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2016 FORMULA 1 EMIRATES JAPANESE GRAND PRIX

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2016 FORMULA 1 EMIRATES JAPANESE GRAND PRIX


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Lap data
Lap length 5.807km (3.608 miles)
Race laps 53
Race distance 307.471km (191.054 miles)
Pole position Left-hand side of the track
Lap record* 1’31.540 (Kimi Raikkonen, 2005)
Fastest lap 1’28.954 (Michael Schumacher, 2006, qualifying two)
Maximum speed 314kph (195.11 mph)
DRS zone/s (race) Pit straight
Distance from grid to turn one 545m


UK Times
Friday 7th October 2016
Japanese Grand Prix Free Practice 1: 10:00-11:30 (UK time: 2:00-3:30)
Japanese Grand Prix Free Practice 2: 14:00-15:30 (UK time: 6:00-7:30)
Saturday 8th October 2016
Japanese Grand Prix Free Practice 3: 12:00-13:00 (UK time: 4:00-5:00)
Japanese Grand Prix Qualifying: 15:00 (UK time: 7:00)
Sunday 9th October 2016
Japanese Grand Prix: 14:00 (UK time: 6:00)

Previous Winners
2015 United Kingdom Lewis Hamilton Mercedes
2014 United Kingdom Lewis Hamilton Mercedes
2013 Germany Sebastian Vettel Red Bull-Renault
2012 Germany Sebastian Vettel Red Bull-Renault
2011 United Kingdom Jenson Button McLaren-Mercedes
2010 Germany Sebastian Vettel Red Bull-Renault
2009 Germany Sebastian Vettel Red Bull-Renault
2008 Spain Fernando Alonso Renault Fuji
2007 United Kingdom Lewis Hamilton McLaren-Mercedes Fuji
2006 Spain Fernando Alonso Renault
2005 Finland Kimi Räikkönen McLaren-Mercedes
2004 Germany Michael Schumacher Ferrari
2003 Brazil Rubens Barrichello Ferrari
2002 Germany Michael Schumacher Ferrari
2001 Germany Michael Schumacher Ferrari
2000 Germany Michael Schumacher Ferrari

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Facts From Previous Race

Lewis Hamilton had good reason to be frustrated after retiring from the lead with an engine failure on Sunday.

It followed a string of faults earlier this year. However it was the first time this season either Mercedes had dropped out of a race due to a technical failure.

It may come as some consolation to Hamilton to learn that he has had the most reliable cars during his career out of all of Formula One’s 32 world champions. Sunday’s DNF was the 11th time in his 183 starts so far that he has not been classified due to a technical problem. That’s a failure rate of just 6%.

The driver with the next-lowest failure rate is Sebastian Vettel on 8.7%. The other three world champions on the grid are Fernando Alonso (10.1%), Jenson Button (11.3%) and Kimi Raikkonen (13%).

Nico Rosberg has also enjoyed an excellent finishing rate. In his 201 starts he’s had just 14 non-classifications due to technical problems: a failure rate of 7%. But even if Hamilton’s W07 broke down in each of the five remaining races, he would still have the highest reliability rate of any world champion.

Hamilton’s retirement and Vettel’s first-lap assault on Rosberg meant Mercedes missed a chance to equal McLaren’s record for the most consecutive wins by a team for the second time this year.

The Spanish Grand Prix also could have been their 11th win in a row, but Hamilton and Rosberg collided on the first lap and retired. On Sunday Hamilton’s engine failure scuppered their chances of winning for the 11th race running, although Mercedes power did achieve its 150th consecutive points-scoring finish.

It also postponed their constructors’ championship celebrations. Mercedes went into the race needing only to preserve their existing points lead over Red Bull to seal the title, but against the run of play this year they failed to do that. They will win the title at Suzuka this weekend unless Red Bull out-score them by 23 points.

Daniel Ricciardo joined Dan Gurney, Bruce McLaren and Eddie Irvine as a four-time F1 race winner in Malaysia on Sunday.

With team mate Max Verstappen following him home second, they gave Red Bull its first one-two finish of the V6 hybrid turbo era. Their last came at the final race of the V8 engine era, when Sebastian Vettel led Mark Webber home at Interlagos in 2013.

Ricciardo became the fourth different driver to win a race this year, something we haven’t had in the past two seasons. However for the third year running only two different teams have won races so far.

