So After Lewis Hamiltons Impressive Home GP Victory At A Rain Soaked Silverstone , We Move Over To Germany For Round 10 Where Lewis Will Be Looking For a Double For The First Time Since His Canada-Indy Back To Back In 2007 , To The Hockenheimring . Its Sure To Be an Exciting , Exhilerating and nail Biting Grand Prix ,What with Hamilton , Raikkonen And Massa All Tied on 48 Points Each And Robert Kubica 2 Points further back , Anyone of those 4 Could end up Back On top Of The WDC Come 12 Days Time .
Leave Lewis Alone :
Lewis will have more motivation Than Just Being Able to take Back to Back wins .
The Saga with the media And "armchair" Experts Who Are all to Quick to slate lewis at every Opportunity Only to Praise Him when he is winning . He Has to win every Race If he wants a Quiet Life and Even for a star like lewis ,that is more or less impossible .So he has to put up with the Two faced Tabloids , Media and Living Room Know it all's . Its so sad To see As we have an unbelievable talent who We should be proud of , Im sick to Death of seeing Lewis Forlorn and downbeat over People he doesnt even know , Its absolutly shocking and Quite Frankly Im sickened , I No Longer read the newspapers in Britain And i never will Again In my life .
Moving On :
The Grand Prix at hockenheim is also referred to As Grober Preis santander Von Deutschland And Is Situated Near Baden-Wurttemberg In The Rhine Valley. First opened on 29th may 1932 Where It Was 8 Kilometres Long And Run Through A Dense Forest Making It Inhospitable for Spectators , It was Called the Kurpfalzning From 1938 Until 1947. Germany Were Banned From Taking part In Events Internationally Due To The Escapades During World War II , The Hockenheimring's first German GP Came in 1970 After Drivers Boycotted the Nurburgring As Changes needed to be made At The old nordschleiffe Circuit, Jochen Rindt Winning The first hockenheim Race In 1970 in his Lotus ford . However F1 Returned to Nurburgring one year later And stayed there until 1976 . From '77 to '06 the hockenheim circuit held every German GP except '85 .
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In 2006 the Rule That Only Allowed one Gp Per Country Came into place Which is why Nurburgring Was classed as the European GP And Hockenheim The German GP .
The Circuit Was Redesigned By The Famous Track Designer Herman tillke For the 2002 Grand Prix Where The Nordkurve Was Tightened . And the Circuit was Massivly Shortened , The Forest section that used to be fast and sweeping was replaced by a tight infield . Seating Arrangements were Changed too with more grandstands Eventually turning Hockenheim into a 120,000 Capacity circuit .
Hockenheimring Circuit Statistics :
4.574 Kilometres , 2.840 miles in distance .
67 Laps with The drivers Doing 190.420 Miles Over The course of a race .
13 Corners With names Such As Nordkurve , Mobil 1 , Sudkurve and Sachs The Long Curved Straight Is Called The Parabollika .
The Track Is 15 Metres Wide Making Overtaking More Possible .
The Surface Area Of Hockenheim is a huge 97 Hectares .
It Is Used For Formula One And DTM Races .
The Lap Record Around The New Hockenheim Circuit Is Held By Finn Kimi Raikkonen In His MclarenMercedes In 2004 With a Time Of 1m 13.780 s .
In The Last Race At Hockenheim in 2006 Kimi Raikkonen Took Pole Position On The Saturday But Michael Schumacher Ended Up Leading Home A Ferrari 1 -2 Ahead Of Felipe Massa , Kimi Took 3rd .
There Have Only Been 2 Drivers To Grab A Hat Trick Of Hockenheim Wins in a Row And they Are Ayrton Senna In '88 , '89 and '90 .And Juan Manuel Fangio In '54 , '56 And '57 . (there was no german GP in 1955) .
Last 20 Winners :
Michael Schumacher , Scuderia Ferrari 2006 .
Fernando Alonso , Renault , 2005 .
Michael Schumacher , Scuderia Ferrari , 2004.
Juan Pablo Montoya , Williams BMW , 2003 .
Michael Schumacher , Scuderia Ferrari , 2002 .
Ralf Schumacher , Williams BMW , 2001.
Rubens Barrichello , Scuderia Ferrari , 2000 .
Eddie Irvine , Scuderia Ferrari , 1999 .
Mika Hakkinen , Mclaren Mercedes , 1998 .
Gerhard Berger , Benneton Renault , 1997 .
Damon Hill , Williams Renault , 1996.
Michael Schumacher , Benneton Renault , 1995 .
Gerhard Berger , Scuderia Ferrari , 1994 .
