Pos  Driver       Team                     Time      Laps
 1.  Hamilton     McLaren-Mercedes    (B)  1:15.483  75
 2.  Raikkonen    Ferrari             (B)  1:15.803  63
 3.  Rosberg      Williams-Toyota     (B)  1:16.099  87
 4.  Sutil        Force India-Ferrari (B)  1:16.516  97
 5.  Bourdais     Toro Rosso-Ferrari  (B)  1:16.533  113
 6.  Kobayashi    Toyota              (B)  1:16.570  65
 7.  Heidfeld     BMW Sauber          (B)  1:16.593  59
 8.  Piquet       Renault             (B)  1:16.856  111
 9.  Coulthard    Red Bull-Renault    (B)  1:17.361  67
10.  Wurz         Honda               (B)  1:17.825  89

Just 48 hours after Lewis Hamilton got his world championship ambitions back on track with a stunning victory in the British Grand Prix, the British driver evaluated the new engine cover.

The use of the engine cover follows the trend begun by Red Bull Racing and since copied by Renault and Force India.

Although rain showers have marred the opening day of the test at Hockenheim, McLaren should be able to get enough dry running to evaluate whether or not to run the cover at the German Grand Prix.

McLaren F1 CEO Martin Whitmarsh believed the team's work on the car over recent weeks was now paying dividends in their fight against Ferrari.

"I think the reality is the team have done a fantastic job to continue to develop the car over the past two races and it's starting to pay off," Whitmarsh told autosport.com.

"The championship fight is rather like last year. In reality it will swing backwards and forwards according to how good a job we are doing. We will continue to improve but Ferrari are a strong team and they're going to be continuing to improve. We've just got to do it at a faster rate."

Well, let's see if Ferrari are concentrating 110% on developing the car, as McLaren certainly had upped their game in their preparations for Silverstone. I can't help but feel for Kimi especially, who's only really had yesterday off but even that with all the media rubbish in the air. Now he's back at work, but I'm sure he's focused on his job and only that. He wants to win, and doesn't care what people think about him. Winning is all that matters. Keep flying Kimi! Meanwhile...

The team chose to leave Kimi Raikkonen on the same set of intermediate tyres at his first pit stop and then left him out on the old tyres so long that he fell out of contention for victory at Silverstone yesterday.

Raikkonen and Felipe Massa also had several spins each in the race, although Raikkonen did recover to finish fourth, but di Montezemolo says they all need to learn from their mistakes.

"I hope we'll manage to win our eighth title in ten years," he was quoted as saying by Gazzetta dello Sport. "We will (manage it) if we don't carry on doing stupid things.

"Obviously I wasn't pleased with what I saw yesterday, but I hope it's a useful lesson. Knowing my men, I'm certain it is."

He also says Ferrari have missed out on too many good results so far this season and can't afford to throw away any more in the remaining races.

"We're at the half way point of the season and in the lead of the championship," he added. "But we've lost too many opportunities, so in the second half of the season we must not lose any more."

Hamilton's dominant win

Lewis Hamilton won his seventh race in Silverstone, the first for him starting from the second row of the grid.

Hamilton won by a margin of 1:08.577 over Nick Heidfeld, and this is the largest margin since Damon Hill led a depleted field by two laps in the 1995 Australian Grand Prix. In that race several front-runners retired due to collisions or mechanical failures, and Hill won ahead of Olivier Panis.

To find another race where the two leading drivers were on the same lap and the gap was bigger, we have to move back another year, at the 1994 Pacific Grand Prix, where Michael Schumacher won by 1:15.300 over Gerhard Berger.

Honda and Barrichello back on the podium

Honda scored with Rubens Barrichello their ninth podium in history, the fourth since their return to racing in 2006. The last time Honda were on the podium was in the 2006 Brazilian Grand Prix with Jenson Button, and last time Barrichello climbed on the podium before this year's British Grand Prix was in the 2005 US Grand Prix when he took second behind then-teammate Schumacher in a Ferrari.

