Alonso and Renault bring curtain down in style

WORLD champion Fernando Alonso won an incident-packed Chinese Grand Prix yesterday to end his season in style and hand his team Renault the constructors’ world championship.

It was Alonso’s seventh win of the year, matching Kimi Raikkonen’s tally. It ended a campaign marked by the two drivers’ neck-and-neck rivalry which has brought a refreshing change after years of Ferrari domination.

After a gruelling 19 races, the most ever, Renault completed the year with 191 points to McLaren’s 182.