We have been used to see 10 teams and 20 cars on F1 grid for the better part of the last decade – the most teams we had was 11, the biggest number of teams was 22. Twelve teams were on cards twice in the recent past. Once in 2002 when Toyota was to join [...]

When I returned from Singapore to Hong Kong I spotted Nico Rosberg at the Hong Kong airport. Then I saw him waiting for his luggage at the same belt as me and it became sort of obvious he would be spending some time between Singapore and Japanese GPs here in Hong Kong. I found a [...]

FIA has released the Japanese GP post qualifying weights. Sebastian Vettel is a slightly heavier than Jarno Trulli and Lewis Hamilton. Nico Rosberg and Robert Kubica gained several places thanks to grid penalties to several drivers who qualified ahead of them. They are the heaviest among the top ten with perhaps 10 laps of fuel [...]

Sebastian Vettel will start the the Japanese GP from the pole position. Jarno Trulli will line up next to Vettel on the front row. Hamilton and Sutil claimed P3 and P4. Brawn GP drivers Barrichello and Button qualified on P5 and P7 after some strange tactics that only left them with enough time for one [...]

After the 2007 wash out we had this year an opportunity to see what kind of racing can the new Fuji Speedway offer in dry weather. With “regular” although rather cold conditions few would have expected cars other than McLarens and Ferraris in the front. Even Fernando Alonso said ahead of the race that the [...]

Another race, another controversy. And yet again it involved both main title contenders Lewis Hamilton and Felipe Massa.
Incident no 1 – Race start – Hamilton (and Kovalainen) vs Kimi
I watched the video replay of the race start few times (at the moment you can see it here). Raikkonen had quite good start and it looked [...]

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Lewis Hamilton will start the 2008 Japanese Grand Prix from the pole position, well ahead of his main title fight rival Felipe Massa, who only managed P5. Kimi Raikkonen returned to the front row for the first time since French Grand Prix. It does look good for Hamilton with Heikki Kovalainen and Fernando Alonso also [...]