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driver of the day goes to Massa for keeping it together even with all the sudden tyres changes etc and Vettel for really kicking everyone's ass in the rain. Goes to show, Vettel didn't just get lucky, he really does have some serious skills.

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Will be great if Newey and the team can screw a good car together for next year. Forget Lewis., if Vettel can get himself in a decent car he will be a real class act for Lewis to compete against. I cant imagine how Rosberg must feel. He is young and already the forgotten young driver with yet another wave of guys who will be takign the seats that this time last year were being offere to him.

Heikki, time to man up and start requesting not to be the lap dog role asked for you. If you have any talent and dont want to be the new DC you need to fight the team orders like Alonso and Hamo did last year to try and seize your advantage. Being fuelled heavy every Q3 so that you never have the track position to use the car's pace....well. I am only just still giving you the benefit of the doubt :D

Glock must be the most hated driver right now, I'm sure the Brazilians all hate him, same goes for all the Italians........then the rest of the Ferrari fans around the world would probably like to string his limbs up to 4 horses and tear him apart like they do in the medival times.

Providing his helmet fits by the time next season comes around...

i'm sure they'll fit him for a larger helmet in the off season :)

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now comes the depressing part- the wait 'til the first '09 race in March :D

Glock must be the most hated driver right now, I'm sure the Brazilians all hate him, same goes for all the Italians........then the rest of the Ferrari fans around the world would probably like to string his limbs up to 4 horses and tear him apart like they do in the medival times.

if Glock had have come in for inters, Hamo would have finished where he did anyway, but as it stands, the deluge in the last 2 mins meant both Toyotas were massively off the pace

suck it up, tigers

timo yielded his position bit too easily imo.

however the last two laps, awesome nail biting stuff!

how does one yield when there's only a couple of corners left?.....any sensible driver would just block until the finishing line and on the wet track, drivers behind him would be equally careful.

well, bring on 09, hope we get more of this action. Haven't been this excited about a racec in a long time.

2009 changes everything. The whole McLaren better in the cold/wet | Ferrari better in hot and dry thing will be consigned to history, methinks.

The only thing that's safe to say about '09, is that the drivers that excell in the wet will be even further differentiated from the also-rans with the cars having less aero induced grip next year.

BRING THAT SHIT ON!

Lewis didn't have the best drive today, but he kept his cool. I mean shit how many of us having nothing to do with the race were biting our fingernails?

Karma for Ferarri tho, the other bs penalties that went on during the season against Lewis, but never against ferarri....

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And to any Italians who had their heart ripped out this morning...

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