Barrichello scored his 62nd podium and thus ties with David Coulthard at the fourth all-time spot behind Schumacher (154), Alain Prost (106) and Ayrton Senna (80).

Joint leads

Following the British GP, there is a three-way tie at the top of the points standing. This also happened last year after Bahrain, when Fernando Alonso, Kimi Raikkonen and Lewis Hamilton had 22 points each.

It's only the third time this happens in 59 seasons: the third time occurred in the first year, 1950, when after Indianapolis Nino Farina, Juan Manuel Fangio and Johnnie Parsons all had 9 points after three races.

(The significant difference of this championship tie is that both Lewis and Felipe have won 3 races opposed to Kimi's only two victories at Malaysia and Spain.)

Qualifying notes

• First pole for Heikki Kovalainen, the 91st driver in history to start from pole position. It's also the third straight year that a McLaren car started on pole at Silverstone.

• Mark Webber equalled his best career qualifying result, a second place he gained four times: Malaysia 2004, Spain 2005 and Monaco 2006 being the other occurrences.

(Kimi managed to out qualify teammate Massa for the third consecutive time from Canada. However on all three occassions Kimi has failed to win in the races.)

Race notes

• Nick Heidfeld equals for the sixth time his best career result, a second place.

• Sixth straight fastest lap for Kimi Raikkonen, his third consecutive fastest lap in Silverstone since 2005. And with a fourth-place finish, the Finn is the seventh driver to score more than 500 points in career. He overtook Alonso in this ranking, now the couple is only one point apart, with Raikkonen at 504 and Fernando at 503.

• Raikkonen was not on the podium at Silverstone for the first time after five years. (2004 - 2nd, 2005 - 3rd, 2006 - 3rd, 2007 - 1st)

• The last time both Ferraris finished the race a lap down (or more) was in the 1996 Brazilian Grand Prix.

• For the first time in his career, Felipe Massa ended the race lapped twice by the leader. It's also the first time he was classified last.

Kimi, as mentioned, set the fastest lap at Silverstone with a time of 1.32.150. The sequence of fastest laps by Kimi Raikkonen keeps growing and now the Finn, reaching six fastest laps in a row this season, is ahead of the all-time 3rd place of Michael Schumacher:

Most consecutive fastest laps

Alberto Ascari - 7 (Belgium '52 - Argentina '53)
Kimi Raikkonen - 6 (Spain - Britain '08)
Michael Schumacher - 5 (Bahrain - Europe '04)

All time most fastest laps

Schumacher - 76
Prost - 41
Raikkonen - 31
Mansell - 30

If you're interested in looking at the full statistics of Kimi's career, you can read them all in the KRS Archive here. As the top 3 in the championship are level in points, no one has a clear advantage but it's time now to start attacking. Ferrari will soon have to decide who to push for the charge for the championship. So...now we head to Germany for round 10 of the season. Kimi has never won at Hockenheim, though he came pretty close to winning at the Nurburgring in 2005, one lap away to be precise. But we all know how that dramatically ended! He has taken two pole positions and fastest laps in Hockenheim however. Being a fast, with high speed straights, circuit, Kimi should be able to benefit from his Ferrari properly this time. Let's hope that together, he and the team can overcome their bad races and get back to winning. Below is a post-race interview with Kimi I've just uploaded, seeing as we didn't get any from him straight away yesterday:


      

Kimi was quite annoyed at that guy being right in his face while he's doing his business. Embarrassing for both sides, but Kimi probably didn't expect the photographer to fall over like that. However it went both ways, Cahier was in his face, stepping on his stuff, and Kimi didn't like it. Also, Mark Arnall (Kimi's trainer next to him) seems to have got annoyed too, saying "oi, mind the stuff", the exact moment Kimi looked up. The photographer was leaning on Kimi's race stuff.

