The pole was Hamilton's eighth in nine races this season and the 46th of his career for the championship leader, who won at Silverstone last year and has a 10 point advantage over the German.
Formula One world champion Kimi Raikkonen and Brazilian Felipe Massa will stay at Ferrari for the next two seasons, the Italian team said in a statement on Friday. The announcement dealt a blow to the hopes of Spaniard Fernando Alonso and Poland's Robert Kubica, both of whom have been linked to the team in media speculation as likely replacements for Raikkonen in 2010.
Felipe Massa and Ferrari won the race and deservedly so but we were clapping for India. And it felt incredible.
Ferrari's Kimi Raikkonen said his Formula One title defence remained alive on Sunday despite a European Grand Prix retirement extending his winless run to eight races. The 28-year-old Finn, whose last victory was in Spain at the end of April, was involved in a bungled pit stop and then suffered a spectacular engine failure at Valencia's new street circuit.
Champions Ferrari will be the first Formula One team to reveal their 2009 car with an unveiling scheduled for their Maranello factory on Jan. 12, the Italian team said on Monday.
Champions Ferrari will be the first Formula One team to reveal their 2009 car with an unveiling scheduled for their Maranello factory on January 12, the Italian team said on Monday. The wraps will come off Hamilton's new McLaren at that team's Woking factory in England on January 16, a day after Toyota launch their challenger on the internet.
McLaren's Lewis Hamilton took pole position for the season-opening Australian Grand Prix on Saturday after World champion Kimi Raikkonen's Ferrari suffered an early breakdown. The 23-year-old pipped Poland's Robert Kubica to line up a perfect start to his second season in Formula One. Finland's Heikki Kovalainen, in the second McLaren, qualified in third place with Ferrari's Brazilian Felipe Massa alongside on the second row.
Formula One championship leader Lewis Hamilton put McLaren on pole position for engine partners Mercedes' home German Grand Prix/
World champion Kimi Raikkonen handed Ferrari their 200th pole position in Formula One at the French Grand Prix on Saturday. Brazilian Felipe Massa, who took pole at Magny-Cours last year, was second fastest to secure the Italian team's third front row sweep of the season.
McLaren's double world champion Fernando Alonso will join the Finn on the front row with Brazilian Felipe Massa qualifying third for Ferrari.
McLaren's Lewis Hamilton won the Chinese Grand Prix on Sunday but the battle for the Formula One title will go on to the season finale in Brazil.
Rain forecast for Monaco this weekend could turn Sunday's glamour Grand Prix into as much of a game of chance as anything to be found inside the principality's imposing casino. With traction control systems banned and drivers needing to be inch-perfect as they thread their cars around the tight and twisty circuit hemmed in by metal barriers, there is plenty of scope for mayhem in the wet.
Lewis Hamilton believes he is in a better position to become Formula One's youngest world champion in Shanghai this weekend than he was for his failed attempt to claim the crown last year.
Sebastian Vettel continued his imperious march towards a fourth consecutive Formula One world championship by storming to pole position at the Singapore Grand Prix on Saturday after dominating the two days of practice.
Force India's Giancarlo Fisichella will drop three places on the Turkish Grand Prix starting grid for exiting the pit lane under a red light in Friday practice.
Ferrari's world champion Kimi Raikkonen stretched his Formula One lead to nine points with a dominant win from pole position in the Spanish Grand Prix on Sunday.
Ferrari's world champion and Formula One leader Kimi Raikkonen took his first pole position of the season at the Spanish Grand Prix.
Ferrari's world champion Kimi Raikkonen made a strong start to Formula One's European season by dominating Spanish Grand Prix free practice on Friday. The Finn, championship leader after the opening three long-haul races, set a best time of one minute 20.649 seconds in the morning and then topped the afternoon timesheets in 1:21.935.
"What an incredible finale, what a thrilling finish!" the former Ferrari driver said in a statement on his Web site (www.michael-schumacher.de) after Raikkonen and Felipe Massa took the first two spots for Ferrari to clinch the championship.
Ferrari's Kimi Raikkonen turned the Formula One title battle into a three-way fight down to the wire with victory in China on Sunday after McLaren's championship leader Lewis Hamilton skidded out.
The 39-year-old German will test Ferrari's 2008 car in Spain next week along with reigning F1 champion Kimi Raikkonen.
Lewis Hamilton seized victory from the jaws of defeat after McLaren made their Formula One championship leader sweat for his second win in a row.
McLaren's Lewis Hamilton dominated a wet and chaotic British Grand Prix on Sunday to storm back to the top of the Formula One standings in front of his home fans.
The French Grand Prix will be held at Magny-Cours for the last time this year but Formula One supremo Bernie Ecclestone said he hoped it could return to a new circuit in Paris in 2010.
Ferrari's new champion Kimi Raikkonen was fourth on the timesheets.
Driver line-ups and race numbers for the 2006 season after the governing International\nAutomobile Federation issued the official entry list.
Ferrari have by far the best record at a circuit named after their late great Gilles Villeneuve, with 10 wins there since 1978.
Lewis Hamilton said he had let down McLaren after a starting grid error cost him and his team the Formula One championship lead in Bahrain on Sunday. The Briton finished 13th at Sakhir and was overtaken in the standings by Ferrari's world champion Kimi Raikkonen.
Ferrari's Kimi Raikkonen won the Malaysian Formula One Grand Prix on Sunday, with BMW Sauber's Robert Kubica second and McLaren's Heikki Kovalainen third.
The 22-year-old Briton will line up alongside Ferrari's Kimi Raikkonen on the front row for Sunday's race.
Ferrari boss Jean Todt has ruled out any prospect of Formula One world champion Fernando Alonso moving to the team from McLaren next year.
Kimi Raikkonen took pole position on an all-Ferrari front row for the Belgian Grand Prix.
Complaints that a driver has been impeded during qualifying will no longer be referred to the stewards.
Ferrari's Michael Schumacher won what could be his last Italian Grand Prix on Sunday to slash championship leader Fernando Alonso's lead to two points with three races left.
Schumacher's love for speed even led him to test Ducati's MotoGP bike last year and he is tempted to try again.
Ferrari's 2008 cars lapped quicker than the new McLarens in Formula One's first official test of the year in Jerez.
Perez, who started eighth on the grid, finished ninth after being passed by Kevin Magnussen towards the end of the 56-lap race.
Finland's Kimi Raikkonen won the French Grand Prix on Sunday, leading Brazilian team mate Felipe Massa in a Ferrari one-two to end McLaren's winning streak.
The 22-year-old British rookie secured his second victory in a row and moved 10 points clear in the Formula One championship.
'I don't think the departure of Schumacher or (technical director Ross) Brawn will change much,' said the Toyota driver.
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