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Grande Premio do Brasil @ Sao Paulo 31 October 1 2 November 2008

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Race (Sunday afternoon)

1 Felipe Massa Ferrari 71 Winner
2 Fernando Alonso Renault 71 + 13.2 secs
3 Kimi Räikkönen Ferrari 71 + 16.2 secs
4 Sebastian Vettel STR Ferrari 71 + 38.0 secs
5 Lewis Hamilton McLaren Mercedes 71 + 38.9 secs
6 Timo Glock Toyota 71 + 44.3 secs
7 Heikki Kovalainen McLaren Mercedes 71 + 55.0 secs
8 Jarno Trulli Toyota 71 + 68.4 secs
9 Mark Webber Red Bull Renault 71 + 79.6 secs
10 Nick Heidfeld BMW Sauber 70 + 1 Lap
11 Robert Kubica BMW Sauber 70 + 1 Lap
12 Nico Rosberg Williams Toyota 70 +1 Lap
13 Jenson Button Honda 70 + 1 Lap
14 Sebastien Bourdais STR Ferrari 70 + 1 Lap
15 Rubens Barrichello Honda 70 + 1 Lap
16 Adrian Sutil Force India Ferrari 69 + 2 Laps
17 Kazuki Nakajima Williams Toyota 69 + 2 Laps
18 Giancarlo Fisichella Force India Ferrari 69 + 2 Laps
Ret Nelsinho Piquet Renault 0 + 71 Laps
Ret David Coulthard Red Bull Renault 0 + 71 Laps

Q1 Q2 Q3 (Saturday afternoon)

1 Felipe Massa Ferrari
1:11.830 1:11.875 1:12.368 (17 laps)
2 Jarno Trulli Toyota
1:12.226 1:12.107 1:12.737 (15)
3 Kimi Räikkönen Ferrari
1:12.083 1:11.950 1:12.825 (19)
4 Lewis Hamilton McLaren-Mercedes
1:12.213 1:11.856 1:12.830 (14)
5 Heikki Kovalainen McLaren-Mercedes
1:12.366 1:11.768 1:12.917 (17)
6 Fernando Alonso Renault
1:12.214 1:12.090 1:12.967 (18)
7 Sebastian Vettel STR-Ferrari
1:12.390 1:11.845 1:13.082 (20)
8 Nick Heidfeld BMW Sauber
1:12.371 1:12.026 1:13.297 (18)
9 Sebastien Bourdais STR-Ferrari
1:12.498 1:12.075 1:14.105 (16)
10 Timo Glock Toyota
1:12.223 1:11.909 1:14.230 (24)
11 Nelsinho Piquet Renault
1:12.348 1:12.137 (13)
12 Mark Webber Red Bull-Renault
1:12.409 1:12.289 (13)
13 Robert Kubica BMW Sauber
1:12.381 1:12.300 (13)
14 David Coulthard Red Bull-Renault
1:12.690 1:12.717 (16)
15 Rubens Barrichello Honda
1:12.548 1:13.139 (14)
16 Kazuki Nakajima Williams-Toyota
1:12.800 (9)
17 Jenson Button Honda
1:12.810 (9)
18 Nico Rosberg Williams-Toyota
1:13.002 (8)
19 Giancarlo Fisichella Force India-Ferrari
1:13.426 (9)
20 Adrian Sutil Force India-Ferrari
1:13.508 (9)

Practice 3 (Saturday morning)

