Congrats on your 3rd title

[Garry Walker]

Well, unless something like a miracle happens, nothing can change it anymore. Bad luck for Alonso who has an inferior car means the title is out of his hand. Nothing can stop the best car of the year anymore - RB is just too good for others over the year.
So bieber will get his 3rd title. I couldn't think of a more an undeserved title, but hey, that's life.

[donKey jote]

yep

[ShiftingGears]

Very displeased. I would much prefer Alonso to win the championship.

[steveaki13]

Its sad that a driver will win 3 in a row, for the competative nature of F1, but it now looks very very likely.

Congrats to him if he does it, but I think its time for a different champion.

[Garry Walker]

Its sad that a driver will win 3 in a row, for the competative nature of F1, but it now looks very very likely.

Congrats to him if he does it, but I think its time for a different champion.

Red Bull has been the best car by far the last 4 years. The other teams should hire Newey who is one of the biggest reasons behind RB winning. With that car and nr.1 support pretty much every idiot can win a title.

[The Black Knight]

Well, unless something like a miracle happens, nothing can change it anymore. Bad luck for Alonso who has an inferior car means the title is out of his hand. Nothing can stop the best car of the year anymore - RB is just too good for others over the year.
So bieber will get his 3rd title. I couldn't think of a more an undeserved title, but hey, that's life.

Yep, Lewis and Alonso have been the best drivers this year. We have seen this year that Sebastien isn't all that once he has not a superb car underneath him. Lewis would be leading the championship comfortably were it not for all his bad luck, all of which was out of his control. But you'd never know, a win for Lewis and retirement for Seb would put Lewis right back in it. Time will tell. It's not over yet.

[F1boat]

I am very happy that Seb now is close to the lead of the championship and I will be very happy if he wins it, because he really fights like a lion and in my opinion is very likeable. However, things change so quickly in F1, so I wouldn't say that he has already won the championship. 5 intense races remain and the battle with McLaren, Ferrari and Lotus will be extremely interesting IMO.

[DexDexter]

Red Bull has been the best car by far the last 4 years. The other teams should hire Newey who is one of the biggest reasons behind RB winning. With that car and nr.1 support pretty much every idiot can win a title.

That's just not true. Williams have had a very competitive car this year and look at their points tally. A quick car means nothing without quality drivers. Ask Boullier.

[jens]

Thanks for the congratulations! Although...

Situations can change rather quickly. Before Valencian GP Vettel and Alonso were roughly on similar points, but Vettel retired and Alonso won - points gap suddenly went large again.

In any case, even though Alonso has driven supremely well this year, I would be happy with Vettel's title and considering how tight the field in 2012 has been, anyone winning it in the end would be deserving. The level of competition is so high that it is truly difficult and challenging for anyone to win the championship - especially as it seems there are 8 teams with at least reasonably fast cars!

Alonso may have lacked some outright car speed at times and Hamilton might have lacked some genuine luck at times, but it has been a challenging year for Vettel too. For much of the season Red Bull hasn't had the car speed advantage like they had in 2010-11. Especially after the ban of some devices RBR was struggling to compete even for podiums on merit on several occasions. But Seb has done the damage limitation - collected the 4ths and 5ths, when the car wasn't that good to avoid dropping out of championship. And now, when it finally looks like RBR has regained some ground and circumstances are again more favourable, he is ready to attack.

[zako85]

So bieber will get his 3rd title. I couldn't think of a more an undeserved title, but hey, that's life.

I think this is way too harsh. Vettel got taken out twice out of a race by mechanical problems. Alonso has been taken out twice by a Lotus driver. I'd say that's fair enough..

I wouldn't jump to conclusions, but championship chase looks good for Vettel now.