Most posters here have a general good view, but may still seem somewhat biased. But I think that will always happen to a certain extend the world is not going to change in one day, and people will always have their reasons for supporting who they choose. We do ourselves have a responsibility to ourselves to gather all the facts and make reasonable decisions. That is everyone’s own responsibility.
In F1 it is easier for a person like me to make a choice, I’am a South African and thus I’am far removed from national affiliations in general.

It saddens me somewhat that people seem to be missing the bigger picture here. F1 has new World Champion, and yet everyone are still debating about Lewis and Alonso. Yes, any one of the three contestants could have won it and still deserved it, but if you look closely there is one that does stands out:

The one that stands out is Kimi Raikkonen, he has done a wonderful job to fit into his new team. Some people forget that he properly had one of the most difficult jobs to, he had to convert a team and fill the shoes of the most successful driver of all time. He conducted himself in a most gentlemanly fashion, never got involved in politics, he kept quietly and worked at doing his talking on the track. He never give up, and give his all until the last second, and has always showed great sportsmanship. This winning attitude give him the results, the most wins (6) the most and fasted laps during the season, it one of the best comebacks in F1. He has also suffered his bad luck this year (and other years) by being the one of the top three with two mechanical retirements which was not his fault, but basically costed his about 14 points. Many people could learn a thing or two from the new World Champion. While everyone was squabbling around, he quietly and very coolly went about the business.

What saddens me is that everyone are so focused on all the negative aspects, about this championship because of all the silly media attention. People should be glad that a driver who has really deserved a championship finally got his due. There are lost of new exciting prospects in F1, we have had a phenomenal season a great rookie has emerged there now two worthy world champions. All these things shows there will be some great F1 fights in the years to come.

All the negativity is really exasperating, and the media are not helping. On someplaces on the Internet I have come across “F1 Fans” who are absolutely sure that Lewis is the best driver that has ever driven, not that they know any of the best drivers that has ever driven. Off course Lewis has done a fantastic job but he has just finished his first season. Imagine their surprise when someone else won, Kimi who? In this case the British media has set themselves up for failure, now everyone has come up with conspiracy theories to justify it all. It just shows bad sportsmanship, the title has been won on the track, it just has to be accepted.

The Spanish fans at least knows knows who Kimi is and they knew he was a competitor because of his 2005 season. They are happy that Kimi has won because it means Lewis, Maclaren and Ron didn’t. Some of their conspiracy theories are also outlandish, but they can at least they can see that there are other contenters in F1. Alas, not everyone is like this there are many more and mostly good fans, but some of the other stuff has just been out of control this season.

Stop all the negativity there are good future fights to look forward to. Maclaren didn’t appreciate or acknowledge the competition this year, they basically thought they where invincible. While they were busy with the media, Ferrari was busy regrouping and building team spirit. If Maclaren keep on worrying about off track antics, Kimi is going to become a two times world champion, or Alonso a three times world champion next year.

Lets just stay focus on the track, which is what really counts.

Sorry if I seemed a little bit aggressive, like I said most fans are actually really sensible. All that I say is give some acknowledgement to the new world champion, and look forward to next year if your guy didn’t win, next year might be his time. I have tried to give an impartial view, please tell me if I didn’t.

About nationalities I totally agree with you and I have to say that these years I’ve been really disgusted with some fanatic bloggers and with British and Spanish, I read both sides trying to have a more objective and unbiased opinion. I lived many years in Ireland and I have many friends from there and from England, so I find very sad what’s been going on this year. I’m the first one to say that Hamilton is a fantastic driver and he’s had an awesome season. But I also think that Ron Dennis made a terrible mistake not allowing Alonso choose the best strategy for him and, speaking frankly, make him the No1 driver. As Prost wisely said, if they’d done so, now we all would be celebrating the World Championship. This equality policy has proven to be disastrous and should be changed. This year Alonso brought the number one to McLaren’s car and helped a lot improve the car working with the engineers. Ron Dennis should have waited a year to let them both decide who the best driver is. I think it would have been better for Hamilton too. He’s too young and inexperienced and I think all this pressure got the best of him at the end. I my opinion he should have a year learning in a much easy going environment, like everyone else to become an even better driver.

Back to F1. I’ve been a fan for almost 40 years, but this is only the second blog I have read. The first was a little earlier today when I looked at the posts on Ed Gorman’s blog. Far too many I found were gloating about FA, LH, and McLaren not winning the Championship. How sad. The posts here are much more reasoned.
The skills of the drivers never fails to amaze me and it is for that reason I watch F1. I would be lying if I said I did not want LH to win this year, but I hope I would have felt the same whatever nationality he was… a rookie winning!
Much has been said that FA should have been the No1 driver (although little in the posts here). To me having a No1 driver spoils the racing. If one driver has better equipment or whatever then it is not a level playing field. Motorcycling, where I believe this occurs much less, provides more equal racing.
And would KR (who I support) have won if it were not for Team Orders, which I think are now illegal.
So how do we judge who is truly the best driver???

