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2008 Formula One season
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The 2008 Formula One season was the 59th FIA Formula One World Championship season. It began on 16 March and ended on 2 November with eighteen Grand Prix races.
Lewis Hamilton won the driver's title by a point – by overtaking Toyota's Timo Glock on the final corner of the final grand prix of the season to claim the required 5th place finish – from Brazilian Felipe Massa while Massa's teammate, the 2007 world champion, Kimi Räikkönen was ranked third, with two wins. Scuderia Ferrari Marlboro won the constructors' title.<ref>2008 FIA Formula One World Championship Classifications Retrieved from www.fia.com on 13 November 2008</ref> In winning the title, Hamilton became the youngest driver ever to win the title and the first black driver to do so. He was also the first British champion since Damon Hill in 1996.<ref>Template:Citation/core{{#if:|}}</ref>
Eleven teams competed in the championship, although Super Aguri withdrew on 6 May from the 2008 Formula One season due to financial troubles, completing four races. New technical rules for 2008 included the banning of traction control after it was re-introduced in 2001. 2008 also introduced two new street circuits. The Valencia Street Circuit and Marina Bay Street Circuit hosted the European GP and the new Singapore GP respectively. The Singapore GP was also the first Formula One event held at night.
This was the last season for the Honda team before they pulled out of F1 later in December due to the global economic crisis. Then, Ross Brawn bought the team and renamed it to Brawn GP in February of 2009 using the Mercedes-Benz engines. This was also the last Formula One season to race with grooved tyres, used since 1998, before slick tyres returned to Formula One in 2009.
It was the first time in the history of Formula One that all teams have used the same two drivers throughout the season and it was the first time that all the race cars were driving without traction control since 1994.
Pre-season testing
The first multi-team test session started in Jerez on 14 January 2008. Ferrari, McLaren and Toyota all tested their 2008 cars. Williams tested a modified version of the FW29 whilst Renault and Red Bull tested their 2007 entries. Honda, Toro Rosso, Super Aguri and Force India also attended. BMW Sauber was not in attendance as they were launching the F1.08.<ref name="2008 Testing 1">{{#if: 2008 testing gets underway in Spain
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Teams and Drivers
There were a total of seven teams signed up to compete in the championship through an agreement with Formula One Management, with the other four major manufacturers in the Grand Prix Manufacturers’ Association (GPMA) having signed a Memorandum of Understanding at the 2006 Spanish Grand Prix. All teams in both groups have two spots each on the 2008 grid. The following teams and drivers competed in the 2008 FIA Formula One World Championship:<ref name="2008 Entry List">{{#if: 2008 FIA Formula One Entry List
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New Entries
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- Although they did not have an official launch, Williams-Toyota gave the FW30 its track début on 21 January at Valencia during winter testing with a livery of former Formula One drivers on the nose cone who have driven for Williams in the past 30 years.<ref>http://www.nextautos.com/motorsports/williams-f1-celebrates-thirty-years-with-anniversary-livery</ref> Their season livery was revealed at their photography studio in Oxfordshire on 3 March.
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Changed teams
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- Giancarlo Fisichella: Renault F1 → Force India
- Nelson Piquet, Jr.: Renault F1 (test driver) → Renault F1 (race seat)
- Timo Glock: GP2 Series/BMW Sauber F1 (test driver) → Toyota Racing (race seat)
- Vitantonio Liuzzi: Scuderia Toro Rosso → Force India (test driver)
- Kazuki Nakajima: GP2 Series/WilliamsF1 (test driver) → WilliamsF1 (race seat)†
- Alexander Wurz: WilliamsF1 → Honda Racing F1 (test driver)
- Christian Klien: Honda Racing F1 (test driver) → BMW Sauber (test driver)
- Sakon Yamamoto: Spyker F1 → Renault F1 (test development driver)
Entered F1
- Sébastien Bourdais: Champ Car World Series → Scuderia Toro Rosso
- Marko Asmer: British Formula Three Championship → BMW Sauber (test driver)†
Exited F1
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- The European Grand Prix took place at the Valencia Street Circuit in 2008, changing from the Nürburgring which hosted the event up until 2007. Because both German circuits share the right to host an F1 race, the German Grand Prix took place at Hockenheimring in 2008. It will continue to alternate between these two circuits yearly.
