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Overall race report
Hamilton superb in wet home race
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Drivers
- 1. Lewis Hamilton
- Amazed insiders with wet driving skills
- 2. Nick Heidfeld
- Gave faltering team much-needed momentum
- 3. Rubens Barrichello
- Who couldn’t be happy for him?
- 4. Kimi Raikkonen
- Let down by terrible team tactics
- 5. Heikki Kovalainen
- How did pace vanish following qualifying?
- 6. Fernando Alonso
- Kept pushing despite tyres like skates
- 7. Jarno Trulli
- Another points-paying race for veteran
- 8. Kazuki Nakajima
- Creditable performance on this treacherous track
- 9. Nico Rosberg
- Recovered well from his pitlane start
- 10.Mark Webber
- Stellar qualifying, valiant driving, no result
- 11. Sebastien Bourdais
- His F1 career’s fading into anonymity
- 12. Timo Glock
- Spent longer spinning than driving straight
- 13. Felipe Massa
- Car never fully under his control
- DNF: Robert Kubica
- Binned it, otherwise a podium beckoned
- DNF: Jenson Button
- Disappeared into murk, not seen again
- DNF: Nelson A Piquet
- Showed impressive maturity before spinning out
- DNF: Giancarlo Fisichella
- Followed teammate into synchronised crash exhibition
- DNF: Adrian Sutil
- Air Sutil in full flight today
- DNF: Sebastian Vettel
- Coulthard shunted his qualifying opportunity away
- DNF: David Coulthard
- A tragic final British GP result
Teams
- McLaren
- Hamilton back in drivers’ championship hunt
- BMW Sauber
- Reports of their demise were premature
- Honda
- That old Brawn magic secured this
- Ferrari
- Left the handbook back at Maranello
- Renault
- Might reasonably have expected better results
- Toyota
- Must be thankful they signed Trulli
- Williams
- Points always a good Williams outcome
- Red Bull
- Why did they bother turning up?
- Toro Rosso
- Won’t have either driver next year
- Force India
- Wasted opportunity for wet race glory
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