Taken from an interview in Saturday's Silverstone Red Bulletin issue, Kimi says: "I don't mind what people think too much. If they ask nice questions then yes, but for sure if they ask stupid questions I won't answer and they will think I'm a dickhead. But it goes both ways. If everyone's nice to eachother it's much easier." Kimi's manager Steve Robertson and Ferrari press man Colajanni were interviewed on the small incident. They defended Kimi saying they completely understand his reaction although they will try to prevent such incidents occuring in the future. It seems the photographer was working for the Cahier Archive image website, and this is the proof with the famous Cahier signature > This was the picture that flashed in Kimi's eyes as he bent down to get something and the photographer carelessly stood on it, causing Kimi to push him away.
 
The famous photographer who was pushed by Kimi can keep this bruising but golden memory with him and on his website, the moment is captured vividly highlighting the blue/green eye of the Iceman who went hot. Yummy.

It's negative coverage of the world champion, unnecessarily provoked by a photographer who doesn't know where the limit is. Kimi's not a jerk. He's the most composed and laid back guy I've ever seen and I don't even know him. If Kimi is a jerk for pushing this guy, he would have done far worse to Lewis Hamilton for crashing into him in the pit lane of the 2008 Canadian GP. But he didn't.

Speaking to the Finnish press today, Kimi's spoke person Riku Kuvja said:

"They will surely shake hands in Hockenheim. The error was mutual."

Räikkönen is not expected to follow this case or be pursued any legal action from Mr Cahier:

"He is a long-line photographer, and knows the spirit of the game. It is not anticipated that the photographer will take any action," Riku Kuvaja said.

Press Release from Cahier Archive

Following the incident involving Kimi Raikkonen and Paul-Henri Cahier on the starting grid of the British Grand Prix in Silverstone, that saw the finnish driver assault the photographer, we decided that it was necessary to clarify a few points.

There never was any contact between the two men, nor did Paul-Henri ever touch Kimi's equipment. Furthermore, the distance at which Paul-Henri Cahier was taking a picture, although close, was completely standard. The photographers who take pictures at Grand Prix races are all professionnals who have been accredited by the FIA, and as the dozen other photographers who were standing next to Paul-Henri Cahier prove, there was nothing unusual or unethical about this situation.

Finally, Paul-Henri Cahier has been an F1 photographer for almost fourty years and has been close to the greatest champions, but none of them has ever behaved in such a rude manner. It is understandable that drivers might get irritable because of the pressure they undergo, but Kimi Raikkonen never even attempted to express his discontent in a non violent way. Paul-Henri Cahier luckily did not suffer any injury, and so does not intend to take any action, but he regrets the arrogance with which Kimi Raikkonen treated someone who was merely doing his job.

Oh whatever. Kimi's trainer told Cahier to MIND THE STUFF and was right in Kimi's way of his preparations. The video clearly shows, as does the last picture above, Kimi leaning over to get something, and Cahier was being careless knocking something over and flashed a light right in Kimi's face as the PHOTOGRAPH TAKEN PROVES! This is hardly arrogant behaviour, just a really upset driver. Kimi is known to dislike photo sessions in Formula One, though he takes his time signing autographs for fans, but he has never been as annoyed as this, not once. He went defensive and probably the adrenalin drivers have before the race starts played a part and clearly Raikkonen doesn't like people coming too close, let alone a photographer. I hope this teaches some lessons for photographers to do their job PROPERLY. Anyway, I hope both parties can put this behind as soon as possible and apologise to each other - Cahier should apologise for not considering Kimi's space when preparing for a tough race in the wet, and Kimi should perhaps say sorry for making the man fall over like that (which I'm absolutely positive he didn't intend).
Ferrari have downplayed the incident as 'an unfortunate circumstance':

The team explained the world champion's actions on Sunday as 'understandable', after the Finn shoved Cahier because he felt the photographer was being 'too intrusive'.

