Expert: Adam - 3/19/2007

Question
During this race there where many cars that had problems do you know why Scott Speed's car Stopped in the grass, also did Kubica stop on his 37th lap because of a gearbox problem? and do you think that Hamilton got a pole position just because he started up front, what if he would of started at the back of the pack.

Answer
Thanks for your question Jacob.
The FIA F1 website has interviews and reports on the Grand Prix, as well as many newspapers etc. The FIA website can be found at
http://www.formula1.com/race/
Regarding the weekend's race, it says that:
"BMW Sauber should have garnered nine points for their afternoon’s efforts, but the gearbox failure that stopped Robert Kubica on the 36th lap accounted for four of them" and "Speed had kept in front of the Italian (Liuzzi) until lap 29, despite worsening understeer. The cause of that identified itself that lap when two deflating front tyres dragged him into the gravel and out of the race".

Regarding young Hamilton, he didn't get pole, that was Raikkonen. Hamilton started in 4th and finished 3rd. I guess you mean got a podium position, well, if he started at the back, as Massa did, he would presumably have had a similar race to the Brazilian, and come in around 5th-7th place by the end.

Hope this helps you,
Adam