Ferrari One Two at French GP.

It was a great day for Ferrari as their drivers finish first and second at French GP. Kimi was unlucky to loose the lead and lucky at the same time to finish the race with broken exhaust.

Trulli finish third after a wheel to wheel racing with Hekki in last few laps of the race. It gave Toyota their first podium finish since 2005.

BMW was disappointing after a one two finish in Canadian GP. Kubica finished fifth while Nick struggled as he finished thirteenth.

Hamilton was unlucky after suffering from initial ten places down on the grid at start because of his mistake at Montréal; he was again penalised drive through penalty on charge of overtaking the drive of the race track. He finished tenth. Hekki scored some points for McLaren by finishing fourth.

Ferrari extends good lead in the constructor’s ranking. Driver’s championship has become really interesting with new driver taking the lead. Massa is the fourth driver to lead the driver’s championship this season. With tight fight for the driver’s title we can expect an interesting season ahead.

Stats:

French GP 2008:
1st Felipe Massa, 2nd Kimi Raikkonen, 3rd Jarno Trulli.

Driver Standing as on 22nd June, 2008:
1st Felipe Massa 48pts, 2nd Robert Kubica 46pts, 3rd Kimi Raikkonen 43pts.

Constructor Standing as on 22nd June, 2008:
1st Ferrari 91pts, 2nd BMW Sauber 74pts, 3rd McLaren Mercedes 58pts.

Bizarre Canadian GP.

If you ask me to describe F1 race at Montréal last week in one word I could say it was ‘Bizarre’. Multiple crashes and spins, cars crashing in the pit lane, F1 car reversing on the track (well you might say what is so special in that, but this is the first time I have seen it happen. People even doubt if F1 car has a reverse gear), bad track condition and top two team no where near to podium finish. All totally unexpected things where happening on Sunday.

Well last Sunday would be the most memorable one for BMW Sauber and Robert Kubica. It was their long deserved maiden victory. And BMW did it in style with their cars finishing first and second. BMW is a team to watch for in future. It is slowly but steadily improving it’s performance. It is good to see competition increasing on the track with Ferrari, McLaren and BMW fighting for the title.

Kubica had a brilliant race. After Lewis crashing into Kimi while coming out of the pit lane he didn’t have much difficult time. Once the traffic ahead of him cleared there was no stopping him from pushing his car to the extreme. He was gaining almost two seconds every lap on the driver in second position, his own team mate Nick.

One more driver to watch for in the race was Felipe Massa. After Ferrari spoiled his pit strategy he worked his way up in the traffic from seventeenth position to fifth.

But the person who had nightmare during race was Lewis Hamilton. After starting on the pole and taking comfortable initial lead things suddenly turned into disaster for him as most cars rushed into pits with safety car coming out on Adrian’s crash in Force India car. He went ahead to do a stupid mistake of not watching the red light at exit of the pit lane go on at last minute and crashed into Kimi finishing race of both of them. Actually more then Lewis it is the stupid rule which has to blamed. What is the purpose of stopping the cars entered in the pits during safety car is out? It is time some one reconsiders this stupid rule. Now Lewis faces penalty of ten positions on the grid for French GP for his mistake.

It was a fantastic race full of excitement. It would have been great if Ferrari had better results though. But I am happy for BMW for their first win.

Stats:

Canadian GP 2008:
1st Robert Kubica, 2nd Nick Heidfeld, 3rd David Coulthard.

Driver Standing as on 9th June, 2008:
1st Robert Kubica 42pts, 2nd Lewis Hamilton 38pts, 3rd Felipe Massa 38pts.

Constructor Standing as on 9th June, 2008:
1st Ferrari 73pts, 2nd BMW Sauber 70pts, 3rd McLaren Mercedes 53pts.

Sarkar Raj – 3.5/5 (No Spoilers)

Looks like Ramu’s back into action after series of pathetic films. Sarkar Raj which is a sequel to Sarkar makes a mark and definitely won’t go unnoticed from the theatres like many of Ram Gopal Verma’s recent films.

The Story continues from last movie and there are no abrupt changes made. Abhishek Bachan ‘Shankar Nagre’ takes over the control from his dad ‘Sarkar’ aka ‘Subhas Nagre’ who I guess all of you‘ll know is played by whom? Plot is almost similar to Sarkar that is Parallel Government of Sarkar running the actual government and taking decision on its own and executing them without fear or permission of anyone else to benefit the common man of Mumbai and Maharastra.

Aishwarya Rai Bachan plays character called ‘Ankita’ who is daughter and business partner of International Businessman ‘Mike Rajan’ owner of Sheppard Power Plant played by Victor Banerjee. They are interested in starting a large power plant project in Maharastra. This project is initially opposed by Sarkar but is reconsidered on Shankar’s (Abhishek) request, who mentions long term benefit of this project for the people and state.

Shanker and Ankita go to the rural areas of Maharastra to campaign for the same. They face opposition from ‘Sanjay Somji’ (Rajesh Shringapure) upcoming leader in rural Maharastra. Politics and power involved in starting the project and hidden motives behind this is the story told in Sarkar Raj.

There are some unexpected twists which makes two hours fifteen minutes worth watching. Draw back of the movie I feel are some unwanted emotional scenes. In a movie which speaks about power they really look weak. That was the plus of Sarkar, there was no unwanted “dramae bazzi”. But good thing is these scenes are not drag and movie doesn’t loose the flow. Last minutes of the movie steal the show and climax is a surprise.

There are songs but they played as part of the background score. ‘Govinda Govinda’ tune continues to stay and has great effect on the background score. Best part no unwanted item song, no place for that.

Sarkar Raj has been filmed really well and you will see some great acting. Dilip Prabawalkar, Govind Namdeo and Sayaji Shinde are awesome. All Bachan’s do great job too. Of course I don’t need to mention that Ash continues to look extremely beautiful as ever.

All in all a nice movie to watch.