So Close Yet So Far

By edy507 on 6:15 PM

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This morining I saw one of the greatest Formula 1 race ever, where two of the drivers were battling for the F1 driver championship, and it was the final circuit of the season, the Brazilian Grand Prix. The two championship contender are Lewis Hamilton of McLaren Mercedes and Felipe Massa of Scuderia Ferrari, where Massa need all the 10 points with a condition that Hamilton at 6th position or below, while Hamilton only needed to be in 5th place to claim the championship title.

The race started very well for the Brazilian, Massa, where he took the pole position, while Hamilton started at 4th position. The race goes very well with only one accident occur which involveing David Coulthard of Red Bull Racing and Nilson Piquet of ING Renault F1-team at the opening lap. The Brazilian GP will be the last F1 GP for the British driver, David Coulthard, where he will be retire from the Formula 1.

With only 3 laps to go, Massa still taking the lead, but Hamilton still has an advantage at 5th place. After few corners of the final 3 laps, Sebastian Vettel of Toro Rosso with Ferrari engine overtook the 5th place from Lewin Hamilton. At the final lap of the final Grand Prix, Massa still took the lead, while Hamilton fighting for the 5th place with Vettel.

As Felipe Massa took the chequer flag, noise erupted from the grandstand where they celebrating their local hero, they also though that Massa will also win the F1 Driver Championship. While Massa took the chequer flag, the battle for the 5th place was still on going, and with few second from the start-finish line, all of sudden, a Toyota car (Timo Glock) which was in 4th place slows down as he could not challenge the pace of Vettel and Hamilton, as he was on 2 stop strategy. Both Vettel and Hamilton overtook him at the final corner of the final lap. As both drivers overtook Glock, that means Vattel took the 4th place while Hamilton 5th place.

As Hamilton took the 5th place, this means that Lewis Hamilton has won the Driver Championship with only single point over Felipe Massa, 98 to 97. This also mean that Hamilton has overwrite the FIA F1 history that made by his former teammate Fernando Alonso, who took the 2nd place ahead of Kimi Raikkonen of Ferrari, as the youngest driver to win the F1 Championship. While in Constructure Championship, Ferrari (172 points) dominate it with 21 points clear over their rivel McLaren Mercedes (151 points).

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