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A race in which the main title contenders again made crucial mistakes led to Fernando Alonso’s second consecutive race victory, his first back-to-back successes in over two years.
Alonso, whose only retirement of the entire 2007 season came when he crashed in the Japanese GP, made amends brilliantly on Sunday, and having not scored a podium all season until Singapore, has now won two in a row for the first time since the 2006 British and Canadian Grands Prix.
The Spaniard now moves past David Coulthard as the active leader in points scored, with 538. He is fourth on the all-time list, behind only Ayrton Senna (614), Alain Prost (798.5) and Michael Schumacher (1369).
Second-placed Robert Kubica can also feel that his weekend went better than expected, as Sauber achieved their first ever top five finish in a Japanese Grand Prix, an excellent present for Peter Sauber, who turns 65 on Monday.
Not too many people would have had money on Alonso winning as many races (2) as reigning world champion Kimi Räikkönen has this
One of the drives of the race came from a most unexpected source, as Nelson Piquet briefly threatened Räikkönen for the final podium position, before settling for fourth. While he finished second at Hockenheim, this was undoubtedly Piquet’s strongest showing of 2008.
The Brazilian stormed through from 12th on the grid, setting the fourth fastest lap of the race, only 0.098s behind his race-winning teammate, and put in a series of crucial laps before his final pitstop that leap-frogged him ahead of Jarno Trulli. In fact, Piquet may be kicking himself that he erred during Q2, a failure that may have cost the team a 1-2 finish – Renault had legitimate pace at Fuji, and Piquet silenced his critics on Sunday.
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