1 Fernando Alonso Renault 1:12.141 (19 laps)
2 Lewis Hamilton McLaren-Mercedes 1:12.212 + 0.071 (18)
3 Heikki Kovalainen McLaren-Mercedes 1:12.225 + 0.084 (18)
4 Felipe Massa Ferrari 1:12.312 + 0.171 (17)
5 Sebastian Vettel STR-Ferrari 1:12.389 + 0.248 (19)
6 Nick Heidfeld BMW Sauber 1:12.402 + 0.261 (19)
7 Sebastien Bourdais STR-Ferrari 1:12.426 + 0.285 (18)
8 Mark Webber Red Bull-Renault 1:12.453 + 0.312 (18)
9 Nelsinho Piquet Renault 1:12.457 + 0.316 (24)
10 Jarno Trulli Toyota 1:12.457 + 0.316 (19)
11 Nico Rosberg Williams-Toyota 1:12.625 + 0.484 (16)
12 Kimi Räikkönen Ferrari 1:12.698 0.557 (18)
13 Timo Glock Toyota 1:12.712 + 0.571 (22)
14 Robert Kubica BMW Sauber 1:12.971 + 0.830 (22)
15 Kazuki Nakajima Williams-Toyota 1:13.054 + 0.913 (19)
16 David Coulthard Red Bull-Renault 1:13.058 + 0.917 (22)
17 Rubens Barrichello Honda 1:13.135 + 0.994 (24)
18 Jenson Button Honda 1:13.278 + 1.137 (23)
19 Giancarlo Fisichella Force India-Ferrari 1:13.460 + 1.319 (22)
20 Adrian Sutil Force India-Ferrari 1:13.680 + 1.539 (22)

Practice 1 (Friday Morning)

1 Felipe Massa Ferrari 1:12.305 (24 laps)
2 Lewis Hamilton McLaren-Mercedes 1:12.495 + 0.190 (23)
3 Kimi Räikkönen Ferrari 1:12.507 + 0.202 (18)
4 Robert Kubica BMW Sauber 1:12.874 + 0.569 (24)
5 Heikki Kovalainen McLaren-Mercedes 1:12.925 + 0.620 (20)
6 Fernando Alonso Renault 1:13.061 + 0.756 (25)
7 Mark Webber Red Bull-Renault 1:13.298 + 0.993 (24)
8 Nelsinho Piquet Renault 1:13.378 + 1.073 (39)
9 Nick Heidfeld BMW Sauber 1:13.426 + 1.121 (28)
10 Timo Glock Toyota 1:13.466 + 1.161 (33)
11 Jarno Trulli Toyota 1:13.600 + 1.295 (24)
12 Nico Rosberg Williams-Toyota 1:13.621 + 1.316 (23)
13 Sebastien Bourdais STR-Ferrari 1:13.649 + 1.344 (30)
14 Rubens Barrichello Honda 1:13.676 + 1.371 (28)
15 1Jenson Button Honda 1:13.766 + 1.461 (13)
16 Kazuki Nakajima Williams-Toyota 1:13.806 + 1.501 (24)
17 Sebastian Vettel STR-Ferrari 1:13.836 + 1.531 (30)
18 David Coulthard Red Bull-Renault 1:13.861 + 1.556 (19)
19 Adrian Sutil Force India-Ferrari 1:14.704 + 2.399 (21)
20 Giancarlo Fisichella Force India-Ferrari 1:14.821 + 2.516 (21)

Pre race comment

Kimi Raikkonen - “I want to fight for victory in Brazil and celebrate a good result with the team. This would give me a good feeling for the winter and the upcoming season. Over the last two races I had a much better feeling with the car in Q3, when I had a bigger fuel load. t's important to believe in the car and the possibility to attack; this is what makes the difference. I hope that we can find the right set-up, after we've been very close a couple of times.

There are not so many positive things for me [which] I achieved over the last season. At the beginning of the year things went very well, but then we lost track and we couldn't get back. It was a very long year and I can't wait to have a break. We have to analyse every single detail of what happened and try to learn from our mistakes to improve everything for next year. But now we have to give it all at the last race of the 2008 season.”

