Finally the cat is out of the bag. Ross Brawn will be joining Honda F1 team as Team Principal, bringing to an end, a year full of, which-team-will-he-join debate. And with equally good timings, Ferrari announced the changes in their top order with Jean Todt making way for Stefano Domenicali as the new Director of the F1 team.

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Lewis Hamilton won the US Grand Prix at Indianapolis, becoming first Rookie in Formula 1 history to win two Grand Prix one after another. Fernando Alonso came in second spot followed by Felipe Massa. Kimi Raikkonen gave a good chase to Massa but finished at fourth position, followed by Heikki Kovalainen at fifth and Jarno Trulli at sixth position respectively. Mark Webber and another rookie Sebastian Vettel completes the top eight finishers.

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In an incident filled Canadian Grand Prix, Lewis Hamilton, finally, scored his first Grand Prix victory. Followed by Nick Heidfeld of BMW and Alex Wurz for Williams completing the podium finishers. Followed by Heikki Kovalainan of Renault, Kimi Raikkonen for Ferrari and Takuma Sato for Super Aguri. Then came Fernando Alonso for McLaren and Ralf Schumacher for Toyota completing the top 8 finishers.

The biggest incident was the big crash of Robert Kubica. Thankfully as per the last reports he has just a broken leg and is in stable condition. More details report to follow later.

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Need I say more about the whole so-called controversy ? As I wrote yesterday there really was no need for any FIA investigation in the whole matter, but the matter was anyway taken upon by FIA primarily because of the media *attention* McLaren & Ron Dennis got.

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Even before Fernando Alonso could take the cork off from his champaign bottle for winning the Monaco Grand Prix, Lewis Hamilton vented out his anger & frustration regarding the team order to “take it easy” in the last few laps of the Grand Prix. And this started a possible controversy that is being investigated by FIA regarding team orders, not to forget the flank McLaren and Ron Dennis received from British Media.

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