2012 Japan Grand Prix Thread

With the race just hours away, who will be your choice for the podium? Will Button emerge victorious with back to back Japanese GP's? Will Vettel be the first driver of 2012 to post back to back GP wins?

Red Bull is looking strong with Vettel and Webber 1-2 on the grid. Maybe Schumacher will stick it to all of them with a surprise victory? We'll all know soon!

Enjoy the race gang!

Video Below:
Sebastian Vettel drives a lap of the Suzuka on the Red Bull F1 simulator ahead of the 2010 Japanese Grand Prix.

 

Should be a every exciting race... The track is extremely demanding



I will be on a plane so :-(

 

Hopefully Alonso can be consistent and take home a podium finish. By far best driver in Formula 1. Vettle and Button have great chances in Suzuka as well.

 

After today's DNF, I don't see any real chance of Alonso winning the WDC this year in that Ferrari What a shame!

 

Looks like Massa saved his job !

 

Great article and recap here btw -> 2012 Japanese GP review: Vettel's Suzuka masterclass - F1 Fanatic

 

What a shame for Fernando. Time to think in Yeongam.

 

Honestly don't think Massa's result should (I know it will) make a difference, it doesn't hide the fact that for the last two years he has consistently under performed.

 

Hi,

Exactly. In the exact same way that one poor performance wouldn't warrant a sacking if someone had been consistent for two years leading up to it.

Cheers,
Nik

 

Let's just hope his confidence and performance continues for the last 5 races and he can take valuable points away from Alo's competition to give Alo, a chance, albeit a slim one now, to win the wdc.

The RB8 is definitely the car to beat, and now that it's been discovered they have had their own ddrs system since Singapore, don't expect any poor qualis anymore from either Seb or Mark.



The race was relatively boring after turn 1 IMO, except the one move by Perez overtaking Hamilton in full lock. And Massa deserves some credit here, he ran a solid race holding a very comfortable 5-9s lead over Kamui throughout the entire race...makes you wonder where Alo would've been if Kimi didn't cause that yellow flag during quali (Alo was already .2s faster in S1 than Vettel's fastest lap) and if Kimi didn't puncture his tire during the race...