Ron Dennis - “In any walk of life, if a young person comes in and is immediately successful, his or her competitors may struggle to come to terms with that. What would you expect? What would you expect them to say? They said it about David Beckham. They said it about others, not only in the UK. These kinds of people – young people who are instantly successful – always receive criticism. It’s completely understandable. So, with respect to journalists everywhere, many of whom are doing a difficult job very well, we advise Lewis: ‘Don’t read the papers. Don’t surf the net. We can’t stop you reading the papers or surfing the net but it may disrupt your focus so please don’t’.

Every driver has to have a beginning to his career, But, when Lewis’s career beginning is already proving to be so good, as long as we can continue to provide him with competitive cars in the future, he’ll go on to surpass all records. I don’t think anyone would hesitate to think that.”

Nico Rosberg - “We had a strong race there last year and I finished fourth. As we haven’t had a great showing in the past two races, it would be nice to do well again here and end the season on a positive note. It’s going to be difficult with this year’s harder tyres, and we’ll have to cover a lot of ground with the car on Friday to get to the optimum set-up."

Kazuki Nakajima - “This race marks my first anniversary in Formula 1 and I can’t believe how quickly it’s gone! I’ve certainly learnt a lot and I’ll be using that experience in Brazil this weekend. This race will be easier than some of the others this season because I actually have experience of racing at Interlagos. Our car worked well in Brazil last year, and I hope that’s the case on Sunday and we have a better race than we did in Japan and China. The track itself is fairly challenging, but it’s really exciting to drive.”

Sam Michael (Williams technical director) - “The grid here is traditionally very tight due to the low fuel penalty and short lap time, so the midfield will probably be even closer than usual. We’ve put in some good performances in Brazil over the years, last year’s race being no exception. This weekend we’ll be looking to close 2008 with a good result.”

Pat Symonds (Renault Chief Engineer) - “I don’t see why not,” he said when asked if it would be strong again in Brazil. If you look at the last few races, we’ve seen the car performing well at some very different circuits. But as well as our strengths, our weaknesses are still there and I think that the exit out of turn 12 and the long drag up the hill to the first corner will be quite tough for us and not an area where we will be particularly strong. However, the car should be good through the quick corners of turns three and five, and overall I think we can maintain a similar level of competitiveness to that which we’ve shown in the past few races.

There is no doubt that during the last few races we’ve been very aware of Toyota, what they were doing and the tactics we needed to beat them. So we are released from that constraint, but the reality is that over the past few races our strategy has been simply about achieving the best possible result and that is how we will approach the final race of the season.

It was disappointing that we started the year further back than we had expected to, and had the situation remained like that it would have been quite disheartening for us. There were reasons for it, but in this particular case it's the facts that matter, not the reasons for those facts. The way we've turned the situation around has given us an enormous boost as we've proved we can out-develop our competitors and arguably out-develop those that are leading the championship because we really have moved a lot closer to them.

I think that's a great message to take through to next year with so many new factors being introduced because we've shown that we can steal the initiative with this sort of thing.”

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Race (Sunday afternoon)

1 Lewis Hamilton McLaren Mercedes 56 Winner
2 Felipe Massa Ferrari 56 + 14.9 secs
3 Kimi Räikkönen Ferrari 56 + 16.4 secs
4 Fernando Alonso Renault 56 + 18.3 secs
5 Nick Heidfeld BMW Sauber 56 + 28.9 secs
6 Robert Kubica BMW Sauber 56 + 33.2 secs
7 Timo Glock Toyota 56 + 41.7 secs
8 Nelsinho Piquet Renault 56 + 56.6 secs
9 Sebastian Vettel STR Ferrari + 64.3 secs
10 David Coulthard Red Bull Renault + 74.8 secs
11 Rubens Barrichello Honda + 85.0 secs
12 Kazuki Nakajima Williams Toyota + 90.8 secs
13 Sebastien Bourdais STR Ferrari + 91.4 secs
14 Mark Webber Red Bull Renault + 92.4 secs
15 Nico Rosberg Williams Toyota + 1 Lap
16 Jenson Button Honda + 1 Lap
17 Giancarlo Fisichella Force India Ferrari + 1 Lap
Ret Heikki Kovalainen McLaren Mercedes + 7 Lap
Ret Adrian Sutil Force India Ferrari + 43 Laps
Ret Jarno Trulli Toyota + 54 Laps