"The photographer's behaviour was too intrusive as he put his feet on Kimi's stuff despite Kimi's physio warning," Ferrari spokesman Luca Colajanni told autosport.com. "There is video evidence and witnesses which can confirm it.

"Kimi's reaction was understandable, considering how important the minutes before the start of a race are for a driver. He did not push Cahier too hard: the photographer fell down because he was in an unbalanced position.

"We believe it was an unfortunate circumstance."

British photographer Darren Heath witnessed the incident and explained on his website's blog that Cahier had crossed into Raikkonen's personal space.

"He'd got too close and Kimi had taken action, firmly shoving the press man away," said Heath. "A tense few seconds ensued as the snapper thought to retaliate, the wound-up Finn turning away and defusing the situation."

Lewis Hamilton got his world championship challenge back on track with an outstanding home victory in challenging conditions.

The McLaren driver coped with constantly fluctuating levels of rain to dominate the British Grand Prix, eventually winning by over a minute and moving back into the joint points lead.

Nick Heidfeld took his third podium of the year in second, ahead of the sensational Rubens Barrichello, who gambled on a mid-race stint on extreme wets to take his first podium in his three seasons with Honda.

Kimi Raikkonen only managed fourth for Ferrari, ahead of pole-sitter Heikki Kovalainen, as both fell back in the rain, while Felipe Massa was the final finishers after spinning many times...(read full race report here)

Classified:

Pos  Driver        Team                      Time
 1.  Hamilton      McLaren-Mercedes      (B)  1h39:09.440
 2.  Heidfeld      BMW Sauber            (B)  +  1:08.577
 3.  Barrichello   Honda                 (B)  +  1:22.273
 4.  Raikkonen     Ferrari               (B)  +     1 lap
 5.  Kovalainen    McLaren-Mercedes      (B)  +     1 lap
 6.  Alonso        Renault               (B)  +     1 lap
 7.  Trulli        Toyota                (B)  +     1 lap
 8.  Nakajima      Williams-Toyota       (B)  +     1 lap
 9.  Rosberg       Williams-Toyota       (B)  +     1 lap
10.  Webber        Red Bull-Renault      (B)  +     1 lap
11.  Bourdais      Toro Rosso-Ferrari    (B)  +     1 lap
12.  Glock         Toyota                (B)  +     1 lap
13.  Massa         Ferrari               (B)  +    2 laps

Fastest lap: Raikkonen, 1:32.150

Not classified/retirements:

Driver        Team                      On lap
Kubica        BMW Sauber            (B)    40
Button        Honda                 (B)    39
Piquet        Renault               (B)    36
Fisichella    Force India-Ferrari   (B)    17
Sutil         Force India-Ferrari   (B)    11
Vettel        Toro Rosso-Ferrari    (B)    1
Coulthard     Red Bull-Renault      (B)    1

Just as well I didn't go to the British Grand Prix this year then, hahaha! I would have been asbolutely soaked and covered in Lewis Hamilton fan sweat and alcohol. First of all, I think we all should sit down and applaud Lewis for how he did today. I ended up giving him a few claps as he crossed the line - what a win for him and a great way to say thanks to all his fans that had turned up there. Because really, at the end of the day, the fans deserve what they went to see! And no doubt the majority there were cheering for Lewis and McLaren though I hope the Kimi fans had a good time anyway. He deserves a break now, Lewis, he really does. Let's go easy on him, because he took it pretty easy in the end and put his talent to use. It was his best win ever, he says.

