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Suzuka International Racing Course


Last race at this track

2019 - A miscalculated move caused contact between Leclerc and Verstappen, causing the former to have a 15 second penalty and the latter to retire. Bottas won in shortened race due to checkered flag mishandling.

Season standings
after round 17

DRIVERS
POS   DRIVER   NATIONALITY   CAR   PTS
1   Max Verstappen   NED   RED BULL RACING RBPT   341
2   Charles Leclerc   MON   FERRARI   237
3   Sergio Perez   MEX   RED BULL RACING RBPT   235
4   George Russell   GBR   MERCEDES   203
5   Carlos Sainz   ESP   FERRARI   202
6   Lewis Hamilton   GBR   MERCEDES   170
7   Lando Norris   GBR   MCLAREN MERCEDES   100
8   Esteban Ocon   FRA   ALPINE RENAULT   66
9   Fernando Alonso   ESP   ALPINE RENAULT   59
10   Valtteri Bottas   FIN   ALFA ROMEO FERRARI   46
11   Daniel Ricciardo   AUS   MCLAREN MERCEDES   29
12   Sebastian Vettel   GER   ASTON MARTIN ARAMCO MERCEDES   24
13   Pierre Gasly   FRA   ALPHATAURI RBPT   23
14   Kevin Magnussen   DEN   HAAS FERRARI   22
15   Lance Stroll   CAN   ASTON MARTIN ARAMCO MERCEDES   13
16   Mick Schumacher   GER   HAAS FERRARI   12
17   Yuki Tsunoda   JPN   ALPHATAURI RBPT   11
18   Zhou Guanyu   CHN   ALFA ROMEO FERRARI   6
19   Alexander Albon   THA   WILLIAMS MERCEDES   4
20   Nyck De Vries   NED   WILLIAMS MERCEDES   2
21   Nicholas Latifi   CAN   WILLIAMS MERCEDES   0
22   Nico Hulkenberg   GER   ASTON MARTIN ARAMCO MERCEDES   0

CONSTRUCTORS
POS   TEAM   PTS
1   RED BULL RACING RBPT   576
2   FERRARI   439
3   MERCEDES   373
4   MCLAREN MERCEDES   129
5   ALPINE RENAULT   125
6   ALFA ROMEO FERRARI   52
7   ASTON MARTIN ARAMCO MERCEDES   37
8   HAAS FERRARI   34
9   ALPHATAURI RBPT   34
10   WILLIAMS MERCEDES   6

Timetables
all times are local (GMT+9)

FRIDAY 7th OCTOBER      Local time

Promoter Activity   Honda Demonstration   10:15 - 10:50
FIA   F1 Car Presentation   10:30 - 11:30
Paddock Club   Paddock Club Pit Lane Walk   10:30 - 11:30
Paddock Club   Paddock Club Track Tour   11:00 - 11:30
FORMULA 1   FIRST PRACTICE SESSION   12:00 - 13:00
Porsche Carrera Cup Japan   Practice Session   13:30 - 14:15
FORMULA 1   SECOND PRACTICE SESSION   15:00 - 16:30
Paddock Club   Paddock Club Track Tour   16:45 - 17:15
Paddock Club   Paddock Club Pit Lane Walk   16:45 - 17:45

SATURDAY 8th OCTOBER
      
Formula 1   Team Pit Stop Practice   09:15 - 09:45
Formula 1   Teams' Press Conference   09:30 - 10:30
Promoter Activity   Honda Demonstration   10:15 - 10:50
Paddock Club   Paddock Club Pit Lane Walk   10:30 - 11:30
Paddock Club   Paddock Club Track Tour   11:00 - 11:30
FORMULA 1   THIRD PRACTICE SESSION   12:00 - 13:00
Porsche Carrera Cup Japan   Qualifying Session   13:30 - 14:00
FORMULA 1   QUALIFYING SESSION   15:00 - 16:00
Formula 1   Press Conference   16:00 - 17:00
Paddock Club   Paddock Club Track Tour   16:15 - 16:45
Paddock Club   Paddock Club Pit Lane Walk   16:15 - 17:00
F1 Experiences   F1 Experiences Champions Club Trophy Photo & Grid Walk   17:15 - 18:15

