Well done Lewis Hamilton!!!

[24K]

Just wanted to post and say well done Lewis for winning the F1 drivers championship!
That was a superb race to watch, with a nail biting finish!! My heart was in me gob!
http://www.itv-f1.com/home.aspx

[geordieloaf]

Yea big well done thought it was over couldn't believe that last corner. He deserved it with some of those shocking point reductions pleased in the end it hasn't cost him. Great to see a british world champion.

[24K]

Absolutely!
I thought he had lost it when Vittel had gone past him, and was cursing his team for making him change tyres! Then he caught Glock who had not put on wet tyres, the last corner, geez it doesn't get much closer!
Yea he well deserved the win, those point reductions were outrageous!
No doubt Ferrari will be whining as always about something, unluckyLOL....

[SW31]

well done lewis was watching the race with 5 laps to go then the kids came back from there nanas was bloody nail biting ,bloody shouting at the telly nearly as bad as being at the football.

[Ageing Bat]

Was a great race, full of drama! Well done Lewis.

[Battybarb]

Agree with whats been said..well done Lewis..great race,its nice to see us doing well for a change

[LucyK!]

After a night's sleep I think my heart rate has just about returned to normal! Fantastic race to look back on but at the time I was dying! Lots of shouting at the TV!

Wasn't too impressed with Vettel...he overtook Lewis with a perfectly clean racing pass and clearly wasn't under team orders to back off, which is good, but I thought he might have decided in his own mind to back off a little. He had absolutely nothing to gain by passing Lewis except finishing one place up and gaining a couple of extra points which counted for nothing as he wasn't in the championship running...personally I wouldn't have taken Lewis' championship when there was no gain for me, but he ho....all's well!

[Battybarb]

Really gonna have to go watch racing again,used to go years ago and also the bike racing,there is nothing like it...fantastic

[AndyK]

Congratulations to Lewis.


Looks like next year could be an interesting season.

Wouldn't want to be a Toyota salesman in Sao Paulo today though ...

[daveake]

The best man over the season won . Shame the FIA had to stick their noses in too often but at least it gave us an exciting last race.

The F1 forums are full of Ferrari fan-boys blaming it all on Glock. They fail to notice that Glock's team-mate Trulli, also on worn dry tyres, did almost the same final lap time.

'm glad I survived the last couple of laps without a cardiac incident! I wasn't quite as worked up as this guy though

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Dave

[djfierce]

Originally Posted by Lucy!

After a night's sleep I think my heart rate has just about returned to normal! Fantastic race to look back on but at the time I was dying! Lots of shouting at the TV!

Wasn't too impressed with Vettel...he overtook Lewis with a perfectly clean racing pass and clearly wasn't under team orders to back off, which is good, but I thought he might have decided in his own mind to back off a little. He had absolutely nothing to gain by passing Lewis except finishing one place up and gaining a couple of extra points which counted for nothing as he wasn't in the championship running...personally I wouldn't have taken Lewis' championship when there was no gain for me, but he ho....all's well!

you would if you were a racing driver, its in their makeup to do as best they poss can, backing off doesnt sit right with them even if its to help a team mate, and i as a fan wouldnt have wanted lewis to win like that anyway.
Also dont forget these guys are driving for their seats next season, what does it say to your team if you let someone go so they can win a championship.

[djfierce]

Lewis definately deseved this one, nice to have a british champ again and also nice to see someone with such outstanding talent.F1 was getting very so-so for a while.

Commiserations to Massa, i really feel for the guy having to celebrate a victory that must have felt completely the opposite, his team should never have told him over the radio that he had won until it was all done. Well done to him for going to collect his trophy and doing the press conference though, i'm sure he felt like leaving straight away, i'm sure some other drivers wouldve if it had been them

[AndyK]

Got to pass some commiserations to Coulthard as well. A journeyman driver who will be missed next season, who's going to crash out on the first corner now?

[daveake]

DC is supposed to be in the BBC F1 team for next year. Can't wait to hear some of his comments

e.g. “I am not motivated by recognition, I just do things I like doing - racing, shagging, eating and drinking.”

Dave

[AndyK]

Originally Posted by daveake

DC is supposed to be in the BBC F1 team for next year. Can't wait to hear some of his comments

e.g. “I am not motivated by recognition, I just do things I like doing - racing, shagging, eating and drinking.”

Yeah will be good to have DC in the team next year, and will be even better to not have James Allen there

[Monstro]

I thought the teams were also awarded prize money for points achieved, quite a considerable sum at the end of the season so Vettel can't be blamed for having a go.

[AndyK]

Vettel wouldn't hold back from overtaking the Championship favourite at the start of the season so I don't beleive that he should at the end, despite screaming blue murder at him at the time for overtaking Hamilton, he raced, and to me that's what it's all about.

[LucyK!]

At the end of the day he made a perfectly clean racing pass, which is much better to watch than either team orders telling him to move or his determination to pass ending up with people in the gravel...could still have killed him though!

[djfierce]

I know he's british but i cannot stand D.C racing on mute i think next season

[LucyK!]

Yeah I'm not sure what he's going to bring to the commentary...I like DC, his contribution to F1 has been great and it'll be odd without him, but I find that the funniest things he says are things that perhaps he should have kept in his head, which perhaps the BBC won't let him get away with...will have to wait and see, bring back Murrey I say!

[daveake]

I hope DC doesn't feel too inhibited - his comments like the one about wotsername's nipples have been hilarious!

Brundle has been in trouble a few times with his "pikey" comments and his anti-FIA comments. The FIA actually tried to get him fired from the ITV and tried to get the BBC not to take him on. Fortunately they failed both times. I hope the BBC doesn't decide in the post-Russel-Brand era to censor either of them.

Dave

[LucyK!]

I really can't stand Brundle, and actually I'd rather not see him on the BBC coverage...I think he comes across as arrogant, smarmy, and actually the funniest bits for me are seeing everyone else's responses to him on the grid walks

[duke knooby]

Originally Posted by Lucy!

I really can't stand Brundle, and actually I'd rather not see him on the BBC coverage...I think he comes across as arrogant, smarmy, and actually the funniest bits for me are seeing everyone else's responses to him on the grid walks

mr brundle is a legend

how much did timo get for slowing off anyway????

[AndyK]

Originally Posted by duke knooby

how much did timo get for slowing off anyway????

Ahh you've got to love the conspiracy theories The internet is full of them this week, this place shouldn't be any different really should it?

Glock takes the final lap in near enough exactly the same time as Trulli, the only other driver on dry tyres at the end of the race ...

[daveake]

Originally Posted by AndyK

Glock takes the final lap in near enough exactly the same time as Trulli, the only other driver on dry tyres at the end of the race ...

Preeecisely. He was only ahead because he and his team took a gamble on keeping him out on dry tyres. In the end, they lost the bet on the last lap when the rain got heavier.

Dave