The start of the race was pure madness - I didn't expect that many cars to go off on the first lap but Lewis saw a great opportunity on the right of Webber and slipped through. Amazingly, Kovalainen was brave enough to take his lead back, almost hijacked by Hamilton before they ran into sweeping Becketts corner. Kimi had a really good start too, he was quick off the line as Lewis and looked eager to pass through the middle, but the gap inside between Heikki and Webber closed in on Kimi and he had no choice but to go back on the left and get past Webber into turn 1. So far so good for Kimi. He looked strong. But the McLarens' looked stronger...well, one of them did. Heikki unfortunately couldn't put his pole to use today but kept his momentum up in the end. Honda and Barrichello were a delight to see on the pdoium, how long has it been Rubens!? He dedicated his 3rd place to his son Eduardo, how sweet. The guy to miss out on the points, Alonso, did do a good job but even Nakajima looked just as good to recover from 15th at the beginning.

Coulthard, oh poor Coulthard. He didn't even get to complete one full lap in his last British GP and spun out with Vettel's Torro Rosso! And Webber completely lost his handy front row position and also spun out soon after being passed by Kimi. And if that was enough, Massa began spinning but managed to recover as well as Webber, and they tried to fight back through the field. Massa wasn't as energetic this year at Silverstone, he did more spinning than much overtaking and found it really difficult to keep the car straight as there was so much aquaplaning. Unfortunately, as if that wasn't enough to worry about for Ferrari, the Red team had to go and ruin Kimi's chance to fight for victory later on...Now some will say that it was a team decision, meaning Kimi was also part of the decision to remain on those tyres. This is fine. This is a driver trusting his team. However, he doesn't have all the information as they do on the pitwall.

My Dad happened to stay and watch the race with me during his lunch break from work, but as Dad always chatters on and still can't get the name of the drivers right (he confuses Massa and Alonso, and he still doesn't get that Lewis and Kimi are in different cars!), so I couldn't follow the first stint clearly, I apologise if I'm missing out anything significant in my comments All I know is, Kimi was keeping in touch with the McLarens' and soon after Lewis passed Heikki for the lead I knew the race was going to be down between Lewis and Kimi. And it looked set that way, while Kimi set the fastest lap of the race (yay! Kimi's scored the 6th most consecutive fastest laps, just one behind Ascari in Formula One history ) and was catching Lewis. It was kinda on and off, exactly like the weather. And boy did it pour down again later. Surprisingly, Kimi pit stopped along with Lewis on the same lap whereas I thought he'd stay out longer. However, I was more worried about another pit collision between the two when they were finished. Thankfully that didn't happen, but in hindsight it may as well have happened because Ferrari, being the complete clueless tacticians they are without Ross Brawn, didn't fuel Kimi more and didn't give him new intermediate tyres like McLaren did with Lewis. This was a costly mistake from Ferrari and quite literally threw Kimi's chance for a good podium out the window.

Kimi kept his game up though, despite having to struggle with the new rain pouring down and he was sliding in every corner. It was TERRIFYING for me, to sit tight and never look away from the screen, hoping not to see Kimi off the track or in the barriers. He and the team decided to wait it out with the old tyres, frustratingly, until the next round of scheduled pit stops. I think Kimi did a good job to finish 4th after this, managing to overtake Alonso nicely with about 8 laps to go. He could have easily finished out of the points when struggling earlier on. He did go off twice later in the race once it poured down massively again, and so many others spun out such as Kubica. So, Kimi missed out on a podium but he scored 5 vital points again. He is now level with Lewis and Felipe in the championship with 48 points. It's not a disaster, but today was extremely annoying because Ferrari could have done so much better. Now McLaren have benefitted from Ferrari's slump and have managed to bounce back from disappointing weekends in Canada and France. The weather was completely bizarre though, everyone here kept going on about the good old British wet weather but seriously, this time of year it's usually very hot and sunny like it was last year. Ferrari didn't do so well, we got beaten quite bad today but I blame global warming!

The race was brilliant, there were the moves from Nick Heidfeld passing two cars and some other cool ones thanks to the wet, and it had a lot of drama and twists and turns. It was exhausting to watch, so I can't imagine how it was for the drivers. Kudos to them for putting on a great show. But dag nabit - we've lost another race. I haven't heard what Kimi has to say yet but as ever, I'm sure he's quite philosophical about it and is grateful to have finished the race. He will be very disappointed though as he looked strong and promising at the start, and through no fault of his own it all went down hill and then Lewis had to come and lap him...ouchie.

