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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Salty25" data-source="post: 543540" data-attributes="member: 185281"><a href="http://www.formula1.com/results/season/2008/798/6550/" target="_blank">Official Race Classification</a> | <a href="http://www.formula1.com/news/headlines/2008/8/8269.html" target="_blank">Full Story</a>Felipe Massa’s bitter disappointment in Budapest was forgotten in the sun-blessed harbour of Valencia, as the Brazilian won to close the gap a little further on Lewis Hamilton and (perhaps more importantly) make a strong case for being considered Ferrari’s true title challenger.Starting in pole, Massa got off to a fine start and quickly established a lead of over 3 and half seconds on Lewis Hamilton. Kimi Raikkonen, on the other hand, was stuck in 4th and not looking like getting anywhere near the podium. Kimi’s bad day was to get much worse.After refuelling, Massa rejoined the race in front of Kimi, thereby slowing down the Finn’s already slow progress. Ferrari’s tactics clearly did not envisage Raikkonen being so slow and now Massa was, if not already, definitely Ferrari’s sole hope of victory.The second round of Ferrari pit stops provided the most talking points. As race leader Massa was released from his stop, Adrian Sutil was also exiting the pits and Massa nearly collided with the German. Despite the evident danger, the race officials choose to rule on the infringement after the race and not impose an in-race penalty – Ferrari conspirators will not doubt chew over that particular moment. In the event, Massa was fined 10,000 Euros.Ferrari were not yet done with their pantomime in the pits. Shortly after Massa had left, Raikkonen went in for his stop and was far too eager to return to racing. While his automatic pit indicator was still flashing amber, Kimi decided to go green early and in the process took out the mechanics still trying to refuel his car. For his sins, his engine gave up shortly after and on returning to the Ferrari garage on-foot, the ‘Iceman’ made a quick getaway from the circuit – completely blanking questions from ITV’s Louise Goodman.Despite all this, Felipe Massa went on to achieve 1st place in Valencia and by over 7 seconds from Hamilton.Hamilton’s race was textbook, although the later revelation that he needed an injection in the neck in order merely to race. Kubica, qualifying in 3rd, also had a picture perfect race and finished in 3rd.Heikki Kovalainen took 4th after the retirement of Kimi Raikkonen. Taking the other 4 points paying positions, in order of placing, were Jarno Trulli, Sebastian Vettel, Timo Glock and Nico Rosberg.<a href="http://www.formula1.com/results/driver/" target="_blank">Drivers’ Championship</a> | <a href="http://www.formula1.com/results/team/" target="_blank">Constructors’ Championship</a>The 10pts in Valencia elevate Massa above teammate Raikkonen and 6pts behind Hamilton. McLaren are 1pt closer to Ferrari.<a href="http://www.purefantasyf1.net/MyPFF1sat.asp?MYD=41&LA=En" target="_blank">SupaLiga 2008</a><img src="http://img403.imageshack.us/img403/346/f1sleuroshorttablebc3.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />(Full table available in attachment)F1 Aberdeen are back at the top of tree, scoring 96pts in Valencia to leapfrog Auto-Dynamo. However, the big story is that a new challenger has entered the fray as a stunning 115pts by Team Oily leaves them only 20pts adrift of the Aberdeen outfit.Oily is only 2nd in the scoring stakes this weekend to misterminbus and his Pro-Drive team, who clock in 124pts – the 2nd highest score this season. There are 2 other three figure teams this GP; Tom34 recorded 104pts and Honda-Williams scored 101pts. This makes kleefarr the first team manager this season to score in the 100’s in three consecutive races, a fine effort indeed which has seen him into the battle for a top 5 place.Linhas BMW continue their steady raise up the standing. Having started 2 races late, the Portuguese team are now 5th and lead the chase for the European Cup for the first time with only the Belgian and Italian GP’s left.Norm in the Pure FF1 Cup > The chase for the top 32 seems ever more impossible and even scores of 101pts will not be enough.NEXT RACE > BELGIAN GP @ SPA-FRANCORCHAMPS > SEPTEMBER 7</blockquote>

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