Red Bull Obliterate the Opposition at the 2010 Japanese GP

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Published: October 10, 2010

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I think the 2010 Japanese Grand Prix was one of those races you could report either way. You could say that with multiple cars out by turn two, a close battle for the top five places, and a storming performance from Kobayashi, the race was great. However, it could also be said that the race was largely processional and a forgone conclusion.

It really does depend what spin you choose to put on it. Whilst I think both evaluations are pretty good, I think I will lean towards the first one. The race was pretty slick, but arguably there were enough talking points in the right places to make the race as interesting as any other…just not as exciting.

I suppose I should tackle the qualifying first! After all of the rain yesterday, qualifying was moved to 10:00 am (local time) on Sunday.

Unsurprisingly, the new teams all dropped out in Q1, and were joined by Sebastian Buemi. Q2’s big shocker came in the form of Filipe Massa failing to make it through and ending up in P12! Terrible for the Ferrari driver, but otherwise most of the cars you’d expect to see in Q3 made it.

Of course the Red Bulls dominated Q3 and although it was ridiculously close, Mark Webber was clearly upset to be beaten by his team mate. Lewis Hamilton did an excellent damage limitation job by qualifying best of the rest (his P3 was actually a P8 as the McLaren man took a penalty for changing his gear box).

Robert Kubica also did an excellent job to beat Fernando Alonso to P4, and Jenson Button took what many at the time thought was a risk by qualifying on the hard tyres and gaining P6.

So here was the grid:

Vettel, Webber, Kubica, Alonso, Button, Rosberg, Barrichello, Hamilton, Hulkenberg, Schumacher, Heidfeld, Massa, Petrov, Kobayashi, Sutil, Alguersuari, Liuzzi, Buemi, Trulli, Kovalainen, di Grassi, Glock, Senna, Yamamoto.

On to the race now and we got our first spectacular retirement be...
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