Rosberg claimed his 20th fastest lap and Hamilton took the 57th pole position of his career. This was also Hamilton’s 100th front row start, something only two drivers in F1 history have achieved, the other being Michael Schumacher. Hamilton has started 56.4% of his races from the front row.

Jolyon Palmer became the third different driver this year to score their first F1 points, joining Stoffel Vandoorne and Pascal Wehrlein.

Finally, Jenson Button marked his 300th grand prix by qualifying and finishing inside the top ten. He is only the third driver in F1 history to start 300 races. Rubens Barrichello did 326 between 1993 and 2011, and Michael Schumacher started 306 from 1991 to 2012.


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Seems to be a rumour going round that footage from the drivers briefing will be made available at this race as part of Liberty Media's approach to more coverage. Be interesting if that happens.

Hamilton is coming under fire from the media for spending a good part of the drivers press conference dicking about on snapchat.
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Is Hamilton secretly a 12 year old girl?
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Big Kev wrote:Hamilton is a 12 year old girl
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'nuf said...
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Honda have been given one of their engine tokens back as it was actually for a reliability fix on their engine block and they don't need to use a token for that.

The current running totals are as follows:

Ferrari 32 (0 remaining)
Honda 30 (1 used at this Event, 2 remaining)
Mercedes 26 (6 remaining)
Renault 14 (18 remaining)
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Big Kev wrote:
Has Brundle never profited from his own merchandise? How does he know the bloke didnt pay $(where is the pound key FFS)3000 for the helmet on eBay? What is "good faith"? Did he say to the guy "you arent going to sell this are you?"

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I think if Brundle has profited from his own Merch then it wouldn't be much. He doesn't come across as that type of bloke and he was never a big name in F1. Damn good in sporstcars though.
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It was close in quali. Not sure if Merc have turned things down but not much of a gap covers the top 6.
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"I was disrespectful to you, but you reporting me being disrespectful to you was disrespectful to me. So I respectfully disrespectfully disrespect you and will not respectfully answer your questions."

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'i don't like that you wrote bad things about me when I got so bored with you all the other day that I played with my phone. So now I'm walking out on you instead, and I'm sure you won't write anything negative about me if I do so'

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Well, it just shows once more what a narcissistic c**t he is.

How many other world champions are on that grid act like he does, constantly? Or, for that fact, ever? He thinks the world owes him respect and adulation and when he doesnt get it throws the toys out of the pram.

What I would love to see is if he wins tonight, the journos all turn their backs on him. Would never happen, but the spoiled little child needs to be smacked down a bit more often.

People talk about racing needing characters, and I agree, but not self absorbed fuckwits like that. I can sit outside the local pizza shop any Friday night and see teenage girls act like him.
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norbs wrote: What I would love to see is if he wins tonight, the journos all turn their backs on him. Would never happen, but the spoiled little child needs to be smacked down a bit more often.

Apparently after James Allen finished with his questions the journalists refused to ask him any. Also what the fuck is with the the rag waving. It was a lot hotter in Malaysia so he can only be doing it to annoy people.


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The bloke is a monumental piece of shit.
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that was awkward.
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Rosberg now only needs to finish 2nd in the remaining races to win the title.
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Good race by Rosberg. Anyone that says he dosnt deserve the title this year has rocks in his head.

Long way from over tho, a dnf will turn it on its head again.
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He's been equal to Lewis in terms of qualifying speed, race speed and mental strength, but he has been much better at getting it off the line since they gave the driver more control of the starts.
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I'd like to see one DNF from Rosberg to close up the title a bit but agree he's been at least Hamilton's equal this year. What annoys me is how Mercedes have dominated but we've barely been given a chance to see them race each other due to reliability and crappy starts.
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Exar Kun wrote:I'd like to see one DNF from Rosberg to close up the title a bit but agree he's been at least Hamilton's equal this year. What annoys me is how Mercedes have dominated but we've barely been given a chance to see them race each other due to reliability and crappy starts.
and when they did race, they crashed, after 3 corners.
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NeilPearson wrote:
Exar Kun wrote:I'd like to see one DNF from Rosberg to close up the title a bit but agree he's been at least Hamilton's equal this year. What annoys me is how Mercedes have dominated but we've barely been given a chance to see them race each other due to reliability and crappy starts.
and when they did race, they crashed, after 3 corners.


and then crashed with only a few corners to go in Austria
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