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End of the road for Alonso, Raikkonen and Hamilton?
Fernando Alonso
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Fernando Alonso might be the only contender to give Sebastian Vettel a fight for the Driver’s Championship. The other two drivers, Kimi Raikkonen and Lewis Hamilton, who could have fought for the top spot seem to have lost the battle at Monza with just 7 races left to catch up with Vettel. Alonso who kept his cool in the Ferrari, managed to overtake Webber in the first few laps before getting an easy pass through by teammate Felipe Massa for second place.
The race was a disaster for Raikkonen who finished 11th and Hamilton who salvaged 9th place after both of them finished outside the top 10 in qualifying. Raikkonen’s lock up and damage to the Lotus’s front wing at the start didn’t help the Finn for the rest of the race, though he kept pushing the car clocking fastest laps in quick successions. Hamilton, on the other hand, had a puncture (which resulted in an extra pit-stop), a failed radio and a not so fast Mercedes to contend with.
The race result means Vettel now has a cushion of 53 points over Alonso, 81 over Hamilton and 88 over Raikkonen. If any of the three drivers want to win the Championship, they need to do something next to impossible or wait for Vettel and Red Bull to have some terrible bad luck.
