Massa closes in after Bourdais penalty

Sebastien Bourdais has had 25 seconds added to his Japanese Grand Prix finishing time after making contact with Ferrari’s Felipe Massa on lap 52. The penalty demotes him to 10th place, after finishing the race in sixth, meaning he looses three world championship points.
The incident occurred as Bourdais was leaving the pit lane. He entered [...]

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Alonso makes it back to back wins at Fuji

Fernando Alonso has won the Japanese Grand Prix at the Fuji Speedway on a day when the championship closed up for in preparation for an epic conclusion. Alonso was gifted second after the cars in front of him ran wide at the first corner and took race leader, Robert Kubica, at the first round of [...]

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Hamilton on pole for Japanese GP

Lewis Hamilton has taken pole position in qualifying for tomorrow’s Japanese Grand Prix at the Fuji Speedway. He snatched provisional pole from Kimi Raikkonen by just over two tenths of a second, with a lap of 1:18:404. Raikkonen will line up with Hamilton on the front row.
Heikki Kovalainen qualified in third and put McLaren in [...]

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Kubica fastest in final practice at drying Fuji

Robert Kubica set the fastest time on a drying Fuji speedway in the final practice session ahead of this weekend’s Japanese Grand Prix. It stopped raining at the start of the session but most of the action came in the dying minutes when Timo Glock continued his pace from the previous session on Friday, and [...]

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Glock on top for second practice at Fuji

Timo Glock has topped the time sheets for the second practice session at the Fuji Speedway. His best lap for Toyota was a 1:18.383, putting him ahead of Singapore Grand Prix winner, Fernando Alonso, who went just 0.04 seconds slower for Renault as lap times noticeably improved from the first session.
The top two finished ahead [...]

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Hamilton leads after first Fuji practice

Lewis Hamilton has set the early pace ahead of this weekends Japanese Grand Prix at the Fuji Speedway. His time of 1:18.910 was the only lap into the 1:18s, despite only beating his main title challenger, Felipe Massa, by one tenth of a second.
Heikki Kovalainen spilt the Ferrari’s in third, with Kimi Raikkonen setting a [...]

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