Yay Kimi!

At the risk of spoiling someone else watching F1 on delay (who the hell who reads my blog actually watches F1?) as I was spoiled inadvertently while surfing the Web on Sunday...

Yay Kimi Raikkonen, Formula One 2007 World Champion!!

That was a super-exciting final race. I've been rooting for Raikkonen to win for years b/c he's just so talented but has had the worst luck in the world (though one does begin to wonder how much of his bad luck has to do with how hard he drives the cars). So I'm thrilled that he finally won the world championship. Although, it would have felt a bit better if it didn't come about b/c Lewis Hamilton made some idiotic mistakes (learn how to protect your championship, man, don't just go for the win and take unnecessary risks), and if Massa hadn't so clearly been dominating the race (though Raikkonen never really lost ground to him) and wasn't so obviously going to concede the position to Raikkonen at some point during the race... Still, I feel like Kimi has really deserved a world championship for a while so I'm just thrilled he got one. The shuffle of getting Kimi to race lead also didn't seem to involve any overt shenanigans, IMO, just a pit strategy that favored him. And it was fun watching the grin steal across the face of the "Iceman" as he sat in the post-race interview.

Also, go Kubica since he was pulling off some very fun passes during the race!

It is too bad about Hamilton but after China and Brazil, I guess he's shown himself to be human... I'm just glad Alonso didn't win. Though 110/109/109 - that's a close championship if there ever was one!