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1. Massa (Ferrari)
2. Trulli (Toyota)
3. Raikkonen (Ferrari)
4. Hamilton (McLaren)
5. Kovalainen (McLaren)
6. Alonso (Renault)
7. Vettel (Toro Rosso)
8. Heidfeld (BMW Sauber)

Interesting quali. The way Massa blitzed it I assume he has a light car. Trulli provided the surprise though, presumably also light.

In an ideal world Hamilton could slot in behind Kimi and pick of Trulli through the pit stops.

However there is an 80% chance of rain tomorrow.Anything could happen and the safest place is at the front (assuming you make the 1st corner!).

Race start is at 5pm GMT.  Guess who has other commitments!

Heikki needs to get in front of alonso to stop him cocking things up.

Massa will win the race but not the title

Hamilton is very good in the rain. I just hope (if it does come) he doesn't make some silly mistakes like he did last time.

I reckon Red Bull will win everything as this is such an exciting 'sport'.
Anybody can win regardless of how much money they spend on the cars.
I might put my Sabb 93 in next year.....i reckon i could piss that really exciting Monaco race with all those overtaking chances......
Unlike football where the top teams always win (except Hull beating Arsenal - Stoke beating Arsenal etc etc) this really is a free for all.
Love it..............
Shite!

That explains why Trulli is second on the grid then.

Lewis is good in the rain, but rain in F1 is the proverbial cup tie...it's a leveller.  Anything can happen.  I'm also thinking that 4th isn't a great piece of qualifying from Lewis.  The start is the key.  If he can avoid problems on the grid and hold 4th or 5th by the first bend, he'll have jumped his first, important hurdle.

If he gets round the first 2 corners I believe he will be world champion.

Its raikonnen in third im worried about

I have £10 on Massa to win the title at 4-1. A very good bet I feel.

What site is that on Michael?

That was on the Coral site earlier in the week Simon. I would imagine the price has dropped now.

He would do anything he could to help Massa win the world championship, could be a good first corner.
If Hamilton is taken out we need his team mate to take Massa out before the end.
Alls fare in love and war.
In fact take Massa out on the first lap.

PS Sorry about your 4/1 on Massa dont think you have a cat in hells chance of collecting.

As much as I would like Hamilton to win i have a feeling this is going to go all pete tong again..

Personally I think that Kimi will try and back the field up by making his Ferrari 20ft wide. Let Massa and Trulli go 1-2 and hope Hamilton has an incident/disaster/hot head moment. Assuming Massa is in front of course. I think Trulli may have a bit of a go, but being on the dirty side of the track I'm not sure he can do much.

You are right because Hamilton does not need to get involved, mind you with that nutter Alonso just behind him you never know.
Kovalainen must keep Alonso off Hamiltons arse and pretect him for the whole race, I would imagine Hamilton and Kovalainen will be on similar fuel strategies.

I think this alonso-hamilton thing is being blown hugely out of proportion. Alonso is not a dirty driver, at least nowere near as dirty as lewis is.

hope the tax dodging cunt loses it.

We will see today wont we ....
I'm sure he wouldn't harass Massa if the roles of the championship were reversed today.

Lewis should probably hang back from the start and hope to load up on a blue shell/star/golden mushroom/lightening.

when he puts all that petrol in he must get loads of air miles.

or is it points on his nectar card?

:Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

Fatal error firing a blue shell, taking a shortcut (and the lead) and then realising you've raped yourself. Must avoid that.

Is it legal to rape yourself

Only in computer games

Thankfully Massa has had horrendous luck this year, or it wouldn't have gone down to the wire. I think it's very much in the balance still, getting excited about a Grand Prix is generally a forewarning of a massive disappointment, but I can't help it.

and down comes the rain! its all set up for a right humdinger!

This going to be interesting.

This'll be on justin tv yeah
?

Its on itv.com though I suppose that may be blocked over there?

oooh has he fucked it?!

no he hasnt....

wow!

