F1 » No points, but McLaren confirms third

I didn't like the look of the McLaren when it came out, but they've turned it into quite a beautiful car. Great pic

Good enough for me!!!

And got to agree with Bradenews, that car does look amazing-especially under the lights at Abu Dhabi

well it was obvious ferrari would loose 3rd they haven't upgraded the car since massa got injured

Both teams dropped the ball with the cars at the start of the year.
McLaren though, kept working and improved the car whereas Ferrari blamed Kimi Raikkonen.

McLaren gave Ferrari every opportunity to pass them this weekend, but they couldn't even beat McLaren with one car out of the race.

As McLaren have said the regulations aren't so different next year, as they were from last year so any development done on this car should carry over to next year.

Has to be said, that they were gifted 3rd by Ferrari only having 1 competant driver in the car and he was asleep half the time plus Ferrari stopped developing their car quite some time ago so 3rd for this shower was pretty much guaranteed. Bit of a hollow victory really.

The whole year was hollow..

I don't think "gifted," would be the right word andrew mac. Ferrari decided to give up and I mean GIVE UP on their 2009 car whereas McLaren didn't. While Felipe's accident at Hungary was unfortunate his replacement Fisi disappointed and in the end Ferrari lost 3rd place due to some decision makings by made by Ferrari's team principal Stefano Domenicali. Had Jean Todt been there maybe they would still be at the top.

Andrew- That's right keep finding ways to bring McLaren down you realise that they also beat both Toyota and Williams who should've done well this season?

Willaims and Toyota were never contenders for 3rd place.