But there is no joy in Mudville...
...mighty Lewis has struck out. :/
I did not see most of the race. I just saw the end.
Kimi Raikkonnen won the race and the championship. Fernando Alonso was third. Lewis Hamilton was seventh. Raikkonnen won the championship by one point over Hamilton and Alonso.
I heard the commentators say something about an incident between Alonso and Hamilton when Hamilton was trying to pass Alonso. They say that's what knocked Hamilton so far down.
Hamilton is in second place because he has the same number of points as Alonso, has the same number of victories as Alonso, and has more second-place finishes than Alonso.
The main reason why I did not want Raikkonen to DNF in the final stages of the race is that he would have lost the championship not to Hamilton but to Alonso. If it was a choice between Alonso and Raikkonnen, then I would want Raikkonnen to win.
It was, and he did.
I still wish Hamilton had won, though.
Second is better than third, however, and immensely better than third behind Alonso.
I personally think that Hamilton did well earlier in the season because everyone was pulling together at first. McLaren looked like a team for the first time I could remember. Hamilton was backing Alonso up but was otherwise going for whatever he could.
Then Hamilton started to shine. This caused Alonso to demand #1 driver treatment from MacLaren. Alonso had McLaren's management over a barrel because he knew about their dirty deals with one of the Ferrari engineers. So McLaren held up Hamilton in qualifying at the Hungarian Grand Prix. They got caught with that trick. McLaren lost all the constructors' championship points from that race and Alonso was put back five places in the grid. The fallout after that was that Alonso brought his spoilsport attitude out into the public.
I personally think that what happened next was that Alonso, who knew about the ill-gotten info from Ferrari, ratted McLaren out to the FIA out of spite. McLaren's punishment for this was a fine of one hundred million United States dollars and disqualification from the Constructors Championship.
As a result, the team was no longer after championship points and Alonso and Hamilton became every man for himself. Hamilton, who had thrived on the close-knit support of the early part of the season, floundered in the new order of disunity and general apathy. His flawless drives of earlier on were gone, he was now beginning to look like a rookie.
The best moment of this latter part of the season was the end of the Japanese Grand Prix, where Hamilton won convincingly on the rain-sodden track. He has followed in the rain-boot steps of Jim Clark, Ayrton Senna, and Michael Schumacher, and he may yet be considered a Rain Master as these three are.
Hopefully Hamilton will win the championship next year. If Hamilton does not win, I hope Massa wins. If Alonso is with Renault next year, I hope Renault will be as competitive as they were this year (i.e., not really).
I did not see most of the race. I just saw the end.
Kimi Raikkonnen won the race and the championship. Fernando Alonso was third. Lewis Hamilton was seventh. Raikkonnen won the championship by one point over Hamilton and Alonso.
I heard the commentators say something about an incident between Alonso and Hamilton when Hamilton was trying to pass Alonso. They say that's what knocked Hamilton so far down.
Hamilton is in second place because he has the same number of points as Alonso, has the same number of victories as Alonso, and has more second-place finishes than Alonso.
The main reason why I did not want Raikkonen to DNF in the final stages of the race is that he would have lost the championship not to Hamilton but to Alonso. If it was a choice between Alonso and Raikkonnen, then I would want Raikkonnen to win.
It was, and he did.
I still wish Hamilton had won, though.
Second is better than third, however, and immensely better than third behind Alonso.
I personally think that Hamilton did well earlier in the season because everyone was pulling together at first. McLaren looked like a team for the first time I could remember. Hamilton was backing Alonso up but was otherwise going for whatever he could.
Then Hamilton started to shine. This caused Alonso to demand #1 driver treatment from MacLaren. Alonso had McLaren's management over a barrel because he knew about their dirty deals with one of the Ferrari engineers. So McLaren held up Hamilton in qualifying at the Hungarian Grand Prix. They got caught with that trick. McLaren lost all the constructors' championship points from that race and Alonso was put back five places in the grid. The fallout after that was that Alonso brought his spoilsport attitude out into the public.
I personally think that what happened next was that Alonso, who knew about the ill-gotten info from Ferrari, ratted McLaren out to the FIA out of spite. McLaren's punishment for this was a fine of one hundred million United States dollars and disqualification from the Constructors Championship.
As a result, the team was no longer after championship points and Alonso and Hamilton became every man for himself. Hamilton, who had thrived on the close-knit support of the early part of the season, floundered in the new order of disunity and general apathy. His flawless drives of earlier on were gone, he was now beginning to look like a rookie.
The best moment of this latter part of the season was the end of the Japanese Grand Prix, where Hamilton won convincingly on the rain-sodden track. He has followed in the rain-boot steps of Jim Clark, Ayrton Senna, and Michael Schumacher, and he may yet be considered a Rain Master as these three are.
Hopefully Hamilton will win the championship next year. If Hamilton does not win, I hope Massa wins. If Alonso is with Renault next year, I hope Renault will be as competitive as they were this year (i.e., not really).