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Mercedes AMG’s Lewis Hamilton has been named the 2014 Formula One World Champion, after the Briton won yesterday’s
in spectacular style. He’s now the first Mercedes driver to claim the title since Juan Manuel Fangio all the way back in 1955. His teammate Nico Rosberg finished second in the championship but in yesterday’s race could only muster up 14th place due to car trouble. The Mercedes AMG team was given the title in the Constructors’ Championship back at the Russian Grand Prix.
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Between them, Hamilton and Rosberg accumulated 16 wins, 18 pole positions, 12 fastest laps and 31 podium finishes. With eleven one-two wins in a single season, the team surpassed the previous record set by McLaren in 1988. In addition, the 16th victory of the season in the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix means Mercedes AMG no longer shares the record with any other team for the highest number of wins in a single season. The previous record was also set by McLaren in 1988.
This is Hamilton’s second championship, as he first won the title back in 2008 driving for McLaren. Had it have been his car to suffer trouble, we could have seen Rosberg declared champion due to the controversial double points system. However, with 11 wins under his belt this season the championship couldn’t have gone to a more deserving driver in Hamilton.
During the race, Hamilton and Rosberg were rarely separated by more than two seconds but then on lap 24 the German started to suffer trouble with his car’s electrical units and slowly began to lose pace. Eventually he was overtaken by many drivers including Hamilton who lapped him in the closing stages.
With Rosberg out of the picture, Hamilton was now facing Williams’ Felipe Massa who was still eager for a win. The Brazilian eventually crossed the line second, just 2.5 seconds behind the winner. Third place went to Williams’ other driver Valtteri Bottas, almost 30 seconds back. Infiniti Red Bull Racing’s Daniel Ricciardo crossed the line fourth and in the process secured third place in the Drivers' Championship. He was followed by McLaren’s Jenson Button in fifth.
In the post-race interview, Hamilton thanked the whole Mercedes AMG team for their efforts this season and described the race as the “greatest” in his life. He and the team will soon head to Germany for Mercedes’ end of year celebration near its headquarters in Stuttgart. Called Stars & Cars, the event will run on November 29 and admission is free for the general public.
Below are top ten results of the 2014 Formula One Drivers’ Championship:
1) Lewis Hamilton, Mercedes AMG (384 points)
2) Nico Rosberg, Mercedes AMG (317)
3) Daniel Ricciardo, Infiniti Red Bull Racing (238)
4) Valtteri Bottas, Williams (186)
5) Sebastian Vettel, Infiniti Red Bull Racing (167)
6) Fernando Alonso, Ferrari (161)
7) Felipe Massa, Williams (134)
8) Jenson Button, McLaren (126)
9) Nico Hulkenberg, Force India (96)
10) Sergio Perez, Force India (59)
Below are top ten results of the 2014 Formula One Constructors’ Championship:
1) Mercedes AMG (701 points)
2) Infiniti Red Bull Racing (405)
3) Williams (320)
4) Ferrari (216)
5) McLaren (181)
6) Force India (155)
7) Toro Rosso (30)
8) Lotus (10)
9) Marussia (2)
10) Sauber, Caterham (tied with 0)
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McLaren’s Lewis Hamilton is the 30th - and youngest-ever - world champion. Lady Luck was on his side after title rival Felipe Massa dominated at Interlagos. The Brazilian crossed the line first after a pluperfect performance - and seemed to have achieved the impossible - as Hamilton trailed in sixth.Rain in the closing stages had prompted the first five - Massa, Renault’s Fernando Alonso, Ferrari’s Kimi Raikkonen, Hamilton and Toro Rosso’s Sebastian Vettel - to pit for wet tyres. Crucially, Timo Glock, running sixth for Toyota, did not.Massa, Alonso and Raikkonen resumed in first to third places, but Hamilton and Vettel fell behind Glock. That was still good enough for Hamilton. But then, under pressure on the 70th lap, he made a crucial mistake and slid wide. It was all Vettel needed and the Toro Rosso driver pushed through to snatch away the fifth place that Hamilton needed to become champion.Even as Massa crossed the line, Hamilton was only sixth and the Brazilian was the champion. But as Vettel and Hamilton slammed out of the final