Bitter Sweet Moment

I went to Miguel's to watch the last Grand Prix of the F1 series this year. Upon entering the Brazilian Grand Prix, three drivers have the possibility of winning the world championship, which got us all too excited. This hasn't happened to some 50 odd years. From McLaren, last year's champion Spaniard Alonso, the amazing Rookie of the year, Brit Hamilton, and from Ferrari, the "Ice Man" Finn Kimi Raikkonen (Pictured).

Hamilton was doing amazing, and he had a chance to clench the championship couple weeks ago in the Shanghai Grand Prix. He would have been the first rookie in the F1 history to win the championship. Instead, he decided to show his rookie mistakes in perhaps the most important race of his life so far, and pit his car onto the gravel. The tire was too smooth, and his car got stuck, and he was out.

His teammate and bitter rival, Alonso and the "Long Shot" Raikkonen caught up to him in this race. Although still leading in the championship, Hamilton's point lead dwindled to only 3 points after the Shanghai Grand Prix, which sets up the final show down in Brazil.

Hamilton made a crucial mistake again early on in the race. In an attempt to pass Alonso, which he need not to do to win the championship because the point lead he has, he bumps his race car, which swiched his gear box to neutral. He suddenly fell from 4th place to 8th, then to 18th. Although he recovered to 7th place in the end, but a significant time gap was opened up between his and the front runners. Also Hamilton pitted 3 times, comparing to the two times the other top drivers did, so he was out of luck.

Alonso was alone in the front to chase the two Ferraris. Massa, the other Ferrari driver gave up the first place to Raikkonen, giving his the 1 point advantage to win the championship. Hamilton tied Alonso in points, but won the second place due to more podium appearances. Exciting race to say the least.

Kimi Raikkonen always had bad lucks in race. He is an amazing driver, and he was leading in couple previous year's championship race, then his car would break down because of mechanical reasons, or got crushed into by others. Alot of heartbreaks in the past years. This year seemed in the beginning was not his year again. He was trialling by alot of points behind the two McLaren racers. Then the McLaren infighting began, Raikkonen slowly but surely caught up. But he is still not the favor entering the last race. Then his luck finally turned. Rival's mistakes finally gave him the first championship win in 2007. A bittersweet moment!!