Suzuka Circuit -JAPANESE Grand Prix 2009 - Race 15/17

Even a safety car grouping them all up with a handful of laps to go failed to produce any excitement at all, yay.

Dominant drive from Vettel, thats about all you can say about that race...
 
Superb drive by Vettel.

Pun-filled day!

DC "beating off" some fans
Heidfeld "the fastest ***king down the backstraight"
Leggard with "Sutil has done it with Kovalainen"

Love it when cars go through those polystyrene hoardings, makes a right mess doesn't it? Could have been lot worse that accident and the SC really brought the race back to life, I was on pins watching Barrichello, Button and Kubica.

Interesting to see how the Rosberg thing pans out, I can't see how he pitted and stayed ahead of the 2 Brawns while things were under the SC so I'm pleased it's being investigated.
 
Whether penalty helps Brawn and Button or not, Vettel effectively needs to win both races and Button to not score more than two 7th places (both scenarios unlikely I would say with Brazil having slow corners favouring Brawn car

Vettel though has a better chance than Rubens and this is why - last three or four races Jenson has matched or out raced Rubens, which means that Brazil is the last race of RB's championship to get a major haul of points (even if its unlikely after 2nd stop in Brazil , Brawn could ask Rubens to get out the way to assist JB, as a point or two wouldnt make a difference in his wdc challange)

Vettel of course is leading the team now with Mark out of contention

Both really need a DNF from Jenson in Brazil to really stand a chance - and even then both need to win both races to make Jenson really race in Abu Dhabi(sp?)

Vettel deserved the win today, brilliant if boriing race, he was on a different track to everyone else for most of the time, amazing to see Trulli performing for the whole race, and good to see Lewis claiming another podium

From the forum footage with Rosberg going to see the stewards it doesnt look good from Willaims point of view

Rubens was disappointing today he should have done better - but he just wasnt on it at all, Jenson was faster than him throughout the 2nd half of the race on both sets of tyres
 
utajoker said:
Glad I hit sky+ and went back to sleep, boring race.
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You missed the best final laps of the year then.

And honestly, I thought the race was pretty good. There was the tension of the title battle looming over it, the grid had people out of place with regards to their fuel strategy (like it or not, until next year it's still one of the main performance factors in the races), and there was some close action away from the very front of the field.

Random musings:

1) Why wasn't Kovy penalised for clobbering Sutil? Think back to Massa vs Hamilton last year in Fuji - Massa got a penalty for nerfing Hamilton in a similar manner (on the grass at the apex, moving back on track and tagging the car outside of him). Inconsistency from the race stewards once more, or as I like to put it - McLaren International Assistance! :)
2) That's probably the best I've seen Vettel drive since Monza '08. Utterly brilliant, so far ahead that he could survive two slow pitstops and come out with an enormous lead.
3) Hamilton seemed pretty ordinary by his standards today. Aside from his start (which was electric as always), he never seemed to have even a brief response to the speed of Vettel and always looked in danger of losing the spot to Trulli that he'd done so well to gain. The KERS dying on him and the slightly fluffed exit from the pitlane just about capped it. About the best that can be said is that he didn't lose out on the final podium spot to Kimi after the safety car pulled in, which was pretty good going.
4) Please, please, please, stewards and FIA.....don't let the Rosberg situation drag on too long!
5) As much as I'm puzzled by Kovy getting away with ramming a fellow competitor off the road, I have to applaud him for that wonderful bit of opportunistic overtaking down to Turn 1 after his stop. Fisi must have not hit the KERS Push-To-Not-Get-Overtaken button, but it was still great driving from Kovy.
6) I wonder how many people are going to bet against Button taking the title now? 14pt lead over his nearest rival, going to a track next where said rival has 11 retirements in 16 races - I'd have said he still looks good for it.
 
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