Maybe the big lesson of the season is that team work really is the key to success. When you get dissension and squabbling inside a team it’s going to cost you and Ron Dennis has a terrible track record of managing his drivers and creating an environment in which they work closely together like Jeff Gordon and Jimmie Johnson in NASCAR and Raikkonen and Massa in
F1. You can go back to the Prost-Senna days, but let’s not forget that in recent years Dennis wasn’t able to get the best out of the remarkable Raikkonen-Juan Montoya combination.
Raikkonen spent five years with
McLaren before leaving last winter for
Ferrari where he appears to have come into his own.
"I need to give a big thanks to the team," he said on Sunday after winning the championship. "I love the team. I have such a good time in the team. I enjoy
Formula 1 much more now than I enjoyed last year. I have much better feelings from this year than any other year."
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