Alas, F1 is a team sport so I won't be too critical of Ferrari. Kimi and the team have won races together, and they have lost races together. They just need to come back fully focused and confident that they can win, as long as everything works well together it should be fine. I was saying yesterday Kimi would be fine - he was fine and looked finer than I thought. So that's encouraging for me and it's also encouraging to hear Kimi think similarly -

I hope you all enjoyed the race no matter who won it and I'll get on with the usual website duties now, after having written this. Kimi achieved some nice results from today though, 31 career fastest laps, breaking into the 500 margin of career points with 504, and of course beating Michael Schumacher with 6 consecutive fastest laps in history, one away from matching Ascari. I know he doesn't care for statistics and all that, but I, as a loyal fan, do. He'll win again soon enough, no doubt about it! Keep Flying Kimi and keep your heads high and bright dear fans! I promise you will find a picture of Kimi's big smile

| Race Quotes - Interview with Kimi

Q. That looked a very difficult race?

Kimi Raikkonen: We only really made one mistake, which was to choose the wrong tyres. We didn't really expect it to start raining so at the first pit stop we kept the old tyres. So, until that point we had the speed and the car to win the race. But that mistake cost us unfortunately, but at least we scored some points. It wasn't as competitive as the car could have done, but it definitely could have been better.

Q. Did you suggest to the team to change the tyres?

KR: No, it was the team's decision. Everyone is involved with the team so we make the decisions together. Sometimes you get it right, but unfortunately today there was one of those times we didn't. It could have gone in any direction and we had a very good speed at that point. But at that point it started to rain and the tyres were pretty old already so there was nothing to do.

Q. The championship is now very close at the top. What do you expect from the second part of the season?

KR: The last four races haven't been easy for me especially. We haven't had one good race. The last race we had a good speed but unfortunately I had a problem with the car, so if you look after all those things not scoring in two races and not really having a perfect race in the next two, we are still tied in the championship lead so it is not too bad. I am pretty sure we have a car to win races, there are many races to go and we just need to push hard. I think once we get everything running smoothly we should be up there winning races.

Q. In the early stages of the race you were quicker than Hamilton. Was the Ferrari the best car on the track today, if you ignore the situation with the tyres?

KR: I always believe we had a good car. It is not that our car is suddenly bad. We made one bad decision with the tyres and it cost us a lot. We had a very good speed until that point and it was easy going. Unfortunately it was just bad luck.

Q. Now there are three drivers tied at the top of the championship, does this mark a fresh beginning for your title ambitions?

KR: Like I said before, the last four races haven't been easy. I had two non-finishes and okay, the last race we had a good speed but a small problem. Here we couldn't get it right, so we are still tied in the lead. It could have been much worse after those four races. We know we have a good speed but we just need to get the weekend going smoothly and things in order. There are many races to go. Even though it has been difficult in the last few races, I think we are in a good position and we have a good speed so we shouldn't get too worried about it.

Q. You mentioned the mistake with the tyres, but even on new intermediates the car wasn't quick. Why was that?

KR: I was just behind people. We fuelled the car until the end so we were pretty heavy on that point. Also with the rain I went off a few times, once at full speed after the bridge. I just got aquaplaning and luckily got back on the circuit, so I was pretty sure the car was not in the best shape any more. We got it back and it was difficult conditions, and I am sure with the same decision with the tyres we would have been okay and able to fight for the win. Sometimes it goes like this.

Q. Championship-wise are you annoyed, or relieved that it could have been worse?

KR: Like I said the last four races have not been exactly as we want. But we are still in the lead, so it could have been much more worse. I am not worried about it, I am sure we can get where we want. We just need to get it right at the next race and then we will go from there.

