CHINESE F1 GRAND PRIX RESULTS - HAMILTON NEARLY LOCKS IT UP

Brazilians will be up close and personal with Felipe Massa's tension at the early November Formula 1 race; the final meeting of the season. 

In Shanghai, Massa was offered second place when teammate Kimi Raikkonen let him through in order to tighten the gap going into the next race. Lewis Hamilton drove his McLaren-Mercedes very well and his seven point lead seems safe. Massa's Ferrari needs at least second place in Brazil, and that's with Hamilton finishing out of the points. A victory for the Brazilian Ferrari driver with Hamilton no better than seventh would also do the trick. Lewis and his Mercedes V8-powered F1 car have only been worse than seventh four times this season; in Bahrain (13th), Canada (ret.) and France (10th) and Japan (12th). He's scored five wins including this most recent Shanghai victory. Massa and his Ferrari have won five races along with two 13ths a 17th in Hungary and two retirements.

The Formula  Grande Premio Do Brasil 2008 at Interlagos will be available for viewing here on GoodCarBadCar.net - streaming live online for free - just like every other race of the season; barring complications where viewers will be provided with other streaming locations.

Ferrari has a firm grip in the team championship. BMW has a theoretical chance of overtaking McLaren-Mercedes in the constructor's championship, too. That won't happen. BMW's Robert Kubica, sitting in third position, can't climb higher and is unlikely to lose that position to Kimi Raikkonen of Ferrari. Full results from China are below.

1 - Lewis Hamilton, McLaren-Mercedes

2 - Felipe Massa, Ferrari

3- Kimi Raikkonen, Ferrari

4 - Fernando Alonso, Renault

5 - Nick Heidfeld, BMW

6 - Robert Kubica, BMW

7 - Timo Glock, Toyota

8- Nelsinho Piquet, Renault

9- Sebastian Vettel, Scuderia Toro Rosso-Ferrari

10- David Coulthard, Red Bull-Renault

11 Rubens Barichello, Honda

12- Kazuki Nakajima, Williams-Toyota

13- Sebastian Bourdais, Scuderia Toro Rosso-Ferrari

14- Mark Webber, Red Bull-Renault

15- Nico Rosberg, Williams-Toyota

16-Jenson Button, Honda

17- Giancarlo Fisichella, Force India-Ferrari

DNF- Heikki Kovalainen, McLaren-Mercedes*

DNF- Adrian Sutil, Force India-Ferrari

DNF- Jarno Trulli, Toyota

* Marks only the second time this season where a McLaren-Mercedes driver failed to complete the race because of mechanical problems, the first being last week in Japan with Kovalainen's engine.