honda (B) 1:16.395 + 0.942 43
16. Webber Red Bull-Renault (B) 1:16.562 + 1.109 17
17. Kovalainen Renault (B) 1:16.735 + 1.282 40
18. Barrichello Honda (B) 1:16.950 + 1.497 47
19. Heidfeld BMW Sauber (B) 1:16.968 + 1.515 18
20. Sato Super Aguri-Honda (B) 1:17.165 + 1.712 49
21. Sutil Spyker-Ferrari (B) 1:18.213 + 2.760 32
22. Albers Spyker-Ferrari (B) 1:18.708 + 3.255 9

Ferrari find out who’s guilty fot the sabotage!
Watch the picture!
Alonso and his team were caught by papparazzi while they were trying to destroy the Ferrari wind tunnel!

Ferrari drop the charges after Jean Todt saw Alonso’s face and said this was his best laugh ever.
Kimi claims that he saw ALonso around Ferrari’s building, but being after 4 beers he was not sure and decide not to report the incident.
Alonso say this is not true, there was Michael Schumacher in disguised trying to set him up.
Michael Schumacher has no comment about the incident.

As I wrote before, at McLaren there was an agreement that ALonso and Hamlton won’t talk about each other unless they are both present.
Now Alonso says he will talk about Hamilton like he always did.
I don;t know what exactly is going on inside McLaren, but it looks a little strange to me.

..unless they are both in the same room. This is a new rule at McLaren.

Lewis Hamilton crashed the go-kart that had just been sold in ebay for £42,100.(see here the Hamilton’s £2000 kart sold on Ebay with £42,100 news.
He hit the he barriers on the temporary track laid out in a central London square at a promotional event organised by sponsor Vodafone. Now the kart it’s a little bent, nothing serious.

Lewis Hamilton is the hot subject of this period:

- Coulthard said Lewis will lose his nice-guy, polite image :”In three years from now, he’ll be less approachable, more distant and with his own private jet.”
- Schumacher may race against him on December
- the jockey Frankie Dettori started this year as a favourite of the BBC Sports Personality Award, but now Hamilton seems to be replacing him.
- Former champion Emerson Fittipaldi says fellow-Brazilian Nelson Piquet could be the “next Hamilton”
- at Silverstone yesterday, where huge crowds assembled in the hope of seeing Britain’s hero of the summer, pounding around the circuit during the three-day test. The groan when Pedro De La Rosa was disclosed as the McLaren driver echoed like thunder through the stands.
- David Robertson, who broke the mould by bringing the untested talents of Jenson Button and Kimi Raikkonen into Formula One, believes Hamilton could be the sport’s first $100 million driver, annually that is.

Schumacher could race against Hamilton in a charity ‘Race of Champions’ at Wembley Stadium in December.
Schumacher has confirmed his participation while Lewis Hamilton said he is interested.