F1 Digest - Japan Qualifying
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The Fuji Speedway sees only a smattering of rain which clears up for both Free Practice and Qualifying. It looks like McLaren have the edge so far, but listen on to see who’s feeling confident ahead of the race.
Free Practice 3
The drying track meant for a slow start to proceedings, quite a few drivers taking it very easy and not wanting to get wet, and a bit of a surprise grid. Glock was up at the top a lot, as was Piquet, but it was Kubica who made it stick.
Qualifying
Only one major surprise in qualifying, was the BMW split, with one into Q3 and one not out of Q1. At the top, though, the championship battle is really hotting up, with team policies looking like they might come into play.
Conclusions
It seems as though many people were actually satisfied with their qualifying performances today, even DC. The natural order of things looks to be set at Fuji Speedway, except for the aforementioned BMW out of place.
October 12th, 2008 at 12:37 amStuart C said:
Morning all,
I got to the bottom of the Piquet-Hamilton non-protest. Apparently Nelson got on the radio to say “Sorry guys, I screwed up,” or something like that. Owing to the scratchy nature of pit-car radio they misheard it and thought he was saying he’d been held up, so they looked at their data and reckoned it must have been Lewis. They then got on the blower to Charlie W
Charlie, after looking into it, nixed the idea without referring it to the stewards. But by then somebody had had a word in Ed G’s ear, hence the question in the press conference.
October 12th, 2008 at 3:28 amme said:
ahh, okay thank you.
lewis sounded very confused by the question too. i blame the mountain for the radio interference