"We are the champions, my friends
And we'll keep on fighting 'till the end
We are the champions, we are the champions
No time for losers, because we are the champions
Of the world"
-"We are the Champions" by Queen
The look on F1 Renault driver and two-times world champion Fernando Alonso's face seemed like nothing more than a merely glorious and cheerful one as he has done it again. The handsome, witty Spaniard has scored a triumphant victory in a Grand Prix for the current season for a second time in a row, the previous one being the most recent Singapore Grand Prix Night Race two weeks ago. The 27-year-old Spaniard admitted to have been completely surprised upon claiming his second consecutive Grand Prix victory in such an incident-packed race. He loved the experience of being able to score back-to-back victories for the team and it really gave him the chance to rise into prominence once again after having clinched the driver's championship title in 2005 and 2006.
While the rest of the championship protagonists were cleaning their wounds all throughout a day of pitstops, collisions and penalties, the Spaniard sped his Renault home through the circuit, just merely two weeks after clinching Singapore for his 21st career prize. Alonso took advantage of rivals British McClaren driver Lewis Hamilton's and Brazilian Ferrari driver Felipe Massa's bad day by finishing just approximately 5 seconds ahead of Polish BMW driver Robert Kubica, with defending driver's champion, the Finnish Kimi Raikkonen finishing third for Ferrari.
Completing the race in fourth was Brazilian Nelson Piquet Jr. of Renault, fifth was Italian Jarno Trulli of Toyota and sixth was German Sebastian Vettel of Red Bull. Vettel's French team-mate Sebastien Bourdais technically finished sixth, but was demoted to tenth place after receiving a drive-through penalty for the incident with Massa, who technically finished eighth but promoted to seventh by virtue of Bourdais' drive-through penalty. Bourdais' drive-through penalty was due to him accidentally colliding with Massa while making a pit-stop exit, whereas Hamilton's was due to him outbraking, causing Raikkonen and fellow McClaren team-mate Hekki Kovalainen to spiral into spins. These drive-through penalty incidents marked another consecutive disastrous race after the Singapore GP Night Race held a couple of weeks ago.
Despite Massa's claims that the incident involving him and Hamilton which earned Massa a drive-through penalty was Massa's innocence, the situation which involved both drivers is still being investigated at the moment. Despite the race being a hellish one for Hamilton, he still leads in the drivers' championship with 84 points, just 5 points ahead of Massa. With two more races left to go, in Japan and Brazil, there would still be enough time for Massa to catch up with Hamilton. The results are as shown below:
Results
1. Fernando Alonso(Renault) 11. Nico Rosberg(Williams-Toyota)
2. Robert Kubica(BMW Sauber) 12. Lewis Hamilton(McClaren-Mercedes)
3. Kimi Raikkonen(Ferrari) 13. Rubens Barrichello(Honda)
4. Nelson Piquet Jr.(Renault) 14. Jenson Button(Honda)
5. Jarno Trulli(Toyota) 15. Kazuki Nakajima(Williams-Toyota)
6. Sebastian Vettel(Toro-Rosso Ferrari)
7. Felipe Massa(Ferrari)
8. Mark Webber(Red-Bull Renault)
9. Nick Heidfeld(BMW Sauber)
10. Sebastien Bourdais(Toro-Rosso Ferrari)
Drivers Who Did Not Finish
Giancarlo Fisichella(Force-India Ferrari)
Heikki Kovalainen(McClaren Mercedes)
Adrian Sutil(Force-India Ferrari)
Timo Glock(Toyota)
David Coulthard(Red-Bull Renault)
For more information on the full report of the Japanese Grand Prix, feel free to look up on any search engine for information on the race. Other than that, this is where my report ends. :)
P.S.: Best of luck for all the drivers on the remaining two circuits in China and Brazil. :) Hope that Massa catches up with Hamilton.
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