Japanese Grand Prix - Suzuka - 10 October 2010

[Guest]

Well, I like Suzuka. Its an old circuit, it doesn't have huge run offs, its a figure 8 like your Scalextric and its always been eventful. Shame they trashed the chicane.

Qualifying...well there wasn't any. Looks like it rained all day. Practice 3 was washed out and qualifying followed. Good job i didnt get up early to watch it then, recorded it instead.

Anyway, qualifying will now take place at 10am local time Sunday morning, thats about 3 am UK time so I might not get up for that and await the surprise at 7 for the race start.

Hamilton needs a result here, but the McLaren seems to have lost a bit of pace recently, just a bit. Webber needs to keep ahead of Vettel, and Alonso ....well hopefully he'll get a radio message 'they are faster than you, understand?'

hmmm. A bit of rain will mix it up, a lot of rain will be a disaster. Then Korea to follow assuming they actually finish the track....

oh well, lets see how it goes in the morning.

 

[MadBoB]

Well, I like Suzuka. Its an old circuit, it doesn't have huge run offs, its a figure 8 like your Scalextric and its always been eventful. Shame they trashed the chicane.

Qualifying...well there wasn't any. Looks like it rained all day. Practice 3 was washed out and qualifying followed. Good job i didnt get up early to watch it then, recorded it instead.

Anyway, qualifying will now take place at 10am local time Sunday morning, thats about 3 am UK time so I might not get up for that and await the surprise at 7 for the race start.

Hamilton needs a result here, but the McLaren seems to have lost a bit of pace recently, just a bit. Webber needs to keep ahead of Vettel, and Alonso ....well hopefully he'll get a radio message 'they are faster than you, understand?'

hmmm. A bit of rain will mix it up, a lot of rain will be a disaster. Then Korea to follow assuming they actually finish the track....

oh well, lets see how it goes in the morning.

 

[halfpint]

already have it set to record at 2am. figures it pours with rain, the pits we looking forward to watching it. boo hoo. will be a great race with a bit of rain, fingers crossed that it wont be heavy. just enough to make it exciting.

[MadBoB]

On my ds again. Will catch the qualifying on iplayer sometime.
So, no rain, Vettel pole with webber, kubica, alonso, button to follow. hamilton in 8th with a 5 place drop for a gbox.

Start - Away goes Vettel, Hamilton gets up behind Jenson and away they go....only a bit furthr back Petrov takes out Hulkenburg and Massa takes out Liuzzi. Safety car.

uneventful restart, apart from Kubica losing a rear wheel during the Sc time..
oh i forgot to mention Di Grassi didnt make it to the grid after losing it in 130R and ending in the wall.

Kobayashi was the one to watch, fantastic banzai overtakes into the hairpin.

hamilton suffered loss of 3rd gear but kept it going to the end. Rosberg pitted on lap one but ended the race in the wall towards the end.
result vettel, webber, alonso, button, hamilton, schuey, kobayashi, heidfeld - cant remember any more.

ill update it a bit later. good race though.

[halfpint]

was a stonking race. full of suprises and spills.

[MadBoB]

I know its all the wrong way round, but heres the qualifying:


1  VETTEL        Red Bull      1m30.785s
2  WEBBER        Red Bull      1m30.853s
3  KUBICA        Renault       1m31.231s
4  ALONSO        Ferrari       1m31.352s
5  BUTTON        McLaren       1m31.378s
6  ROSBERG       Mercedes      1m31.494s
7  BARRICHELLO   Williams      1m31.535s
8  HAMILTON      McLaren       1m31.169s*
9  HULKENBERG    Williams      1m31.559s
10 SCHUMACHER    Mercedes      1m31.846s

11 HEIDFELD        Sauber
12 MASSA           Ferrari
13 PETROV          Renault
14 KOBAYASHI       Sauber
15 SUTIL           Force India
16 ALGUERSUARI     Toro Rosso
17 LIUZZI          Force India
18 BUEMI           Toro Rosso
19 TRULLI          Lotus
20 KOVALAINEN      Lotus
21 DI GRASSI       Virgin
22 GLOCK           Virgin
23 SENNA           HRT
24 YAMAMOTO        HRT

* penalised five places for gearbox change

[MadBoB]

Japanese Grand Prix result - 53 laps


1  VETTEL       Red Bull
2  WEBBER       Red Bull     +0.9s
3  ALONSO       Ferrari      +2.7s
4  BUTTON       McLaren      +13.5s
5  HAMILTON     McLaren      +39.5s
6  SCHUMACHER   Mercedes     +59.9s
7  KOBAYASHI    Sauber       +64.0s
8  HEIDFELD     Sauber       +69.6s
9  BARRICHELLO  Williams     +70.8s
10 BUEMI        Toro Rosso   +72.8s
11 ALGUERSUARI  Toro Rosso   +1 lap
12 KOVALAINEN   Lotus        +1 lap
13 TRULLI       Lotus        +2 laps
14 GLOCK        Virgin       +2 laps
15 SENNA        HRT          +2 laps
16 YAMAMOTO     HRT          +3 laps
R. ROSBERG      Mercedes     +6 laps
R. SUTIL        Force India  +9 laps
R. KUBICA       Renault      +51 laps
R. HULKENBERG   Williams     +53 laps
R. MASSA        Ferrari      +53 laps
R. PETROV       Renault      +53 laps
R. LIUZZI       Force India  +53 laps
R. DI GRASSI    Virgin       +53 laps

Fastest lap: WEBBER  1m33.474s (lap 53)

[fullpint]

Was not a bad race in the end.. Mind you the Moto GP was some thing else.