2013 Japanese GP - Suzuka

[iotar__]

Call me thick but I still don't understand if Chilton was blocked and Perez was on the fast lap: http://www.crash.net/f1/news/196938/1/s ... mpaign=rss
They fined Sauber for wrong message ("safety" of course) and not Hulkenberg for impeding because it wasn't impeding, because if it was they would have to give him penalty so let's not call it that. Secondly, as long as radio message from the team is wrong it's not a problem? Let's say it's a dying stage of qualifying you need to get in front of someone, you give a driver a wrong message and it's fine? No, the other team has to agree, too, like Marussia did, hmm.

Another message about "cooling lap" but you can't trust those + "Perez himself said that Webber had not impeded him or cost him time, which was sufficient for the stewards to decide there was no complaint to look into." Cost him time, on a cooling lap? What about safety, blocking was fairly obvious and I missed Perez going slowly.

[Mika1]

Funny how this year Merc are going slower to do a quicker lap where Red Bull have gone the opposite direction..

They will always lose out in a race situation if they continue with this strategy.

Mercedes totally focused on race pace, so you are talking bullshit.

[komninosm]

What was the cause of Vergne's "break" fire?

[beelsebob]

Mark's lap was good indeed, but SV was phenomenal. Being fastest in S1 and S3 where KERS was not needed, to only lose by a fraction instead .4-.5seconds is utter brilliance!!

Doesn't that suggest that his KERS was working to some degree? if he was so 'brilliant' why was he so slow in S2?

Learn to read properly! Already said: 90% of KERS deployment is in sector 2 and only 10% in S3 after chicane.

Actually, on a qualifying lap, 100% in S3 after the chicane, then 90% in sector 2, then 10% in S3 after the chicane.

[Chuckjr]

Handshake after qualifying.

http://i.imgur.com/LuqsiHF.gif
from wtf1

HAHAHA!!! Hilarious! Nice catch Stefan!!! Lol!!!

[ringo]

Hahah,

he rubbed off something there!

[Crucial_Xtreme]

List of changes made to Seb & Fernando's cars under parc ferme

[Steven]

As usual, check http://www.f1technical.net/live/ to chat about this session and follow what the teams are saying through the twitter feed.

[CMSMJ1]

multi function A = let Alonso through? That would be met with a foxtrot oscar from me!

[Just_a_fan]

Amazing how relaxed Hamilton looked. I thought he'd be fuming...

[zeph]

Seems to me that once again Webber's strategy was sacrificed for Vettel's benefit. Predictable, but unpalatable.

[Joie de vivre]

just beautiful, i love it. redbull once again --- up webber

webber is an utter idiot, just proving he never deserved the title.

[Just_a_fan]

Does look that way. Webber's inability to pass Grosjean hasn't helped him though.

[Joie de vivre]

i really dont know what to say about this team ... how can anyone like them?

[Just_a_fan]

No different to Ferrari in the Michael years...didn't like them either.