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Most people would say that this was one of the most dramatic climaxes to a Formula One Season ever and it all came down to the last race here in Brazil to determine the World Championship and any one of three Drivers, Raikkonen, Alonso or Hamilton could have clinched the Title. This was a very exciting race, right to the very end, and Kimi Raikkonen who drove a superb race, and very deservingly so, won this fantastic race at Brazil and at the same time clinching himself the world Championship by 1 point, and although Lewis Hamilton was favourite to win, he hopes were dashed right from the very start when he had technical difficulties with his car and lost time while he was trying to sort it out, tyre changes and having to make three pit stops did not help his cause either and through some pure expert driving skills he some how still managed to finish 7th in the race, but it was just not enough to see him win the World Championship as he needed to finish in 5th place or below.

As Raikkonen celebrated becoming Finland’s third world champion, Raikkonen said: “We were not in the strongest position but we always believed that we could recover and do a better job than the others, and even with the hard times everyone was sticking together and we did not give up. I was not really 100 percent sure if someone would stop but there were people who needed to finish and we did not know 100 percent and it took a long time to hear that we had finally won it. It has been a good finish of the season and I am really happy. An amazing day!”

Hamilton was very gracious in the face of defeat and he said:
“It’s been a crazy year, but I can’t really say that I’m gutted or that I feel I was robbed, he said after losing by a single point. It was just unfortunate. We’ve all of us had some bad luck this year; it’s just a shame that mine seemed to come all at the end of it.
All along I said to myself that, whatever happens today, who would ever have thought that I would lead the world championship? It’s been a great feeling, having the possibility to win it. The team has done a fantastic job for me all season, and of course I wanted to win. But I guess it wasn’t our turn after all this year. But I will come back next year stronger, for sure. The start wasn’t that great and I got boxed in behind Kimi, then Fernando came past me and I locked up a bit behind him and lost some ground. But I knew that we had the pace to get that back. But then when I was downshifting for Turn Four the gearbox just went into neutral. And I coasted for an awful long time. I still don’t know how but I managed to coax it back into operation and get going again, but I had to be careful to manage the engine because the revs were very low. When that was happening, coming so soon after China, I just found myself thinking that for sure somebody didn’t want me to win the championship! Even after that, though, I refused to believe that it was over. The first time I thought that was when I saw the chequered flag. I never stopped thinking it was still possible. Our pace wasn’t bad today. Not quite the same as Ferrari’s, but we could have been a little bit quicker with more luck. At the end of the day I’m second in the world championship, and I beat my team mate who is a double world champion. That’s a great result. I said I would be a winner, whatever happened today. I think that, apart from the start, I drove one of my best ever races today, so that’s why I say I don’t think I was robbed.”