2014 Japanese Grand Prix grid

2014 Japanese Grand Prix

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Row 1 1. Nico Rosberg 1’32.506
Mercedes
2. Lewis Hamilton 1’32.703
Mercedes
Row 2 3. Valtteri Bottas 1’33.128
Williams
4. Felipe Massa 1’33.527
Williams
Row 3 5. Fernando Alonso 1’33.740
Ferrari
6. Daniel Ricciardo 1’34.050
Red Bull
Row 4 7. Kevin Magnussen 1’34.242
McLaren
8. Jenson Button 1’34.317
McLaren
Row 5 9. Sebastian Vettel 1’34.432
Red Bull
10. Kimi Raikkonen 1’34.548
Ferrari
Row 6 11. Sergio Perez 1’35.089
Force India
12. Daniil Kvyat 1’35.092
Toro Rosso
Row 7 13. Nico Hulkenberg 1’35.099
Force India
14. Adrian Sutil 1’35.364
Sauber
Row 8 15. Esteban Gutierrez 1’35.681
Sauber
16. Romain Grosjean 1’35.984
Lotus
Row 9 17. Marcus Ericsson 1’36.813
Caterham
18. Jules Bianchi 1’36.943
Marussia
Row 10 19. Kamui Kobayashi 1’37.015
Caterham
20. Jean-Eric Vergne* 1’34.984
Toro Rosso
Row 11 21. Max Chilton 1’37.481
Marussia
22. Pastor Maldonado** 1’35.917
Lotus

*Ten-place penalty for power unit component change
**Ten-place penalty for power unit component change

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20 comments on “2014 Japanese Grand Prix grid”

  1. Nico’s almost got the pole position trophy sewn up.

    1. Who would have taken a bet on that before this season, Rosberg beating Hamilton to that cup

    2. @kingshark

      Well it is still closer though. I mean Monaco, Hungary and Ger 3 Ros poles with question marks next to it?. And you always say about Alo well he is no rocket, this year Ham has gone the Alo route and worked on Race pace. I mean look at the wins.

  2. Jeez those Mercs are fast!

    If all goes well, they should be lapping most of the field by the looks of things!

    1. thatscienceguy
      4th October 2014, 7:18

      Are we really awarding driver of the day based on a driver achieving the minimum expected result?

      1. thatscienceguy
        4th October 2014, 7:19

        Sorry wrong place. Too many beers to be working a phone…

  3. Driver of the day: Marcus Ericsson. Beat the Marussias and Kobayashi.

    1. With a front wing his team principal said would put them up with the Sauber and Lotus, and if I saw it right Kobayashi didn’t even have that new one.

      1. he did, but broke it in his fp2 crash.

        1. I think that was the old spec as well.

    2. thatscienceguy
      4th October 2014, 7:18

      Are we really awarding driver of the day based on a driver achieving the minimum expected result?

      1. Well, Mercs and Williams are “expected” to be at the top, Red bull was frankly quite disappointing. Everyone qualified similar to where they usually do. Ericsson rarely out qualifies Koyabashi let alone the Marussias. So that’s why I think he did a good job.

  4. Formula-I (@)
    4th October 2014, 7:11

    Great job by Ericsson

    1. Indeed. I always wonder how quick he would really be if not his “body mass”.

  5. Great lap by Rosberg! Hope this can mean that he can challenge and beat Hamilton on pace again! But the main story: Alonso. I hope Ferrari sees this. This man, is the man who they decided they wanna kick out. The man who out-qualified his World Champion teammate by 8 tenths, while Vettel was behind Ricciardo by 4 tenths. So Ferrari, I hope you are a failure for the next few years just because of your arrogance, and hope you fail with Vettel. Just remember Ferrari, if you are a loser for the next few year, remember you did this to yourself.

  6. Rosberg tonking Hamilton yet again on a so called drivers circuit.

  7. The 2015 Ferrari drivers are making row five their own already!

  8. If it’s wet, I wonder what will happen to the Williams. Will their pace advantage over the non-Mercedes teams dry out?

  9. Formula-I (@)
    4th October 2014, 10:34

    Just to inform that JEV will get 10 place grid penalty http://www.formula1.com/news/headlines/2014/10/16441.html

  10. This news is also on this site

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