Have you ever thought how a few seconds could make a difference to an year?s driving championship? Massa won the Brazilian Grand prix for Ferrai but Brit Lewis Hamilton went on to win the drivers championship in a humdinger of a race at Sau Paulo

Massa started perfectly, maintaining a lead over Fernando Alonso as the rain made the drivers go with intermediates at the beginning of the race. As the rain abated and the track dried, drivers chose dry weather tyres at the first pit stop. Hamilton maintained his fourth position, thereby being in contention for the drivers championship. But with just six laps to go, rain gods had another go as all the teams made an attempt to pit again in order to change their tyres to intermediates. At this point, though Massa was late in changing his tyres, he maintained the lead coming to the last five laps of the season. Hamilton slipped to fifth as Timo Glock did not make a pit stop and chose to remain with dry weather tyres because the entire circuit was not wet till then.


Sebastien Vettel has more to him than just being the youngest driver to win a Formula One race. He is clearly one of the best drivers when it comes to wet conditions, reminiscent of Michael Schumacher. He gave a good fight to Hamilton for the fifth place. Then came a scene in Formula One that you might have never seen before. Robert Kubica was a lap down but came racing at full throttle trying to overtake Vettel and Lewis in order to unlap himself. As Kubica overtook Vettel and Hamilton, Vettel found a way to get past Hamilton on the penultimate laps. With just two laps to go, Hamilton had to overtake Vettel to win the drivers championship, but Vettel maintained the lead going in to the last corner of the race.

Brazilian grand prix organisers had a special thing in mind, whoever won the race, Lewis or Massa, his family would wave the chequered flag but little did they expect the race to go down to the last lap. At the last corner with Hamilton being unable to overtake Vettel, the grand stands erupted thinking that Massa had won the championship. But a few seconds later, you realise that Timo Glock, who was running on the fourth position, had actually slowed down and let Vettel and Hamilton pass through on the last corner of the race. So Hamilton had finished fifth and hence won the drivers championship. Though questions would be raised over why Glock slowed down, for now Hamilton is the youngest drivers champion ever. Massa did his best by winning his home grand prix and also helping Ferrari clinch the constructors championship.