2022 Japanese Grand Prix - Suzuka, Oct 07 - 09

[Sevach]

Horrible final sector from Charles.
Also Suzuka just brings Seb to life.

[cplchanb]

What was Max thinking there?

Usual stuff before starting the flyer. Norris behind, decided to suddenly overtake him.

doing burnouts and sliding in the middle of the track while norris was pulling up? either he was completely oblivious or his race engineer failed to tell him about his deltas.

[organic]

RedBull using their high speed turn advantage here.

At almost every other circuit Ferrari have been quickest in high speed corners so far this season, so I'd be surprised if RB are making a lot of time in the high speed. Telemetry will tell us. Spa for instance, RB lost time still in the highest speed corner despite their overall huge car advantage that weekend.

[mendis]

What was Max thinking there?

Usual stuff before starting the flyer. Norris behind, decided to suddenly overtake him.

doing burnouts and sliding in the middle of the track while norris was pulling up? either he was completely oblivious or his race engineer failed to tell him about his deltas.

By the time you are in 3rd sector, drivers generally don't overtake each other when starting a flyer. That's a gentleman's agreement between drivers. Norris did otherwise.

[mendis]

Disappointed to see Charles was unable to pull off another stunner. Horrible last sector on the last lap.

[organic]

What was Max thinking there?

Usual stuff before starting the flyer. Norris behind, decided to suddenly overtake him.

doing burnouts and sliding in the middle of the track while norris was pulling up? either he was completely oblivious or his race engineer failed to tell him about his deltas.

Watch norris' onboard and you'd see Max's engineer couldn't warn max about that. Norris was going very slowly until just before 130R and suddenly decides to go quickly through that corner and also quickly past max - there was at most 5 seconds between when Norris decided to speed up and when he passed max

Also the pass happened at the end of the outlap which is generally not done

[LM10]

He was warming tyres, Norris was going unusually fast as JB said in comms.

Until FIA enforce a minimum outlap time which isn't a snails pace we'll get more of these incidents.

Warming up tyres by doing a burnout in the middle of the track? Never seen that before in qualifying.

I don't think he was doing a burnout. Burnouts are done by intentionally breaking traction which I doubt Verstappen was intentionally trying to do there

I don't think there will be a penalty for this

Watch the video you’ve sent. He sees Norris approaching and steps on the pedal making the tyres spin and at the same time steering left - unintentionally or intentionally is anyone‘s guess.

[cplchanb]

Disappointed to see Charles was unable to pull off another stunner. Horrible last sector on the last lap.

also disappointed at merc lack of S3 pace... they lost almost half a sec......

[search]

Horrible final sector from Charles.
Also Suzuka just brings Seb to life.

both Ferrari changed the approach for the final lap, and pushed earlier on. So they ran out of tyres in the end, but benefitted in the early parts

[mendis]

Mercedes is a second behind! I thought they would be close, like within 6 tenths. They seem to be fighting with Alpine here.

[LM10]

Leclerc lost it in S3. Otherwise he’d have been on pole.

[ENGINE TUNER]

Disgusting that pirelli still can't provide a tire that can handle a full qually lap without overheating and losing grip. 12 years of terrible tires have truly set F1 back.

[cplchanb]

Leclerc lost it in S3. Otherwise he’d have been on pole.

did he burn through the tyres in S2?

[LM10]

Usual stuff before starting the flyer. Norris behind, decided to suddenly overtake him.

doing burnouts and sliding in the middle of the track while norris was pulling up? either he was completely oblivious or his race engineer failed to tell him about his deltas.

By the time you are in 3rd sector, drivers generally don't overtake each other when starting a flyer. That's a gentleman's agreement between drivers. Norris did otherwise.

So because Norris didn’t follow the gentleman’s agreement let’s steer in front of him. Yeah, excellent.

[PlatinumZealot]

Mercedes is a second behind! I thought they would be close, like within 6 tenths. They seem to be fighting with Alpine here.

I hope Merc have gambled on rain tomorrow. And I hope it will rain...