Raikkonen and Alonso Battle for F1 Championship

Raikkonen And Alonso Battle For F1 Championship

Posted by eMercedesBenz on September 23, 2005 at 10:30 AM CST

This Sunday, Kimi Raikkonen will try to keep his championship dreams  
alive against Fernando Alonso in the Brazilian Grand Prix.

To stay in the fight for the championship, Raikkonen must finish  
first, and Alonso, on the verge of becoming F1's youngest champion,  
must finish worse than third.

The odds of that happening are pretty slim. Although Raikkonen has  
won three of the last four races, Alonso started his outstanding year  
with six wins out of twelve races. Although he hasn't won a race  
since the German Grand Prix on July 24th, Alonso has still managed  
three consecutive second place finishes.

Raikkonen understands the position he's in. "Only winning matters,"  
Raikkonen said in a recent interview. "Of course I am interested in  
winning, but it is not going to happen for the others to have three  
bad races in a row."

Regardless of the outcome, we still love Kimi. Like we've always  
said, it's not the score that matters, it's how hard you play the  
game.  But we have to give Alonso the respect he deserves. At only 24  
years of age, to dominate a race season the way he has is no easy  
task.  Regardless of whether or not he takes the championship this  
season, Alonso is destined to have a great career ahead of him for  
many years to come.

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