Best finale in years?

[Speed]

Those final laps were incredible!. Can´t recall a race like this for the last 5 or 6 years.

Thanks Michael.
Thanks Fernando.

[danieljboys]

They were the best closing laps for years, that has to be the closest finish since the two Ferraris battled it out to the end at Indianapolis a couple of years ago.

[Pitstop]

Great race and great closing laps, (I'm still spitting blood at ITV tho'). Michael drove brilliantly as did Fernando, who drove the last 4 laps intelligently and calmly.

Bodes well for the rest of the season.

[maximus]

I haven't been as tense and excited since Adelaide 1994.

[ASCII Man]

I haven't been that tense since uhm.. since Jerez '97 after Schumi performed his infamous Judo chop!
Great race!

3 Points!

[ralf fan]

Yes definately the best finish in years... MS taking all the possible lines to force a mistake... Fernando keeping his head....
probably as good as Mansell VS Senna at Monaco...

[BootsOntheSide]

It was a good finish, but not as thrilling as an advert for Ronseal.

Great point in congratulating the drivers for their efforts - throughout the battle it looked like it would go to the wire, and that neither driver would make a mistake or do anything unsporting. Hopefully this will be the first of many classic duels. I certainly can't remember a battle for the lead of similar intensity towards the end of a race - although if Trulli v Button last eyar had been somewhere other than Monaco, that may have been even better, especialyl as both were after a first win.

[chillibowl]

Originally Posted by ralf fan

Yes definately the best finish in years... MS taking all the possible lines to force a mistake... Fernando keeping his head....
probably as good as Mansell VS Senna at Monaco...

i must agree. talk about having the screws put to you. full congrats to alonso who had micheal taking just a slightly different line to make sure alonso saw nothing but red in the side mirrors.
i know i should be happy about how good this race was, but i can't help think how good would it have been if kimi was still in it and we got to watch a three way battle to the end. either way i know i will be doubly excited for spain in two weeks.

[Yoong Montoya]

That was the most tense race I've watched since Suzuka 1994.

[touringlegend]

I must say I only usually get as excited as I was yesterday if I'm watching Touring Cars - honestly that was the best finishing laps to a race I've ever seen.


Much of the excitement was translated to the TV purely down to the production team, I felt they achieved a good balance, cutting to Button, then Alonso, back to Schumacher for a while watching his progress in the laps before Michael caught Fernando.

[esorniloc]

Spa 2000 when Mika past Schu in the last few laps was better.

[b1ackcr0w]

That was almost as good as BTCC at Thruxton last year. Watching Yvan Muller held up behind Plato.

[krt917]

Originally Posted by ralf fan

probably as good as Mansell VS Senna at Monaco...

I'd say even better, for two main reasons:
1. There was actually a chance that Schuey might be able to overtake Alonso. Monaco is such a ridiculous track for a race that Senna would have had to go for a swim for even Nige to get by in the 3 or so laps he had;
2. There was extra significance, I believe. Senna and Mansell were long-established title contenders and, ahem, sparring partners. Alonso has finally shown that one of the young guns really could be the next 'great'.

[Skam85]

Remember Trulli v Button at Monaco last year? That was a good battle, but somehow you knew that Trulli would hold on. Imola on Sunday though-one for the ages..I honestly did not know until the last few corners whether Alonso would win! It was GREAT

[Born Racer]

It was a good finish, but not as thrilling as an advert for Ronseal.

[johnh875]

Yes very good - made up for the ridiculous middle part of the race where Schumacher would not even look at Button (over 1.5sec behind him) until JB made a mistake.