The Japanese Grand Prix TV Schedule and Chat

[TVC_Colwal]

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That's a bugger. I thought I was going to miss it too; we had storms over night and power cuts, but luckily it all came up just in time.

Fortunate thing is that we are with a small private ISP and I know the engineers personally so it was a quick phone call this morning and it was up again just after 9am - no consolation for missing the events, but damn good customer service. If I was with talk talk or Virgin or any of them, it would take days for it to be fixed.

[TVC_Colwal]

I forgot to say well done to tartist for going top of the players league this week, with respect to the others, routing for you mate

Cheers! But with only eight points covering the first four players anything could happen

[Omgitsdan]

Most points i have ever had i think lol!

[tartist]

Frederick raised an interesting point LINK about the starting grid being different to the published results of qualifying. This sometimes happens when a driver receives grid penalties, but this week it was caused by Kobayashi being moved up the grid. According to formula1.com here's why:

Sauber’s Kamui Kobayashi will start the Japanese race from seventh after the FIA released the provisional grid for Sunday’s event at Suzuka. Along with Mercedes’ Michael Schumacher and Renault duo Bruno Senna and Vitaly Petrov, Kobayashi didn’t set a time during Q3 and was originally classified in tenth.

But the FIA sporting regulations split those who don’t record a time during qualifying sessions into three categories to determine the grid order. Drivers who attempt to set a time by starting a flying lap are ordered first, followed by drivers who leave their garage but don’t start a flying lap and finally drivers who stay in their garage. Within each group, drivers are then arranged in numerical order.

Unlike Schumacher, Senna and Petrov who didn’t complete qualifying attempts, Kobayashi did start a flying lap which he subsequently aborted. Thus Kobayashi and Schumacher will make up the fourth row in seventh and eighth respectively, while Senna and Petrov will be on the grid’s fifth row in ninth and tenth.

So I wonder whether his managers were smart enough to realise this in advance and put him out for a couple of laps, but not pushing very hard so that it didn't wear his tyres significantly. And I wonder if in Korea we'll see everyone on the track instead of waiting in the garage.