So with RedBull Racing wrapping up the Constructor's championship in Austin yesterday the Driver's Championship goes down to the wire and showdown between Sebastian Vettel and Fernando Alonso. If Alsonso wins the race, Sebastian Vettel needs to finish fourth or higher to take his third championship in only hid fifth season in F1.
However concerns have been raised within the RedBull camp ahead of this weekend's Brazilian GrandPrix over the reliability of their car as Mark Webber suffered a alternator failure resulting in him having to retire from the race.
Fernando Alonso, starting from 7th on the grid drove a fantastic race and brought his Ferrari home on the podium in third place. Im my opinion, when it comes to consistency Alonso deserves to win the title as he has outperformed this year's Ferrari from the outset and has helped the team to be in the position of challenging for the Driver's championship.
On the evidence of yesterday's performance, Sebastian Vettel would appear to be a little rattled as he locked up a number of time's as Lewis Hamilton closed up on him to take the win. However I believe to underestimate Vettel and RedBull would be a huge mistake. The reigning world champion topped the time sheets in every session in Austin but it was far from the dominant performances that we have seen from him during the season.
Following the US GrandPrix despite picking up their third constructor's title in a row when they were being interviewed in my opinion both Christian Horner and Adrian Newey appeared to be a little deflated. In my opinion they had been looking to close out both championships in Austin and as they weren't in a position to do that they are worried about what will happen in Brazil.
Over at Ferrari, Fernando Alonso has been cool and collected repeatedly telling the media in Austin that he feels he can still win the championship which I believe will enable him to focus on the job at hand and not get distracted.
The weather forecast for Brazil is for it to rain and when it rains in Sao Paulo it is like a monsoon. However it is not just the championship that has to be settled in Brazil. Third place in the championship is still up for grabs, however Kimi Raikkonen is 16 points clear of Lewis Hamilton despite Lewis winning in Austin. The Iceman has had an incredible run this season scoring points in every race bar one and taking that all important win in Abu Dhabi to complete a dream comeback.
So we don't have long at all wait until Brazil where the curtain will fall on what has been in my opinion one of the greatest F1 season's ever.
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