[o idiota aqui apertou gravar ao invés de postar, ficou o rascunho salvo e só...]

O brasileiro Felipe Massa venceu a primeira corrida nas ruas de Valência, Espanha, válida como GP da Europa. Largando na pole, o ferrarista manteve-se na posição, seguido de Hamilton e Kubica. Entre os primeiros carros, a única mudança na largada foi a ultrapassagem de Heikki Kovalainen a Kimi Raikkonen.

Zzzzzz…

Fim de corrida. Massa vence. O circuito é legal, visual bonito, mas a corrida foi chata pra caralho. E lá vai então a classificação do mundial:

Lewis Hamilton (McLaren).. 70
Felipe Massa (Ferrari)……… 64
Kimi Raikkonen (Ferrari)…. 57
Robert Kubica (BMW)……… 55

E só mesmo.

Giuliettas.com couldn’t make it to the Concorso Italiano 2008, so we asked Hardtuned.com and Sports Car International Magazine’s Jeff Glenn for a full report.  Words and Photographs are his.  Thanks Jeff!

It was always a bit of a chore getting into the Concorso Italiano when it was at the Bayonet and Black Horse Golf Course on Fort Ord, and the organizers convincingly fixed that by moving the event to the Marina Airport. In the process, they lost a fair amount of cache. At past Concorso’s, I enjoyed sitting in the grass and people watching after checking out an overwhelming number of Italian cars and the club corrals in the outlying parking lots. Trees, fleeting glimpses of the ocean, and a rolling topography that gave you a sense of how many cars and people were there have been replaced by a flat, asphalt and concrete parking lot bordered by vendor tents, chain link fence, and port-o-potties. This year, when we couldn’t stand any longer, we collapsed on the concrete.

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