Kimi Raikkonen is tonight crowned as the new world champion of the F1 world. He takes the title that Fernando Alonso held last year.The race was not all that interesting from the Ferrari point of view, the two Ferrari’s where by and away the fastest cars on the track. 

No all of the interesting things that happened, happened behind the two scarlet machines. First Alonso managed to get past Lewis in the Senna S’s, Lewis obviously did not like that, and tried to get back passed in the next corner, however he ran wide and lost a lot of time.

Then on lap 7, Lewis’s McLaren decided to select neutral in his gearbox, and it took him and his engineers over 30 seconds to get the car to select a gear. Eventually the car did find a gear and Lewis was on his way again, however he was now in 18th position.

Lewis drove well and eventually managed to finish in seventh position, if he could have managed another spot, then it sounds like Ron Dennis would have ‘asked’ Alonso to drop back behind Lewis, allowing him to take the championship. However it was not to be.

Other notable drives are from Kimi, who kept his head and put in a metronomic drive for the win. Nico Rosberg managed to finish fourth in the Williams, in a great race with the BMW cars. Robert Kubica finished fifth, with Nick Heidfeld finishing sixth. Jarno Trulli grabbed a well deserved eighth for the Toyota team.

 So we have a new world champion. A deserved world champion, in my mind. Kimi narrowly missed out on two championships whilst at McLaren, so a well deserved win, and a well deserved championship, after all for the second part of the season, Kimi has outscored the other two championship contenders.

This championship will be not remembered however as the season that Ferrari took both titles, rather the season that McLaren had them taken away from them.

It’s going to be an interesting off season, lot’s of driver changes to do. Who will replace Ralf at Toyota? Where will Fernando be next season?