SUNDAY 9th OCTOBER
      
Promoter Activity   Honda Demonstration   10:05 - 10:40
Porsche Carrera Cup Japan   Race (10 Laps or 30 Mins)   11:05 - 11:40
Paddock Club   Paddock Club Track Tour   11:55 - 12:25
Paddock Club   Paddock Club Pit Lane Walk   11:55 - 12:55
Formula 1   Drivers' Parade   12:00 - 12:30
Formula 1   National Anthem   13:44 - 13:46
FORMULA 1   GRAND PRIX (53 LAPS OR 120 MINS)   14:00 - 16:00

back to Japan once again, another match point for Verstappen

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Looks very wet on most models so probably dry.

Oh how I have missed Suzuka. My favorite circuit by far, and the one that drivers so unanimously love thanks to its high-speed flowing nature. True challenge that punish from mistakes. Typically races here suck, but I couldn't care less. Like Monaco, it's better with an attitude where you don't expect overtaking. For both, qualifying is the main event of the weekend.

Sunday has cleared in forecasts. Might not see much running on Friday though.

https://www.foreca.com/108394011/Suzuka ... d-forecast

Glad to see the sun forecast as for the first time since I can remember I'm tired of all these wet races in the series I follow.

Max to be crowned champion I reckon.

Suzuka might not produce the best racing overall but it has one of the best flows overall (compared only to Spa and Interlagos). Onboards and sim experience is quite a delight (and a challenge)

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Chance of rain is still high imo. Hope it's not a washout.

Suzuka is one of those bogey circuits for me which I can never, ever get right or be comfortable around. Every corner up to spoon is annoying for me.

For me Degner and 130R (both the new and old) are quite a bitch to get it right. Or I go too slow and lose a lot of lap time or I carry too much speed and go off

with wet tarmac so is an impossible task

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I usually have this problem, and this makes it even more awesome to watch old videos of Schumacher or Vettel completely locked into the groove.

Hopefully there's some action on Friday. Would suck to wake up at 6 am (I know, it's not bad for us Finns) only to find out they won't come out from the pits. Interestingly FP2 has been extended by 30 minutes to allow Pirelli test their prototype tyres. But looks like only wet tyres can be tested (hopefully they brought some).

I think conditions that we had in 2004 are now too extreme for F1.

funny that 2004 was one of those peculiar seasons that didn't had any wet track racing

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I find the chicane to be the trickiest corner in sims. I usually outbrake myself there in the first handful of laps. Especially because I get progressively quicker through 130R for each lap, too

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I think that's a bit of a stretch. Russia 2021 and Turkey 2020 come to mind, but there have been plenty of surprisingly wet GPs in the last couple of years. They also literally cancelled all running on the Saturday in 2004 due to conditions being too extreme. I don't think anybody expected qualifying to restart at Spa last year, but they sent the cars out.

I think the bigger problem at the moment is the total lack of consistency from race control about what is 'too wet'.

The Word of @

Fabs was more strongly enforced back then

it was the height of the Rainkiller 3000, created and developed my Max Mosley to enforce boring racing

actually Malaysia had a few drops, Monza start rather wet but dried before lap 5 and Interlagos was quite moist but no rain

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For me it's the left before the Degners and the first half of Spoon. In both corners I'm either understeering off track or approaching too slowly.

I only joined TBK in october of 04, ironically to get videos from those Friday sessions in Japan

Looks like Friday will be ok and most of the rain will hit on Sunday. AM or (late) PM is still unsure.
Edit: Friday looking like a washout now, Sunday dry-ish

Yeaa...should have stayed in bed. Too late now.
EDIT: Well, doesn't look too bad.

Some rivers here and there


Do it for Japanese fans

Tsunoda and Magnussen on track

What a shockingly rare occurrence I never thought I'd get to see...the wet Pirelli tire actually gets to experience conditions it was designed for.