Q. Did you do a better job here than the team?

KR: No, we win and we lose as a team. Sometimes we make the wrong decision and we need to learn from those. I don't complain to the team and they don't complain to me. I could easily have said to choose other tyres or keep these tyres on, but it is teamwork and sometimes we cannot get it right. We just need to learn from that.

Q. When you showed you didn't have the pace of Hamilton after the pit stop, did you ask to change again like Alonso?

KR: No. In the end we expected the rain to stop quickly and when it didn't we decided to come in. We were losing too much time, but it is easy to say afterwards that we should have changed all the way back. First of all we didn't expect to have rain and then we only expected it to last a few minutes. In the end we got back to fourth place. It was a disappointing race, but we still got good points and are tied in the lead of the championship so we didn't lose anything.

Q. Can you describe for us the fight with Fernando Alonso at the end?

KR: It was nice. It is always nice to fight and it was important points for me, but I didn't want to risk too much. For Fernando he doesn't have anything to lose so he can take more risks. So I wanted to for sure get one extra point and in the end I got past him, so that was good.

Q. What happened at the start?

KR: I got a very good start and I was planning to go between Heikki and Mark, but Mark came on the left and I had nowhere to go. Hamilton got a good start from fourth place and went past everybody, and I really didn't have anywhere to go. I had good speed but had to back off.

Ferrari Team Quotes

Kimi Raikkonen - 4th: "I am disappointed, but I am equally aware that things could have been much worse. We had the possibility to win the race but we made a mistake at the first pit stop, keeping the same set of tyres, because we expected the track conditions to improve. It was a joint decision: we are a team and we win or lose together. Things are not going too well for me at the moment, given all that happened in the last few races, but I am leading the championship, even if it is on equal terms with Felipe and Lewis. We know we have a great potential, but we have to put everything in place to get the most out of it."

Felipe Massa - 13th: "This Silverstone weekend is one to be wiped out. On Friday I had an accident, yesterday there was the problem in qualifying and today a series of mistakes at all levels. We have to look ahead, because there is still a very long way to go in the championship and once again, we've seen that it only takes one result to turn the situation around...

Stefano Domenicali: "A Sunday to forget as quickly as possible in terms of the result, although we must remember certain elements of this weekend, as there were mistakes made that we cannot afford to repeat. We could have won this race with Kimi but we made a key mistake at the first pit stop, choosing to stay on the same set of tyres. The rain did not ease off and lasted longer and our drivers - Felipe had also gone for the same choice - found themselves in difficulty. With hindsight it's easy to say we should have changed tyres, but Formula One is not an exact science: sometimes strategic choices pay off and sometimes they don't...

| Race Videos - Start, Massa Spins, Lewis Overtakes Heikki, Kimi & Webber Spin, Kimi Overtakes Alonso

         
Controversy was in Kimi's day even before the race started. Human nature is a funny thing sometimes. One guy is doing his job as a photographer (and it can be very irritating for the subject who is a person) and the other is trying to do his job but is interrupted. A photographer tries to get a shot of Kimi preparing for the race, however the Iceman doesn't seem in the mood...

That was pretty odd. Damn. Kimi was quite annoyed at that guy being right in his face while he's doing his business. But he probably didn't expect the photographer to fall over like that. But it went both ways, the guy was in his face, stepping on his stuff, and Kimi didn't like it. Also, Mark Arnall (Kimi's trainer next to him) seems to have got annoyed too, saying "oi, mind the stuff", the exact moment Kimi looked up. The photographer was leaning on Kimi's race stuff.

Taken from an interview in Saturday's Silverstone Red Bulletin issue, Kimi says: "I don't mind what people think too much. If they ask nice questions then yes, but for sure if they ask stupid questions I won't answer and they will think I'm a dickhead. But it goes both ways. If everyone's nice to eachother it's much easier." Kimi's manager Steve Robertson and Ferrari press man Colajanni