Filed under: Motorsport, Sport, gossip | Tags: adrian sutil, celebrity, formula 1, grand prix, lewis hamilton, monaco, nicole scherzinger, racing, raikkonen, Sport
Lewis Hamilton won the 2008 Monaco Grand Priz after an early crash, which luckliy was the main factor that led to his win. The 22 year old jumped up into 2nd after the first corner but after only a few laps in he crashed into the side barrier, forcing himself to go into the pits. With an increased fuel load though, Hamilton managed to overtake Massa and Kubica when they had to pit, and by the time he had to pit for the second time his lead was so great that he was able to retain the lead and kept it until the end of the race.
The other great story of the day, but somewhat with a devastating ending, was that of Force India’s Adrian Sutil. After managing to come from 8th and pushed for a top four spot he was collided into by Raikkonen and was forced to retire. Personally I hope that the world champion apologises to him, as Sutil was not to blame and he arguably put out the best performance of his career today at Monaco.
In other news, Hamilton had invited Nicole Scherzinger of the Pussycat Dolls as his guest today after many reports of them being an item have surfaced. Well done to him, thats all I can say, well done…
Edit: Just realised how very late I was with the news about Hamilton and Scherzinger, I knew it wasn’t exactly breaking stuff but I didn’t realise that this was a story that had surfaced in November! lol
For those of you that are interested, the drivers qualified as follows…
- Massa
- Raikkonen
- Hamilton
- Kovalainen
- Kubica
- Rosborg
- Alonso
- Trulli
- Webber
- Coulthard
- Glock
- Button
- Heidfeld
- Nakajima
- Barrichello
- Bourdais
- Piquet
- Vettel
- Sutil
- Fisichella
As a fairly neutral spectator, though as a Spurs fan I had my desire for Man Utd over Chelsea, it was a good end to end game with lots of chances, yet what we all really want in a final is the penalty shootout, and this year certainly did not fail to deliver!
It was inevitable that Cristiano Ronaldo, the best player by miles all season, would miss the penalty and perhaps even more fitting that Chelsea’s best player would also miss, yet you can probably guess which one was more cut up about it.
People have been talking all week for some reason about how sorry they feel for Terry and Chelsea, but to me I think its finally a bit of comeuppance for the child-like and unsporting behavior that they have been showing for the last few years. Finally we have seen that money will only go so far, and I am delighted that Chelsea’s silverware cupboard doesn’t need to be expanded just yet. Drogba’s sending off and Terry’s miss at the end were deserved, perhaps not on the night where they had played well, but over the season where they have showed alot of disrespect to the officials and their opponents.
Overall though, great final, and I really hope to see as good a final as that in the years to come, hopefully with Tottenham in contention 
