2022 season F1 Japan Station Main Race started this afternoon at Suzuka Track! But in the end, due to the rain at the scene, the competition officially started after nearly two hours of postponement. In the end, Verstappen won the championship with a 26-second advantage! Leclerc was punished for cutting the bend before the final crossing, and was finally won the runner-up by Perez behind him and won the third place.
Due to rain, the game was not able to run the full course. However, according to the points updated by the official website of F1 after the game, Verstappen won 25 points on this site, and now there are 366 points in total! Leclerc, who won the third place, ranked second with 253 points, so Verstappen had 113 points to lead against the latter! With only 112 points in the remaining four stops, defending the 2022 F1 annual driver championship four stops ahead of schedule!
Chinese driver Zhou Guanyu used a new set of semi-rain tires to make the fastest lap in the game in the Japanese station, but in the end, he missed the points because he did not enter the top ten. But compared to the competition itself, this year's Japanese station is full of dangers...
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Return to the calendar since the 2019 season, and the competitions at the Japanese station have attracted much attention! But just before the main competition began, it started raining over Suzuka!比赛也在这样的情况下展开争夺！五盏红灯熄灭比赛正式开始！ After the start, Leclerc performed well and directly occupied the inside and pushed Verstappen outwards. However, Verstappen was too fast and immediately overtook the opponent through the outside line in Turn 1 to get back to the top position! 红牛太强了！
As the rain increases, situations frequently appear on the first lap of the live track! Water After starting, he wanted to attack Alonso in front of him, but he started to slip before entering Turn 1. When there was a problem with braking, he collided with the former and slipped out of the track. Fortunately, he just rushed to the gravel and then continued to return to the competition. Zhou Guanyu also encountered a similar situation.
However, Ferrari 's Sainz is not so lucky. After passing Turn 11 in the first lap, the racing lost control and slipped onto the wall, and the tail was damaged and stayed next to the track. The safety car will be dispatched immediately! And Gasley's front wing was also damaged by hitting the advertising board that was flying out of Sainz's car.
Recently, Alben has had problems with racing due to problems with the racing engine. After communicating with TR, he said that there was a problem with the racing engine and he had to withdraw after stopping by the track. After that, as the rain further increases, the competition will show a red flag to signal the contestants to enter the station!
For Gasley, he was almost shocked at the same time as the red flag appeared. Gasley, who entered the station and replaced the front wing, wanted to quickly follow the car formation after leaving the station, but at the same time, a forklift also drove onto the track to rescue. The encounter between the two at Turn 12 made Gasley furious!
Although the FIA issued a statement after that, it was already in the red flag state at that time, the safety of drivers should obviously be put first! Considering the tragedy that also happened on the Japanese site Bianqi in 2014, it is quite terrifying that such a thing happened again. Just before the race, Leclerc also posted a message on his personal social media to mourn his friend Bianchi. Who would have thought that this time the drivers were so close to "Death".
Then several drivers issued a message to condemn this. Norris of McLaren was very excited and said that we had lost a life. The drivers took their lives at the starting line, especially in today's weather conditions. We want to race, but for this event... it is unacceptable!
, who has withdrawn from the race, said in a post-match interview that he doesn't understand why he has to risk the forklift onto the track in such a situation, because it is worthless.Bianchi's father, who had already suffered the pain of losing his son, also posted an article to criticize this incident: he did not respect the life of the driver! Disrespect for Bianchi!
In addition to this, the thrilling scenes were subsequently disclosed! Just after Sainz's car withdrew from the race, Matthew came to the track for road rescue before the driver slowed down! It is unbelievable that the response to sudden accidents was so poorly at Suzuka Raceway.
Beijing time at 2:09 Beijing time, the competition began to enter the countdown stage of 1 hour and 53 minutes, which indicates that the competition will end at 4:03 Beijing time anyway.
Beijing time at 2:29 Beijing time, according to weather forecasts, the rain over the Suzuka Track in Japan will continue to rain lightly to moderately rain in the next few hours, and there is still one and a half hours before the end of the competition.
Then Sky Sports gave a benchmark in the broadcast. According to the rules of the competition, if the competition is led by a non-safety car and has less than 25% mileage, only the top five have points (6-4-3-2-1), the race mileage is between 25% and 50%, and the top nine get points (13-10-8-6-5-5-3-2-1). If the race mileage reaches 50% but fails to exceed 75%, the top ten will still get points, but the points will change.
And as the countdown to the game time enters within 1 hour and 15 minutes, no one knows when the game will start and whether it will start! If the game ends with 0 points in the end, Verstappen only needs to win P6 in the US to win this year's world championship.
At 15:05 Beijing time, the FIA issued an announcement stating that the competition will start again at 15:15! After nearly 2 hours of pause due to weather, the game finally really started! It is estimated that the competition will be about 25% of the competition.
As the safety car leads 18 racing cars onto the track, the competition will also start again in the form of a rolling start! Whether it is Hamilton , Leclerc or Perez, they all reported to TR after returning to the track, but Bottas, who was in the back of the car, said that his vision was still not good when there was a car in front.
After leading a few laps, the safety roof lights go out! The game starts again! Unexpectedly, the competition just restarted, and Latifie and Watel directly entered the station to replace the first half-dry tire! Then Botas and Norris also entered the station and replaced the rain tires and . They wanted to surpass the car in front!
Not long after, Verstappen and Leclerc also entered the same circle, and Perez followed closely! However, there seemed to be some problems with the tire change, and the tire change was 1.1 seconds slower! This also caused him to drop some positions. After leaving the station, Zhou Guanyu squeezed between Verstappen and Leclerc! ! !
Leclerc then surpassed Mick and wanted to chase Verstappen. The latter was equipped with full rain tires with speed and was surpassed continuously! Leclerc then kept making purple, catching up with 0.8 seconds in one lap to 4.2 seconds. But after that, I don’t know what happened, but with 23 minutes left in the game, the gap with Verstappen suddenly reached more than 9 seconds!
or about 12 laps in 21 minutes, Russell surpassed Kakuda and Norris on the outside, showing his strong ability to chase Norris!
14 minutes left in the competition, Zhou Guanyu entered the station and changed to another half-rain tire! This is the first driver to stop for the second stop in the paddock. His lap speed was 3 seconds faster than Verstappen and 6 seconds faster than other drivers! On the
track, Hamilton, fifth, began to further attack on Okang in front of him, and in addition to 130R, he also bit his opponent in turns 16 and 17! However, Okang also showed a very high defensive level this time, resisting Hamilton's attack!
With 6 minutes left, Leclerc was also caught up by Perez behind him! However, compared to the cornering speed, Perez is difficult to surpass the Lock.
entered the last lap of competition, Leclerc continued to defend his advantage and suppress Perez, but in the final battle of continuous corners! Leclerc made a mistake and missed the brake point to cut the corner, and finally managed to cross the finish line in the second place, with Perez following closely behind! However, for this ranking, the tournament stated that after investigation, Leclerc was given a 5-second penalty, so Perez won the second place! Red Bull brought back one or two, and Leclerc won the third place.
In the end, Verstappen was the first to cross the finish line with a 26-second advantage to win the sub-station championship! Perez and Leclerc followed closely, with Ocon, Hamilton, Wattel, Alonso, Russell, Latifie and Norris ranked four to tenth! Chinese driver Zhou Guanyu made the fastest lap in the game with his new semi-rain tires, but he did not get points because he did not enter the top ten.
