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Is it this weekend? If it is then I think I´ll stay home saturday night. The race is like 2pm in Japan? So it should be 2am here. hmmm and Brazil´s football team is playing on saturday too, just a few hours before the race. Yes, I´m staying home for sure! 
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If you head on over to www.formula1.com they have a neat little Local Time Converter for when practice and the race are on in your time zone.
I don't see why Michael wouldn't want to try. China may inspire him much like Monaco did, and he may also wish to highlight the difference between 2003 and 2004 like he did in Hungary. Either way I think Ferrari are going to be hard to beat again. There's going to be a lot of people in the stands who work for companies who sponsor and support Ferrari, I'm sure they'd want to give them a good show.
BAR also have the home-track thing happening, Honda owns Suzuka and Taku will have the fans cheering, but am I the only one who thinks BAR have struggled for pace in the second half of the season? Button looked good at Hockenheim but I can't remember them looking truly threatening at many other events since before the North American leg of the calendar. I'm wondering if they didn't de-tune those Honda engines somewhat to gain reliability, or just told the drivers to ease up a tad.
The words 'Williams' and 'race pace' haven't often been associated this season, even when they shine in qualifying like at Monza, when it comes to the race the cars are nowhere to be seen. I'm not expecting much different in Japan.
McLaren meanwhile have looked consistently threatening since Silverstone but whether Raikkonen can convert that into the win he needed in 2003 is another matter.
Renault will be hoping Villeneuve comes up to pace a lot better to help them try to peg back the gap to BAR in the constructors table, but without something of a miracle I actually think BAR may finally have done enough.
Toyota will be hoping for a good home grand prix, it's the last race for Olivier Panis and the first race for Jarno Trulli, both will be hoping to impress.
Just over an hour until they hit the track.
Edit: A quick update - forecast is for rain throughout most of the weekend with thunderstorms on Sunday.
I don't see why Michael wouldn't want to try. China may inspire him much like Monaco did, and he may also wish to highlight the difference between 2003 and 2004 like he did in Hungary. Either way I think Ferrari are going to be hard to beat again. There's going to be a lot of people in the stands who work for companies who sponsor and support Ferrari, I'm sure they'd want to give them a good show.
BAR also have the home-track thing happening, Honda owns Suzuka and Taku will have the fans cheering, but am I the only one who thinks BAR have struggled for pace in the second half of the season? Button looked good at Hockenheim but I can't remember them looking truly threatening at many other events since before the North American leg of the calendar. I'm wondering if they didn't de-tune those Honda engines somewhat to gain reliability, or just told the drivers to ease up a tad.
The words 'Williams' and 'race pace' haven't often been associated this season, even when they shine in qualifying like at Monza, when it comes to the race the cars are nowhere to be seen. I'm not expecting much different in Japan.
McLaren meanwhile have looked consistently threatening since Silverstone but whether Raikkonen can convert that into the win he needed in 2003 is another matter.
Renault will be hoping Villeneuve comes up to pace a lot better to help them try to peg back the gap to BAR in the constructors table, but without something of a miracle I actually think BAR may finally have done enough.
Toyota will be hoping for a good home grand prix, it's the last race for Olivier Panis and the first race for Jarno Trulli, both will be hoping to impress.
Just over an hour until they hit the track.
Edit: A quick update - forecast is for rain throughout most of the weekend with thunderstorms on Sunday.
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News just in...
"STOP PRESS: Sunday's race is officially cancelled, but Bernie Ecclestone, the drivers and their teams have reached a mutual agreement whereby they will set up a scaled down version of the Suzuka course in the Minardi garage, tie two of the legs of the drivers from each team together and run a 52 lap three-legged race.
Qualifying is already in progress, with the Jaguar pairing of Mark Webber and Christian Klien on provisional pole. The pair's red-hot performance is said to be almost completely down to the abnormally lengthy beanpoles that the lanky Australian, Webber walks on. Naturally, Ferrari have launched an investigation into this 'unfair' advantage, and F1 insiders believe that the Jaguar pair could be forced to race with a huge weight penalty. It is rumoured that Webber may have to run whilst carrying Juan Pablo Montoya. More news from Suzuka as it happens..."
"STOP PRESS: Sunday's race is officially cancelled, but Bernie Ecclestone, the drivers and their teams have reached a mutual agreement whereby they will set up a scaled down version of the Suzuka course in the Minardi garage, tie two of the legs of the drivers from each team together and run a 52 lap three-legged race.
Qualifying is already in progress, with the Jaguar pairing of Mark Webber and Christian Klien on provisional pole. The pair's red-hot performance is said to be almost completely down to the abnormally lengthy beanpoles that the lanky Australian, Webber walks on. Naturally, Ferrari have launched an investigation into this 'unfair' advantage, and F1 insiders believe that the Jaguar pair could be forced to race with a huge weight penalty. It is rumoured that Webber may have to run whilst carrying Juan Pablo Montoya. More news from Suzuka as it happens..."
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There isn't a rain cloud in the sky? What the hell happened? Sounds like somebody has been doing their anti-rain dance again.ND4SPDWith the Typhoon though, it'll be one heck of an exciting race.
I'm amazed to see the course so dry, and the sky so sunny.
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Tom Coronel pointed something out, maybe someone here can explain. You saw Sato put his hand to his helmet to support his neck and because his old shoulder injury was bothering him. But at one point when the camera was on him, he put his right hand to support his helmet on the right side coming out of a turn, but he upshifted no less than 2 gears. Since normally upgearing happens with the paddle on the right side of the wheel, I wonder what happens here. Is he left handed and does he have the paddles reversed? Surely he can't do anything else weird because its hard enough to hold the wheel with just one hand? Is there a sneaky AT installed? What's going on?
What's going on?
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I aslo noticed that his gear changes were at 18,572 to 18,574 RPM every single time the gear shifted up.
