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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)
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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