What a lucky boy young Mr Hamilton is.......good lordy, who says F1 is boring......

Very deserved championship win for Hamilton, the greatest driver of all time without question.

I'm not watching it.... but what happened to Glock? Did he slow down on purpose?

Bloody idiot Timo

He was on dry tyres. It started to rain...

Funny watching the Ferrari garage celebrating when Hamilton finished, only to realise he was in 5th after all.

Well he managed to lose 18 seconds and two places on the last lap. He was on slicks though, on a progressively dampening track. Draw your own conclusions......

Well that was gripping towards the end, fair play to him.


I wouldnt go that far!

Give it 5 years or so

Its a fix..........

best finish in years! awsome!!!

Slander young tans......

... I can imagine that comment on Points of View.

Terry Wogan: Dan Jackson was happy with the Lewis Hamilton win

Cut to quote + telephone voice

Dan Jackson: "Best finish in Years... Awesome..."

Followed by criticism which usually begins with "why oh why does...."

:D

:D

Dont give a shit about F1 but well done Hamilton, Good to see a Brit win even if it was apparently very lucky at the end.

Is Hamiltons brother normal?

he has cerebal palsy yeovil

I caught the last of that on justin tv, shitty stream with Spanish commentary and the degree of racism shown in the text/comments section makes me proud not to be Spanish/Italian/Brazillian or whatever fucking country they where from.

But what a fucking finish.

And Hamilton was not fucking lucky at all, Glok fucked up by not changing his tyres. The 'logic' that if it was not for Glok's dry tyres slowing him down so much, therefore letting Hamilton pass is incredibly flimsy because had Glok pit-stopped to change his tyres then he would not have found himself in front of Hamilton in the first place innit, Hamilton got it right and Glok didn't that's all.

Besides, against all of the adversity, scandalous point docking and racism Hamilton is now the youngest Champion ever.

GET IN!!!!!!

I think Glok was paid to f**k up, can't believe that just happened two corners from the end

Gutted for Massa, it couldn't have gone any more perfect from his perspective.

Over the course of the season though, Hamilton deserved the championship.

Definitely a bit fishy with Glock losing so much time on the last lap.

How would they arrange to pay Glock with 2 laps to go and not be heard over the radio? What a dumb comment!

Dumb comment - maybe because I'm a girl!!

Not fishy at all, he had the wrong tyres and Bangkok red is absolutely right. Lewis was very unlucky to get rain right at the end, not lucky. Obviously he should already have had the title before todays race if he hadn't been given ridiculous penalties.

Frankly anyone who can derive a conspiracy theory that a German driver contracted to a Japanese team (albeit based in Germany) would deliberately lose 18 seconds in the last lap of a GP to hand the world title to a Brit racing for an Anglo/German team and deprive the Italian/Brazilian combo their moment of glory in front of their own fans.......must be ever so slightly mad......

Probably won't stop a whole bunch of pissed off Brazilians sending a bunch of hate mail to Herr Glock though......

Fair play to Massa though; anyone who experiences defeat snatched from the jaws of victory yet remain so humble deserves a lot of credit IMO.

You are so sexist si

What the hell was Kubitza getting involved with Hamilton and Vettel by unlapping himself on the final lap, absolutely no need and it probably caused Hamilton to lose concentration and his place to Vettel.

PS Glock is replacing Kova at McClaren in two years time, just thought you would like to know .... ;)

If you look at the sector splits, Glock was always slowing. Commentators just fucked it up when they said the sectors were looking ok.

Trulli was doing similar times to Glock as he was also on dry tyres.

How can you look at the sector splits we never see them on the TV unless they are comparing the leader with second or also ran, you can only go by what the stupid ITV advert channel commentators are giving out, thank goodness by the way they no longer have the contract. Five flipping adverts in the first hour of the race, they kill the broadcast.

Who gets the coverage next year dell

What a pile of unexciting shite.

It that was one of the best finishes to a F1 Championship, thank fuck I've not watched any others.

