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<blockquote data-quote="Salty25" data-source="post: 440119" data-attributes="member: 185281"><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'"><a href="http://www.formula1.com/results/season/2007/784/6451/" target="_blank">Official Race Result</a> | <a href="http://www.formula1.com/news/headlines/2007/9/6897.html" target="_blank">Full Story</a></span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'">Epic.</span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'">That is the only word that can in any way describe the 2007 Japanese Grand Prix, rain-soaked and dripping wet with incident.</span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'">With heavy rain and mist falling on the Mount Fuji circuit, the race began behind the safety car, and it looked for a time that the race would be abandoned.</span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'">Ferrari suffered most, with Felipe Massa pitting in lap 2, followed a lap later by Raikkonen for full wets – Ferrari’s gamble on conditions proved ludicrously optimistic at that early stage… but the red arrows would return later.</span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'">Lap 20 saw the first lap of actual racing, with the safety car finally in, Lewis Hamilton was leading the race. In the following laps, Wurz momentarily knocked Massa off the track, Mark Webber vomited in his helmet, Button lost his front wing, just about everyone nipped into the pits to fill up their tanks until the end, and Sebastian Vettel led the race!</span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'">McLaren team tactics failed Fernando Alonso, the Spaniard came out from his stop behind the chasing pack whilst Hamilton reappeared ahead of it. To lap 34, and Alonso was overtaken by Heidfeld for 7th, but more dramatically Hamilton was bumped into a spin by BMW’s Robert Kubica.</span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'">The McLarens continued to lose places in the following lap, and it seemed that the big two teams would fail to get on the podium at all!</span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'">But the big moment was yet to come – Fernando Alonso crashed out spectacularly on lap 41! Spinning and rebounding off the wall at turn 5, and champion was out.</span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'">And shortly after, tragedy would befall Sebastian Vettel. For a time both leading the race, Vettel went into the back of sister Red Bull organisation pilot Mark Webber, both retiring from the Fuji race. Some time later Vettel was seen crying in the Toro Rosso garage, struck with guilt for the incident – but this fine young German will have far brighter days, no doubt.</span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'">Following the shakedown from the Alonso incident, the return of the safety car, and more refuelling, Hamilton was again in the lead. Heikki Kovalainen was now 2nd, and amazingly Felipe Massa was 3rd having survived where others had fallen.</span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'">Raikkonen made a pass for 4th over David Coulthard, but the surprises kept coming when Massa made a shock visit to the pits – the Brazilian didn’t, in fact, have the fuel to make it to the end and came out to the track in 7th.</span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'">Hamilton</span></span><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'"> pulled away from the rest and won the race, whilst Kovalainen held off an aggressive Raikkonen for 2nd. And if only to prove he would not be beaten, Felipe Massa took 6th place in the final lap following a wheel-to-wheel, corner-for-corner tussle with Robert Kubica.</span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'"><a href="http://www.formula1.com/results/driver/2007/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #27638d">Drivers’ Championship</span></a> –</span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'">With Raikkonen unable to take victory in Japan, and Alonso destroying his machine, Hamilton really has it all to lose now with just two GP’s to go.</span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'"><a href="http://www.formula1.com/results/team/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #27638d">Constructors’ Championship</span></a> –</span></span></p><p></p><p><strong><span style="color: red"><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'">Ferrari are champions!</span></span></strong></p><p></p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'"><a href="http://www.purefantasyf1.net/MyPFF1sat.asp?MYD=149&LA=En" target="_blank"><span style="color: #27638d">SupaLiga 2007</span></a> –</span></span><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'"><strong><a href="http://www.satellites.co.uk/satellite/attachment.php?attachmentid=19035&stc=1&d=1227997736" target="_blank">UPDATED SHORT TABLE</a></strong></span></span><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'">(Full table available in attachment)</span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'">Kreacher was big in Japan, scoring a personal best of 140pts, but he makes little imprint on Norm’s mammoth lead.</span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'">The big headline in SupaLiga today was the dismal performance of the Stunts, who picked up just 69pts, and drop out of the top 5 for the first time. As a result, Linhas BMW return to the top 5, and my own Super 25 are up to an all-time high of 4th.</span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'">TSU also fall two places, Patience and ScotBordersF1 moving the other way, and chris and john_graydon swap places for the third race in succession.</span></span></p><p></p><p><u><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'">Copa SupaLiga 2007, Semi Finals, 1st Leg</span></span></u><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'"> –</span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'">Burnin’ Rubber <strong>105-127</strong> F1 Aberdeen</span></span></p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'">Speedy Devils <strong>97-115</strong> Super 25</span></span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Century Gothic'">NEXT RACE > CHINESE GRAND PRIX @ SHANGHAI INTERNATIONAL CIRCUIT > OCTOBER 7</span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Salty25, post: 440119, member: 185281"] [COLOR=black][FONT=Century Gothic][URL="http://www.formula1.com/results/season/2007/784/6451/"]Official Race Result[/URL] | [URL="http://www.formula1.com/news/headlines/2007/9/6897.html"]Full Story[/URL][/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][FONT=Century Gothic]Epic.