Drivers final positions

Pos	Driver	Constructor(s)	Starts	Wins	Podiums	Poles	F.Laps	Points
1	Kimi Räikkönen	Ferrari	17	6	12	3	6	110
2	Lewis Hamilton	McLaren-Mercedes	17	4	12	6	2	109
3	Fernando Alonso	McLaren-Mercedes	17	4	12	2	3	109
4	Felipe Massa	Ferrari	17	3	10	6	6	94
5	Nick Heidfeld	BMW Sauber	17	0	2	0	0	61
6	Robert Kubica	BMW Sauber	16	0	0	0	0	39
7	Heikki Kovalainen	Renault	17	0	1	0	0	30
8	Giancarlo Fisichella	Renault	17	0	0	0	0	21
9	Nico Rosberg	Williams-Toyota	17	0	0	0	0	20
10	David Coulthard	Red Bull-Renault	17	0	0	0	0	14
11	Alexander Wurz	Williams-Toyota	16	0	1	0	0	13
12	Mark Webber	Red Bull-Renault	17	0	1	0	0	10
13	Jarno Trulli	Toyota	17	0	0	0	0	8
14	Sebastian Vettel	BMW Sauber Toro Rosso-Ferrari	8	0	0	0	0	6
15	Jenson Button	Honda	17	0	0	0	0	6
16	Ralf Schumacher	Toyota	17	0	0	0	0	5
17	Takuma Sato	Super Aguri-Honda	17	0	0	0	0	4
18	Vitantonio Liuzzi	Toro Rosso-Ferrari	17	0	0	0	0	3
19	Adrian Sutil	Spyker-Ferrari	17	0	0	0	0	1
20	Rubens Barrichello	Honda	17	0	0	0	0	0
21	Scott Speed	Toro Rosso-Ferrari	10	0	0	0	0	0
22	Kazuki Nakajima	Williams-Toyota	1	0	0	0	0	0
23	Anthony Davidson	Super Aguri-Honda	16	0	0	0	0	0
24	Sakon Yamamoto	Spyker-Ferrari	7	0	0	0	0	0
25	Christijan Albers	Spyker-Ferrari	9	0	0	0	0	0
—	Markus Winkelhock	Spyker-Ferrari	1	0	0	0	0	0

From Wikipedia

There was tension in moments up to the chequered flag, watching with my father on Sunday, it was a nail biting start. What I saw was the Ferrari team expertly block Lewis from getting past; Massa carving across to protect the inside line while Kimi speeding past Hamilton’s right to block any way through, forcing Lewis to slow momentarily to avoid collision.

While its certainly not surprising - one thing I’ve not read in the papers anywhere, is Alonso’s lack of any team work whatsoever – after Kimi and Massa block Hamilton into third position, Alonso saw the opportunity to overtake Hamilton when he could have done as the Ferrari team and keep Hamilton a little safer from others overtaking so quickly.

I suppose its a little naïve to expect that level of sportsmanship from Alonso however; the constructor’s championship was already denied, and Alonso had already shown contempt for Mclaren and Lewis Hamilton – he really had no reason to help Lewis out.

Were it not for corporate espionage and equal treatment, both Lewis and Mclaren might have won that Sunday.

But it was not to be. Fighting back, Lewis attempted to go round the outside at the next corner, proved his undoing as he slid wide and dropped to eighth. Hamilton still as keen as ever slipped back into 6th position before his gearbox locked into neutral and left him coasting until he was in 18th place.

It was a salvage operation from then on, and fighting through pit stops and all odds Hamilton did not give up, ending up in 7th place with 109 points: Joint second in the driver’s championship with Alonso.

There are currently ongoing claims of fuel irregularities with the BMW Sauber team. Even after all the opposing attempts to knock Mclaren down on technicalities,
I think it would be unfair and embarrassing to Mclaren and Lewis himself to be given the championship now: Lewis is young and has many more opportunities.

While it is a little disappointing that Hamilton lost the championship, we must remember that at the start of the season, it was only the Hamilton’s dream. A dream not even conceived by race fans, until Lewis showed his brilliance and tenacity on the track and proved he was a very serious contender for the championship.

No one has done what Hamilton has in 57 years of world championship endeavour, not Fangio, not Moss, not Clark, not Senna, not Schumacher.

At 22 he will be coming back stronger next season, proving a force to contend with in 2008.