Lewis Hamilton answered all of his critics in the week leading up to the race with a sublime and dominant display in a race in which he finally made his weekend dominance count, as a result, he now stands to become Britain's first F1 World Champion since Damon Hill in 1996, a finish in the top 5 at Interlagos, Brazil in a fortnight will guarantee that.
THE RACE
Hamilton, like he did in japan affirmed his weekend dominance with a comfortable pole position, but unlike Japan, he got a perfect start and raced into a lead of more than 2 car lengths going into the long spiraling 1st corner, a lead he would never relinquish in a race which would be best described as a precession, compared to Japan there was hardly any controversy or action whatsoever apart from Heikki Kovalainen's appalling luck continuing with a puncture while running 5th.
Basically all afternoon, nobody could live with Lewis Hamilton's pace, his McLaren was beautifully hooked up to the circuit, leaving the Ferrari engineers scratching their heads in disbelief as to how Hamilton was going so much quicker, There were no pitstop dramas, including Ferrari for once (who had finally ditched their controversial traffic light system in favour of the lollipop.)
In the end, Hamilton had won by a comfortable margin of nearly 15 seconds, ahead of both Ferrari's and both BMW's
DRIVERS STANDINGS - 1. Lewis Hamilton 94, 2. Felipe Massa 87, 3. Robert Kubica 75, 4. Kimi Raikkonen 69, 5. Nick Heidfeld 60, 6. Fernando Alonso 53, 7. Heikki Kovalainen 51, =8. Sebastien Vettel 30, =8. Jarno Trulli 30, 10. Timo Glock 22, 11. Mark Webber 21, 12. Nelson Piquet Jr 17
CONSTRUCTORS STANDINGS - 1. Ferrari 156, 2. McLaren Mercedes 145, 3. BMW Sauber 135, 4. Renault 72, 5. Toyota 52, 6. STR Ferrari 34, 7. Red Bull Renault 29, 8. Williams Toyota 26, 9. Honda 14, 10. Force India Ferrari 0
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