The 2007 Japanese Grand Prix

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Driver of the Day ?

Lewis Hamilton
3
25%
Heikki Kovalainen
3
25%
Kimi Raikkonen
3
25%
David Coulthard
0
No votes
Felipe Massa
1
8%
Robert Kubica
1
8%
Vitantonio Liuzzi
1
8%
 
Total votes: 12

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Post by Ed » Sun Sep 30, 2007 4:18 pm

It is getting closer to the 2 hour mark. 12 minutes till end of race!

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Post by Ed » Sun Sep 30, 2007 4:18 pm

It is getting closer to the 2 hour mark. 12 minutes till end of race!

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Post by Ed » Sun Sep 30, 2007 4:20 pm

Hamilton leads Kovalainen by 10.6 seconds. Raikkonen is now 2.1 seconds behind Kovalainen. Massa is down in 9th

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Post by Ed » Sun Sep 30, 2007 4:21 pm

Raikkonen goes wide again and loses some time but remains in 3rd

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Post by Ed » Sun Sep 30, 2007 4:25 pm

Barrichello has to stop and this brings Massa into 8th

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Post by Ed » Sun Sep 30, 2007 4:29 pm

Heidfeld retires!

Final lap and Hamilton leads Kovalainen and Raikkonen

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Post by Ed » Sun Sep 30, 2007 4:33 pm

Hamilton wins the Japanese Grand Prix

Kovalainen in second ahead of Raikkonen

Coulthard 4th ahead of Fisichella, Massa, Kubica and Liuzzi

Amazing fight between Massa and Kubica!!

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Post by Snowy » Sun Sep 30, 2007 4:38 pm

cool 8)
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Post by Julian Mayo » Sun Sep 30, 2007 5:36 pm

Ed wrote:Webber is off and hits the wall!!

Vettel actually hit him!!!

He was second with Vettel in 3rd!
:twisted: FECK !!!![/b]
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Post by Ed » Sun Sep 30, 2007 7:18 pm

Congratulations to Lewis Hamilton for winning the Japanese Grand Prix. He kept it together and managed to survive a tangle with Kubica. Hamilton is now 12 points ahead in the championship and just needs to stay ahead of Alonso and Raikkonen next weekend to clinch the Championship.
Kovalainen did well finishing in second and defended well against the charging Raikkonen who managed a podium finish despite having to pit early in the race to switch to the extreme wet tyres.

David Coulthard did well finishing 4th ahead of Giancarlo Fisichella while it was very entertaining watching Massa and Liuzzi fight it out on the last lap fighting for 6th and 7th. Liuzzi made it into 8th place scoring a point for Toro Rosso.

It is yet unclear what was happening with Alonso as his perfomance today wasn't too spectacular (before his crash) given his previous wet weather performances.
Shame what happened to Webber as he was running in second. Vettel was very dissapointed with himself after crashing into Webber.

Your thoughts and your driver of the day ?

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Post by jacfan » Sun Sep 30, 2007 7:53 pm

Julian Mayo wrote:
Ed wrote:Webber is off and hits the wall!!

Vettel actually hit him!!!

He was second with Vettel in 3rd!
:twisted: FECK !!!![/b]
Yes I think that just about sums it up. Similar to what Mark said to LG when asked about the incident.
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Post by jacfan » Sun Sep 30, 2007 8:05 pm

My thoughts of the race.......
Well thought number one is unprintable
I have no idea what Ferrari thought they were doing but whatever it was it didn't work.
Why they even kept the race going is beyond me. At some stages it was clearly way too dangerous. Lucky that Alonso was ok.
I don't think anyone will be getting great scores in their 8 n pole this weekend.
My DotD goes to Massa. To finish in the top 8 from where he started was amazing and his fight with Kubica at the end is what sealed it for me.
Idiot of the day goes to Vettel.
Three unlucky people of the day... 1. Mark Webber 2. Louise Goodman for having to try and interview Mark after that and 3 Jenson for stopping just before the end.
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Post by jacfan » Sun Sep 30, 2007 8:08 pm

Ah look at that DotD Massa.... 100%!!!
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Post by Snowy » Sun Sep 30, 2007 8:56 pm

:notme:
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Post by Julian Mayo » Mon Oct 01, 2007 1:05 am

DoTD, a bees split infinitive between HK KR n MW.
I think MW showed remarkable restraint............I would have said something along the lines of......there are drivers, and there are cnts of f$%#%^) useless cnts who f$%#%^) think they f$%#%^) can f$%#%^) drive f$%#%^) cars the f$%#%^) useless f$%#%^) cnts, they f#$%,f$%#%^) should f$%#%^) stay in f$%#%^) billy f$%#%^) cart f$%#%^) races. 8)
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