[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][FONT=Century Gothic]That is the only word that can in any way describe the 2007 Japanese Grand Prix, rain-soaked and dripping wet with incident.[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][FONT=Century Gothic]With heavy rain and mist falling on the Mount Fuji circuit, the race began behind the safety car, and it looked for a time that the race would be abandoned.[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][FONT=Century Gothic]Ferrari suffered most, with Felipe Massa pitting in lap 2, followed a lap later by Raikkonen for full wets – Ferrari’s gamble on conditions proved ludicrously optimistic at that early stage… but the red arrows would return later.[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][FONT=Century Gothic]Lap 20 saw the first lap of actual racing, with the safety car finally in, Lewis Hamilton was leading the race. In the following laps, Wurz momentarily knocked Massa off the track, Mark Webber vomited in his helmet, Button lost his front wing, just about everyone nipped into the pits to fill up their tanks until the end, and Sebastian Vettel led the race![/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][FONT=Century Gothic]McLaren team tactics failed Fernando Alonso, the Spaniard came out from his stop behind the chasing pack whilst Hamilton reappeared ahead of it. To lap 34, and Alonso was overtaken by Heidfeld for 7th, but more dramatically Hamilton was bumped into a spin by BMW’s Robert Kubica.[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][FONT=Century Gothic]The McLarens continued to lose places in the following lap, and it seemed that the big two teams would fail to get on the podium at all![/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][FONT=Century Gothic]But the big moment was yet to come – Fernando Alonso crashed out spectacularly on lap 41! Spinning and rebounding off the wall at turn 5, and champion was out.[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][FONT=Century Gothic]And shortly after, tragedy would befall Sebastian Vettel. For a time both leading the race, Vettel went into the back of sister Red Bull organisation pilot Mark Webber, both retiring from the Fuji race. Some time later Vettel was seen crying in the Toro Rosso garage, struck with guilt for the incident – but this fine young German will have far brighter days, no doubt.[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][FONT=Century Gothic]Following the shakedown from the Alonso incident, the return of the safety car, and more refuelling, Hamilton was again in the lead. Heikki Kovalainen was now 2nd, and amazingly Felipe Massa was 3rd having survived where others had fallen.[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][FONT=Century Gothic]Raikkonen made a pass for 4th over David Coulthard, but the surprises kept coming when Massa made a shock visit to the pits – the Brazilian didn’t, in fact, have the fuel to make it to the end and came out to the track in 7th.[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][FONT=Century Gothic]Hamilton[/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=black][FONT=Century Gothic] pulled away from the rest and won the race, whilst Kovalainen held off an aggressive Raikkonen for 2nd. And if only to prove he would not be beaten, Felipe Massa took 6th place in the final lap following a wheel-to-wheel, corner-for-corner tussle with Robert Kubica.[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][FONT=Century Gothic][URL="http://www.formula1.com/results/driver/2007/"][COLOR=#27638d]Drivers’ Championship[/COLOR][/URL] –[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][FONT=Century Gothic]With Raikkonen unable to take victory in Japan, and Alonso destroying his machine, Hamilton really has it all to lose now with just two GP’s to go.[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][FONT=Century Gothic][URL="http://www.formula1.com/results/team/"][COLOR=#27638d]Constructors’ Championship[/COLOR][/URL] –[/FONT][/COLOR] [B][COLOR=red][FONT=Century Gothic]Ferrari are champions![/FONT][/COLOR][/B] [COLOR=black][FONT=Century Gothic][URL="http://www.purefantasyf1.net/MyPFF1sat.asp?MYD=149&LA=En"][COLOR=#27638d]SupaLiga 2007[/COLOR][/URL] –[/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=black][FONT=Century Gothic] [B][URL=http://www.satellites.co.uk/satellite/attachment.php?attachmentid=19035&stc=1&d=1227997736]UPDATED SHORT TABLE[/URL][/B][/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=black][FONT=Century Gothic] (Full table available in attachment)[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][FONT=Century Gothic]Kreacher was big in Japan, scoring a personal best of 140pts, but he makes little imprint on Norm’s mammoth lead.[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][FONT=Century Gothic]The big headline in SupaLiga today was the dismal performance of the Stunts, who picked up just 69pts, and drop out of the top 5 for the first time. As a result, Linhas BMW return to the top 5, and my own Super 25 are up to an all-time high of 4th.[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][FONT=Century Gothic]TSU also fall two places, Patience and ScotBordersF1 moving the other way, and chris and john_graydon swap places for the third race in succession.[/FONT][/COLOR] [U][COLOR=black][FONT=Century Gothic]Copa SupaLiga 2007, Semi Finals, 1st Leg[/FONT][/COLOR][/U][COLOR=black][FONT=Century Gothic] –[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][FONT=Century Gothic]Burnin’ Rubber [B]105-127[/B] F1 Aberdeen[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][FONT=Century Gothic]Speedy Devils [B]97-115[/B] Super 25[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=black][FONT=Century Gothic]NEXT RACE > CHINESE GRAND PRIX @ SHANGHAI INTERNATIONAL CIRCUIT > OCTOBER 7[/FONT][/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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