Well, that was squeaky-bum time for every Lewis Hamilton and McLaren fan in the country. Hamiltons, father and son, weren’t the only people who were speechless after the drivers’ championship was decided, on the last lap of the last race of the season, by a single point.
But, now our powers of communication are restored, here are our six-word summaries of what happened for race, drivers and teams:
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Overall race report
Rain brought procession alive – terrifyingly late
Drivers
- 1. Felipe Massa
- Heartbreaking result after perfect home drive
- 2. Fernando Alonso
- Helped himself, not Ferrari, despite hype
- 3. Kimi Raikkonen
- Played the loyal rear-gunner admirably
- 4. Sebastian Vettel
- Spirited attempt to gatecrash the party
- 5. Lewis Hamilton
- Playing it careful almost cost title
- 6. Timo Glock
- We love you Timo, we do
- 7. Heikki Kovalainen
- Bit disappointing – rather like whole season
- 8. Jarno Trulli
- Stunning qualifying, race pace evaded him
- 9. Mark Webber
- Never featured in the action today
- 10. Nick Heidfeld
- Couldn’t repeat Belgian wet-weather success
- 11. Robert Kubica
- Wrong parade lap tyres wrecked race
- 12. Nico Rosberg
- Should be ashamed of hitting DC
- 13. Jenson Button
- Yay – 13th! Respectable for a Honda
- 14. Sebastien Bourdais
- Doing great until Trulli shunted him
- 15. Rubens Barrichello
- Usually better than this in wet
- 16. Adrian Sutil
- We don’t actually remember seeing him…
- 17. Kazuki Nakajima
- Innocent victim when colleague hit Coulthard
- 18. Giancarlo Fisichella
- Will have enjoyed moment in sun
- DNF: Nelson Piquet
- Final nail in his career’s coffin?
- DNF: David Coulthard
- Probably best out of it, mate
Teams
- Ferrari
- Constructors’ champions – but celebrations are muted
- McLaren
- Bloody hell lads, that was close
- BMW
- Saved worst result for final race
- Renault
- Fantastic improvement in season’s final races
- Toyota
- McLaren owe them a mighty favour
- Toro Rosso
- Vettel sharp, Bourdais unlucky – as usual
- Red Bull
- Season promised much but ended weakly
- Williams
- Pale shadow of formerly great team
- Honda
- Not much here to build on
- Force India
- Strong strategy, car couldn’t match it
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