2010 Formula One Japanese Grand Prix

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Sureboss
Which lead to overtakes...most of which happen because of mistakes, it's just more obvious here due to it being a proper circuit.

Surely the Hairpin is also one? Down in to the first corner too with the straight before it and with the possibility of people making mistakes out of Casio. Okay, not loads, but more than most, particularly given the last race...

It'll be intriguing how the two sessions tomorrow unfold. Surely if qualifying is wet, the cars will have little wet setup, which could throw open the grid for the Race. I'm expecting a bit of chaos, should be fun.
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I can't really remember many overtakes in modern F1 at the hairpin, the problem is its a short run from Degner to the Hairpin and like I said, the track is very narrow. There is little room for error and the kink before the hairpin makes it incredibly difficult to judge a braking point and also for the driver ahead to notice the overtake.
To further complicate the issue, you have to follow the car in front all the way through the Esses, Dunlop and Degner with the wake effect causing understeer...and then keep ultra close after Degner to let you divebomb.
I would say most of the time its a bad idea to try overtaking at the hairpin at least at F1-speeds. There is too small room for errors there.

Barring mistake-made overtakes, it isn't easy to overtake here apart from a dive into Casio which also requires being very close to the car in front.

Its meant to be dry and I doubt anyone will compromise their race setups just for qualifying. If qualifying is wet, everyone barring some gamblers (Sauber, etc) will run dry setups for the race unless there is a high risk of rain. The advantage you gain running a wet setup just for qualifying is pretty negligible, you'll lose out in the race big time - in other words, a position on the grid is worthless without the pace to keep it.
 
Acording to the F1 website its predicting rain tomorrow and looking at a weather radar for Japan theres rain overhead right now but looks like it will push through in time for the race but the qualy in the morning will most likely be wet.
 
Yeah just seen that on the F1 site.

BBC commentator has just posted its drying and sunny. Yesterday Mike Gascoigne and Whitmarsh were certain from the data that the race would be dry and no chance or point of any wet setups.

It can all change of course.
 
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I've got nothing to do tomorrow, so I'm gonna stay up late, wake up late, and drag out qualifying and the race as much as possible. :D
 
Jackington
In case any Australians are wondering, Qualifying will still be shown live (12pm AEDT) on ONE in all mainland capitals.
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Thanks for the heads up.👍 I'll check it during ad breaks in Bathurst.
 
I'm playing Gt4 while I wait for the race. Gonna try to pull an all nighter . The problem I have is that I have to be at my friend's house by 9 am because we planned a trip to six flags. The race ends at around 3am Eastern time. Where is my energy drink?
 
Ugh, I just discovered a spider in my room! :sick: It's dead now, but there's no way I'll accidentally fall asleep before the race now! :lol:
 
At the moment I'm trying to get to the computer to get coverage of qualifying without waking my parents. I'm on my iPod right now and let me tell you it's no mean feat. I've got 1 hour still.

Edit: I'm typing this at 1:46am on the computer. I did it.
 
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Hmm, Qualifying does not seem to be available for me, is it TV only? No BBC internet stream?

It sucks having no TV :(

Having to resort to Radio Five Live. But I really need the timing screens at least... and i'm not registered on the official F1 site.
 
Williams seem to be strong here in Q1, are they pushing harder than the top teams? I assume so, but they are pretty much matching the Red Bull pace.
 
Ferrari are certainly holding back at least. I can't see the track conditions so I don't know how good these times are in comparison to practice 1 and 2.

I know we can't read into the times too much, but surely the Williams is strong enough to get through to Q2 without pushing, so I think they may surprise us in Q2 and Q3.
 
Button is slower in sector 1. As always, I believe he is running slightly less downforce comparative to his teammate (With the exception of Monza, it's been the same all season). But he has yet to put together a good first sector.

In the race this could be significant, he's 1-2 tenths quicker in the final sector which I would attribute mainly to the back straight, which is where the overtaking spot is.
 

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