Ferrari Fully Incharged in Magny-Cours (22 June 08)

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Jun 222008
 

 

After the historic domination in GP Canada last two weeks, BMW Sauber team fails to keep the momentum in Magny-Cours.

Felipe Massa took the lead of the drivers’ championship after a decisive victory for Ferrari at Magny-Cours on Sunday. The Brazilian trailed team mate Kimi Raikkonen for the first 38 of the 70 laps, but moved ahead decisively as the Finn’s F2008 developed an exhaust problem. The latter cost Raikkonen the win, but nobody else ever got close enough to the red cars for this to be a problem to the team.

Jarno Trulli might have been able to catch Raikkonen, but had his hands full fending off a strong late-race challenge from McLaren’s Heikki Kovalainen. The Finn nearly squeezed by on the penultimate lap, but as the Toyota moved over they briefly rubbed wheels and Kovalainen went over a chicane and had to concede his challenge. It gave Toyota their first podium since 2005.

Behind them, Robert Kubica clung on for second place in the championship chase thanks to a fifth place finish, well ahead of the scrap for the final points between Mark Webber’s Red Bull and the Renault drivers. When Fernando Alonso slid wide lapping Giancarlo Fisichella with three laps left, Nelson Piquet moved ahead of his team leader and was hounding Webber by the flag in a drive that gave him his first championship points and might arguably have saved his career.

It was a disastrous afternoon for McLaren’s Lewis Hamilton, who had worked his way up to ninth place when he had to serve a drive-through penalty on the 13th lap after the stewards adjudged him to have gained an advantage on the opening lap by going over a chicane to overtake Sebastian Vettel. The Englishman finally finished 10th, behind David Coulthard’s Red Bull.

Timo Glock hung on for Toyota to 11th place despite Vettel’s challenge for Toro Rosso, while Nick Heidfeld was a disappointing 13th in the second BMW Sauber.

Rubens Barrichello, who started from the back of the grid after a late gearbox change, was the first lapped runner in 14th, his Honda heading home the battling Williams drivers Kazuki Nakajima and Nico Rosberg. Sebastien Bourdais was 17th for Toro Rosso ahead of Giancarlo Fisichella and Adrian Sutil in their Force Indias. Jenson Button was the only retirement after his Honda made first-lap contact with Bourdais and sustained irreparable damage.

His success makes Massa the first Brazilian to lead the world championship since Ayrton Senna at Monaco in 1993. He has 48 points to Kubica’s 46 and Raikkonen’s 43. Hamilton trails with 38 after his second race without scoring points. Ferrari extend their lead in the constructors’ championship to a commanding 17 points over BMW Sauber.

Source : F1.com

Perakuan Sumpah Raja Petra

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Jun 222008
 

Setelah negara dikecohkan dengan kenaikan harga minyak, masalah dalaman dalam Barisan Nasional akibat pengumuman yang telah dibuat SAPP ( dan juga ‘ece-ece’ yang telah dibuat Ku Li), Malaysia dikejutkan lagi dengan satu Perakuan Bersumpah Raja Petra atau statutory declaration yang telah dibuatnya di Mahkamah Tinggi Kuala Lumpur pada 18 Jun 2008.

Walau apapun kandungan dan juga taraf kesahihannya,  Raja Petra telah melakukan atau menunjukkan ‘keberanian’ tahap Gaban dengan pengakuan bersumpah tersebut kerana ia melibatkan kes altantuya yang kita gazetkan sebagai kes no 1 dan juga melibatkan VVVIP Malaysia.

Friendship Quotes!

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Jun 222008
 

 

  • “If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day, so I never have to live without you.” — Winnie the Pooh

  • “True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.” —Charles Caleb Colton

  • “A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.”

  • “Friendship is one mind in two bodies.” —Mencius

  • “Friends are God’s way of taking care of us.”

  • “If you should die before me, ask if you could bring a friend.” —Stone Temple Pilots

  • “I’ll lean on you and you lean on me and we’ll be okay.” —Dave Matthew’s band

  • “If all my friends were to jump off a bridge, I wouldn’t jump with them. I’d be at the bottom to catch them.”

  • “Everyone hears what you say. Friends listen to what you say. Best friends listen to what you don’t say.”

  • “We all take different paths in life, but no matter where we go, we take a little of each other everywhere.” — Tim McGraw

  • “My father always used to say that when you die, if you’ve got five real friends, then you’ve had a great life.” —Lee Iacocca

  • “A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.” —unknown

  • “In our daily lives, we must see that it is not happiness that makes us grateful, but the gratefulness that makes us happy.”

  • “Hold a true friend with both your hands.” —Nigerian Proverb

  • “I get by with a little help from my friends.” The Beatles

  • “If you walk in front of me, I may not follow.
    If you walk behind me, I may not lead.
    If you Walk beside me, I will be your friend.” —Albert Camus