Q1 Q2 Q3 (Saturday afternoon)

1 Lewis Hamilton McLaren Mercedes
1:35.566 1:34.947 1:36.303 (15 laps)
2 Kimi Räikkönen Ferrari
1:35.983 1:35.355 1:36.645 (15)
3 Felipe Massa Ferrari
1:35.971 1:35.135 1:36.889 (16)
4 Fernando Alonso Renault
1:35.769 1:35.461 1:36.927 (18)
5 Heikki Kovalainen McLaren Mercedes
1:35.623 1:35.216 1:36.930 (16)
6 Mark Webber Red Bull Renault
1:36.238 1:35.686 1:37.083 (19) *
7 Nick Heidfeld BMW Sauber
1:36.224 1:35.403 1:37.201 (17
8 Sebastian Vettel STR Ferrari
1:35.752 1:35.386 1:37.685 (16)
9 Jarno Trulli Toyota
1:36.104 1:35.715 1:37.934 (19)
10 Sebastien Bourdais STR Ferrari
1:36.239 1:35.478 1:38.885 (18)
11 Nelsinho Piquet Renault
1:36.029 1:35.722 (12)
12 Robert Kubica BMW Sauber
1:36.503 1:35.814 (14)
13 Timo Glock Toyota
1:36.210 1:35.937 (16)
14 Rubens Barrichello Honda
1:36.640 1:36.079 (15)
15 Nico Rosberg Williams-Toyota
1:36.434 1:36.210 (15)
16 David Coulthard Red Bull Renault
1:36.731 (7)
17 Kazuki Nakajima Williams Toyota
1:36.863 (9)
18 Jenson Button Honda
1:37.053 (9)
19 Adrian Sutil Force India Ferrari
1:37.730 (9)
20 Giancarlo Fisichella Force India Ferrari
1:37.739 ((9)

* Drops 10 places on grid for engine change

Practice 3 (Saturday morning)

1 Nick Heidfeld BMW Sauber 1:36.061 (17 laps)
2 Lewis Hamilton McLaren Mercedes 1:36.135 + 0.074 (15)
3 Robert Kubica BMW Sauber 1:36.150 + 0.089 (18)
4 Heikki Kovalainen McLaren Mercedes 1:36.324 + 0.263 (16)
5 Jarno Trulli Toyota 1:36.396 + 0.335 (22)
6 Nico Rosberg Williams Toyota 1:36.427 + 0.366 (20)
7 Sebastien Bourdais STR Ferrari 1:36.642 + 0.581 (20)
8 David Coulthard Red Bull Renault 1:36.712 + 0.651 (18)
9 Kazuki Nakajima Williams Toyota 1:36.713 + 0.652 (20)
10 Nelsinho Piquet Renault 1:36.789 + 0.728 (20)
11 Rubens Barrichello Honda 1:36.839 + 0.778 (19)
12 Felipe Massa Ferrari 1:36.842 + 0.781 (16)
13 Kimi Räikkönen Ferrari 1:36.901 + 0.840 (15)
14 Sebastian Vettel STR Ferrari 1:36.902 + 0.841 (18)
15 Jenson Button Honda 1:36.958 + 0.897 (18)
16 Fernando Alonso Renault 1:36.996 + 0.935 (18)
17 Timo Glock Toyota 1:37.053 + 0.992 (22)
18 Mark Webber Red Bull Renault 1:37.566 + 1.505 (12)
19 Adrian Sutil Force India Ferrari 1:37.648 + 1.587 (19)
20 Giancarlo Fisichella Force India Ferrari 1:37.964 + 1.903 (18)

Practice 2 (Friday Afternoon)

