2019 FORMULA 1 JAPANESE GRAND PRIX

[Big Kev]

2019 FORMULA 1 JAPANESE GRAND PRIX



Suzuka International Racing Course

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 328kph (203.81 mph)
DRS zone/s (race) Pit straight
Distance from grid to turn one 405m
Full throttle 66%
Longest flat-out section 994m
Downforce level High
Gear changes per lap 48
Fuel use per lap 1.89kg
Time penalty per lap of fuel 0.074s


UK Times
Friday 11th October 2019
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 12th October 2019
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 13th October 2019
Japanese Grand Prix: 14:10 (UK time: 6:10)

Previous Winners
2018 United Kingdom Lewis Hamilton Mercedes Suzuka
2017 United Kingdom Lewis Hamilton Mercedes
2016 Germany Nico Rosberg Mercedes
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 Suzuka
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

Videos
Scumacher onboard 2001


Senna 1989


Drivers’ Chosen Tyres


Championship Standings

[norbs]

Will it be on?

[pixelboy]

Yes probably. The main storm looks like it will pass through today and Saturday.

They may need to run qualifying on Sunday morning though.

[Duke]

Saturday cancelled.

The looming threat of Typhoon Hagibis has led to the cancellation of all Saturday running at the Japanese Formula 1 Grand Prix at Suzuka.

The schedule change will shift qualifying to Sunday morning (10AM local time), four hours before the race start. Practice 3 will effectively be lost in the reshuffle

https://www.speedcafe.com/2019/10/11/f1 ... rand-prix/

[Big Kev]

Mercedes will win the constructors if they outscore Ferrari by more than 14 pts.

[Big Kev]

Gunther Steiner banned from the paddock for the weekend because in Russia....
Steiner told Magnussen via team radio "if we wouldn’t have a stupid, idiotic steward we would be eighth", with the comments piquing the interest of the FIA in the aftermath of the race.

[durbster]

Grosjean's Saturday is sorted:

[w00dsy]

He'll drop it on the floor and blame Erickson.

[nutty]

haha cool as

[Big Kev]

Ok race. Suzuka is always lauded as a great track but it rarely produces a great race that I can remember.

6th title in a row for Merc and only Bottas can catch Hamilton now.

[Big Kev]

Racing Point has protested Renault after the Japanese Grand Prix for an alleged breach of Formula 1's sporting and technical regulations and the FIA's International Sporting Code.

The Japanese GP stewards have summoned representatives from both teams and they were due to begin hearings at 18.30 local time on Sunday.

According to the FIA documents, Racing Point has protested the cars of Daniel Ricciardo and Nico Hulkenberg for a "pre-set lap distance-dependent brake bias adjustment system".

The summons referred to an "alleged breach of FIA Formula 1 sporting and technical regulations" and "FIA International Sporting Code".

[KNAPPO]

[durbster]

Went to a party on Saturday night so watched this one half asleep. I agree with Kev. I like the circuit and it's one of those tracks that the drivers love but it is usually a bit uneventful.

I know 130R is not the fearsome corner it was in these cars but this still made me hold my breath:

[petey]

I love how you can see the G force move his arm across.

[Big Kev]

Hamilton had a close shave with the endplate coming off Leclerc. I reckon he'll have words about that in the next driver briefing.
Took his right wing mirror clean off. Could have been worse if that had got him in the head.

Interesting read of the radio messages
https://www.racefans.net/2019/10/14/tea ... maged-car/

[durbster]

I can't figure out how much damage a piece of wing like that would do. I get that broken carbon fibre is sharp but it's also incredibly light.

A helmet would brush it off wouldn't it?

[w00dsy]

You'd think so. The visors are supposedly tested for things like that. I'm pretty sure after Massa's incident they brought in much stricter rules for helmets.

[Duke]

Not sure if it was Massa's accident or others in Indycar at the same time, but it was around then when they introduced the Zylon strip on the visor which also narrowed vertical vision.
Since then they have refined the shape of the helmets so it covers more of the forehead & uses a narrower visor.
This season saw new helmet standards introduced increasing the ballistic strength of the shell & visors:
New F1 helmet safety standard to be introduced for 2019
ULTRA-PROTECTIVE HELMET BASED ON NEW FIA STANDARD MAKES F1 DEBUT

[durbster]

But Massa was hit by a piece of steel (?) which is heavy and dense.

I think I'm struggling to resolve carbon fibre being both incredibly light and incredibly strong in my brain. I picked up the rear wing of an LMP2 car at Le Mans once and it was freaky how light it was, so it's hard to imagine it could do any damage if it hit you. But then it can also cope with hundreds of kilos of force on it and now I'm abandoning this line of thought because it's hurting my brain.

[Cursed]

Perhaps, thinking of it as a hard, near stationary object being hit at 275-300 km/h might help. Additionally, the mirror's mount probably was also under strain at those speeds given that they like to make just about every surface on the car into an aerofoil of one type or another.

[w00dsy]

[petey]

that was a great race