Alonso wins and this time he deserved it.
Hamilton again pays for not braking right time which he does now everytime.
Every 1st Corner of Any circuit like Fuji Speedway is a bit challenging.. Everyone do such mistakes. Many drivers gone wide at that 1st corner... But Hamilton was given penalty.. why ? after running wide, he was staying at 7th position behind massa thereby he had already lost 6 places... It was all preplanned.. Mclaren were again victimised.. especially Hamilton. poor guy... I feel very sad to him..
Ron Dennis
\"Well, today was a very challenging day. We were a bit surprised that Lewis was given a penalty in respect of the first-corner incident, simply because we’ve all seen similar first-corner incidents that triggered no such penalty. Drivers miss braking points, they run wide; these things happen. As for Heikki, he was in a very strong position, fuelled significantly longer than the cars around him, when he suffered an extremely rare engine failure. All in all, then, as far as the championship is concerned, I guess things could have been worse; but there’s no getting away from the fact that it was a disappointing weekend. However, Lewis is still five points clear in the drivers’ championship, with two races to go, and I know that our whole team will dig deep from here on in.\"
Lewis Hamilton
\"Obviously, I’m not happy after a result like today’s - but I’m already getting over it and tomorrow will be another day. Disappointingly, I didn’t make a great start, but I slipstreamed Kimi and went up the inside. I braked a bit late - but so did everybody. A lot of cars went wide at Turn One - and I just went a bit wider than everyone else. But you can’t undo the penalty or change today’s result. On lap two, Felipe went wide and I went up the inside, giving him room, but he tapped me quite hard into a spin.”
\"There are positives to take from today; I’ve only lost two points to Felipe in the drivers’ championship, so it’s definitely not over. Now I’ll forget today ever happened and move forward; we’ve got two more races to go and my target is still to win both of them.
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as far as Result is Concerned, I was delighted to see Alonso back to winning ways... I am not a big fan of his.. but would like to see him competing with others.
Massa got single point claiming the 8th Position.. he was not penalised for the accident with Bourdais...
steve slater said the same as Massa did several mistakes than Hamilton but in the end who gets penalised...
I am not at all happy with todays race :madness:
Bourdais penalised for racing a Ferrari... :madness:
Massa gets another point in Fuji
12/10/08
Sebastien Bourdais drove a great race to take the chequered flag in sixth position, 34 seconds behind race winner Fernando Alonso.
The AFP news agency reported soon after the race however that the French Toro Rosso driver has been handed a 25 second penalty dropping him down to tenth position and out of the points.
Bourdais has been penalised by the race stewards for an incident late in the 67-lap Japanese Grand Prix when he defended his position from Ferrari driver Felipe Massa. Exiting the pits, Bourdais kept to the right hand side of the circuit heading to turn one while Felipe Massa moved to the left to try and pass around the outside.
Massa turned into the corner and contact was inevitable but it is stunning that the stewards have penalised Bourdais (as he was on the inside and defending his position) and not Massa. Bourdais clearly did nothing wrong at all and once again the stewards make a mockery of the sport.
😡
Sebastian Vettel is promoted to sixth position ahead of Felipe Massa who picks up an additional point
😡 with Bourdais’ 25 second penalty. Mark Webber is promoted to eighth ahead of Nick Heidfeld and the ever-unfortunate Bourdais.
F1 : Bourdais penalised for racing a Ferrari... - FUJI - F1-Live.com