2015 Japanese Grand Prix championship points

15 comments on “2015 Japanese Grand Prix championship points”

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   72defender (@72defender)
   27th September 2015, 7:42

   It’s races like this when Mercedes are problem-free that you can truly see how much better than all the others they are.
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      Corrado (@)
      27th September 2015, 7:49

      But not that much anymore, I think. He was in clean air all race long and the gap between HAM and VET at the end of the race was 20sec… and not 30-40sec anymore… like it used to be. Plus, the pole time wasn’t like 1sec better than 3rd place anymore either.
      1. 

         Ed Marques (@edmarques)
         27th September 2015, 7:56

         And Vettel finished only 2 seconds behind Rosberg.
      2. 

         Kain
         27th September 2015, 8:53

         I don’t think Hamilton or Nico had to push once they were ahead. What is the use of stressing the engine. I’m sure if Vettel started gaining, the others would have responded.
      3. 

         72defender (@72defender)
         27th September 2015, 9:05

         They were never under threat! They stretch that gap at will when needed. When Rosberg made his last pit stop, he was about two seconds behind Vettel but made that time up even with a slower total pit time by the time they both pitted. They have performance in hand. 2016 might be closer but the end result will be the same.
      4. 

         zekeri
         27th September 2015, 9:35

         Mercedes definitely have the advantage with a big margin. But that margin is smaller compared to the beginning of the season. So much so that Rosberg has already started to have difficulties with staying ahead of Vettel.
      5. 

         Ivan Vinitskyy (@ivan-vinitskyy)
         27th September 2015, 10:23

         Current determining factor of how much ahead Mercedes is in race pace is second Mercedes driver on the road.
         Unfortunately it’s Nico now… and he hasn’t shown 2014 Bahrain pace for quite some time.
         1. 

            72defender (@72defender)
            27th September 2015, 20:08

            Seb is better than Nico! Full stop! To use the gap between Nico and Seb at race end to try and determine how much Ferrari may have caught up to Mercedes is not fair to Mercedes. Nico, in my opinion has caused his team points because he lacks the race craft of top tier drivers. Having said that, the better comparison would be Seb to Lewis.
   2. 

      Mayank (@mjf1fan)
      27th September 2015, 8:50

      I think 2016 will be much much closer between Mercs and Ferrari, for sure. And if McHonda gets themseves sorted out in winter like Ferrari did last winter, we could hope for a decent championship.
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   Jay Menon (@jaymenon10)
   27th September 2015, 8:05

   Here’s to Alonso leading the GP2 championship!
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   Ivan Vinitskyy (@ivan-vinitskyy)
   27th September 2015, 10:04

   Even if Ros wins the remaining races, Ham no longer needs to finish in second place, in fact he would take the title with 4 3rd places and 1 second.
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   Ivan Vinitskyy (@ivan-vinitskyy)
   27th September 2015, 10:25

   And Constructor’s Championship is likely to be decided in 2 weeks.
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   DaveW (@dmw)
   27th September 2015, 14:55

   Ferrari now have to consider getting to 2nd in the WDC to be a reasonable goal. Perhaps a bit better strategy would have cut the margin to 3 today. thst would be s huge victory for Ferrari. And a huge blow to Rosberg. Already he has only the same number of wins as vettel, which is absurd at this point.
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   Nick (@npf1)
   4th September 2016, 16:42

   Haven’t done this for a while and felt more exciting than anything during the race after lap 20 or so; I once again compared the standings this year after 14 rounds to last year’s standings.

   1 Lewis Hamilton 250 (=) -27
   2 Nico Rosberg 248 (=) +19
   3 Daniel Ricciardo 161 (+4) +92
   4 Sebastian Vettel 143 (-1) -75
   5 Kimi Raikkonen 136 (-1) +17
   6 Max Verstappen 121 (+6) +89
   7 Valtteri Bottas 70 (-2) -41
   8 Sergio Perez 62 (+2) +23
   9 Nico Hulkenberg 46 (+2) +8
   10 Felipe Massa 41 (-4) -56
   11 Fernando Alonso 30 (+6) +19
   11 Carlos Sainz Jnr 30 (+3) +18
   13 Romain Grosjean 28 (-4) -16
   14 Daniil Kvyat 23 (-6) -43
   15 Jenson Button 17 (+3) +11

   Teams:

   1 Mercedes 498 (=) -8
   2 Red Bull 290 (+2) +151
   3 Ferrari 279 (-1) -48
   4 Williams 111 (-1) -97
   5 Force India 108 (=) +31
   6 McLaren 48 (+3) +31
   7 Toro Rosso 45 (=) +1
   8 Haas 28
   9 Renault 6 (-3) -54
   10 Manor 1 (=) +1
   11 Sauber 0 (-2) -26
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      Nick (@npf1)
      4th September 2016, 16:42

      Crickey, I could at least post it in the 2016 comment section!

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