Then, on to an exciting Grand Prix filled with controversy brought by Team Orders. Red Bull telling Sebastian Vettel not to overtake teammate Mark Webber, Mercedes denying Nico Rosberg to overtake teammate Lewis Hamilton... In the end, Hamilton kept his third place and Vettel overtook Webber ignoring team order. This all ended up giving us a nice race to watch.
Then, the race in Shanghai. 2012 title contender Fernando Alonso making a great race to get his first win of the year. Also, this was one of the few times Sebastian Vettel didn't make the podium as Räikkönen and Hamilton wrapped up the podium.
Deja vu, the result in 2012 in the Bahrain Grand Prix would be repeated with Vettel taking the win and Kimi and Romain Grosjean closing up the podium. A race where Ferrari struggled a lot as Alonso had problems on the rear wing and Massa had 2 punctures.
We also got to see a great fight between McLaren teammates Jenson Button and Sergio Perez.
At the race in Spain Alonso dominated and won in front of his people, Kimi came in second and we would see Vettel outside the podium again with Felipe Massa making a great race to get third place.
The street circuit of Monaco, the only race in the season in which we saw a red flag (following Maldonado's accident with Chilton). In this race, Nico Rosberg demonstrated that he dominates the streets in Monaco as he usually had good races there.
In this race we saw possibly the two best overtaking moves in the season, Checo Perez overtaking Jenson Button at the chicane and Adrian Sutil making an awesome move to overtake Alonso at the Casino Hairpin.
Vettel showed up his great pace and domination in the race in Canada making an almost perfect race.
Rookie Valtteri Bottas showed his talent with a brilliant 3rd place in qualifying.
We had the most polemic and controversial race of them all in Silverstone as the weekend was loaded with punctures and failures in the tires.
Perez in practices, Hamilton in the race, Massa in race, Vergne in race, Perez in race...
In this race we also witnessed the only abandon of Sebastian Vettel in the whole season with a alternator problem.
Nico Rosberg grabbed his second win of the year.
Sebastian Vettel's dream of winning in front of his home crowd came true when the German driver won the race in Nurburgring, but just barely as Kimi Räikkönen followed him closely one second behind.
We had one of the best (if not the best) races of the season in zhungary.
Lewis Hamilton took his first win driving for Mercedes, he took pole position and put on and amazing race pace to keep the position.
Kimi Räikkönen took second place but battled to keep it as Vettel attacked him for the position in the last laps.
We saw another great overtake with Romain Grosjean overtaking Felipe Massa almost going out of the track.
This way, we got to the second half of the season. This is the point where Vettel's total domination began.
Vettel took the win in Spa.
There we saw the first abandon from Kimi Räikkönen in a lot of time as he struggled with brakes problems.
Vettel won in Monza with Alonso just behind him.
Vettel won in Singapore. Grosjean abandoned in what could've been a great race for him and Kimi Räikkönen made an amazing comeback from P13 to third place.
In Korea, Lotus again placed both of their cars in the podium as Sebastian Vettel won again.
Nico Hulkenberg was, clearly, the man of the race as he battled to get to fourth place and fighting to keep that position.
In Suzuka, Romain Grosjean made a big approach to a race win as he leaded a big part of the race, but his pace fell down and he got overtaken by both Red Bulls, Sebastian Vettel won again.
Mexican Rookie Esteban Gutierrez scored his first points in Formula 1 after a long wait.
The race in India, saw Sebastian Vettel win his 4th straight championship, a 26 year old turning into a legend, making history and winning another race.
Abu Dhabi, always exciting to see, Vettel won again.
Kimi Räikkönen abandoned the race in the first turn after hitting a Caterham.
Formula 1 back in America for the US Grand Prix, Vettel dominated the race again, Romain got a deserved second place, Heikki Kovalainen replaced Kimi Räikkönen in Lotus as Kimi underwent back surgery and Finn Rookie Valtteri Bottas scored his first points in Formula One in a great performance in the whole weekend in Austin and hard fought race.
It all comes down to this, the race in São Paulo, many meanings and significances to this race, Webber's goodbye to Fprmuls 1, Massa's goodbye to Ferrari, Perez's last race with McLaren and the last race of this season.
As expected, Sebastian Vettel took the win, 13th in the year, 9th in a row, wrapping up an awesome year where he dominated Formula 1.
Checo Perez fought hard to go from P19 to sixth place, Button sealed McLaren's best finish of the year with fourth and Webber got in second place, celebrating as he had won the race in his goodbye to F1.
I would've put some pictures in this post but I decided not to, to make the writing stand out more.
Thanks to you all for all this time in the season (although it wasn't the whole season) reading this blog.
I will do some other posts during this offseason time.
Now let's just hope that the time that lights go out again and the race in Australia starts comes quickly.
