The Official Japanese GP 2019 **Spoilers**
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TV SKY
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Uk time, Broadcast for Quali 1.30am Sunday, Race 4.10am
TV C4
Circuit Map
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Weather update
https://www.skysports.com/watch/video/sports/f1/11...
Weather (with track temp chart)
http://www.myweather2.com/Motor-Racing/Japan/Suzuk...
Pole lap 2018
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UoCca4kUTf4
Highlights 2018
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRTmuPOhaIA
Tyres
|https://thumbsnap.com/3qnIg8py[/url]Uk time, Broadcast for Quali 1.30am Sunday, Race 4.10am
TV C4
Circuit Map
|https://thumbsnap.com/I39Re1aY[/url]Weather update
https://www.skysports.com/watch/video/sports/f1/11...
Weather (with track temp chart)
http://www.myweather2.com/Motor-Racing/Japan/Suzuk...
Pole lap 2018
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UoCca4kUTf4
Highlights 2018
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRTmuPOhaIA
Tyres
Edited by Deesee on Friday 11th October 06:58
The iconic figure of eight returns!
35th Japanese GP!
The track gives a shake down and an examination of any car and set up, aero efficiency is key in the first half of the lap, while the second puts the emphasis on horse power (+KW!), it contains a pretty even distribution of corners from low speed to high speed turns.
To cope with the huge lateral loads Pirelli brings its three hardest compounds.
Pole has traditionally give a 50% chance of winning, although since the turn of the century its roughly 2/3 rds.
Since the return here in 2009 only two teams have taken pole, Red Bull & Mercedes, and winning the race Red Bull & Mercedes & Mclaren (2011).
Red Bull have struggled with car set up on circuits with high curbs (and bumps), the front wing adjustment they have to make is causing quali problems, if they get it right they may contend.
Mercedes, masters of the corners and corner exit speeds, I can see a 1/2 here, especially if they can shed some downforce.
Ferrari, huge advantage on the back straight with the top end speed, Seb may surprise with a pole and win.
Midfield, I expect Renault to win this battle, but the Racing Point all round ability may put them up into good points scoring territory.
35th Japanese GP!
The track gives a shake down and an examination of any car and set up, aero efficiency is key in the first half of the lap, while the second puts the emphasis on horse power (+KW!), it contains a pretty even distribution of corners from low speed to high speed turns.
To cope with the huge lateral loads Pirelli brings its three hardest compounds.
Pole has traditionally give a 50% chance of winning, although since the turn of the century its roughly 2/3 rds.
Since the return here in 2009 only two teams have taken pole, Red Bull & Mercedes, and winning the race Red Bull & Mercedes & Mclaren (2011).
Red Bull have struggled with car set up on circuits with high curbs (and bumps), the front wing adjustment they have to make is causing quali problems, if they get it right they may contend.
Mercedes, masters of the corners and corner exit speeds, I can see a 1/2 here, especially if they can shed some downforce.
Ferrari, huge advantage on the back straight with the top end speed, Seb may surprise with a pole and win.
Midfield, I expect Renault to win this battle, but the Racing Point all round ability may put them up into good points scoring territory.
rdjohn said:
Always worth getting up early for.
The weather forecast for Sunday looks OK, but qually might be fun.
Always worth getting up for indeed - although I'll be giving P1 at 2am a miss I think! Unless I manage to stay awake for it..The weather forecast for Sunday looks OK, but qually might be fun.
Weather is so unpredictable right now though, god knows what will actually happen. I think rain is a foregone conclusion at some point saturday/sunday which is great. But not if enough of the typhoon remains/hits to actually cancel the race, or worse quali and the race. For the first time this season I'm crossing finger hoping the weather isn't too bad!
Heavy rain forecast for quali but the typhoon is due to be at its height overnight, and to have passed completely passed by Sunday morning, so unless there's damage to the circuit or facilities it looks like the race should go ahead. I guess quali is in danger of being moved to Sunday morning.
Deesee said:
Nice! Just found there's a better quality copy here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2LYWKY-mcwFingers crossed for them in the race.
Mr_Thyroid said:
Heavy rain forecast for quali but the typhoon is due to be at its height overnight, and to have passed completely passed by Sunday morning, so unless there's damage to the circuit or facilities it looks like the race should go ahead. I guess quali is in danger of being moved to Sunday morning.
That's based on the storms projected path and closing speed, I wouldn't expect it to be all that accurate this far off. Structural damage seems unlikely at least - I assume they build their facilities with these storms in mind, certainly survived a few decent hammering before now 
I expect it will come to nothing significant in the end, these things normally do - which is great as it means rather than a disrupted schedule or cancellation, we will instead just have a load of rain to spice things up. If on the other hand it really did reach the track still with gust speeds of 100mph+, that really would be game over for racing. The chances of it arriving during a scheduled session and also still carrying such power must be fairly remote though.
Suzuka-Circuit have tweeted that the timings and content (via google translate), may change over the weekend....
https://twitter.com/suzuka_live/status/11815103514...
https://twitter.com/suzuka_live/status/11815103514...
Deesee said:
Holy s
t that was awesome, proper tingles. I love how Honda's passion comes across like no other organisation in F1, IMO.Andy S15 said:
Deesee said:
Holy st that was awesome, proper tingles. I love how Honda's passion comes across like no other organisation in F1, IMO.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_kwxzU4wL4
Must have been bonkers expensive to film given the number of streets that they had to close.
vaud said:
Andy S15 said:
Deesee said:
Holy st that was awesome, proper tingles. I love how Honda's passion comes across like no other organisation in F1, IMO.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_kwxzU4wL4
Must have been bonkers expensive to film given the number of streets that they had to close.
budgie smuggler said:
Deesee said:
Nice! Just found there's a better quality copy here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2LYWKY-mcwFingers crossed for them in the race.
Reminds me of the artwork by @r4thbone – https://www.instagram.com/r4thbone/ – on Instagram, he's a local chap to me but does a lot of illustration for car mags and F1. Almost identical style to what the Honda video has been drawn.
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