Alain Prost , Williams Renault , 1993 .
Nigel Mansell , Williams Renault , 1992 .
Nigel Mansell , Williams Renault 1991 .
Ayrton Senna , Mclaren Honda , 1990 .
Ayrton Senna , Mclaren Honda , 1989.
Ayrton Senna , Mclaren Honda , 1988..
Nelson Piquet Snr , Williams Honda , 1987 .
My Top 8 Predictions For Hockenheim 2008 :
1. Lewis Hamilton , Mclaren .
2.Kimi Raikkonen , Ferrari .
3.Robert Kubica , BMW Sauber .
4.Mark Webber , Red Bull .
5. Felipe Massa , Ferrari .
6. Heikki Kovalainen , Mclaren .
7. Fernando Alonso , Renault .
8. Sebastian Vettel . Torro Rosso .
Im Looking Forward To This Grand Prix , The Nurburgring For Me Cant Stand Up To Hockenheim Or The Old Nurburgring At Nordschleiffe . A Herman Tillke Designed Grand Prix Circuit Always Brings An exciting Race . Ill Be Interested To See How Young Sebastian Vettel Does In His First Home Grand Prix In An F1 Car , He Is On Fire At The Minute And I Wouldnt Bet Against Him Upsetting My Top 8 Predictions . Honda Could Do with another Fantastic Race Weekend After Rubens Barrichello's Heroic Podium At Silverstone , A Sure indication That Ross Brawn Is Taking Them in the Right Direction .
Also Tell us your thought On Will lewis win , will There be any Shocks And is Lewis being Treated Unfairly By The British Media ?
Start Your Predictions Now Bleachers .
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about 1 month ago
I will reserve my judgement for my own round 10 prediction which no doubt will be almost a carbon copy of this one ... Looks familiar this mate ... You force me to up my game and make my prediction even more unique ! Good writing though mate, you beat me to it, fair play, keep up the good work !
about 1 month ago
I predict that you'll run out of capital letters before long. Oh, and a BMW will will the race.
about 1 month ago
yet to do my one yet, will do it at some point, but my fingers need a break! still, must agree with webber there. he is really pushing that car beyond it's limit.
vettel too, punching above his weight and surely must now have a choice between BMW and Red Bull for next season.
about 1 month ago
Im sorry about the capital letters thing , i thing it looks good and someone asked me to use my capital letters . plus Bmw Will Do Ok But No Better Than 3rd With Kubica , heidfeld will finish 9th or tenth i predict . i know its is Home GP but i cant see him repeating his 2nd at silverstone . all personal opinion tho .
Ben I wouldnt Worry Too Much Mate , Remember My Silverstone Article ? you came up with an article that blew mine completely out of the water , so im waiting for it to happen again , cheers for the compliments too mate. im sure you will make a blinder .
and Webber is doing fantastic this season , he is consistent and they are movin forward , shame DC Got a DNF in his last home GP , i think he would of scored points as well if he hadnt got tagged . vettel on a role too , he will definatly be in the red bull . i think BMW will name kubica and heidfeld again . it will be an interesting one if BMW nae vettel , it makes absolute sense tho , a fast car , hes shown he can do it . and kubica and vettel is a mouthwatering team .
about 1 month ago
you missed some special letters like ö, ä, ü, ß, but ok. So, Großen preiss aus Deutschland....hmm.
I can only see Räikkönen and Massa on top, and of course BMW will do everything to win Mercedes on their circuit. Naturaly, all German drivers will give the best, specialy Heidfeld and Nico.
But finaly, i think it's time for Ferrari to really bounce back, so i wouldn't put my money on Vodafone Lewis-McLaren-Mercedes team at all.
But of course, this new Hockenheim has totaly lost charm. It used to be a great, amazing circuit til 2001, and it looks so ordinary. Last year i couldn't even find Jim Clark monument, that area is all in grass now.
from about 1 month ago
It's a travesty if Jim Clark memorial is gone. Has it not been moved somewhere else? They do that these don't they? Move memorials to more prime locations rather than where they were originally.
about 1 month ago
yes i know i did dagni , i dont know where them letters are on my keyboard , not quite figured them out .
its an interesting one and yes bmw will betrying to steal the show but mclaren have reached the point where they have found te mclarens sweet spot . ferrari were really off colour . i see them wanting to prove a point but i dont see any better than 2nd kimi 5th felipe . Nico Will Want To Do well but with a circuit that favours the speedier cars down the straight i see no hope for nico's car its not in the perfect condition . another wet race could throw the door wide open tho .
about 1 month ago
And its Grober Preis VON Deutschland , Not Grober preiss Aus Deutschland .
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