Brazil 2008: Race analysis

At a glance

Results

Pos	Driver	Team	Q1	Q2	Q3	Gap
1	Massa	Ferrari	1:11.830	1:11.875	1:12.368
2	Trulli	Toyota	1:12.226	1:12.107	1:12.737	+0.369
3	Räikkönen	Ferrari	1:12.083	1:11.950	1:12.825	+0.457
4	Hamilton	McLaren	1:12.213	1:11.856	1:12.830	+0.462
5	Kovalainen	McLaren	1:12.366	1:11.768	1:12.917	+0.549
6	Alonso	Renault	1:12.214	1:12.090	1:12.967	+0.599
7	Vettel	Toro Rosso	1:12.390	1:11.845	1:13.082	+0.714
8	Heidfeld	BMW Sauber	1:12.371	1:12.026	1:13.297	+0.929
9	Bourdais	Toro Rosso	1:12.498	1:12.075	1:14.105	+1.737
10	Glock	Toyota	1:12.223	1:11.909	1:14.230	+1.862
11	Piquet Jr.	Renault	1:12.348	1:12.137		+0.369
12	Webber	Red Bull	1:12.409	1:12.289		+0.521
13	Kubica	BMW Sauber	1:12.381	1:12.300		+0.532
14	Coulthard	Red Bull	1:12.690	1:12.717		+0.949
15	Barrichello	Honda	1:12.548	1:13.139		+1.371
16	Nakajima	Williams	1:12.800			+0.970
17	Button	Honda	1:12.810			+0.980
18	Rosberg	Williams	1:13.002			+1.172
19	Fisichella	Force India	1:13.426			+1.596
20	Sutil	Force India	1:13.508			+1.678

Gap to the fastest time in the last session the driver took part in. Yellow: fastest time of the session.

Pos	Driver	Team	Grid	Laps	Gap	Stops	Engine
1	Felipe MassaFastest lap	Ferrari	1	71	1:34:11.435	3	Ferrari
2	Fernando Alonso	Renault	6	71	+13.298	3	Renault
3	Kimi Räikkönen	Ferrari	3	71	+16.235	3	Ferrari
4	Sebastian Vettel	Toro Rosso	7	71	+38.011	4	Ferrari
5	Lewis Hamilton	McLaren	4	71	+38.907	3	Mercedes
6	Timo Glock	Toyota	10	71	+44.368	2	Toyota
7	Heikki Kovalainen	McLaren	5	71	+55.074	3	Mercedes
8	Jarno Trulli	Toyota	2	71	+1:08.463	2	Toyota
9	Mark Webber	Red Bull	12	71	+1:19.666	3	Renault
10	Nick Heidfeld	BMW Sauber	8	70	+1 lap	3	BMW
11	Robert Kubica	BMW Sauber	PL	70	+1 lap	3	BMW
12	Nico Rosberg	Williams	18	70	+1 lap	3	Toyota
13	Jenson Button	Honda	17	70	+1 lap	4	Honda
14	Sébastien Bourdais	Toro Rosso	9	70	+1 lap	3	Ferrari
15	Rubens Barrichello	Honda	15	70	+1 lap	4	Honda
16	Adrian Sutil	Force India	20	69	+2 laps	3	Ferrari
17	Kazuki Nakajima	Williams	16	69	+2 laps	3	Toyota
18	Giancarlo Fisichella	Force India	19	69	+2 laps	3	Ferrari
DNF	Nelson Piquet Jr.	Renault	11	0	Accident	0	Renault
DNF	David Coulthard	Red Bull	14	0	Collision	0	Renault

Starting grid vs qualifying

Kubica Qualified 13, started PL

Penalties and pit lane starts. Everyone else moves up accordingly.

Race

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Places gained

KubicaPL→11+9
Rosberg18→12+6
Alonso6→2+4
Glock10→6+4
Button17→13+4
Sutil20→16+4
Vettel7→4+3
Webber12→9+3
Fisichella19→18+1
Massa1→10
Räikkönen3→30
Barrichello15→150
Hamilton4→5-1
Nakajima16→17-1
Kovalainen5→7-2
Heidfeld8→10-2
Bourdais9→14-5
Trulli2→8-6

PL: started from the pit lane. Retired drivers are listed below.

Fastest pit stops

1Vettel26.102R9
2Glock26.160R8
3Kubica26.379R64
4Hamilton26.483R66
5Räikkönen26.498R66
6Nakajima26.618R62
7Vettel26.626R51
8Alonso26.672R66
9Bourdais26.686R8
10Vettel26.810R66

Time in the pit lane from entry to exit, in seconds.

Stints of the top 10

Massa10282943 stops
Alonso9312653 stops
Räikkönen11322353 stops
Vettel918241554 stops
Hamilton11292653 stops
Glock828352 stops
Kovalainen10322363 stops
Trulli1132282 stops
Webber9391763 stops
Heidfeld10322263 stops · +1 lap

Stint length in laps, worked out from the pit stops. Which tyre compound was used per stint needs a licence for timing data, so it is not shown here. Lapped drivers covered fewer laps, so their bar ends earlier.

This race in history

25 races here since 1973Won from pole: 9 of 25

Win from furthest back (P8): Giancarlo Fisichella 2003

Most wins here

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Statistics: F1DB by Marcel Overdijk and contributors, licence CC BY 4.0, prepared by Hotlap Delta.

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