2008 Monaco Grand Prix
The 2008 Monaco Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held on 25 May 2008 at the Circuit de Monaco. It was the sixth race of the 2008 Formula One World Championship. The race was won by the season’s eventual Drivers’ Champion, Lewis Hamilton, for the McLaren team. BMW Sauber driver Robert Kubica finished second, and Felipe Massa was third in a Ferrari. Ferrari maintained their lead in the Constructors’ Championship, 16 points ahead of McLaren and 17 ahead ofBMW Sauber.
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The 2008 Monaco Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held on 25 May 2008 at the Circuit de Monaco. It was the sixth race of the 2008 Formula One World Championship. The race was won by the season’s eventual Drivers’ Champion, Lewis Hamilton, for the McLaren team. BMW Sauber driver Robert Kubica finished second, and Felipe Massa, who started from pole position, was third in a Ferrari. Ferrari maintained their lead in the Constructors’ Championship, 16 points ahead of McLaren and 17 ahead ofBMW Sauber, with 12 races of the season remaining. Three practice sessions were held before the race, delaying the car’s race debut. Toro Rosso driver Sebastian Vettel was forced to take a five-place penalty on the grid for an unschedhedhed gearbox change. His teammate Sébastien Bourdais escaped a similar penalty because he had failed to finish the previous race in Turkey, allowing him to make his race debut on Sunday. The Grand Prix was contested by 20 drivers, in ten teams of two. The teams were Ferrari, McLaren-Mercedes, Renault, Honda, Force India-Ferrari, BMW Sauberg, Toyota, Red Bull-Renault, Williams-Toyota and Toro Ros so-ferrari. Ferrari driver Kimi Räikkönen led the Drivers’ Championship with 35 points, and his teammate FelipeMassa was second with 28 points. McLaren driver Lewis Hamilton was third, also on 28 points, with one win fewer than Massa.
The result meant that he led the Championship by three points ahead of Räkkönen and four ahead of Massa with 12 races of the season left to go. Ferrari had not won in Monaco since 2001, and had been unable to match McLaren’s pace in 2007. Red Bull driver Mark Webber was fourth, ahead of his teammate Nick Heidfeld on 20 points; BMW driver Robert Kubica was fourth on 24 points and Toro Rosso’s Sebastian Vettel was fifth on 19 points. The race was held on the same weekend that Ferrari had used a modified version of their car, the STR2, that had been introduced for the opening races in Turkey. The team also used a different transmission than that used in the STR3, allowing them to make a free change of gearbox on the race day. The STR3 was also used for the first time in the race in Monaco, allowing it to make its debut on the Sunday before the Italian Grand Prix. The car had been left out of the testing for the previous five races due to a lack of spare parts, which had left the team with a short spare part set-up for the race. Ferrari won each of the previous four races, giving them a commanding lead in the constructors’ championship, but McLaren and BMW were second and third, respectively.
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