What a great way to end this recipe One season. This season will go down to the history books as one of the most remembered season in the 57 years of F1 history.
When we idea that the fairy tale story of Lewis Hamilton will come true it just didn't happen. His inability to win the title this year taught me one thing that its not all about talent or having the best thing in life. Its all about luck.
News From Bahrain
Yes. Kimi Raikkonen had the best of luck in this race and that's why he is the World Champion. Also not to forget the great teamwork of Ferrari. Mclaren lost everything just because the people of the team was busy in fighting with each other.
Felipe Massa took pole in qualifying followed by Lewis, Kimi & Alonso. But the script was still not completed until the race day. When the race started both the Ferrari's had a good start Massa precisely went ahead but Lewis was not only overtaken by Kimi but even Alonso made a move and was able to pass him. Lewis tried to fight back but lost momentum in the second angle when he braked late and went out of the track but he rejoined the race again in 8th position and when we idea we are going to see Lewis magic his World championships hopes where marred by a gear shift problem. Ten cars went past him in that time of the race and he went down to 18th. Mclaren had to convert their strategy and Lewis had a 3 pit stop strategy and that costed him the championship.
In the middle part of the race we saw the genius brain of Ferrari's Ceo John Todt working. He handled the situation very well. He worked on well with his team that fetched Raikkonen the World championship of this year.
Lewis fulfilled, in 7th position and his teammate Alonso in 3rd where Raikkonen won the World Championship with 110.Just a particular point ahead of Lewis & Alonso who where tied with 109 points but Lewis became the runner-up just because he had five 2nd position finish than that of the spaniard's four. It has happened in the past that when two teammates like Ruetamann & Alan Jones fought hard Nelson Piquet clinched the world title, when Mansell & Piquet fought hard then Alain Prost took the championship & it happened again.
The tyre grainning was a major concern this weekend but the Ferrari's simply did a great job to clinch all the titles this year. I salute the Ferrari for their great teamwork. Well that's why Ferrari won the titles for 5 consecutive years in the past. It simply shows that how good they are as a team. They effect the uncomplicated system of having a distinctive driver 1 as they had in the great Micheal Schumacher.
In the end I feel bad for Lewis but he didn't had the luck and Kimi had it. But someday luck would also favour Lewis and needs to wait for that.
Season Review
1)Ferrari: They started with a bang and even fulfilled, it with an explosion. At the end of the season 2006, their great driver Micheal Schumacher retired from the game. The technical genius Ross Brawn also decided to leave and they went on to have a convert in their management. John Todt was promoted to the position of Ceo and Stephano Domencaeli the old team manager became the Head of the F1 team.
They won the season opener in Australia courtesy Kimi Raikkonen followed by Massa winning it in Spain & Bahrain. They lost a lot of momentum in the middle part of the season due to their unreliable machinery but with spygate scandal and all the controversy surrounding them & Mclaren put them in an advantageous position and as Mclaren where stripped of this year's championship they became the constructors champion. In the end it was down to the drivers to accomplish in the track to clinch the Drivers title and Kimi Raikkonen with six wins and an consistent operation did the job for himself & his team.Also not to forget the supporting role played by Felipe Massa. Massa seems to come up a long way.He may not be have same natural talent like the Kimi's, Lewis's & Alonso's but still he is a man to watch out for next season.
2)Mclaren: The best car, the best drivers but the end effect is nothing. Why? Blame it on the team, blame it on Fernando Alonso. They had the most dependable engine,they had the best of the setup but they lost it all over spygate scandal where Fia & its Wmsc was not even able to prove that the team cheated or not. Just with the E-mail that the drivers exchanged the team was expensed guilty. I feel bad for Hamilton. After all the hard work he did after all those odds that he overcame he just lost it due to an on going fight inside his team. Mclaren, I would also say is a bad strateigist. Lewis could have precisely won the championship in China but with all the tyre question and the late call by the team costed it all for the young british rookie. But still Lewis should be congratulated for whatever he did this year. As a Rookie when you start your work with a car like spyker then you have less tention coz you know its not the best of the car in the grid and even if you try hard you are not going to get into points. But when you are driving a Mclaren you know you need to accomplish well as all are seeing at you.The so called Driver 1 Mr.Alonso must rethink how he wants to play the game. Coz his cry child approach towards the World Championship did no great things for him.It may be possible that he move to Renault next year after what has happened between the team & him where he even try to blackmail Ron Dennis.
