Well done Lewis!

[Bushey Bryce]

jUST LOVED IT

BB

[Leftie]

I missed it but heard the news.

Would of loved to see the face of massa crossing the line and 17 seconds later!!!!!

[Boorish Grobian]

At the end of the day well done to Lewis and McLaren.  But the reality is that it was a entirely laughable F1 championship this year (and I struggle to call it F1 anymore without gagging).  Both Hamilton and Massa made a catalog of mistakes that in any other season would have cost them the championship month's ago.  Prost would have had this whole lot for lunch!  If I play Autocourse editor and rank my top ten (does Autocourse even do that anymore? Haven't purchased a copy in twelve years) Alonso gets the number one ranking by a mile, followed by Vettel and Kubica.  Hamilton will eventually win more titles, far more gloriously than this year.  Not a vintage year for F1...
Jesus lets not even mention the proposed spec engines
Fax

[Doris]

At the end of the day well done to Lewis and McLaren.  But the reality is that it was a entirely laughable F1 championship this year (and I struggle to call it F1 anymore without gagging).  Both Hamilton and Massa made a catalog of mistakes that in any other season would have cost them the championship month's ago.  Prost would have had this whole lot for lunch! 
Fax

I concur. 

Dx

[Bob U]

Felipe Massa and Jean Charles de Menezes .................................







........................two Brazilians both f**ked by a Glock

[knetter]

ROFLMAO!!

[Jules G]

Good one Bob

[landman]

PMSL

[Nordic]

At the end of the day well done to Lewis and McLaren.  But the reality is that it was a entirely laughable F1 championship this year (and I struggle to call it F1 anymore without gagging).  Both Hamilton and Massa made a catalog of mistakes that in any other season would have cost them the championship month's ago.  Prost would have had this whole lot for lunch!  If I play Autocourse editor and rank my top ten (does Autocourse even do that anymore? Haven't purchased a copy in twelve years) Alonso gets the number one ranking by a mile, followed by Vettel and Kubica.  Hamilton will eventually win more titles, far more gloriously than this year.  Not a vintage year for F1...
Jesus lets not even mention the proposed spec engines
Fax

I think your being a trifle harsh on the current generation of drivers. Given that this is only LH 2nd season he has done a very good job, true he has made some horrfic cock ups but over the season I think he matured and is one of the few prepared to have a go and pass.

The others, Vettel is going to be huge, I just hope Red Bull can give him a car to compete, Alonso as a driver is 1st class, as you say.

But Massa, KR, and Kubica are also on their day very good. I bet KR is happy massa did not win, so he can try to retain his No 1 spot at Ferrari but in my view he needs to be alot more focused.

I would love to know what Hamiliton could do in a Ferrari 312 or Lotus 25, I have the feeling he would be there or there abouts in the same way as Laude or Clark would cope well with a modern car.

We can look forward to next years cars, slicks are back and the add on wings will be gone so the cars will at least look a bit better, but the new rules re rear wings may result in some odd looking devices.

[Boorish Grobian]

I agree that Vettel and Kubica will be tremendous forces in the sport for years to come, along with Alonso and Hamilton.  He may not be the nicest bloke out there but Alonso is clearly destined to be among the greats.  Hamilton will also be great, but needs to cutback on the screw-ups and over-ambitious overtaking manuevers, especially once Kubica and Vettel find themselves in truly competitve equipment, he'll throw away too many points.  Its a good thing contemporary McLaren's are so sturdy, because he just goes clanging into things left & right, and the car holds togther.  I'm not anywhere close to being as sold on Massa, I suspect that this season will probably have been Massa's closest sniff at a world title.  To me he's another Rene Arnoux, terrific one week, a shambles the next.  I just can't seem to say Massa and world champion in the same sentence, the same way I could never picture David Coulthard wearing number one.
Fax

[Nordic]

It is hard to see massa as anything other than a good number 2. But given his pace in the 2nd half of the season maybe we should think again. If he gets a better start to the season than kR, then the Finns head will go down again. Ferrari seem to find it hard not to focus on a single driver.

If the season was decided on race wins. Massa would have won this year.

Fax, Have you voted yet?

[Boorish Grobian]

Ordinarily I would have thought Massa wouldn't have seen which way Kimi went, but its hard to figure out what was going on with Raikkonen this year, either he just couldn't get on with the 08 car or just lost his focus completely...or both!  But in the grand scheme of things I don't think Massa is in Kimi's class.  In a few years when they do another one of those books about the top one hundred GP drivers of all-time, KR is going to pop up alot higher toward the top than Massa.
Voted about three hours ago, good riddance to the hillbilly in the White House and his Hitler Youth administration!  Very very early yet, but things look like a Obama win from the exit polling going on.  Ohio is going to be one of the key states tonight, I've done my part!
The polls close here at 7:30
Fax

[Andy Zarse]

Rupert, (can't get used to calling you by your proper name!) I trust you'll be joining me and Fax on the scaffold at Turn 10 to shoot the sh*t on racers past, the glories of Hunt, Gilles, Senna  , Jags and Porkers etc and gobbing from the hights onto the Harpers below whilst watching contemporary sportscars on a proper old fashioned race track. I can't remember many happier few hours than spent doing that in 2005.

PS Fax, please don't let me down, if I book that flight you better bloody be there this time! OR ELSE!

[Boorish Grobian]

I'm there next March Andy   Wouldn't miss it.
Fax

[Nordic]

Andy, would like to think sometime in the future a trip to Sebring will be possible, but I dont think 09 will be on the cards sadly.

It looks like you doing your bit Fax really worked, what a landslide.