Formula 1 Season Finale

All I can say about the season ending race at Interlagos...WOW!

Can you believe it, Kimi Raikkonen comes from third in in the standings to win the 2007 World Championship! What a great race, and what an amazing season. All Lewis had to do is finish ahead of Alanso, and within 5 places of Kimi to become the first rookie and youngest driver ever to win the world championship and he has a mechanical gremlin that drops him to 18 place early in the race. Watching him carve his way back through the field was brilliant. Alanso, coming into the race seemed to have it all for the taking if he could finish ahead of both Kimi and Lewis. As we've seen though in the second half of the season, he was not up to the task.

My pre-season predictions of 1. Fernando Alanso 2. Kimi Raikkonen 3. Lewis Hamilton were pretty close. Right guys wrong order. My prediction that the championship would be won by less that 10 points was correct, but man I would have never thought that when all was said and done, the top 3 would be separated by a single championship point! Kimi flat out proved be wrong in my statements that he could not be consistent enough to beat Alanso. In the end, Hamilton got into the reigning World Champion and rattled him to the core. Something that not even Micheal Schumacher could do in the past.

Sadly my prediction that Scott Speed would be out of F-1 at the end of 2007 was correct. Based on his consistently out performing his team mate, it was very clear that STR canned the wrong driver. This only proved that Gerhard Burger was a better driver that team boss. I'm also bummed that we have lost our home GP. Indy was never a great track for F1, but it brought F1 back to America and I enjoyed every minute of it. I can only hope that some deal can be worked out in the future to bring the F1 circus back to the States.

I look forward to the 2008 season with much anticipation. Will Alanso in fact end up back at Renault, or perhaps somewhere else? Can Lewis Hamilton follow up his fairy tail rookie season and win the World Championship? Can Ferrari continue it's strong pace and maintain the longest string of dominance in it's 57 year history in the sport? The coming months will tell the tail. I can't wait to see it all unfold.

Congratulations once again to Kimi Raikkonen, 2007 World Champion.