Racing News: Kimi wins F1 title

In an effort to seem as un-biased as possible (read, Champ Car) here are the results of last week's final F1 race which decided the winner of this years championship. (Better late then never!) While all eyes (mine included) were on the fight between McLaren driver's Alonso and Hamilton for the title, the Iceman came from out of no where and beat them both in this red Ferrari. Hats off to the Finnish sensation for beating McLaren at its own game and winning the World title and the Constructors Championship for Team Ferrari. (Happy now Tony?)

Star of the Race Kimi Raikkonen, Ferrari, 1st

If there's anything you learn after a couple of years when you should have been World Champion then it's patience. Kimi Raikkonen has learnt the kind of patience that Lewis Hamilton could have done with in the last two races.
Several times this season he's shadowed Felipe Massa for the first half of the race and while the Brazilian has chipped away at the fastest lap times Kimi has been there, watching and waiting.
With Massa very keen to repeat his Brazilian GP win of 2006 Raikkonen had to hang on, all the while knowing that his team-mate was coming in for his first pit-stop earlier. And when he did disappear down the pitlane, Raikkonen's sector times immediately went green and purple just as though someone had switched a light on.
He took the lead fair and square and his Lap 66 Fastest Lap time - put in for sheer bravado - was the measure of the man.
Raikkonen is a worthy World Champion, a driver who is good to watch, brave and keen to push. He's not a cruise-and-collect World Champion like Nelson Piquet or one like Keke Rosberg who won it by slim mathematics. Until last weekend Raikkonen was perhaps the second best driver never to have won a World Championship (the other being Stirl, who never will) and now that's sorted.
But should he have been World Champion in 2007? No. Forget about BMW's cool fuel we have had it conclusively proven that Ferrari won the opening race of the season with a bendy floor designed to give them an illegal advantage. For political reasons the FIA are keen to use evidence of whistle-blowing about that event against McLaren, but not about the original incident that provoked the saga.
Don't get me wrong, I like the result. It's good that Raikkonen's won and that he's World Champion. It's just the method that sucks.

pictures and story courtesy of http://www.planet-f1.com