1 Lewis Hamilton McLaren-Mercedes 1:35.750 (33 laps)
2 Fernando Alonso Renault 1:36.024 + 0.274 (36)
3 Nelsinho Piquet Renault 1:36.094 + 0.344 (38)
4 Jarno Trulli Toyota 1:36.159 + 0.409 (32)
5 Mark Webber Red Bull-Renault 1:36.375 + 0.625 (38)
6 Felipe Massa Ferrari 1:36.480 + 0.730 (31)
7 Sebastien Bourdais STR-Ferrari 1:36.529 + 0.779 (32)
8 Kimi Räikkönen Ferrari 1:36.542 + 0.792 (34)
9 Nick Heidfeld BMW Sauber 1:36.553 + 0.803 (38)
10 Nico Rosberg Williams-Toyota 1:36.556 + 0.806 (33)
11 Timo Glock Toyota 1:36.615 + 0.865 (33)
12 Robert Kubica BMW Sauber 1:36.775 + 1.025 (37)
13 Heikki Kovalainen McLaren-Mercedes 1:36.797 + 1.047 (33)
14 David Coulthard Red Bull-Renault 1:36.808 + 1.058 (36)
15 Sebastian Vettel STR-Ferrari 1:36.925 + 1.175 (38)
16 Kazuki Nakajima Williams-Toyota 1:36.975 + 1.225 (31)
17 Giancarlo Fisichella Force India-Ferrari 1:37.473 + 1.723 (38)
18 Adrian Sutil Force India-Ferrari 1:37.617 + 1.867 (33)
19 Jenson Button Honda 1:37.800 + 2.050 (37)
20 Rubens Barrichello Honda 1:37.904 + 2.154 (36)

Practice 1 (Friday Morning)

1 Lewis Hamilton McLaren-Mercedes 1:35.630 (23 laps)
2 Felipe Massa Ferrari 1:36.020 + 0.390 (24)
3 Kimi Räikkönen Ferrari 1:36.052 + 0.422 (23)
4 Heikki Kovalainen McLaren-Mercedes 1:36.103 + 0.473 (21)
5 Robert Kubica BMW Sauber 1:36.507 + 0.877 (25)
6 Fernando Alonso Renault 1:36.661 + 1.031 (25)
7 Nick Heidfeld BMW Sauber 1:37.040 + 1.410 (23)
8 Sebastien Bourdais STR-Ferrari 1:37.070 + 1.440 (32)
9 Nelsinho Piquet Renault 1:37.180 + 1.550 (30)
10 Sebastian Vettel STR-Ferrari 1:37.278 + 1.648 (25)
11 Mark Webber Red Bull-Renault 1:37.491 + 1.861 (26)
12 Jenson Button Honda 1:37.619 + 1.989 (25)
13 Kazuki Nakajima Williams-Toyota 1:37.630 + 2.000 (23)
14 David Coulthard Red Bull-Renault 1:37.638 + 2.008 (22)
15 Nico Rosberg Williams-Toyota 1:37.638 + 2.008 (26)
16 Timo Glock Toyota 1:37.664 + 2.034 (29)
17 Rubens Barrichello Honda 1:37.827 + 2.197 (28)
18 Jarno Trulli Toyota 1:38.219 + 2.589 (24)
19 Adrian Sutil Force India-Ferrari 1:38.285 + 2.655 (25)
20 Giancarlo Fisichella Force India-Ferrari 1:38.479 + 2.849 (26)

Pre race comment

Ron Dennis - "Lewis is a racing driver. That's what makes him the driver he is. He is going to fight for positions at every opportunity - you are not going to stop him doing that. Of course, with the benefit of hindsight, it would have been nice if he had been a little bit more prudent in the first corner. Some of the things he does leave us in awe of him, The simple fact is he is a great driver and we are going to fight for the world championship, but it's sometimes a bit of an uphill struggle. I think the thing that really got to him was the penalty - it really did. He was bitterly complaining about it in the car. Without the penalty, we would have still got points, that's for sure."

