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Spanish Grand Prix: Raikonnen Grabs Pole

April 26, 2008 by CLDsport 

Barcelona, Spain: Fernando Alonso was denied pole position in his home race following a fantastic final lap from Kimi Raikonnen.

Raikonnen’s flawless final lap was clocked at 1min 21.813sec and pushed home favourite Alonso into second place by 9 hundreths of a second.

Felipe Massa will start Sunday’s race behind his team mate in 3rd place, with Robert Kubica alongside. Lewis Hamilton will have his work cut out if he is to get his season back on track following his poor 5th place qualification. The British McClaren driver will start alongside his team mate Kovalainen following another disappointing performance from the car - which still looks way behind Ferrari in overall performance.

Alonso’s front row position is believed to be due to a running lighter on fuel. Renaults technical director Pat Symonds said that Alonso’s performance was down to ’strategy’. Draw your own conclusions!

Final grid positions for Sunday’s Spanish Grand Prix:

  1. Kimi Raikkonen (Fin) Ferrari 1 min 21.813 secs
  2. Fernando Alonso (Spa) Renault 1:21.904
  3. Felipe Massa (Brz) Ferrari 1:22.058
  4. Robert Kubica (Pol) BMW Sauber 1:22.065
  5. Lewis Hamilton (GB) McLaren - Mercedes 1:22.096
  6. Heikki Kovalainen (Fin) McLaren - Mercedes 1:22.231
  7. Mark Webber (Aus) RedBull - Renault 1:22.429
  8. Jarno Trulli (Ita) Toyota 1:22.529
  9. Nick Heidfeld (Ger) BMW Sauber 1:22.542
  10. Nelsinho Piquet (Brz) Renault 1:22.699
  11. Rubens Barrichello (Brz) Honda 1:21.049
  12. Kazuki Nakajima (Jap) Williams - Toyota 1:21.117
  13. Jenson Button (GB) Honda 1:21.211
  14. Timo Glock (Ger) Toyota 1:21.230
  15. Nico Rosberg (Ger) Williams - Toyota 1:21.349
  16. Sebastien Bourdais (Fra) Toro Rosso - Ferrari 1:21.724
  17. David Coulthard (GB) RedBull - Renault 1:21.810
  18. Sebastian Vettel (Ger) Toro Rosso - Ferrari 1:22.108
  19. Giancarlo Fisichella (Ita) Force India - Ferrari 1:22.516
  20. Adrian Sutil (Ger) Force India - Ferrari 1:23.224
  21. Anthony Davidson (GB) Super Aguri - Honda 1:23.318
  22. Takuma Sato (Jpn) Super Aguri - Honda 1:23.496
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  1. Jennifer Lancey on April 26th, 2008 11:45 pm

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