As exciting as piles....................

I thought it was BBC, not sure now you said that, but its not ITV is it. Either way Sky or BBC no adverts during the race.

Notice how everyone is a hell of a lot slower on the final lap. It was raining more than itv suggested. Massa was 14 seconds slower than his fastest lap (for example).

The only likeable commentator is Martin Brundle, the rest are a bunch of twats expecially Mark Bundell

Charlie Cox and Martin Brundle would be an awesome commentator team next season (please do it BBC).

put hamilton in a shitter car then see how good he is.

I don't think Schumacher would have won anything in a Force India car either for what it's worth...

Just watched the Sky+ recording after successfully avoiding the result. What a fucking race, the whole WDC coming down to tyre choice and the last two corners.

I was tearing the little hair I had left out when he slipped to 6th. Unbelievable.

Glock was clearly on the wrong tyres at the end. A good gamble, but thankfully two corners short of paying off. When Lewis passed you could see him slipping and a sliding. In the end Hamilton had 5.5 seconds over him. Clearly he had no drive.

as Si Pie says, soapy tit wank @ Ferrari who were celebrating until they noticed Hamilton had slipped passed Glock :) :)


BBC. No announcement on the commentary team or the service yet, but rumours were that Brundle was going over but Bernie's henchmen were trying to block it. Brundle wrote a piece for the times that the FIA are suing over regarding the handling of McLaren in the spygate row.

I'm hoping for at least interactive on BBC next year, a race feed and a live timing screen at least. HD would be nice but I'd rather have interactive.


Put any top driver in a shitter car and see how good they are.

He's beaten Massa, blown away Kimi and Kovi.  This year he became the youngest F1 Drivers Champion every. Last year he competed with a double world champion in his 1st season. That's how good he is.

The best bit was after the race seeing the Ferrari pits go mental only to be told that Hamilton had actually done enough to win it. Made my day did that. I can't stand Ferrari especially after this season.

Despite the FIA, despite Ferrari, Lewis still won it, fucking get in son.

He deserved his fifth place - glock fucked up on tyres - Lewis was ahead of him before that, as were all the others.

Overall - Hamilton is King, and rightly so.

Nothing made me laugh louder than the Ferrari garage celebrating when they thought massa had won. The FIA have done everything possible to make Lewis lose and he's still won - fuck 'em.

He is the best driver. End of.

Fucking get in.

Thats a stupid comment that really doesn't bear any relevance to Hamilton's achievements. No one has won the championship in a minardi.

He picked the wrong tyres, he was behind Lewis when he did so.

They're on formula1.com

exactly. so its not a level playing field.ie an average driver can win in a great car.not saying hamilton is but hey ho.

Oh god please no. I can't stand the way he gets over excited at the smallest things.

On second thoughts, F1 can have him then I can watch the MotoGP without having to endure his ozzie accent.

Oh yeah, forgot he did bikes now!

Post 4 on the previous page ;)

That was fucking crazy!

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I got so so very pissed

Thank you Lewis

Fuck off Ferrari

My thoughts exactly.

That can be said of almost any sport. Put Torres in Oxfords team, they'd still not win the FA cup. If you want a straight race with equal equipment watch a different series. A1 GP or whatever.

Bushey, is there a youtube link to this footage? - not a fan of F1 but i have been told this bit is worth watching!

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0PxngXfhvA




aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

Cheers - im still laughing.....

I would be a liar if i thought it had never happened to me ........ i thought that goal stood at Hereford in the JPT....i was jumping all over the place for 5 minutes...

If Lewis had finished sixth, Massa would've won the title on countback as he had 'won' 5 races to Lewis' 4. The difference being the the Belgian GP, which Lewis won, but the FIA in the infinite wisdom (not) awarded it to Massa.

Justice for Lewis !!

Worse than that,  because that one at least had a weak argument to justify it.

