McLaren-Mercedes made an appeal to the FIA to consider the disqualification of BMW Sauber for using a different kind of fuel. If that appeal is considered by FIA, then they just might exclude the points of BMW Sauber, and McLaren’s Lewis Hamilton would earn a few more points and would surpass Kimi Raikkonen to become the 2007 F1 World Champion. However, the decision is still pending, and as of now, it is Ferrari’s Kimi Raikkonen who is indeed the F1 2007 World Champion after winning the 2007 Brazil Grand Prix.

Raikkonen was the unlikely favorite with McLaren’s Lewis Hamilton and Fernando Alonso ahead in the points going into the last stage of the 2007 Formula One Season with the Brazil Grand Prix.

However, Raikkonen’s first place finish complimented with the fact that Fernando Alonso only managed a 3rd place finish behind Ferrari’s Felipe Massa, and Lewis Hamilton engaged in gear box problems to earn only a seventh place finish. In the total tally of Drivers’ Championship points, Kimi Raikkonen had 110 points to 109 points for McLaren’s Fernando Alonso and Lewis Hamilton to earn him his first World Championship in the most exciting come-from-behind fashion.

Of the 17 legs in the 2007 Formula One season, Kimi Raikkonen won 6. Raikkonen won the Australian Grand Prix, the French Grand Prix, the British Grand Prix, the Belgian Grand Prix, the Chinese Grand Prix and the Brazilian Grand Prix. McLaren’s Fernando Alonso won 4 legs at the Malaysian Grand Prix, the Monaco Grand Prix, the European Grand Prix and the Italian Grand Prix. McLaren’s Lewis Hamilton also won 4 legs at the Canadian Grand Prix, the US Grand Prix, the Hungarian Grand Prix and the Japanese Grand Prix. Ferrari’s Felipe Massa won the other 3 remaining legs at the Bahrain Grand Prix, the Spanish Grand Prix and the Turkish Grand Prix.

Ferrari also win the 2007 Constructors’ Championships since McLaren-Mercedes were disqualified due to a very controversial “spying scandal.”