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Rule changes
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- The use of a spare car was restricted. Each competing team would not be allowed to have more than two cars available for use at any time. In this context, a car was considered as such if it was a partially assembled survival cell, fitted with an engine, any front suspension, bodywork, radiators, oil tanks or heat exchangers.<ref name="2008rules" />
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- No competing team was allowed to carry out more than 30,000 km (18,641 mi) of testing during the 2008 calendar year.<ref name="2008rules" />
Qualifying
- The first part of qualifying lengthened to 20 minutes, and final part of qualifying shortened to 10 minutes. Teams taking part in Q3 would no longer be allowed to add fuel back to the car after qualifying to eliminate 'fuel-burn' phase.
- A minimum lap time for each qualifying session was implemented from Round 3 in Bahrain to stop cars coasting back to the pits at dangerously low speeds as seen in Round 2 in Malaysia. Both Lewis Hamilton and Heikki Kovalainen were demoted five grid places after the stewards decided that they had impeded Nick Heidfeld and Fernando Alonso. The minimum lap time was different for each race. For example, it was 1:39 in Bahrain.
- From 8 May 2008, the FIA announced that, following Super Aguri's departure from Formula One, the qualifying procedures changed. Rather than six drivers being eliminated at the end of Q1, only the five lowest-qualified drivers would be eliminated. This increased the likelihood that one of the midfield contenders would drop out, as only the top 15 drivers would go through to Q2. The Q2-Q3 transition remained unchanged.<ref>{{#if: Qualifying adjusted after Aguri exit
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Results and standings
Grands Prix
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Statistics
Drivers
| Pos | Driver | Constructor(s) | Starts | Wins | Podiums | Poles | F.laps | Points |
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| 1 | Template:Country flagicon Lewis Hamilton | McLaren-Mercedes | 18 | 5 | 10 | 7 | 1 | 98 |
| 2 | Template:Country flagicon [[Felipe Massa | Ferrari | 18 | 6 | 10 | 6 | 3 | 97 |
| 3 | Template:Country flagicon Kimi Räikkönen | Ferrari | 18 | 2 | 9 | 2 | 10 | 75 |
| 4 | Template:Country flagicon Template:Sortname | BMW Sauber | 18 | 1 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 75 |
| 5 | Template:Country flagicon Template:Sortname | Renault | 18 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 61 |
| 6 | Template:Country flagicon Template:Sortname | BMW Sauber | 18 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 60 |
| 7 | Template:Country flagicon Template:Sortname | McLaren-Mercedes | 18 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 53 |
| 8 | Template:Country flagicon Template:Sortname | Toro Rosso-Ferrari | 18 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 35 |
| 9 | Template:Country flagicon Template:Sortname | Toyota | 18 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 31 |
| 10 | Template:Country flagicon Template:Sortname | Toyota | 18 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 25 |
| 11 | Template:Country flagicon Template:Sortname | Red Bull-Renault | 18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 21 |
| 12 | Template:Country flagicon Template:Sortname | Renault | 18 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 19 |
| 13 | Template:Country flagicon Template:Sortname | Williams-Toyota | 18 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 17 |
| 14 | Template:Country flagicon Template:Sortname | Honda | 18 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 11 |
| 15 | Template:Country flagicon Template:Sortname | Williams-Toyota | 18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 |
| 16 | Template:Country flagicon Template:Sortname | Red Bull-Renault | 18 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 8 |
| 17 | Template:Country flagicon Template:Sortname | Toro Rosso-Ferrari | 18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| 18 | Template:Country flagicon Template:Sortname | Honda | 18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 19 | Template:Country flagicon Template:Sortname | Force India-Ferrari | 18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 20 | Template:Country flagicon Template:Sortname | Force India-Ferrari | 18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 21 | Template:Country flagicon Template:Sortname | Super Aguri-Honda | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 22 | Template:Country flagicon Template:Sortname | Super Aguri-Honda | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Constructors
| Pos | Constructor | Chassis | Engine | Starts | Wins | Podiums | Poles | F.laps | Points |
