Sunday 30 September 2007

Japanese GP - what the *%&# happened to Suzuka?

Yesterday's race was, quite honestly, the most bizarre I've ever seen. I have never seen such immense stupidity exhibited by the FIA in it's desperate compulsion to get a race in. Cars were acquaplaning (go look that up if you don't know what it is), drivers couldn't see the red light of the car ahead of them and, to be perfectly honest, pushing the first 19 laps of the race (that's a lot) behind the Safety Car ought to have given them an idea of the mayhem out on the track?

In terms of results, Heikki drove a great race, especially the scrap with Kimi at the end. So too the last half lap of racing between Massa and Kubica for 6th. Since there was no 'dirty' OR 'dry' line - they actually managed to pull off a whole half lap of racing side by side and pushing each other off the track before Kubica succeeded in doing so on the last corner - only to see Massa race past him after exiting the grass!

Hamilton drove a great race, hardly any mistake that I can recall. Kubica fishtailed him in the middle of the race and he was lucky not to have been completely shunted there. Alonso reserved his only retirement of the season for the worst possible moment in the season. Hamilton just needs to cruise in the remaining two races to get himself the championship.

The moment of the race goes to Sebastien Vettel, who driving the Toro Rosso (the Red Bull 'B' team) decided to absolutely cream the back of Webber's Red Bull (the 'A' team) while the safety car was still out!! He's a talented 19-year old, but that's not going to help him very much, especially considering that Webber was driving for a podium finish and had vomited inside his helmet within a few laps of the start. That must have been a hard drive...

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