Ferrari not only won the driver's championship on-track, but they also won the constructor's championship on-track as well.

My assumption, like so many others I'm sure, is that Ferrari would not have had enough of a point total to also with the constructor's title this year if it were not for McLaren's disqualification for cheating. In fact, if you add up Alonso's and Hamilton's point total, you would get 218 to Ferrari's 204. There is a difference of 14- points. We already know about Ferrari's reliability issues, so it didn't even cross my mind. But, what I forgot to take into account was the 15-points McLaren lost in Hungary with the whole qualifying fiasco. That had nothing to do with the spy scandal, had nothing to do with Ferrari wanting justice. It was all McLaren's own doing. Their own selfish mistakes that resulted in losing 15-points - just like the black-flag Massa got in Canada, which cost him up to 10-points.

So, even without McLaren being (duly) disqualified, Ferrari would have won the Constructor's championship too, and by one-single-tiny- point!

It makes the whole "poetic justice" ideal that much sweater.

"I knew that it was always said we had won only because of the decisions (and) not because of the sporting results," said Jean Todt.

"So I will say that is better that it is (also) done on the normal side. To be very sincere, I knew we had won, but I was counting."