Team Mate Showdown Brazil

Hamilton VS Kovalainen

Kovalainen out qualified Hamilton, but that is probably the only thing he did right this weekend. Kovalainen had a terrible start, where he got spun around by Fisichella, and pitted at the end of the first lap. He then pulled away from his garage to early and set fire to Raikkonen. OK, it wasn’t his fault the Mclaren Lolipop man was looking at Raikkonen’s fuel hose, but it’s still not good.

Also considering he left the pitlane in front of an on fire Raikkonen, and finished 6 places behind him. Add to that Hamilton coming 3^rd….

Winner: Hamilton

Fisichella VS Raikkonen

Fisichella spun in Qualifying, started dead last, then decided to punt Kovalainen off the track. His team mate pitted for a new wing and a bit of a roasting, and he still finished behind him.

The Ferrari is a hard car to drive, but come on Fisi!

Winner: Raikkonen

Kubica VS Heidfeld

Hairy Heidfeld qualified 19^th. Kubica 8^th. Kubica claimed a podium, Heidfeld ran out of fuel. Not much to add, except Nick better take his finger out, cause Sauber are not guaranteed a place next year.

Alonso VS Grosjean

Grosjean wasn’t actually that far from Alonso in qualifying, qualifying 13^th compared to Alonso’s 10^th. Alonso was lucky Kobayashi messed up his final lap, or he wouldn’t have made it into the final session.

Alonso was taken out pretty early on in the race, and Grosjean wasn’t fast, and spent most of the race being over taken. Obviously Alonso would have been in front of Grosjean if he wasn’t taken out.

Winner: Alonso, based on qualifying.

Trulli VS Kobayashi

Kobayashi messed up his final qualifying lap, but he wouldn’t have beaten Trulli. Trulli is a wizard in qualifying. Trulli retired on the first lap and Kobayashi had the most impressive debut this year, keeping Button behind and generally looking in control.

Winner: Kobayashi, Trulli got taken out, but it was his own fault. Alonso was innocent.

Alguersuari VS Buemi

Buemi has come along nicely, and picked up points. Alguersuari is still out of his depth.

Winner: Buemi

Webber VS Vettel

OK, apart from Webber’s move against Raikkonen, he had a pretty good race. Vettel contributed to his downfall by qualifying poorly. His race pace was good, and if he had have been up there at the start, he might have won. But he wasn’t so it don’t matter.

Winner: Webber

Rosberg VS Nakajima

Nakajima saw Kobayashi and saw red. A fellow Toyota driver, beating me, in his first race! Determined to do something about it, he promptly drove into the back of him. Apart from that, fuel corrected, Naka beat Rosberg. Rosberg’s race was ended prematurely though, and he was running in front.

Winner: Neither. Rosberg should have qualified higher, Nakajima shouldn’t have rammed Kobayashi.

Sutil VS Liuzzi

Sutil had a stunning qualifying, and was looking good for a decent amount of points. Shame his race was ended on the first lap. Liuzzi didn’t look like doing much all weekend.

Winner: Sutil

Button VS Barrichello

Barrichello went for low fuel glory. He wasn’t fast enough to pull out a gap, and then he got a puncture whilst defending against Hamilton.

Oh, and Button is now a World Champion.

Winner: Button