Brazil still a turn on

That is the view of leading F1 team bosses, who claim that there will still be massive attention stirred up by the Interlagos race, even though Fernando Alonso only needs one more point to be world champion.

Honda Racing boss Nick Fry said: "We have proven so many time that we have got good racing this year, and at the end of the season we will have a good race as well.

"I think there will be a lot of interest and people will still want to see Michael (Schumacher) in his last race.

"And I am sure Michael will go there to win it, because although he will have wanted to win the championship, he will still want to win his last race. In many ways that would be a fitting way for his career to finish."

BMW motorsport director Mario Theissen thinks it would have been perfect if F1 could have headed to Brazil with both Schumacher and Alonso locked in an ultra-close battle, but he still thinks F1 will deliver.

"I think for the sport it would have been better if they were still fighting, because that would have been a thriller in Brazil," he said. "But this is just another demonstration of what sport is all about.

"It is not predictable, and if it was predictable then no one would watch it. When Michael's engine failed it was one of those moments that brings you crashing down to earth, because he almost never has reliability problems."