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Formula One Championship 2007.

Alonso says McLaren lost the Formula One title because of wrong decisions.

SAO PAULO, Brazil - Fernando Alonso blamed McLaren for the team's failure to win the Formula One title this season because of poor decisions in the second half of the year.

Lewis Hamilton and two-time defending champion Alonso entered Sunday's decisive Brazilian Grand Prix at the top of the drivers' championship, but Ferrari's Kimi Raikkonen won the title after a series of McLaren blunders during the race.

Alonso hinted the mistakes began way before the Brazilian GP.

"McLaren lost the championship because of some of the decisions it made in the second half of the championship," Alonso told Spanish radio station Cadena SER early Monday. "It's no secret that they didn't help me, they didn't do anything for me."

October 21, 2007
Lewis Hamilton's world title dream dashed in Brazil

Brazilian grand prix
Hamilton fails in title bid

Alan Henry
Sunday October 21, 2007

Lewis Hamilton's bid to become the youngest formula one champion of all time and the first rookie title winner collapsed in disarray less than halfway round the opening lap of the Brazilian grand prix here today, allowing outsider Kimi Raikkonen to win both the race and the title in a Ferrari 1-2 grand slam ahead of his team-mate Felipe Massa.

At the end of a roller coaster 17 race season in which Ferrari and McLaren never allowed another rival to gatecrash their winning domination, Raikkonen finished as he had started in Australia with a commanding victory. Hamilton and his team-mate Fernando Alonso, who finished third, shared second place in the points rankings on 109, but Raikkonen ended up with 110 to become Finland's third formula one world champion following on after Keke Rosberg[1982] and Mika Hakkinen[1998 and 99].

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Raikkonen took the lead at the final round of refuelling stops, having followed dutifully in Massa's wheel tracks up to that point. Having dropped to 18th on lap six when an apparent gearbox problem slowed his McLaren to walking pace, Hamilton recovered both his composure and control of the car and settled down to make the best of a bad job for the balance of the 71 lap race.

For the McLaren team their defeat in the quest to secure the drivers'championship as a consolation for being stripped of their constructors' championship points by the FIA was nothing short of a disastrous note on which to round off the year. The fact that Raikkonen left McLaren to join Ferrari at the end of last season after a frustrating five year stint with the British team will only have heightened the discomfort felt by the McLaren chairman Ron Dennis and his right hand man Martin Whitmarsh.

Hamilton pushed relentlessly all the way, diving deep into the many tricky braking areas which abound on this challenging circuit as, one by one, he picked off the rump of the midfield runners. If he could get back to fifth place he would win the championship, but in the end he could do no better than seventh.

2008 FIA Formula One World Championship Race Calendar
FORMULA 1 ING AUSTRALIAN GRAND PRIX (Melbourne)
PETRONAS MALAYSIAN GRAND PRIX (Kuala Lumpur)
GULF AIR BAHRAIN GRAND PRIX (Bahrain)
GRAN PREMIO DE ESPANA TELEFONICA 2008 (Catalunya)
PETROL OFISI TURKISH GRAND PRIX (Istanbul)
GRAND PRIX DE MONACO 2008 (Monte Carlo)
DU CANADA 2008 (Montreal)
DE FRANCE 2008 (Magny-Cours)
SANTANDER BRITISH GRAND PRIX (Silverstone)
GROSSER PREIS SANTANDER VON DEUTSCHLAND 2008 (Hockenheim)
ING MAGYAR NAGYDIJ 2008 (Budapest)
TELEFONICA GRAND PRIX OF EUROPE (Valencia)
ING BELGIAN GRAND PRIX (Spa-Francorchamps)
GRAN PREMIO SANTANDER D'ITALIA 2008 (Monza)
SINGTEL SINGAPORE GRAND PRIX (Singapore)
FUJI TELEVISION JAPANESE GRAND PRIX (Fuji Speedway)
SINOPEC CHINESE GRAND PRIX (Shanghai)
GRANDE PREMIO DO BRASIL 2008 (Sao Paulo)

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