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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Salty25" data-source="post: 549796" data-attributes="member: 185281"><a href="http://www.formula1.com/results/season/2008/800/" target="_blank">Official Race Classification</a> | <a href="http://www.formula1.com/news/headlines/2008/9/8385.html" target="_blank">Full Story</a>Sebastian Vettel became the youngest ever winner with a truly stunning Italian GP win, and in doing so rocking the F1 world with his brilliant performance in the rain and Toro Rosso’s seemingly mind-boggling ability to beat their parent team – Red Bull Racing, and on this weekend their engine supplier – Ferrari.Vettel qualified on pole after a rain soaked Saturday saw both Lewis Hamilton and Kimi Raikkonen fail to advance to Q3, and it was not by luck as Toro Rosso picked the best strategy in the ever changing conditions – get a time ASAP on wets! And Toro Rosso’s excellent judgement continued in the race.Vettel won the race with little pressure from behind; Heikki Kovalainen had a nothing race and if the battles behind him had gone another way he may well have not finished in 2nd. Vettel’s only threats were tyres and Lewis Hamilton.Hamilton, qualifying in 15th (one behind Kimi Raikkonen), finally woke up from his uncharacteristically dreadful qualifying and set about attacking the points places. The first real test was Raikkonen, the pair of them having both passed Coulthard and Fisichella with ease. Lap 11, and Hamilton pulled off a daring pass in the first Lesmos. Raikkonen from this moment disappeared as a force, finishing in 9th.Hamilton continued up the places, going past Heidfeld, Glock, Alonso, Trulli and Rosberg until pitting in lap 27 – only 1.1secs behind Vettel at that point.But the rain was breaking up, and the track was starting to dry – Hamilton had already taken his one and only pit stop, and had gone for another set of wets. Vettel now had the firm advantage when he went in for his scheduled second stop. Vettel duly changed into intermediates, and Hamilton took his very much unscheduled pitting on the very same lap.Vettel, but for a disaster, was homeward bound for the chequered flag. Hamilton, now wounded but the lost time, managed to finish in 7th after fending off a late challenge from Mark Webber. The Aussie completed the distance in 8th.Everyone who finished this race was a star, but only the few were rewarded with points. Taking the lowest podium step was Robert Kubica in 3rd, well ahead of 4th place Fernando Alonso. Kubica’s BMW colleague Nick Heidfeld was 5th.And who finished just ahead of Lewis Hamilton in 6th? None other than Felipe Massa!<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>Lewis Hamilton still leads the Championship, but now by a single point from Felipe Massa – 78pts to 77pts. With two points finishers yet again, Ferrari’s almost season-long domination of the Constructors’ Championship may be about to come to an end as McLaren are only 5pts behind, 134-129.<a href="http://www.purefantasyf1.net/MyPFF1sat.asp?MYD=41&LA=En" target="_blank">SupaLiga 2008</a><img src="http://www.satellites.co.uk/satellite/attachment.php?attachmentid=17802&stc=1&d=1221497852" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />(Full table available in attachment)SupaLiga was showered with points in Italy, with no less than 11 of the 17 teams scoring +100! A SupaLiga record!Oily was top scorer for the second consecutive race. Only Norm has achieved that same feat this season in Bahrain and Spain. 139pts is also the top score of the season overall. Oily has also won the European Cup with a total score in Europe of 963pts.Very close behind Oily was Topper with his bunch of Tossers, booking 135pts (2nd highest score this SL season). The Tossers also make the most upwards movement, going up 2 places. The Outcasts claimed 130pts, and yet don’t move up at all!Still in 2nd and 3rd are F1 Aberdeen and Auto-Dynamo, but just a point separates the pair with Dynamo scoring 117 to Aberdeen’s 116.Creatures (up 1) and Tom34 both scored 114pts, and ScotBordersF1 and Honda-Williams also achieved identical scores of 100pts.And finally, one has to feel sorry for misterminibus and pgh13. Having both scored +100 – 112pts for Pro-Drive and 113pts for Non PC Racing – they both fall a place in the standings! By the way, that was pgh13’s season best score!NEXT RACE > SINGAPORE GP @ MARINA BAY – the night race > SEPTEMBER 28</blockquote>

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