AMD wins the F1 sponsor championship

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ANOTHER F1 CHAMPIONSHIP has drawn to a close, and in the infernal fight between AMD and Intel, Chimpzilla from Sunnyvale notched another victory, winning the constructor's championship with Scuderia Ferrari.

However, Intel also scored major points this year. The stellar rise of the BMW Sauber F1 team marked the first time Intel-sponsored teams scored more than 100 points. Unlike years of suffering with the Toyota F1 team.
Intel achieved its record score with 114 points. Last year, the Intel dollar only managed a combined total of 71 points (36 for BMW Sauber F1 and 35 for Panasonic Toyota F1).

With the McLaren appeal hanging, we're not certain if the 114 points will stand or if Intella will yet lose seven constructor points.

But with all the appeals that are being put into place, it is hard to draw final conclusions. Ferrari has 204 points and that's that, but Intel will end up with either 114 or 107, still a brilliant year.

Overall, do you still feel that Formula One is a sport? It's rather lawyer's exercise (and the author of these lines has been an avid race fan for 24 years out of 28). Even sponsors cannot count out final scores long after the chequered flag has been packed up for next year.

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