2025 Japanese Grand Prix - Suzuka, April 04 - 06

[chrisc90]

At least if it rains then the grass won’t catch fire.

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According to AmuS, Doohan did not forget to close DRS, but he left it open on purpose. He practiced it in the simulator before, and it always worked. Now, with wind influence etc, it did not.

[Artur Craft]

At least if it rains then the grass won’t catch fire.

Yeah, that´s a positive. Somehow, I fear we will still have quite a few red flags/SCs this weekend

[Seanspeed]

According to AmuS, Doohan did not forget to close DRS, but he left it open on purpose. He practiced it in the simulator before, and it always worked. Now, with wind influence etc, it did not.

Yea these guys are all doing lots of sim work so that's generally not something a driver would just 'forget' to do, though not impossible.

[Cs98]

They really ought to start pausing the clock if red flags exceed 5 minutes of lost time in FP. People are paying money to watch this stuff and they get what we saw today.

[Rikhart]

They really ought to start pausing the clock if red flags exceed 5 minutes of lost time in FP. People are paying money to watch this stuff and they get what we saw today.

Not to mention the teams are badly starved for setup time, etc.

[Artur Craft]

Ok, I thought about posting my QLF predictions here so that I can brag about it later if I get it right:
Pole : Norris
P2: Piastri
P3 : Russell
P4: Verstappen
P5: Leclerc
P6: Hadjar
P7: Hamilton
P8: Lawson
P9: Andy
P10: Yuki

[AR3-GP]

Ok, I thought about posting my QLF predictions here so that I can brag about it later if I get it right:
Pole : Norris
P2: Piastri
P3 : Russell
P4: Verstappen
P5: Leclerc
P6: Hadjar
P7: Hamilton
P8: Lawson
P9: Andy
P10: Yuki

Andy?

[trinidefender]

FP1 Longruns:

https://i.imgur.com/jXSzbyy.png

Any information like this for FP2 long run pace?

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FP1 Longruns:

https://i.imgur.com/jXSzbyy.png

Any information like this for FP2 long run pace?

nothing of interest, really. No one got to do enough laps



(Verstappen made a mistake on that lap, it could have been a low 33)

[Seanspeed]

Ok, I thought about posting my QLF predictions here so that I can brag about it later if I get it right:
Pole : Norris
P2: Piastri
P3 : Russell
P4: Verstappen
P5: Leclerc
P6: Hadjar
P7: Hamilton
P8: Lawson
P9: Andy
P10: Yuki

Andy?

You know, Andy.

Good ole Andy.

[langedweil]

Ok, I thought about posting my QLF predictions here so that I can brag about it later if I get it right:
Pole : Norris
P2: Piastri
P3 : Russell
P4: Verstappen
P5: Leclerc
P6: Hadjar
P7: Hamilton
P8: Lawson
P9: Andy
P10: Yuki

Andy?

You know, Andy.

Good ole Andy.

Didn't see him for quite a while !

[ispano6]

According to AmuS, Doohan did not forget to close DRS, but he left it open on purpose. He practiced it in the simulator before, and it always worked. Now, with wind influence etc, it did not.

According to his team it was his misjudgment and deemed driver error. Hirakawa and Gasly both knew to de-activate DRS, with Gasly releasing the gas pedal to deactivate it and Hirakawa manually using the DRS button to. Supposedly tapping the brakes should be enough but apparently it wasn't for his crash. Doohan in his previous lap had released the gas pedal which supposedly deactivated DRS. So if he did decide to keep DRS, his team is calling him out for it. If he did tap the brakes to deactivate DRS, and it didn't, the team needs to look into why.

[ispano6]

Ironic that the sparks are now ruining the show.

[erudite450]

Here we go again, another red flag due to grass fire.