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1105th Grand Prix
日本グランプリ

Suzuka International Racing Course


Last year's race

Pérez caused many incidents and seemed to retire the race, only to return to serve his penalties. Verstappen dominated and shared the podium with the McLaren duo.

Season Standings
after round 3

DRIVERS
POS   DRIVER   NATIONALITY   CAR   PTS
1   Max Verstappen   NED   RED BULL RACING HONDA RBPT   51
2   Charles Leclerc   MON   FERRARI   47
3   Sergio Perez   MEX   RED BULL RACING HONDA RBPT   46
4   Carlos Sainz   ESP   FERRARI   40
5   Oscar Piastri   AUS   MCLAREN MERCEDES   28
6   Lando Norris   GBR   MCLAREN MERCEDES   27
7   George Russell   GBR   MERCEDES   18
8   Fernando Alonso   ESP   ASTON MARTIN ARAMCO MERCEDES   16
9   Lance Stroll   CAN   ASTON MARTIN ARAMCO MERCEDES   9
10   Lewis Hamilton   GBR   MERCEDES   8
11   Yuki Tsunoda   JPN   RB HONDA RBPT   6
12   Oliver Bearman   GBR   FERRARI   6
13   Nico Hulkenberg   GER   HAAS FERRARI   3
14   Kevin Magnussen   DEN   HAAS FERRARI   1
15   Alexander Albon   THA   WILLIAMS MERCEDES   0
16   Zhou Guanyu   CHN   KICK SAUBER FERRARI   0
17   Daniel Ricciardo   AUS   RB HONDA RBPT   0
18   Esteban Ocon   FRA   ALPINE RENAULT   0
19   Pierre Gasly   FRA   ALPINE RENAULT   0
20   Valtteri Bottas   FIN   KICK SAUBER FERRARI   0
21   Logan Sargeant   USA   WILLIAMS MERCEDES   0

CONSTRUCTORS
POS   TEAM   PTS
1   RED BULL RACING HONDA RBPT   97
2   FERRARI   93
3   MCLAREN MERCEDES   55
4   MERCEDES   26
5   ASTON MARTIN ARAMCO MERCEDES   25
6   RB HONDA RBPT   6
7   HAAS FERRARI   4
8   WILLIAMS MERCEDES   0
9   KICK SAUBER FERRARI   0
10   ALPINE RENAULT   0

Timetables
all times are local (GMT+9)

FRIDAY 5th APRIL      Local time

Ferrari Challenge Japan   First Practice Session   09:00 - 09:45
Paddock Club   Paddock Club Track Tour   10:00 - 10:40
Paddock Club   Paddock Club Pit Lane Walk   10:00 - 11:00
FIA   F1 Car Presentation   10:00 - 11:00
FORMULA 1   FIRST PRACTICE SESSION   11:30 - 12:30
Porsche Carrera Cup Japan   Practice Session   13:00 - 13:45
Formula 1   Teams' Press Conference   13:30 - 14:30
Paddock Club   Paddock Club Track Tour   13:55 - 14:25
Paddock Club   Paddock Club Pit Lane Walk   13:55 - 14:35
FORMULA 1   SECOND PRACTICE SESSION   15:00 - 16:00
Ferrari Challenge Japan   Qualifying Session   16:30 - 17:00

SATURDAY 6th APRIL      

Formula 1   Team Pit Stop Practice   09:15 - 09:45
Porsche Carrera Cup Japan   Qualifying Session   10:20 - 10:50
FORMULA 1   THIRD PRACTICE SESSION   11:30 - 12:30
Ferrari Challenge Japan   First Race (30 Mins +1 Lap)   13:10 - 13:45
Paddock Club   Paddock Club Track Tour   13:50 - 14:30
Paddock Club   Paddock Club Pit Lane Walk   13:50 - 14:30
FORMULA 1   QUALIFYING SESSION   15:00 - 16:00
Formula 1   Press Conference   16:00 - 17:00
Paddock Club   Paddock Club Track Tour   16:30 - 17:30
Paddock Club   Paddock Club Pit Lane Walk   16:30 - 17:30

SUNDAY 7th APRIL      

Ferrari Challenge Japan   Second Race (30 Mins +1 Lap)   09:40 - 10:15
Porsche Carrera Cup Japan   Race (10 Laps or 30 Mins)   11:05 - 11:40
Paddock Club   Paddock Club Track Tour   11:55 - 12:40
Paddock Club   Paddock Club Pit Lane Walk   11:55 - 12:55
Formula 1   Drivers' Parade   12:00 - 12:30
Formula 1   National Anthem   13:46 - 13:47
FORMULA 1   GRAND PRIX (53 LAPS OR 120 MINS)   14:00 - 16:00

first race in Japan in the 1st semester since Aida 1994. Will the weather allow us a race?

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As with most of the drivers, Suzuka is my absolute favorite circuit in the calendar. While it's nice to see them race here so early, I have admit it feels strange. As long as I remember it's been a tradition that one had to wait for "a whole year" for Japanese GP. Suzuka has been the place where championships have been decided, even when it hasn't been the season finale. This year it doesn't have that kind of special feeling, and even Max can't win the WDC just yet Early Suzuka also means the latter part of the season is seriously lacking old-school track, Interlagos being the only one after Monza. Solution: have two races here

Weather-wise the overall picture is still unclear. A few days ago it looked like a washout / cancellation territory, but since then the forecast has changed. While GFS model shows dry weekend, ECMWF model shows still very wet Sunday. I guess we are wiser on Thursday.

Shame F3 and F2 nor F1 Academy still won't support F1 here...or at Montreal. Two tracks that could certainly produce nice racing in feeder categories.

Sunday will be dry so at least we'll have a race.

Definitely better than a 3-hour red flag wait and eventual cancellation.

But that 45min race of 2022, I already watched it twice after seeing it live and re-watching right now again.

Check the gap between Alonso and Vettel with 10 minutes to go!

I don't remember anything from that race

Me neither. Had to check my screencaps and this was it:

This.

Back in the day, I used to pray for we weather races. Now, with every race being cancelend/procedured under safety car conditions as soon as a few drops appear, I just hope for a dry race.

that race was great, after the finish nobody knew what were the points scored and then turns out Max ended up with the championship (and FIA once again changed points rule)

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Motorsports trend for 2024: everything is a bad taste joke now

Sargeant will drive a repaired version of the chassi that Albon totaled in Australia. Williams will only have a spare chassi in Miami. So any critical crash in the next two races might cost Sargeant another start.

FP1 about to start

Already with the go slow stupidity.

Oh boy Sargent

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Sargeant causes a nervous breakdown for Williams, lol

Crashed the already crashed car

Probably that will lead to a gearbox change at least

Pretty heavy one