- Any sooner and everyone would have originally gone on Intermediate tires or full wets,
- Any later and Markus Winkelhock wouldn’t have had a 36+ second lead.
- Note - Markus Winkelhock and Felipe Massa went through turn 1 on lap 3 First and didn’t crash. Massa slipped heavily but kept it going, Alonso saw it and took note, but Button behind Alonso went off.
- Amazingly, Markus Winkelhock said “for me, it was the first time in an F1 car in rainy conditions”
- Markus Winkelhock’s dad had his last race at this track and started 22nd!
- Somehow, after sitting and having the engine run for 3 minutes, Lewis Hamilton’s car was fine
- The other “Turn 1 guys”, Speed, Liuzzi, Sutil, Rosberg, Button,, didn’t go back out. Somehow Hamiltondid, and Sato never got to the gravel and was able t recover after sitting for a little bit
- After spinning off the track on lap 1, Coulthard is now 5th!
- At the end of lap 4, the Red Flag comes and the race is suspended for the first time since the famous incident after turn 1 at Spa in 2001. (A similar situation occurred at the end of the 2003 Brazilian Grand Prix)
- Now the cars are totally unorganized on the front stretch Even when the teams come out to work with the cars on the grid.
- Now at the Red Flag, the order is 1. Winkelhock, 2. Massa, 3. Alonso, 4. Webber, 5. Coulthard, 6. Kovilainen, 7. Raikkonen, 8. Wurz
- Robert Kubica was now 11th after being last after lap 1.
- Markus Winkelhock starts last and first in a race!
- Markus Winkelhock starts last and first in his first race!
- Spyker starts last and first in an F1 race!
- Spyker starts last and first in an F1 race with a first time driver!
- During the break, Lewis Hamilton is pushed to the back of the pack, only to be told to pass the entire field later just before they restart so he can go around the track to regain his lost lap, which they don’t give him enough time to do so. Make up your mind FIA, keep him a lap down behind the field, or give him his lap back, not this wondering around in the middle of the track, trying to race back and slipping off the track when the field goes green.
- Now the Sun is completely out, but rain is expected soon….although it didn’t happen, I can’t imagine what would have happened if the rain came out just as they went back to green!
- Note – Had Hamilton not slipped off when getting to the back of the field, he would have been able to get 8th place, as he finished on the back bumper of 8th place Heikki Kovalainen. Although we wouldn’t have had the unbelievable and unprecedented ending of the season at the Brazilian Grand Prix if that was so.
P.S. - If you have the video of this race, read and watch together - oh man is it Ever Fun...just don't wear out the << and Pause buttons!!
Musically -
Cory Pesaturo
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