It's that time again folks, after finishing what only seems like five minutes ago, the F1 World Championship starts again this weekend!

What's everybody's tip for this year then? Will it be a straight showdown between Kimi Raikkonen and Lewis Hamilton, or will Fernando Alonso recapture his form of old now he's back in the Renault? Kovalainen and Rosberg could also be good bets - whatever happens it's sure to make for another exciting season, hopefully free of last years controversy!

FERRARI

Felipe Massa | Kimi Raikkonen

BMW Sauber

Nick Heidfeld | Robert Kubica

RENAULT

Fernando Alonso | Nelson Piquet Jnr

WILLIAMS

Nico Rosberg | Kazuki Nakajima

RED BULL RACING

David Coulthard | Mark Webber

TOYOTA

Jarno Trulli | Timo Glock

SCUDERIA TORO ROSSO

Sebastien Bourdais | Sebastian Vettel

HONDA RACING

Jenson Button | Rubens Barrichello

SUPER AGURI F1

Takuma Sato | Anthony Davidson

FORCE INDIA

Adrian Sutil | Giancarlo Fisichella

MCLAREN MERCEDES

Lewis Hamilton | Heikki Kovalainen



2008 CALENDAR

Mar 16 - Melbourne, Australia
Mar 23 - Sepang, Malaysia
Apr 6 - Sakhir, Bahrain
Apr 27 - Barcelona, Spain
May 11 - Istanbul Park, Turkey
May 25 - Monte Carlo, Monaco
June 8 - Montreal, Canada*
June 22 - Magny-Cours, France
July 6 - Silverstone, Great Britain
July 20 - Hockenheim, Germany
Aug 3 - Hungaroring, Hungary
Aug 24 - Valencia, Europe**
Sep 7 - Spa-Francorchamps, Belgium
Sep 14 - Monza, Italy
Sep 28 - Singapore**
Oct 12 - Fuji, Japan
Oct 19 - Shanghai, China
Nov 2 - Interlagos, Brazil

* provisional

** subject to circuit approval

I hope its really close again this year, which i can see it being and without all the needless drama and backstabbing of last season.

I think personally it will be down to the early races for Alonso, if he can fit in with the Renault and gain some early points and keep pace with Hamilton and Raikkonen then he will stand a great chance.

I wouldn't like to call it this year at all

ferrari FTW !!!! and also a lot german driver i wish them good luck for this season.

Hopfully we will see another closely contested championship. Ultimately I would like to see Hamilton win but im sure both Ferarri and Renault will not go down without a fight. Should be good if Renault overcome the reliability problems they had last season and we will see all three of the major teams battling it out.

mclaren ftw... only b/c i always used one in need for speed

i think it'll most probably a race between raikkonen & hamilton. curious to see how kovalainen will fare in mclaren..i hope he whoops alonso ass!@£!£_@(@£_(

sad to see ralf schumacher's not driving this season!

they said its the first time no schumacher in the f1 since 199?

Good start for Hamilton!

The opening race was great entertainment wise, Hamilton drove well deserved his win

ferrari
well good start for the germans with heidfeld and rosberg

great race for kimi

Yeah he ran a solid race yesterday deserved his win

Unlucky for Hamilton yesterday with his delay in the pits, plenty of racing to do yet though

FERRARI !!!

Good win for Felipe Massa today, not sure what was going on with Hamiltons slow start tho!

Yeh he had a really dreadfull start, then that altercation with Alonso!

Not his day but plenty of races left.......

Massa drove well deserved his victory

damn Ferrari

Mclarens had a poor performance in the last race, but in Spain McLaren will be no 1

jajajja in your dreams

alonso will be at his home race so i'm sure he will give his best!

but then again his car ain't that great or else he will be a good bet....

CHEERS for Ferrari and Massa!

Ferrari !!

since michael schumacher left formula1 i'm not interested in. but i guess that FERRARI will win this year. as you saw FERRARI
won last weekend and i bet they keep going that way.

Ferrari are looking dominant this year, another good result for Raikkonen yesterday!

Still early days in the season though!

So Massa on pole with Kovi alongside him... what do people think?

jaja massa on pole so i hope for him he will win the race tomorrow
but what was wrong with kimi today... hope to see both ferraris on top again

Good win for Massa today, great to see Hamilton closing the gap on Raikkonen though!

yeah too bad for kimi... and congrats to mc laren mercedes for hamiltons agressive strategy

Kimi was so close to Hamilton in last laps, I was expecting Kimi to go past him but unfortunately it didn't happen
I was amazed with McLaren's tactics, 3 pitstops were unnecessary, Hamilton could've won with just 2. And poor Kovalainen, anyone knows what happened with him in the beginning (he had to come to pitstop very early to change front-tires) ?

yeah they said kovalainen drove through some things from the accident in the first round
so he had to change the tires so early

Monaco GP was fantastic! it took my breath away.

a solid win for Hamilton. too bad for Sutil. Raikkonen ruined his race...

damn kimi yes... but too bad massa lost his position ONE !! after that he drove not good at all and kubica caught him..

bad weekend for ferrari but well done anyway by massa....

and superb by BMW first win and great double with kubica on 1st and heidfeld on 2nd

French grand prix. it was a very boring race. rain was expected but it did not rain.

no rain, no safety car.

I believe if McLaren were leading, we would have seen the safety car to the disadvantage of McLaren.

Yeah, it was a bit boring. Mainly because Ferrari had it in the bag from the start. No one was anywhere near competive enough. Hopefully the British GP this weekend can bring some good excitement.

Races with rainy conditions are always thrilling, and British Grand Prix was not an exception.

After rainy Monaco Grand Prix, British GP has been the second best of the year in my opinion. In every lap, there was action. Hamilton had a great drive and won the race. I thought Kovalainen would get the second place but he could not.

Barrichello's performance was extraordinary with his weak Honda.

by the way, I would like to thank Massa for the great "Spin Show"

Yeah murkinen I agree, Silverstone may not be the best looking track of the season, but when it gets a splash of typical UK weather the course is awesome. Rain always makes for a good GP. Your right, along with Monoico this was one of the most entertaining to watch.

Fair play to hamilton for holding out so long, and finally winning by well over a minute

great race by heidfeld

awesome racing from lewis hamilton in such a condition

Could be quite an exciting race today with McLaren and Ferrari both looking strong.

massa had problems.... but damn hamilton where's he from ??? outa space ??? well done
great race... his team didnt make a good thing there during the safty car but he came back...

damn

a new star is born-hamilton-he has talent i think he wins the championschip this year. but were are the germans???

Yeah hamilton is a legend, cracking race again !

we will see...

No one give Nelson Piquet Jr any credit?

I'm sure no one expects this outcome for him


Great race from hamilton again!

nope he had luck but he has no chance to be one of the top

hamilton again on pole

jhaha what a great racing by massa !!! well done what he did at the start....... first kovaleinen and then hamilton
and he was first until round 67 -.- f**king s**t engine damage

he so deserved it to win

now its done yaaaahhhh!!

I think Kimmi got a bad luck.... in the next race he will bounce back . It will be close competition in the end between Kimmi, Massa & Hamilton.

I was hoping for a really exciting race on the new spanish valencia circuit, all the preliminary races made it look very promising with plenty of overtaking and crashing against walls etc... even the grid laps for the grand prix had them sliding all over the place... but then the race itself was actually quite boring