Pos Name 3p 2p 1p Tot Pts 1 Sebastian Vettel 15 0 0 45 [b]10[/b] 2 Robert Kubica 0 7 8 22 [b]8[/b] 3 Fernando Alonso 1 4 9 20 [b]6[/b] 4 Lewis Hamilton 0 6 5 17 [b]5[/b] 5 Heikki Kovalainen 0 2 7 11 [b]4[/b] 6 Sebastien Bourdais 0 2 3 7 [b]3[/b] 7 Mark Webber 0 1 5 7 [b]2[/b] 8 Felipe Massa 0 0 3 3 [b]1[/b] 9 Giancarlo Fisichella 0 0 1 1 10 Nick Heidfeld 0 0 1 1Places 6-7 decided by 2 point votes, places 9-10 decided by reversed race result.
* Sebastian Vettel's first ever win!
* Robert Kubica's 7th and Fernando Alonso's 44th podium finish.
* First ever win for Scuderia Toro Rosso! As Minardi, the team never took a win.
* Second "Clean Sweep" voting for a driver this year, with nothing but 3-pointers for the race winner. Lewis Hamilton scored the first one in Germany.
* Second podium of the season, Canada being the first, without a McLaren or Ferrari car on the podium.
* First podium after said Canadian GP for Robert Kubica.
* Double points finish for STR for the second consecutive race.
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Voting Championship 2008 results:
Pos Name Pts AUS MAL BAH SPA TUR MON CAN FRA GBR GER HUN EUR BEL ITA SIN JPN CHN BRA 1) Lewis Hamilton 76 1 9 4 2 3 9 10 1 1 3 3 1 4 2) Felipe Massa 61 10 1 7 1 5 6 3 5 2 1 6 8 3) Robert Kubica 58 8 2 2 5 7 2 1 7 7 9 4 2 4) Kimi Räikkönen 52 9 1 5 1 8 5 1 4 9 7 3 5) Fernando Alonso 34 5 8 2 6 11 9 5 5 5 3 = Nick Heidfeld 34 4 7 4 15 12 3 3 4 4 10 7) Sebastian Vettel 31 10 11 6 8 8 3 2 7 1 = Heikki Kovalainen 31 6 4 8 12 3 10 5 6 10 4 5 9) Mark Webber 28 5 7 3 4 4 6 8 7 10) Jarno Trulli 24 11 3 6 16 12 2 9 6 5 9 11) Timo Glock 20 13 4 8 1 6 8 12) Sebastien Bourdais 17 3 2 6 13) Nelson Piquet Jr 16 9 4 2 6 14) Nico Rosberg 14 2 11 5 7 = Rubens Barrichello 14 7 13 10 7 7 2 16) Giancarlo Fisichella 12 6 3 8 8 8 9 17) Adrian Sutil 10 1 9 18) David Coulthard 8 13 14 11 2 10 19) Jenson Button 3 12 9 6 11 20) Kazuki Nakajima 2 9 7 21) Anthony Davidson 0 11 10 = Takuma Sato 0 12 10A strong lead for Hamilton.
With five podium finishes this season, STR has done better than Minardi and STR managed to do in total from 1999 to 2007, during which time they scored a total of four podiums.
Results of Rate the Race
[B]Quality of racing: 7.73 average[/B] Vote breakdown: 10 0 9 1 # 8 9 ######### 7 5 ##### 6 0 5 0 4 0 3 0 2 0 1 0 0 0 [B]Satisfaction with results: 7.69 average[/B] Vote breakdown: 10 1 # 9 3 ### 8 4 #### 7 1 # 6 4 #### 5 0 4 0 3 0 2 0 1 0 0 0A very high Quality rating, and Satisfaction is the fourth highest ever!
2008 ratings: GP Quality Satisfaction Australia 7.35 5.57 Malaysia 5.70 6.94 Bahrain 5.35 6.27 Spain 3.94 6.19 Turkey 6.41 5.53 Monaco 7.90 4.11 Canada 7.06 7.56 France 5.88 5.29 Britain 7.76 5.33 Germany 6.91 5.09 Hungary 4.92 5.77 Europe 2.85 4.25 Belgium 8.33 2.18 Italy 7.73 7.69