Robert Kubica - "I think you at least have to try, there is nothing to lose. I think Kimi showed last year that anything is possible. The difference is that I have two guys in front of me, not one and at normal pace it’s no secret that we are not as fast as (Felipe) Massa and (Lewis) Hamilton, so life is a bit more difficult but everything can still happen. Once you are able to be leader after seven races, you should be able to fight for the championship,We didn’t improve a lot lately with the car, so this didn’t help me but still, I’m 12 points behind the leader. Over the last three races it shows that everything can be possible. In Monza we had changeable conditions - I started 11th, I finished third. In Singapore I would easily have finished on the podium, I think. My race was ruined by safety cars, so it’s changeable. We have to be there and I hope this is a good boost for the last two races and I hope we can find a few tenths which will help me in the battle."

Lewis Hamilton - “For sure, it’s not easy to always say or do the right thing, and when you’re constantly being scrutinised it can be particularly difficult. Recently, there have been lots of different quotes attributed to me.And sometimes I’ve said things that have either come out the wrong way or been taken out of context so people get a different feeling of what I’ve said when I haven’t expressed myself correctly. I’m only human and every now and then people make mistakes. I would never say I was better than anyone else, but I am a Formula 1 driver and all of us have to believe in ourselves to get to where we are. You have to have that belief to go out and win: and that’s what helps you strive for better performance and to achieve more in your life. look at the other drivers and I want to beat them. I would never say, ‘I’m better than you,’ I just think that all these guys are the best and to be the best I have to beat them. That’s how every racing driver sees things."

"Felipe hit me off," Hamilton was quoted as saying by The Independent. "I went on the inside of him and he broke left and hit me pretty hard. "It was as deliberate as it could be."

Felipe Massa - "I did not hit him deliberately. I can't believe he sees it that way. For me it was just a racing incident but we took the penalty. He braked too late and just pushed me off the track. I had two wheels in the gravel and couldn't stop the car. I have a good relationship with Lewis and I will not do something to destroy something by purpose."

Jarno Trulli - "In the end we had to be happy with fifth place in Fuji but I was hoping for a little more in front of our home fans. The lower temperatures didn't really suit our car in Japan but it should be a bit warmer in China, which will be better for us. I am fired up to get a good result this weekend. We have been pushing really hard all season and we are still very motivated to finish the year on a high in these last two races."

Timo Glock - "I was expecting better in Japan, obviously, and I thought I was in decent shape to finish in the points before I had to retire. It's good that we race again so soon after because I can forget what happened at Fuji and focus on returning to the points in Shanghai. Our car is competitive and I believe I can score points in every race so that is my first target for this weekend, and after that we will push to finish as high as possible."

Fernando Alonso - "I don’t know what to say now (after Japanese Grand Prix) because I am still thinking not, but my heart says yes. The feeling I have now is that we can do anything because of (winning at) a circuit like this. We were not too light on fuel. Regarding the laps people stopped in the first stint, qualifying was a 'real' fourth place, so I am still confident for the next two races. Maybe no wins but who knows, maybe podiums are possible now. I think about four tenths, half a second (Current deficit on McLaren and Ferrari). Okay, there are some circuits where we are a little bit closer, some circuits where it’s a little bit more than half a second but I think another four or five tenths would put us in a very strong position.

First of all we need to have a competitive, hard car here in Shanghai and Brazil to be fighting with McLaren and Ferrari. If we do that and Felipe wins the race and I can be second or third I will be happy to help Felipe to take as many points as possible and this is the only approach. My best relationship for example is with Robert (Kubica). I would like to see him winning the championship but I know this is quite difficult because I think the performance etc it will be difficult to recover 12 points. I will do my own race but after all, when you finish the race and see the results, you prefer some drivers to win or some teams to win compared to others" he commented on the Formula 1 official website,