Kimi Raikkonen
Kimi Raikkonen won the Belgian Grand Prix in what proved to be a dominant performance by the Ferrari F1 team. Raikkonen started from the pole followed by teammate Felipe Massa and then the McClaren duo of Alonso and Hamilton. With the smallest of margins to Alonso's qualifying time, the McClaren's had nothing for the "Prancing Horse" stable of Raikkonen and Massa as they out paced them the entire race.
But pay tribute to the McClaren team as they had to race under the cloud of being penalized heavily for there involvement in possessing secret technical documents of the Ferrari car. In what was the largest penalty accessed any race team, McClaren lost all constructor points for 2007 and some $100 million in fines for their wrong doing. But the punishment must fit the crime and apparently the crime was close to murder in the eyes of the ruling faction of Formula 1.
With Ferrari now having locked up the constructors title, what remains is the battle for the drivers title. With Hamilton and Alonso only two points apart with three races remaining it will be interesting if the rookie can beat the two time defending world champ. Kimi Raikkonen has an outside chance at the drivers title but he will need both McClaren drivers to have problems in the final three races for it to happen. My fear as a Raikkonen fan is that he will again have the most wins (as in 2005) and not come away with the title. But anything can happen in racing so let's keep our fingers cross for the "Iceman" as the races in China, Japan and Brazil end this very entertaining F1 season.
Kimi Raikkonen won the Belgian Grand Prix in what proved to be a dominant performance by the Ferrari F1 team. Raikkonen started from the pole followed by teammate Felipe Massa and then the McClaren duo of Alonso and Hamilton. With the smallest of margins to Alonso's qualifying time, the McClaren's had nothing for the "Prancing Horse" stable of Raikkonen and Massa as they out paced them the entire race.
But pay tribute to the McClaren team as they had to race under the cloud of being penalized heavily for there involvement in possessing secret technical documents of the Ferrari car. In what was the largest penalty accessed any race team, McClaren lost all constructor points for 2007 and some $100 million in fines for their wrong doing. But the punishment must fit the crime and apparently the crime was close to murder in the eyes of the ruling faction of Formula 1.
With Ferrari now having locked up the constructors title, what remains is the battle for the drivers title. With Hamilton and Alonso only two points apart with three races remaining it will be interesting if the rookie can beat the two time defending world champ. Kimi Raikkonen has an outside chance at the drivers title but he will need both McClaren drivers to have problems in the final three races for it to happen. My fear as a Raikkonen fan is that he will again have the most wins (as in 2005) and not come away with the title. But anything can happen in racing so let's keep our fingers cross for the "Iceman" as the races in China, Japan and Brazil end this very entertaining F1 season.
Kimi Raikkonen
2 comments:
Spa is fast and exciting. Go Kimi!!!!
spa is fast...race sucked...kimi is a little biatchhhh...just kidding..TPZ
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