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Finale - 2008 F1 World Champion - Brazil

Today, the new Formula One World Champion will be crowned at the Interlagos circuit in Sao Paulo, Brazil and the battle will commence, as Lewis Hamilton and Felipe Massa fight for that number one spot.

Hamilton only needs to finish in fifth position today to guarantee him the crown but after the disaster of last year’s finally surely playing on his mind, will he be able to stay out of trouble.  Massa, of course needs no less than a win to stand any chance of his place at the top.

Ferrari driver,  Felipe Massa was cheered by a huge crowd of his home supporters yesterday as he took pole position for the finale in Brazil with a time of 1:12.368seconds.

Jarno Trulli in the Toyota had a very impressive qualifying session and came into to take second place on the grid, splitting the Ferrari drivers and pushing Kimi Raikkonen down to third place.

Lewis Hamilton in the McLaren could only manage fourth position, he didn’t seem comfortable on track, and it was only his final run when he finally found his pace.

The second McLaren of Heikki Kovalainen will start in fifth place followed by Fernando Alonso in the Renault after setting the pace in the second and third practice sessions.

Sebastian Vettel in the Torro Rosso is and impressive sixth place ahead of Nick Heidfeld in the BMW Sauber and Vettel’s team-mate Sebastien Bourdais.  Timo Glock in the second Toyota completed the top ten fastest drivers of the day.

Here are the results;

Pos  Driver        Team                 Q1        Q2        Q3       Laps
 1.  Massa         Ferrari              1:11.830  1:11.875  1:12.368  17
 2.  Trulli        Toyota               1:12.226  1:12.107  1:12.737  15
 3.  Raikkonen     Ferrari              1:12.083  1:11.950  1:12.825  19
 4.  Hamilton      McLaren-Mercedes     1:12.213  1:11.856  1:12.830  14
 5.  Kovalainen    McLaren-Mercedes     1:12.366  1:11.768  1:12.917  17
 6.  Alonso        Renault              1:12.214  1:12.090  1:12.967  18
 7.  Vettel        Toro Rosso-Ferrari   1:12.390  1:11.845  1:13.082  20
 8.  Heidfeld      BMW Sauber           1:12.371  1:12.026  1:13.297  18
 9.  Bourdais      Toro Rosso-Ferrari   1:12.498  1:12.075  1:14.105  16
10.  Glock         Toyota               1:12.223  1:11.909  1:14.230  24
11.  Piquet        Renault              1:12.348  1:12.137            13
12.  Webber        Red Bull-Renault     1:12.409  1:12.289            13
13.  Kubica        BMW Sauber           1:12.381  1:12.300            13
14.  Coulthard     Red Bull-Renault     1:12.690  1:12.717            16
15.  Barrichello   Honda                1:12.548  1:13.139            14
16.  Nakajima      Williams-Toyota      1:12.800                       9
17.  Button        Honda                1:12.810                       9
18.  Rosberg       Williams-Toyota      1:13.002                       8
19.  Fisichella    Force India-Ferrari  1:13.426                       9
20.  Sutil         Force India-Ferrari  1:13.508                       9

All timing unofficial