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| 1 | Template:Country flagicon Ferrari | F2008 | Ferrari | 36 | 8 | 19 | 8 | 13 | 172 |
| 2 | Template:Country flagicon McLaren | MP4-23 | Mercedes | 36 | 6 | 13 | 8 | 3 | 151 |
| 3 | Template:Country flagicon BMW Sauber | F1.08 | BMW | 36 | 1 | 11 | 1 | 2 | 135 |
| 4 | Template:Country flagicon Renault | R28 | Renault | 36 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 80 |
| 5 | Template:Country flagicon Toyota | TF108 | Toyota | 36 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 56 |
| 6 | Template:Country flagicon Toro Rosso | STR2B, STR3 | Ferrari | 36 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 39 |
| 7 | Template:Country flagicon Red Bull | RB4 | Renault | 36 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 29 |
| 8 | Template:Country flagicon Williams | FW30 | Toyota | 36 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 26 |
| 9 | Template:Country flagicon Honda | RA108 | Honda | 36 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 14 |
| 10 | Template:Country flagicon Force India | VJM-01 | Ferrari | 36 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 11 | Template:Country flagicon Super Aguri | SA08 | Honda | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Report
The 2008 Formula 1 season was one of the closest in the history of the sport. Kimi Räikkönen rivaled Lewis Hamilton during the first half of the season, and Felipe Massa challenged Hamilton through the second half. The championship came down to a single overtake of Timo Glock by Lewis Hamilton to surpass Felipe Massa by one point.
TV coverage
All broadcasters of Formula One worldwide take what is known as the world feed for the majority of their race coverage. The host broadcaster which produces the world feed has access to trackside, onboard and pitlane cameras. Timing, position and other graphics are also added to the world feed before it is provided to the broadcasters. For the 2008 season, Formula One Management, owner of the commercial rights to the sport acted as host broadcaster for 16 of the 18 rounds of the championship.<ref>{{#if: From Track to Screen
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- In the Arab world, practice, qualifications and races were broadcast exclusively by Al Jazeera Sports.
- In Australia, qualification was aired early in the morning on the race day. The race had recently been shown live on Ten HD. If it started at 10:00pm AEST, it would be shown later on Network Ten, however if at a different time, it would be shown live.
- In Brazil, all races and qualifications were broadcast by Rede Globo.
- In Canada, the races were shown on TSN, although in Quebec, it also aired on RDS.
- In France, both qualifications and races were broadcast by TF1.
- In Greece ALPHA TV broadcast the Grands Prix live.
- In India, all races were broadcast by ESPNStar alliance, primarily on Star Sports.
- In Japan, Fuji TV broadcast all the races and qualifications, digests in terrestrial channel and live in satellite channel (Fuji CS721) via SKY PerfecTV. In parallel with the two channels, the company started broadcasting high-definition live program in HD satellite channel (Fuji CSHD) after the 2008 Bahrain Grand Prix.
- In Malaysia, the race is broadcast live on Pay-TV Astro's ESPNStar Star-Sport's channel. Free TV channel RTM's shows the race delayed, and takes the ITV commentary feed.
- In Mexico, all races were broadcast live on Fox Sports, and by Televisa's XHTV Canal 4 a few hours later using a tape delay broadcast.
- In Singapore, Star Sports and ESPN broadcast qualification sessions on Saturday, and the race itself on Sunday.
- In Sweden, the qualification was broadcast in both TV 6 and Viasat Motor simultaneously, although Viasat Motor did not have commercials.
- In the United Kingdom, ITV provided the coverage for the last time before the BBC took over in 2009.
- In the United States, all races were broadcast live on the Speed cable channel except for four races broadcast by the terrestrial Fox: the 2008 Canadian Grand Prix, 2008 French Grand Prix, 2008 British Grand Prix and the 2008 German Grand Prix. However, only the 2008 Canadian Grand Prix was televised live, and others were tape delayed.
- In Venezuela, all races were broadcast live on Televen, and by Meridiano Televisión a few hours later using a tape delay broadcast.
Race-fixing controversy
In a scandal that became known as "Crashgate" in the media, during the 2009 season around the time of the Belgium Grand Prix, allegations by former Renault driver Nelson Piquet Jr. about his crash in the 2008 Singapore Grand Prix led to charges of race-fixing against Renault and the departure of team boss Flavio Briatore and engineering director Pat Symonds.
See Also
| Formula One World Championship seasons | ||
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