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I just watched the Red Bull "World Champion" air racing. It doesn't even include Reno, the actual premiere air races in the world.

It's not just the US who likes marketing hype.]]>Jul 14th 2008 7:40PMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2008/07/14/formula-drift-announces-world-championship-of-drifting/http://www.autoblog.com/2008/07/14/formula-drift-announces-world-championship-of-drifting/Jul 14th 2008 9:11PMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2008/07/14/formula-drift-announces-world-championship-of-drifting/http://www.autoblog.com/2008/07/14/formula-drift-announces-world-championship-of-drifting/If you'd only look up the official title Kimi has, you'd crawl back to your american based IRL, ALMS and NASCAR and stfu.
His title is called Formula One World Champion 2007. So anyone driving in F1 technically had the chance to challenge him and his title.
Scott Speed couldn't beat him, and that's sad for you guys, but I think you should start thinking a little bit more globally. There's sport outside of the US too, you know ... Take DTM for example.

Kimi ftw and btw I hope someone from Asia wins this contest.
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I don't think anyone is actually saying the Boston Red Sox aren't the best baseball team in the world any more than they are saying Kimi Raikkonen isn't the best driver.

The complains stem from crowning someone "world champion" without having them compete against all comers. And F1 is as guilty of this as Major League Baseball is.

Kimi didn't win the Race of Champions, so how can he be World Champion?

BTW, it's called F1 because that's the trademarked name. It's not called F1 because all the race series in the world entered the thunderdome and only one series came out. Again, it's marketing hype. They want to unilaterally declare themselves #1, and so they do so, without any kind of actual competition.]]>Jul 14th 2008 9:26PMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2008/07/14/formula-drift-announces-world-championship-of-drifting/http://www.autoblog.com/2008/07/14/formula-drift-announces-world-championship-of-drifting/
We usually don't even consider an Olympic team, whether that be Baskeball, Baseball, Soccer, etc to be "world champion"]]>Jul 15th 2008 8:33AMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2008/07/14/formula-drift-announces-world-championship-of-drifting/http://www.autoblog.com/2008/07/14/formula-drift-announces-world-championship-of-drifting/Jul 14th 2008 11:57PMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2008/07/14/formula-drift-announces-world-championship-of-drifting/http://www.autoblog.com/2008/07/14/formula-drift-announces-world-championship-of-drifting/
Example: the English Premiership is also top tier in football (soccer, for you), probably even the best in the World, but their national team didn't even qualified for the last European Championships.]]>Jul 15th 2008 10:15AMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2008/07/14/formula-drift-announces-world-championship-of-drifting/http://www.autoblog.com/2008/07/14/formula-drift-announces-world-championship-of-drifting/Jul 15th 2008 4:15AMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2008/07/14/formula-drift-announces-world-championship-of-drifting/http://www.autoblog.com/2008/07/14/formula-drift-announces-world-championship-of-drifting/Jul 15th 2008 4:17AMhttp://www.autoblog.com/2008/07/14/formula-drift-announces-world-championship-of-drifting/http://www.autoblog.com/2008/07/14/formula-drift-announces-world-championship-of-drifting/Tanners is FD poster boy. I can already guarantee he will win.
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