corner, Glock’s Toyota was slowing in front of them, the German struggling for grip on his increasingly unsuitable rubber. From the jaws of defeat, the British driver snatched back the crown in one of the most dramatic title deciders in history. No Hollywood script could have been more exciting.Rain at the start had added to the drama, and saw Red Bull’s David Coulthard make an undignified exit from his last Grand Prix after he was tapped into a spin by Williams’ Nico Rosberg, which then involved Rosberg’s team mate Kazuki Nakajima. Coulthard was out on the spot, while Renault’s Nelson Piquet went off in Turn Three and was also out.Massa controlled things throughout, with Toyota’s Jarno Trulli soon falling back from an initially strong second-place run as everyone began changing from wet to dry-weather tyres after seven laps. Vettel, running a different fuel strategy to the other leaders, was always a threat, running second ahead of Alonso and pressuring Massa several times before stopping earlier for fuel. Raikkonen ran some way behind this trio, but closed in rapidly on Alonso in the final stages and was close to him as Massa crossed the line 13.2s ahead.Hamilton took few chances, was always around fourth or fifth, and looked easily on target until that dramatic battle at the end. Glock finished sixth, limping across the line well ahead of McLaren’s Heikki Kovalainen, and Trulli, the final points scorers.Mark Webber brought his Red Bull home ninth, ahead of the BMW Saubers of Nick Heidfeld and Robert Kubica, the team thus failing to score for the first time in 2008. Rosberg was 12th ahead of Honda’s Jenson Button, Toro Rosso’s Sebastien Bourdais (whose chances of points were ruined after a clash with Trulli in Turn One), Honda’s Rubens Barrichello, Force India’s Adrian Sutil, Nakajima and Giancarlo Fisichella. The Italian Force India driver was the first to stop for dry tyres on Lap Two, and ran as high as fifth before the inevitable decline as faster machinery hit its stride.After those gripping final laps there was almost disbelief at McLaren as Hamilton scraped home, but Massa had that covered as he graciously conceded defeat.“We need to congratulate Lewis,” he said. “He did a great championship, and he scored more points than us, so deserves to be champion.”Ferrari’s consolation was to win the constructors’ world championship but, ultimately, and in the most dramatic circumstances imaginable, this was Lewis Hamilton’s and McLaren’s day.
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ROME, Oct. 26 (Xinhua) -- Ferrari will celebrate its world championship team and driver on Sunday with a parade at the end of the Ferrari Challenge finals, according to Italian News Agency ANSA.
Leading the parade at the Mugello International Racetrack will the new Formula 1 world champion Kimi Raikkonen, who clinched the title by winning the season's all-or-nothing closing race in Brazil last Sunday. Joining Raikkonen in the parade will be teammate Felipe Massa, Ferrari CEO Jean Todt and all racing team's mechanics, technicians and engineers. Raikkonen repeatedly thanked Massa after Sunday's race and said "he did what he could do, just like a perfect teammate. As a team we couldn't do more than a double-win". Raikkonen joined Ferrari this year from McLaren to replace seven-time world champion Michael Schumacher, who retired after the 2006 season. The Ferrari Challenge world finals, which began on Wednesday, are an annual event to wrap up the three Ferrari Challenge PirelliTrophy series - Italian, European and American. It is capped by a final between participants from all three series to determine who is the world champion. Other events at Mugello include a run by Ferrari's F430GT, cars which won the 2007 Constructors' Cup in FIA's GT2 championship, and the crowd-pleasing Shell Ferrari Historic Challenge final for vintage cars. The finals are also an opportunity for fans to see the prototypes of the exclusive FXX program out on the track. Also at the finals are 60 of the cars which best represented Ferrari's 60-year history, including the latest arrival: the 430 Scuderia The Ferrari Challenge series, now in its 15th year, was created for the private owners of the Italian sports cars to test their skills against each other on the track. Races for the Italian and European Ferrari Challenge often coincide with those for the Grand Turismo (GT) championship.
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