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Hamilton keeps his cool after being blocked by teammate Alonso during Saturday qualifying to go on to win the weekend's race.
Lewis Hamilton showed an admirable maturity on Sunday as he put the events of Saturday's qualifying session behind him, and the rest of the Formula One grid, as he drove from pole to checkered flag to take the win in Hungary. Kimi Raikkonen followed close behind to finish second and Nick Heidfeld drove another fantastic race to claim third place.
   Alonso, who was given a five position grid penalty for impeding his team-mate in the pits during the final minutes of Saturday qualifying, fell back a few places at the start, but managed to climb back up in the order to finish fourth after being unable to pass Heidfeld.
   As for the McLaren team they suffered the worst penalty, they were not awarded any constructor's points for the race because of the qualifying 'incident'. They have launched an appeal of the unheard of penalty and could stand to regain their points should they be sucessful.
Fierce competition will lead to controversy. Controversy is part of the sport, it will never be without it in some form or another. 
   We look back at the rivalry between Ayrton Senna and Alain Prost at McLaren in the 80's and see two incredibly talented and competitive drivers battling to be number one within their team and the standings. Ron Dennis and the McLaren team have found themselves in a similar situation today, 20 years later with Hamilton and Alonso. Ron Dennis doesn't have much hair left! Alonso has proven himself a champion in F1...twice. He 'should' be the respected number one driver in the team, but Ron Dennis doesn't draw lines like that and it's his team. He likes to encourage competition between drivers and mechanics to ultimately make the team better. Now here comes Lewis Hamilton...to competitive and to good to settle for second best and why should he? Very much like Senna.
There alot being said about the situation between Alonso and Hamilton, but in the end it's made Formula one interesting again. After years of Schumacher dominance, we have four drivers gunning for the title! Don't count Raikonen and Massa out, we've got some great battles yet to come.
   Expect to see Alonso crashing into Hamilton as the season grows more intense and more desperate for him.  Just like when Senna crashed into Prost at Suzuka while trying to pass him and ended up handing Prost the title. Or like the very next year when Senna, although not admitting it at the time, deliberately crashed into Prost in the first turn at Suzuka taking them both out of the race and secured the title for himself in doing so. The rest of the season's going to be great! Stay tuned!
 
The 2007 Formula 1 season resumes on August 26th, 2007 with the Turkish GP in Istanbul.
 
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