France 2008: Race analysis

At a glance

Results

Pos	Driver	Team	Q1	Q2	Q3	Gap
1	Räikkönen	Ferrari	1:15.133	1:15.161	1:16.449
2	Massa	Ferrari	1:15.024	1:15.041	1:16.490	+0.041
3	Hamilton	McLaren	1:15.634	1:15.293	1:16.693	+0.244
4	Alonso	Renault	1:15.754	1:15.483	1:16.840	+0.391
5	Trulli	Toyota	1:15.521	1:15.362	1:16.920	+0.471
6	Kovalainen	McLaren	1:15.965	1:15.639	1:16.944	+0.495
7	Kubica	BMW Sauber	1:15.687	1:15.723	1:17.037	+0.588
8	Webber	Red Bull	1:16.020	1:15.488	1:17.233	+0.784
9	Coulthard	Red Bull	1:15.802	1:15.654	1:17.426	+0.977
10	Glock	Toyota	1:15.727	1:15.558	1:17.596	+1.147
11	Piquet Jr.	Renault	1:15.848	1:15.770		+0.729
12	Heidfeld	BMW Sauber	1:16.006	1:15.786		+0.745
13	Vettel	Toro Rosso	1:15.918	1:15.816		+0.775
14	Bourdais	Toro Rosso	1:16.072	1:16.045		+1.004
15	Rosberg	Williams	1:16.085	1:16.235		+1.194
16	Nakajima	Williams	1:16.243			+1.219
17	Button	Honda	1:16.306			+1.282
18	Barrichello	Honda	1:16.330			+1.306
19	Fisichella	Force India	1:16.971			+1.947
20	Sutil	Force India	1:17.053			+2.029

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 Massa	Ferrari	2	70	1:31:50.245	2	Ferrari
2	Kimi RäikkönenFastest lap	Ferrari	1	70	+17.984	2	Ferrari
3	Jarno Trulli	Toyota	4	70	+28.250	2	Toyota
4	Heikki Kovalainen	McLaren	10	70	+28.929	2	Mercedes
5	Robert Kubica	BMW Sauber	5	70	+30.512	2	BMW
6	Mark Webber	Red Bull	6	70	+40.304	2	Renault
7	Nelson Piquet Jr.	Renault	9	70	+41.033	2	Renault
8	Fernando Alonso	Renault	3	70	+43.372	2	Renault
9	David Coulthard	Red Bull	7	70	+51.072	2	Renault
10	Lewis Hamilton	McLaren	13	70	+54.521	3	Mercedes
11	Timo Glock	Toyota	8	70	+57.738	2	Toyota
12	Sebastian Vettel	Toro Rosso	12	70	+58.065	2	Ferrari
13	Nick Heidfeld	BMW Sauber	11	70	+1:02.079	2	BMW
14	Rubens Barrichello	Honda	20	69	+1 lap	2	Honda
15	Kazuki Nakajima	Williams	15	69	+1 lap	2	Toyota
16	Nico Rosberg	Williams	19	69	+1 lap	1	Toyota
17	Sébastien Bourdais	Toro Rosso	14	69	+1 lap	2	Ferrari
18	Giancarlo Fisichella	Force India	17	69	+1 lap	2	Ferrari
19	Adrian Sutil	Force India	18	69	+1 lap	2	Ferrari
DNF	Jenson Button	Honda	16	16	Collision damage	1	Honda

Starting grid vs qualifying

Kovalainen Qualified 6, started 10 · 5-place penalty
Hamilton Qualified 3, started 13 · 10-place penalty
Rosberg Qualified 15, started 19 · 10-place penalty
Barrichello Qualified 18, started 20 · 5-place penalty

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

Race

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Places gained

Kovalainen10→4+6
Barrichello20→14+6
Hamilton13→10+3
Rosberg19→16+3
Piquet Jr.9→7+2
Massa2→1+1
Trulli4→3+1
Kubica5→50
Webber6→60
Vettel12→120
Nakajima15→150
Räikkönen1→2-1
Fisichella17→18-1
Sutil18→19-1
Coulthard7→9-2
Heidfeld11→13-2
Glock8→11-3
Bourdais14→17-3
Alonso3→8-5

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

Fastest pit stops

1Hamilton14.559R13
2Heidfeld22.988R29
3Kovalainen23.304R52
4Piquet Jr.23.540R50
5Barrichello23.550R56
6Hamilton23.625R52
7Coulthard23.811R52
8Trulli23.848R50
9Webber23.864R49
10Heidfeld23.899R48

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

Stints of the top 10

Massa2331162 stops
Räikkönen2131182 stops
Trulli2030202 stops
Kovalainen2527182 stops
Kubica2026242 stops
Webber2326212 stops
Piquet Jr.2525202 stops
Alonso1527282 stops
Coulthard2626182 stops
Hamilton13633183 stops

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.

Retirements

ButtonCollision damageHonda

This race in history

17 races here since 1991Won from pole: 5 of 17

Win from furthest back (P5): Heinz-Harald Frentzen 1999

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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