Back to the point, Ron Dennis comments about the team racing Fernando did indeed seem to have affected him, since in an interview today (now he has gone berserk against the team, it seems) that he felt these Dennis word were “very strong”.

I also are amazed by these super-human pilots. But you forget something. They’re not only racing at 300 KPH perfectly tracing, sometimes they’re also chatting a lot while doing all of this. Have you seen Fernando’s team radio log of the Hungaroring Q3 arguing with their team people? It’s incredible he can speaking all of that and doing good qualification times at the time, myself get disturbed if someone speaks too much in my car while I’m doing normal city driving!

Unfortunately I didn’t find the log in english, only the one published on spanish media like in this (mostly serious) newspaper:

http://www.elcorreodigital.com/vizcaya/20070825/deportes/mas-deporte/tortuoso-camino-hacia-titulo-20070825.html

But I will try to translate. Aparrently this is the same transcript that the FIA investigated when they made Alonso lost 5 places on the grid:

- Fernando, monitor out! We start!

AL- Ok, Mark I’m going! But, why doesn he [Hamilton] goes first? Today it’s my turn for the flying lap! What does he pretends to do, get in the way?

- Don’t worry Fernando, he knows he sould get out and will let you pass at the end of the straight. He has had less traffic on Q2 and his engine didn’t need to cold with the fans so much time as yours, but go fast because if you don’t Kimi will pass you too.

AL- He’s not allowing me to pass! Mark! What is happening! Didn’t you told me that he knew he should let me pass?

-…

AL- Why don’t you answer? What is happening, half a turn and nobody explains anything to me? Kimi is showing me his nose on the mirrors! Let him out of the way now!

- Fernando, I’m Steve[Steve Hallam], hold on a little more!

AL- What is happening here? Steve! Mark! What is happening! Three turns and I can pass him!

- Fernando, I’m Steve, wait, Ron is speaking to him!

AL – Ron? Ron Dennis has to ask him to get out of the way? This is incredible, this only happened on Monaco when he asked him to keep the distance with me without crashing and on Indy when Ron asked my not to press on him more. Ron! I want to speak with you? What do you pretend? You’re going to give the pole to him? That’s not the deal! And then you’ll ask me to win on Italy!

[Now Alonso sees his name as first on the screens and speaks to itself]

-AL, c’mon Nano! c’mon c’mon! Yes, yes, yes! P1 for me? Provisiona pole!

Ron – Fernando, I’m Ron! Lewis doesn’t want to acknowledge the deal and doesn’t want to allow you to pass.

AL – I see! And you Ron, don’t you have anything to say him? It’s your boy, let him out of the way! What is this, another of your makings? Did you have it ready?

Ron – Fernando, get into boxes, refuel and new tyres!

[On boxes]

AL- Mark, what are you going to do now? How do you fix this?

- Fernando, we’re going to change the strategy so you have your chances untouched. Ron is very angry with him and has just decided this. Wait some seconds for the traffic to clear to come back. I’ll make the countdown.

[The new tyres have been mounted without correctly retiring one of the heathers on error. Now the lolipop gets up]

AL- But, nobody sees the thing in the front right tyre?! Mark! Some threads from the heathers are fixed to the axis! Get it out of there!!

- Yes, I see it, it’s done, Fernando, calm down, focus yourself and give to better of you! Go!

[Starts again, make a good time and go back to the boxes for the infamous moment]

AL- What tyres are these???!!! Where is my last new tyre set???!!!

AL Mark!!! What is this all about? Are you kidding me? Why do the lolipop gets up?? I’m not finished here! Ron! Where is my last type set?

- Fernando, we’ve checked and the pressure is not correct on that set, you can’t go to the track with them, it’s dangerous.

AL – But c’mon! What happens to you all? Why are you looking yourselves?

Ron – You go with used hard compound tyres! Move so Lewis can get in and fly or you lose your last chance!

[Alonso goes, makes a really good time]

AL- Yes! The pole is mine! 1,19.674? Toma, toma, toma!!! Here you’ve the champion, I did it!

[Someone tells him by radio that Lewis could not finish because of him taking so much to get out of boxes]

AL- But what does it matter? That was our deal and the first row is ours. What more do you want?

Don’t know if this it’s true or not, but has been given as a fact on spanish media. Anyway, now think again of him (and Hamilton) driving like madmans and chitchatting with Steve, Mark and Ron!!!