[sameerrao]

I think Alonso is a pretty deserving champion as is very likely to happen this year.

Why?
--> He makes very few mistakes - Canada being the only one this year.
--> He has got an excellent race pace ... can maintain consistently good lap times
--> He has demonstrated an ability to compensate for poor handling car --> note: this was hinted at by Pat symonds who pointed out a couple races where the car had a problem and still the laptime didnt fall much
--> He has improved on his weakness last year of poor qualifying - he is consistently on the Top 4 in the grid
--> He is impervious to pressure on and off the track ... he ably kept a faster Michael behind him in Imola.

Despite all this my heart goes out to poor Kimi who had about 4 certain wins taken away due to poor reliability reasons.

Kimi is more liable to mistakes as he drives like a young Schumacher - always wants to win at the fastest possible pace rather than an Alain Prost / Jackie Stewart approach of slowest possible pace. He sometimes overcooks it in qualifying due to his tendency to drive on the edge.

Kimi is as good if not better at not succumbing to pressure.

Also Kimi like Hakkinen before is the quickest driver on the grid in terms of raw speed