Brazilian GP - Race Result

Pos	No	Driver	Team	Laps	Time/Retired
1	2	Felipe Massa	Ferrari	71	1:34:11.435
2	5	Fernando Alonso	Renault	71	+13.2 secs
3	1	Kimi Räikkönen	Ferrari	71	+16.2 secs
4	15	Sebastian Vettel	STR-Ferrari	71	+38.0 secs
5	22	Lewis Hamilton	McLaren-Mercedes	71	+38.9 secs
6	12	Timo Glock	Toyota	71	+44.3 secs
7	23	Heikki Kovalainen	McLaren-Mercedes	71	+55.0 secs
8	11	Jarno Trulli	Toyota	71	+68.4 secs
9	10	Mark Webber	Red Bull-Renault	71	+79.6 secs
10	3	Nick Heidfeld	BMW Sauber	70	+1 Lap
11	4	Robert Kubica	BMW Sauber	70	+1 Lap
12	7	Nico Rosberg	Williams-Toyota	70	+1 Lap
13	16	Jenson Button	Honda	70	+1 Lap
14	14	Sebastien Bourdais	STR-Ferrari	70	+1 Lap
15	17	Rubens Barrichello	Honda	70	+1 Lap
16	20	Adrian Sutil	Force India-Ferrari	69	+2 Laps
17	8	Kazuki Nakajima	Williams-Toyota	69	+2 Laps
18	21	Giancarlo Fisichella	Force India-Ferrari	69	+2 Laps
Ret	6	Nelsinho Piquet	Renault	0	Accident
Ret	9	David Coulthard	Red Bull-Renault	0	Accident

All decided on the last corner of the last lap of the last race

Lewis Hamilton is the champion!

 

McLaren’s Lewis Hamilton is the 30th - and youngest-ever - world champion. Lady Luck was on his side after title rival Felipe Massa dominated at Interlagos. The Brazilian crossed the line first after a pluperfect performance - and seemed to have achieved the impossible - as Hamilton trailed in sixth.

Rain in the closing stages had prompted the first five - Massa, Renault’s Fernando Alonso, Ferrari’s Kimi Raikkonen, Hamilton and Toro Rosso’s Sebastian Vettel - to pit for wet tyres. Crucially, Timo Glock, running sixth for Toyota, did not.

Massa, Alonso and Raikkonen resumed in first to third places, but Hamilton and Vettel fell behind Glock. That was still good enough for Hamilton. But then, under pressure on the 70th lap, he made a crucial mistake and slid wide. It was all Vettel needed and the Toro Rosso driver pushed through to snatch away the fifth place that Hamilton needed to become champion.

 

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