2014 Japanese Grand Prix preview

Hello again! It's the 26th time Suzuka hosts an F1 event and it seems that this GP is here to stay. So many championships have been decided here and so many legendary memories.

Take a look at Ayrton Senna's pole lap from 1988:

Senna-Prost battles in 1988-1990, Häkkinen-Schumacher in 1998-2000 and also Kimi Räikkönen overtaking Fisichella on the last lap and winning the race in 2005.

Lewis Hamilton won the very wet Japanese GP back in 2007 only it was at Fuji, not at Suzuka. I tried to find you guys some videos from Fuji but I only found crap. If you find any good videos then lucky you! I have the whole GP recorded at home but am not allowed to upload it to YouTube.

Let's move on..

This track is more important for Hamilton than Fuji was because his idol Ayrton Senna secured his championship here more than once. Hamilton will be very hungry for this win. Even more when he got the lead in the championship in the last race. 

My guess is if Hamilton's car works he will have a perfect weekend and Nico Rosberg will be right behind him. 

Sebastian Vettel has always been good here and he got hungry after the last podium. He will beat Daniel Ricciardo here but it won't be easy. He won't be unstoppable like last year.

Here are my predictions:

Pole position: Lewis Hamilton, Mercedes

Race:

1. Lewis Hamilton, Mercedes
2. Nico Rosberg, Mercedes
3. Sebastian Vettel, Red Bull

Fastest lap: Lewis Hamilton, Mercedes

Surprise: Romain Grosjean will have a surprisingly good race for a change. He likes this track.

First to retire (5 bonus points in the PREDICTORS LEAGUE): Pastor Maldonado

Post your own predictions to our F1-4-LIFE PREDICTORS LEAGUE!

The rules:

POINTS:  1st - 3  2nd - 5  3rd - 10 

HOW IT WORKS: the aim of the game is simply predict who comes where in the race (top3). A total of 18 points can be won on a race day. If you get winner and and 3rd place right but 2nd wrong you get 13 points same if you get 1 correct. eg. 2nd you get 5 points. If a driver wins the race and you said he would come 2nd or 3rd no points would be awarded. Same if he came in another position, and you predicted that wrong. A table will be posted up every race weekend. The point scoring system will change once the cars become more competitive. Everyone will say a merc 1,2 so it won't be close or fun. 

HOW TO SUBMIT YOUR PREDICTIONS: send an email to f14lifeblog@gmail.com or message the Facebook page to submit your predictions. You have until lights out to make them. If you submit them when the race has started they won't count. So be quick! like the Mercedes. 

THE PRIZE: the winner of the league will win themselves a admin place on the F1 4 LIFE page along side AE, JT, MW & MH. If you don't want to be an admin you are welcome to participate anyway. We may also come up with some other prize if it helps. 

That's it for today and if you want to send me feedback then email me: f14lifeblog@gmail.com