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Motorsports Sunday

July 9, 2007 · Filed under The ScottyB Collective

F1…

The British GP got under way last night. And thanks to Channel 10 running Big-****ing-Brother through until well past 11pm, we got a delayed telecast as usual.

Live Timing as provided by F1.com was much more exciting than usual - plenty of purple numbers, lots of numerical overtaking and loads of similar numbers all added up for an exciting race.

Three different leaders over the three stints, with Hamilton leading early, Alonso leading the second stint and finally Raikkonen grabbing the lead - and eventual race win in the final stint of the afternoon.

So exciting was the live timing that I decided to stay up for the TV coverage and retired to the other room to watch. It’s been a while since I’ve watched a race where the victor wasn’t decided in the first 15 laps - and certainly a while since I’ve not known who was going to be the winner until the last 15 laps.

Kimi Raikkonen took an utterly dominating victory, the last stint before refuelling, running longer than Alonso was some fine driving. Seeing Alonso up at the front of the pack challenging for the win again was a fresh sight. Also commendable was Massa’s performance. A run from the back of the grid to 5th was fantastic - a testament to his skill and the raw pace of the Ferrari’s this weekend. Kubica was bulletproof in holding-off the charging Massa too.

Fantastic race.

Unfortunately the delayed telecast meant I didn’t get to bed before 1:30am - and am subsequently quite tired today - but what can you do…

FIA GT round 5 at Oschersleben…Hopefully this evening I’ll be watching the race, but I managed to catch some summaries of the race itself and read the news articles this morning..

Post-race scrutineering totally overturned the race result in Oschersleben today, with first the third-placed Lamborghini and then the winning Corvette failing scrutineering and being excluded from the event. It is not yet known whether either team will appeal.

This meant that the nr 1 Vitaphone Maserati MC 12 of Bartels and Biagi inherited the win - giving Vitaphone the Oschersleben hat-trick it had hoped to achieve.

The GT2 win went to AF Corse Motorola for the fifth time this season, and the second consecutive win for Ortelli and Bruni. Collard and Malucelli were second after a fine performance from the BMS Scuderia Italia Porsche; Collard’s battle with Tim Mullen in the Scuderia Ecosse Ferrari was one of the star events of the end of the race. Mullen and birthday boy Jarek Janis finished third.