There are still more gongs to be awarded, as The Head offers his own mix of rudimentary insight, factually questionable guesswork and blasé assumptions to pick his favourites from this year's action. Which is nice.

The award-giving continues, as The Foot takes time off from his busy schedule to hand out some (imaginary) trophies to those most deserving of them. For the most part, anyway.

It's Patty Awards time! The Elbow is the first of Patty's writing team to take a look back over 2008 via the well-rehearsed medium of the article-based fictional gong ceremony.

The end is near. Of this season review, anyway. In the final part of our lookback at the year that was, we reminisce about racing under lights in Singapore, everyone getting penalised in Japan, and the barley credible end of the title fight in Brazil. Basically, we're reminiscing about stuff that happened last month. Which is a bit silly.

In part three of Patty's epic review of the 2008 F1 season, which is proving as lengthy as it is unnecessary, we recall the joys of Valencia, the controversy in Belgium, and the surprises in Italy.

We continue our multi-part look back at the year that was "F1 2008" with part two. This time, we recall Hamilton's issue with red lights, Webber's issue with the rain and everyone's issue with Magny-Cours.

Patty takes a special, end of season look back at 2008 in a super-dooper, multi-part extravaganza. You lucky lucky people, you. In part one, we recall the chaos of Australia, the tragic loss of The Goo, and how way back in May, we looked set for a Ferrari cakewalk...

The title race came down to a barely credible conclusion in Brazil, with Lewis Hamilton dramatically taking the championship at the final corner after the weather played havoc with conditions, leaving Felipe Massa the race winner, but the championship loser.

The final qualifying session of the year saw Felipe Massa storm to pole position at his home race, while his title rival Lewis Hamilton faltered, leaving the championship fight perfectly balanced ahead of tomorrow's crucial Brazilian Grand Prix.

Alonso was quickest again in the pre-qualifying warmup, finishing ahead of a resurgent Lewis Hamilton.

Lewis Hamilton moved clear in the championship fight after a flawless drive to victory in Shanghai. It may not have been much to look at, but it was enough to end the hopes of one of his rivals, and left the other needing a miracle in the final round to wrest the title away from the McLaren man.

Lewis Hamilton and McLaren continued to dominate the Chinese GP weekend, securing a dominant pole position for the crucial race tomorrow. But he is surrounded by few friends at the sharp end of the grid.

Title favourite Lewis Hamilton put the idea of bottling his second title in a row to one side for Friday's practice sessions in Shanghai, dominating the pair of them in his McLaren-Mercedes to leave his rivals struggling in his wake.

An incident-filled Japanese Grand Prix ended up being dominated by anyone but the anticipated crowd. Fernando Alonso took his second win in as many races, as Lewis Hamilton and Felipe Massa engaged in a private battle to see who could make the biggest heap of their afternoon.

The track may have been a lot drier than last year, but the qualifying result in Fuji was much the same as last year, as Lewis Hamilton grabbed pole position, and a big chunk of momentum along with it.

The Friday practice sessions were their usual barrel of laughs over in Japan. Lewis Hamilton sent an early garryowen for Massa to chase in FP1, and then, in a completely and totally legitimate move, Timo Glock topped FP2 for Toyota at their home track. He definitely had loads of fuel in his car as well.

Once again, a safety car period threw a normal-looking race on it's head as F1 played out the first ever Grand Prix night race, and Fernando Alonso staged a recovery drive from 15th on the grid to score the unlikeliest of wins.

Felipe Massa took the spoils in the qualifying session for the Singapore Grand Prix, pulling out an incredible lap right at the end to snatch the top spot away from his main title rival.

Fernando Alonso left it late, but topped the Saturday practice session for Renault.

The opening practice sessions in the darkened confines of the Singapore street circuit were suitably action-packed, as the drivers found the conditions difficult to cope with. Nevertheless, there was little change in the general order, with the odd exception.

For the last time during the 2008 season, the teams went off a-testing. Jerez was the venue, while the talking points were more KERS running and the debut of Williams's 2009-style rear bodywork. Which looked cack.

Sebastian Vettel hung on to win the Italian Grand Prix for Toro Rosso from pole position, against all the odds, as a rain-affected race at Monza produced happiness, despair, controversy and a truly woeful drive from Kimi Raikkonen. Business as usual for F1 then.

The weather continued to make a mockery of the formbook in Italy, as the title rivals floundered and Sebastian Vettel grabbed the first-ever pole position for Toro Rosso.

Timo Glock put his Toyota on top spot in another wet practice session at Monza.