Kimi takes both top spots
Kimi Raikkonen is tonight crowned as the new world champion of the F1 world. He takes the title that Fernando Alonso held last year.
The race was not all that interesting from the Ferrari point of view, the two Ferrari’s where by and away the fastest cars on the track.
No all of the interesting things that happened, happened behind the two scarlet machines. First Alonso managed to get past Lewis in the Senna S’s, Lewis obviously did not like that, and tried to get back passed in the next corner, however he ran wide and lost a lot of time.
Then on lap 7, Lewis’s McLaren decided to select neutral in his gearbox, and it took him and his engineers over 30 seconds to get the car to select a gear. Eventually the car did find a gear and Lewis was on his way again, however he was now in 18th position.
Lewis drove well and eventually managed to finish in seventh position, if he could have managed another spot, then it sounds like Ron Dennis would have ‘asked’ Alonso to drop back behind Lewis, allowing him to take the championship. However it was not to be.
Other notable drives are from Kimi, who kept his head and put in a metronomic drive for the win. Nico Rosberg managed to finish fourth in the Williams, in a great race with the BMW cars. Robert Kubica finished fifth, with Nick Heidfeld finishing sixth. Jarno Trulli grabbed a well deserved eighth for the Toyota team.
So we have a new world champion. A deserved world champion, in my mind. Kimi narrowly missed out on two championships whilst at McLaren, so a well deserved win, and a well deserved championship, after all for the second part of the season, Kimi has outscored the other two championship contenders.
This championship will be not remembered however as the season that Ferrari took both titles, rather the season that McLaren had them taken away from them.
It’s going to be an interesting off season, lot’s of driver changes to do. Who will replace Ralf at Toyota? Where will Fernando be next season?
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Hamilton and R.D. get what they deserve.
Alonso forever. We love you. Get out of there.
Ron, Hamilton’s daddy, maFIA… LOL! LMAO! ROFLAMAO! Even with all the cheats they couldn’t give the championship to Hamilton… That’s what I call JUSTICE!
I’m quite sure there was no cheating going on inside the team. The McLaren team has always been fair, remember when Senna and Prost raced for them, it was a similar situation.
At the end of the day Fernando just completly underated the youngster, as did a lot of the paddock.
He was one of the quickest to come to terms with the 2007 Bridgstone control tyres, and that is what many of the front runners struggled with, Kimi and Fernando have both said as much, Lewis was lucky that he had not had to come from the 2006 Michelin tyre.
At the end of the day I think the result was good, Kimi deserves the championship, he drove the best in the second half of the season, and won 6 races, that speaks for itself.
Well, lets not call it cheating but its clear that the team did not take care of alonso as well as they did with hamilton, second half of season mainly.
And its clear that the FIA did not take care of alonso as well as they did with hamilton.
Not to say hamilton surprisingly proved to be an excellent driver. He really showed that nobody made a mistake letting him drive the Mclaren on his debut.
And probably too alonso could have handled the rookie better.
But i would like to see schumacher driving a car today. He wouldnt win so easy hah!
I am really looking forward for 3 or 4 teams on top next year.
My favourite active driver and the one i think its better all-around is still Alonso.
Yup the next season should be very good, there could concevably be four or five teams on the top of the speed stakes.
Let’s hope that the FIA don’t get too involved with next years title.
As for Alonso being treated unfairly, I will agree that even if the McLaren team did not want to favour either driver, they will be less likely to favour Alonso, as after all the entire team is British, and natural favoritism will be towards to young Brit driver, even if they did not want to do so.
But I don’t think anyone in the team purposfully favoured one driver over the other.
I love how the world find balance at the end.
Go Kimi, Alonso leave, Hamilton learn, R.D. retire.