Felipe Massa Wins the European Grand Prix

Plus Complete Race Results and New Standings

Massa in his Ferrari

Last Sunday at the new Valencia street circuit in Spain, with over 115,000 spectators packed into the grandstands in sight of the Mediterranean harbor, Felipe Massa won the European Grand Prix, just ahead of Lewis Hamilton. Massa started in pole position and drove a near perfect race the entire time after that.

Hamilton, who was reported to be suffering from a severe neck spasm before the race, said his neck was still sore but that he doubted it would be a problem for the Belgian Grand Prix in two weeks’ time.

Unfortunately, Kimi Räikkönen, reigning champion, is still having that bad luck he’s had since April; he retired this race after engine trouble.

Only six races are left and it is way to close to call any of the championships at this point. It’s going to be one of the big players, but we probably won’t know until the end.

Race Results

1	MASSA	Ferrari	1h35m32.339s
2	HAMILTON	McLaren-Mercedes	+ 5.6s
3	KUBICA	BMW Sauber	+ 37.3s
4	KOVALAINEN	McLaren-Mercedes	+ 39.7s
5	TRULLI	Toyota	+ 50.6s
6	VETTEL	STR-Ferrari	+ 52.6s
7	GLOCK	Toyota	+ 67.9s
8	ROSBERG	Williams-Toyota	+ 71.4s
9	HEIDFELD	BMW Sauber	+ 82.1s
10	BOURDAIS	STR-Ferrari	+ 89.7s
11	PIQUET	Renault	+ 92.7s
12	WEBBER	Red Bull-Renault	+ 1 lap
13	BUTTON	Honda	+ 1 lap
14	FISICHELLA	Force India-Ferrari	+ 1 lap
15	NAKAJIMA	Williams-Toyota	+ 1 lap
16	BARRICHELLO	Honda	+ 1 lap
17	COULTHARD	Red Bull-Renault	+ 1 lap
18	RÄIKKÖNEN	Honda	+ 12 laps, engine
19	SUTIL	Force India-Ferrari	+ 16 laps, accident
20	ALONSO	Renault	+ 57 laps, accident damage
Fastest Lap	MASSA	Ferrari	1m38.708s

Driver’s Championship Standings

1	HAMILTON	McLaren-Mercedes	70 Points
2	MASSA	Ferrari	64 Points
3	RÄIKKÖNEN	Ferrari	57 Points
4	KUBICA	BMW-Sauber	55 Points
5	KOVALAINEN	McLaren-Mercedes	43 Points
6	HEIDFELD	BMW Sauber	41 Points
7	TRULLI	Toyota	26 Points
8	ALONSO	Renault	18 Points
9	WEBBER	Red Bull-Renault	18 Points
10	GLOCK	Toyota	15 Points
11	PIQUET	Renault	13 Points
12	BARRICHELLO	Honda	11 Points
13	ROSBERG	Williams-Toyota	9 Points
14	VETTEL	STR-Ferrari	9 Points
15	NAKAJIMA	Williams-Toyota	8 Points
16	COULTHARD	Red Bull-Renault	6 Points
17	BUTTON	Honda	3 Points
18	BOURDAIS	STR-Ferrari	2 Points

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