3)Bmw Sauber: I would love to congratulate Dr. Mario Theissen & the team for doing such a good job. They are working as a great team and their drivers Nick Heidfeld & Robert Kubica has done a extremely good job.They knew there limitation and they have performed pretty well within that limitation.Only four race retirements along with the huge crash of Kubica in Montreal. So three cheers for Bmw.
4)Williams: A pretty good season. They also had itsybitsy resources but they also performed well. Alex Wurz recorded the best finish for them in this season in Montreal finishing 3rd .Nico Rosberg seems to have developed a lot and in near future I believe he is going to make it big like his father Keke. If Alonso leaves then Nico will be my ideal replacement in team Mclaren.
5)Renault: After winning the back to championship no one would have idea that there operation would go down like this. The setup of their car was so bad they didn't got the permissible balance. Giancarlo Fisichella had a poor season in the cockpit. But their driver no.2 Heikki Kovaleinien, old World series Champion did a great job and even fulfilled, second in the tricky conditions in Fuji speedway.They can take only one obvious thing from this season and that is their dependable machinery.I don't remember any race retirements due to a mechanical failure.
6)Red Bull:Well they struggled throughout the season with their gear box technology (Zero shift).But still with an contact team of Adrian Newey(Chief Designer), David Coulthard & Mark Webber they still posted some good finishes and even Webber fulfilled, 3rd in Nurburgring.
7)Toyota:Tim Scott,the editor of F1 racing Magazine was telling in the criticism booth while the race in turkey that the actual supervision of Toyota is based on Japan and the workshop is based on Colonge. So until & unless the bosses from Japan take any decisions the people of cologne can't work. In one word the engineers cant work independently and that's why they are lacking.They had the most awful setup this season. Ralf Schumacher strugglrd straight through out this season and also left it in the end. Jarno Trulli still seems to administrate a good operation then his teammate.
8)Honda:Well nothing much to article about this team coz they came up as an independent team this year after breaking their tie up with Brackleys and even they where without a sponsor.They didn't had the pace,they didn't had the setup everything seems to have gone wrong for them. Jenson Button was superb in three races. Nurburgring, Monza & Japan.Driver2 Rubens didn't scored any points this
year.
9)Torro Rosso: Well nothing much to report. Only I would like to thank them for giving
a occasion to Sebastian Vettel. What an eventful season he had.Raced in the Us gp for Bmw as replacement for Kubica who was adviced by the physician to rest due to the heavy emergency he had in Montreal. Vettel powerful well in 6th and fulfilled, 8th.Then in Japan in Torro Rosso he was doing well under the wet conditions until he got crashed out after colliding with Red Bull's Mark Webber. But he came back strong & fulfilled, 5th in China again a rain interrupted race. Vitantonio Luizzi was also quite ok but he has thrown away many races and that's why he will be supplanted by the 4 time Champ car champion Sebastian Bourdais who will be joining soldiery with Vettel. Also not to forget Scott Speed who was asked to leave as his operation was not up to the mark.
10)Super Aguri: The team powered by Honda engines did performed well in the middle season with Sato scoring at Spain & Canada. They even seemed to accomplish good than Honda until the latter surpassed them in Japan.
11) Spyker: Lastly the team that every Indian would like to talk about. The team doesn't seems to have a great operation until Adrian Sutil fulfilled, 12th in Belgium and even scored a point in Japan. After Luizzi was disqualified. Sutil had a decent rookie season.
Albers was said to leave the team after his prime sponsor was not able to pay the sponsorship money. Albers was supplanted by Markus Winkelhock who lead his first grandprix in rain interrupted Nurburgring. Sakon Yamamoto of Japan was appointed as Driver2 for the last six races and even he failed to perform. The big news is that the team is now owned by Indian Businessman Vijay Mallya & Micheal Mol. It costed them 88 million euros.But still Indian can rejoice for having a team like this. The team would be called Force India F1 team after the name was officially popular ,favorite by Fia & other F1 teams.The driver line-up for next season probably would be Ralf Schumacher & Narain Karthikeyan.
So that's the end of this year. Lets hope that next year we will have an an additional one provocative season like this but I hope it will be without an additional one spuygate scandal and I also hope to see a race uner flood lights & some great fights in the track again.Especially Alonso vs Hamilton. Till then Ciao.
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