Kimi!!!

Unbelievable. But not surprising - Hamilton drove with his balls instead of his brains, which is not a bad thing (think Gilles and Mansell) but it's a trait that doesn't win many championships. But I suspect he'll learn from this and should be proud of finishing his rookie season in second, one point behind the champion; we surely haven't heard the last of Lewis Hamilton. And Alonso... well, fuck him, I hope he rots.

Raikkonen earned this one, he kept his cool all season long, drove with both balls and brains, and took it home by one championship point when almost everyone wrote him off (including me). Well done Kimi.

And about those points - I've been on the record for years arguing that the driver's world championship should be awarded to the one with the most wins in a season, and that points should only be counted for the constructor's title and to break ties between drivers with an equal number of wins (as in 2006, which saw Schumacher and Alonso each with six victories). By this reckoning, Mansell would have been World Champion in 1987 (six wins to Piquet's three), and Senna would have been a 4-time world champion (six wins in 1989 to Prost's four). My way is clearly the best way, but Bernie won't take my calls...

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