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BMW F1 Season wrap up

The Brazilian GP in São Paulo last Sunday marked the end of an exceptional and successful Formula One season for BMW. In its second Championship year with a team all its own - the BMW Sauber F1 Team - BMW surpassed expectations again, building on the successes achieved in the previous year. At the start of the season, the team's objective had been to move from fifth place (2006) to fourth in the Constructors' Championship. Instead, the team finished in second place, with 101 points, behind World Champions Ferrari (204 points). This must of course be considered against the backdrop of the FIA stripping the original runner-up, McLaren-Mercedes, of all Constructors' Championship points due to the Ferrari espionage affair. What's particularly encouraging for BMW though is that the BMW Sauber F1 Team, with drivers Nick Heidfeld (Germany) and Robert Kubica (Poland), has already managed to establish itself as the third force in Formula One, behind Ferrari and McLaren-Mercedes. In the Drivers' Championship, Nick Heidfeld finished in fifth place, with 61 points - behind new World Champion Kimi Räikkönen (110 points), Lewis Hamilton (109), Fernando Alonso (also 109), and Felipe Massa (94), while Robert Kubica collected 39 points, finishing in sixth place.