Fitting finale

Justin:

Brazil provided a fitting finale to a fantastic season. The I Was Having a Blog team met up for an exclusive live event and one could say I was a bit excited as the race ebbed and flowed to and from Alonso. As Vettel was punted at the start I was on my knees screaming at the TV then leaping up and down in hysterics.

When on the BBC Forum afterwards, Bruno Senna was replayed his nerfing of Vettel and he remarked with a smirk on his face "yeah, I knew it was a Red Bull, but when I found out it was Vettel I was like ohhh thats a bad one".

The race started in drizzling rain with all the cars on slicks. The Mclaren's dissapeared for a while and had a great fight out on their own for a few laps - as JB said later it was a great fight to end Lewis' time at the team.

Alonso and Massa both made blinding starts, and at the start of lap 2 Webber was trying to take Massa down the straight only for Alonso to slipstream them both and dart down the inside into turn one. Boom! Thats an overtake and a half right there at 1m 40 seconds of the below bbc highlights video:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/formula1/20489820

It would have been a move worthy of winning the title as I pointed out to my co-blogger.

The Hulk had an awesome race frankly, passing Webber and Alonso in quick succession to go third. Under slippery conditions later he did nerf Lewis out which was a bit naughty, but he just lost control under braking.

I had around 7 heart attacks during the race, the first of which occurred on Alonso sliding off the track on lap 5 allowing Hulkenberg through.

Even looking back over the highlights reel I'm bamboozled with overtakes, cars sliding off, Ben Edwards screaming ala Murray and lots of rain.

Vettel is a deserving champion, coming back from last to get 6th (all be it with a gimme pass from Schumi).

Massa had a great race and surely his upturn in form points to a great 2013.

JB was sublime. How many times in changing conditions have we seen him glide serenely to a win when chaos is all around him?

Alonso was mighty yet again...7th to 2nd...he did everything he possibly could, but it was not to be. He has said himself that this year was his best ever.

Pure emotion everywhere after the race - the Ferrari team think highly of their number 1.

Oh and special mention to Kimi for causing my co-blogger and I to explode in laughter as he went down an escape road only to find a closed gate :-).

The I Was Having a Blog 2012 Review and Awards will be happening soon, so watch this space.

So our thoughts now turn to 2013 and the stupidly long 3 month gap until the Australian GP in March. Sod an F1 book this year, season review DVD will be just fine.