Massa would only have drawn on points because the FIA gave him a free one for driving into Bourdais, who was ahead of him when exiting the pits. I have seen no explanation as to why Bourdais was docked 25 seconds, he was ahead and moved as far right to the inside of the track as possible. It was pretty indisputable Bourdais did all he could to avoid contact whilst racing for position.

Regardless, the FIA/F1 need to tighten up their consistency and transparency on penalties awarded for  next year.

What is the link please? - i need to email it on!!

I thought they had a pretty transparent policy...make sure Ferrari wins at all costs, and blame McLaren whenever possible !!!

www.youtube.com/v/Z0PxngXfhvA&rel=1

Everyone at hospital was delighted today, we were all planning how to spend the extra cash from the tax that hamilton will now recieve as part of being a world champion,

or maybe fucking switzerland will get it the tight ungrateful cunt.

Anyone know how much he gets in prize money for winning the thing?

You thought you had scored!

You were wrong.

You were wrong..

It's a hard figure to find.

But whatever it is, it'll pale into insignificance with the sponsorship money..

ahhhhh we were talking about this at work yesterday - apprently my boss was saying theres a piece in Top Gear magazine that says you get no prize money for actually winning the whole thing???

Really, I guess it's done on a race bny race basis then.

The constructors championship however is definitely worth £££££

Saw a post saying 2007 was in the region of:

1st – USD80,000,000 (2006 – USD35,000,000)
2nd – USD74,000,000 (2006 – USD33,000,000)
3rd – USD67,000,000 (2006 – USD30,000,000)
4th – USD60,000,000 (2006 – USD26,000,000)

5th – USD48,000,000 (2006 – USD22,000,000)
6th – USD46,000,000 (2006 – USD20,000,000)
7th – USD44,000,000 (2006 – USD18,000,000)
8th – USD42,000,000 (2006 – USD17,000,000)
9th – USD39,000,000 (2006 – USD16,000,000)
10th – USD37,000,000 (2006 – USD15,000,000)

yeah apprently its more win bonuses for each race etc

Get me with the knowledge!! whoop!

It's true that you get no prize money for winning the Championship, but the impact of being World Champion will mean his sponsorship etc will be worth a fookin fortune next year.

Having said that, apparently Maclaren promised him a £3m bonus if he won the title.

He will be a paper billionaire by the end of next season I would think.

That's what i heard, but couldn't quite believe it!

so you compare him to those in the same or equal cars - heikki, massa and kimi. He outdid the lot of them.

Every time this thread has the flashy blue thing (New post) next to it, I am half expecting some sort "Hamilton given time penalty for xxxxxx reason, and stripped of title" post/report.

It's a shame, but the richest people and businesses are the best at avoiding tax. Just means those earning average salaries get shafted even more.

my mate works for renault and they are something silly like 500 quid per point bonus.

the year they won the championship a couple of years back he got 10k christmas bonus, and hes only an engineer

Lets just say I am going to have a very very nice holiday next year

Thanks Lewis

in my (very biased :P) eyes, its only fair that lewis won it, massa, although he's quick, is so inconsistent its not funny.  i mean, at no point should a potential world champion spin 5 times in one race (as massa did at silverstone this year, cos it was a bit slippery. bless him)

Like a lot of British sportsman Lewis didn't make it easy on our nerves - I couldn't watch the last couple of laps.

Great result, although it seems going by a lot of comments on other sites that Lewis' win has not been greeted with universal enthusiasm in this country.

You have to wonder if some people actually want us to win anything at all (although they're probably the same ones that moan when we don't)

sick joke alert:


what do felipe massa and jean charles demenezes have in common?

they both got fucked by a glock.

F1 seems a bit odd from a fan point of view. People seem to follow a team or a driver regardless of nationality. Mind you, Schumi used to get the same "arrogant" comments from a section of his fellow countrymen.

Screw 'em, he's British and he's won. And he'll win again :)

It makes a refreshing change.

I mean the last time a brazillian got fucked over so badly by a brit was at Stockwell tube station.

Text message/e-mail jokes are often the best.... hmmmm ;)