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Am expecting a great race tomorrow. Suzuka always delivers.

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Contacted a mate who lives in Nagoya (70 km away). No rain expected 10% chance, late cloud.

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Nothing to lose Vettel starting P8 could be good to watch, hopefully Verstappen can get at least one Merc off the line.

Racing sets available for each driver. Grosjean just has a new set of Mediums?


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On the qualifying times graphic you put up Grosjean has S and SS next to his Q2 time. I'm wondering if he did his time on S and then went out to do a SS run but realised he wasn't going to improve so didn't bother? A bit like it's been suggested that Bottas did. So in effect one of his used SS compounds are still almost new.

@JN23 - Yeah but it depends upon how much he didn't slip & slide on those tyres.

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Race strategies as per Pirelli:

Quickest is a one-stopper:
- One stint on soft for 25 laps, then medium to the flag.
- Alternatively, one stint on medium for 28 laps, then soft to the flag.
- (A bit slower) one stint on supersoft for 20 laps then one stint on medium to the flag.

A two-stopper is also possible but slower:
- One stint on supersoft for 14 laps then two stints on soft (of 19 and 20 laps)


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The revised grid:

1 Lewis Hamilton Mercedes 1:27.760
2 Valtteri Bottas Mercedes 0.299s
3 Max Verstappen Red Bull 1.297s
4 Kimi Raikkonen Ferrari 1.761s
5 Romain Grosjean Haas 2.001s
6 Brendon Hartley Toro Rosso 2.263s
7 Pierre Gasly Toro Rosso 2.333s
8 Sebastian Vettel Ferrari 4.432s
9 Sergio Perez Force India 9.469s
10 Charles Leclerc Sauber 1:29.864
11 Esteban Ocon Force India 2.366s *
12 Kevin Magnussen Haas 1:30.226
13 Carlos Sainz Renault 1:30.490
14 Lance Stroll Williams 1:30.714
15 Daniel Ricciardo Red Bull no times
16 Nico Hulkenberg Renault 1:30.361
17 Sergey Sirotkin Williams 1:30.372
18 Fernando Alonso McLaren 1:20.573
19 Stoffel Vandoorne McLaren 1:31.041
20 Marcus Ericsson Sauber 1:31.213 **

* not slowing sufficiently for red flags
** engine component and gearbox penalties

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UnlikeUday it doesn't get said enough but good work on always posting the info on tires, times, etc. It's much appreciated.

Suzuka is great track but it is narrow and overtaking is very difficult. F1 youtube channel is doing live streaming ATM weather look great
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98Y5coORT7I

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Bright & sunny day today:


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Vettel preferred driving his car today:

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Thanks Sandman. I'm not great with the technical stuff regarding F1 but do my bit otherwise!

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Did I just hear Tot Wolff correctly, when being interviewed by DC (Channel 4, UK)? He was being asked about how he compared to Hamilton in bowling, which they apparently did last night and I'm sure he said that playing with little balls wasn't his thing.
Fnarr...

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Must've missed that comment! I did hear that he would have no problems with a driver switch again if Bottas is ahead, which is a shame, but at least he's straight out with it and honest.

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Hulk starting on Mediums:


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The app says live in 2 minutes and yet, no join live button has appeared....

What is Max doing? If you leave the circuit, you can't rejoin and cut someone up that badly.

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Well VET P4 on merit...

Poor driving from Verstappen.

How can Crofty suggest Magnussen moved in the braking zone for turn 1 where you don't brake

P6 on merit, the other 2 places were gifted to him by Max! But it was a superb and brave overtake on Grosjean.

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Oh FGS. Can that really not be dealt with under the VSC?

Magnussen being a prick as always! Verstappen too...

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Good decision on the penalty for Max there.

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Deserved penalty for Verstappen, KMag needs one as well.

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The penalties deserved but takes about all the excitement out of the race.

100 percent correct decision giving MV the penalty. K mag should probably be getting one himself.

Agreed - but that's racing. I was referring to him not being let through, which was a topic of conversation earlier.

What is Max on about on the radio?

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lmao- Kimi should wait for him to come back onto the track? You gotta love his ability to reason his right on the fly...

I can't believe we have to lose 5 laps to collect a few bits of debris. Have they forgotten about the VSC?

Somewhat surprised by Vettel's penalty, rejoining unsafely is one thing, causing an accident is another.

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Verstappen you mean? I am not surprised.

Did you mean Max's penalty or did I miss something?

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Vettel got Verstappened?

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Why didn't Vettel just wait?

Wow, that was a risky move with Max's track record at defending.

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There goes Seb

That should be five seconds as well.

No looks like Vettel maybe was bit over ambitious?

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