Friday, November 16, 2007

Iceman's the new champ !!!

Kimi Raikonnen ... The ICEMAN ... has been confirmed as the new Formula 1 2007 Driver's champion. When he finished his last race at podium, I thought it was over. The race commentators never mentioned it, I was trying to catch me breath, still shocked from what had happened. And Kimi never reacted to it much. He just got out of the car, punched his hands up in the air ... and next thing that I see is that he is gone to the podium. No team hugs, no screeching. Nothing. He went on to the podium, had his bottle of champagne, gulped it, got into post race presentation and poof !!! Over. Thats not how a finale is supposed to end. Thats normal for a mid-season race in the gulf. But he knew of it before hand. And I thought it might be in his blood....cold blood...Iceman naa !

But then I was hurt. I realized that the championship did not belong to Kimi yet. The permutations have worked for Kimi for the race. The only thing that was left out was the official ruling by the governing body about the championship. That took some time. But I was confident that Kimi would make it to the top this time round. The only thing that was standing between Kimi and the Championship was time.

Kimi could have never been over-ruled as a champion. Remember the great controversy. In case the governing body were to strip Heidfeld and Kubica of their points in the last race, it would be inevitable decision to strip Mclaren drivers out of their points too. They were not stripped [hehe], hence I thought Kubica and Heidfeld won't be fined. And it turned out to be like that. Lucky Kimi. Lucky me.

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