Sebastian Vettel became the sports youngest triple World Champion in a race that started in dramatic fashion and ended less so.
The cars crossed the finishing line under the safety car after Paul di Resta crashed on the pit straight on the penultimate lap of the race.
Red Bull nearly threw it away with a poor tyre change, but Vettel held on, and in the end only had to stay on the track to pick up his 3rd Championship.
Seven times World Champion Michael Schumacher made it easy for Vettel to pass him on his last ever race in F1. As David Coulthard commented, it was one incredible German driver replacing another, as Schumacher retires Vettel has truly placed himself in the F1 hall of fame.
Jenson Button took the win, making him victorious in both the first and last Grand Prix of the season, he will be ruing what might have been, had reliability issues not hampered the Mclaren team.
Hamilton was very quick again, continuing his fantastic finish to the season, he will be wondering why he moved to Mercedes, with the German team capping an unremarkable season with an average performance in Brazil
Fernando Alonso, the consummate professional, drove consistently throughout and couldn’t of done much more, his performance this season signals a return to the top for Ferarri, after being dogged with poor performances since the rise of Red Bull.
On the First lap, Sebastian Vettel was hit by Bruno Senna, giving him the mammoth task of sything through the grid to have any chance of becoming World Champion, a task he accomplished with great success.In my eyes that feat alone making him a worthy World Champion.
Watch the race highlights here :http://youtu.be/odOKIcNMR2E
On a quick side note, the technical capability of Formula 1 teams nowadays is astounding, after the incident on lap 1. Red Bull engineers took a photograph of the damage to Vettel’s car while he was driving.
Then blew it up onto a huge bit of paper and showed it to head designer, Adrian Newey, to check it was safe to continue.
During the race the BBC camera showed a close up of the weather predicting software that the teams use. The on-screen message that showed up was “it’s raining”. Really Insightful that.
Webber has a tough job both Ferrari’s working together against him, sandwiching him and rendering him unable to help his teammate for the first part of the race.
In deteriorating conditions, Mark Webber’s bad luck continued, being hit by Kobiashi, in what turned out to be a gripping first 7 laps.
Vettel fought his way back up to 7th, in just 6 laps of simply incredible driving.
A deserving World Champion, few men would bet against Vettel being at the forefront of the title race again next season. It’s been a stunning season of racing; all I can say is roll on Melbourne.
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