Going to the wire
I think it will go to the wire - Ferrari apparently benefit on tracks with greater down force, which although I am no expert I understand that Japan will favour them over McLaren - Which will close the gap further
Alonso blocked Hamilton at Hungary - He was penalised, whilst Ferrari at the same session allege that they do not favour one driver over the other - as David Couthard pointed out... Exactly how could they FORGET to put petrol in Massa's car during qualifying - Thats almost as good as forgetting to put in the steering wheel...
Regretably I see it like this.... Ferrari favour Raikkonen, but both cars will be fast in Japan (Don't quote me...) - Alonso is consistently the faster in qualification than Hamilton (I think he just has more experience of the tracks, and the times when Hamilton has been on Pole are usually been where Alonso has messed up) so unless they have a failure - Raikkonen 1st, Massa 2nd, Alonso 3rd - Hamilton 4th in Japan (same as last race)
But the last two I feel favour McClaren - So its a coin flip on who will win, but they will go into the last two 1pt apart - If Alonso bottles it - Hamilton wins - I hope so.... However, I feel Alonso wins by 3 pts.
I hope I'm wrong though as I think Alonso has acted like a child who spat his dummy.
Just my two penneth.... :)
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