Good morning everyone.

RYS48. Your comment on Lewis in the Japan Grand Prix seems right (roll on the championship), to my own view the overtaking manoeuvre at the first corner was a little iffy but not an unsporting one. Two bodies cannot occupy the same time & space, someone had give way, that Rosberg did this means that Mercedes team took priority, think Nico could have done more to defend 2nd place not dropping to fourth. Purely my view.

Afternoon all.

Clockwork - I presume you are referring to the superb stats as brought to us by the team's resident Statsmeister Jonnieb. Unfortunately for him, real life has conspired against him and so he has taken a leave of absence, so to speak. He is still returning results for the team though. I have spied his name reading the thread from time to time so hopefully he'll drop a line in here to let us know how things are.

By the way, how's your server doing these days after its problems a little while back?

domonijo I don't know how true it was but Lewis said that he had understeer at that point so his wide manoeuvre was not deliberate. Full marks for Nico in not shunting him (as at Spa last year) and well done too in returning to take second place. For sure it was a racer's (Lewis') response to an opportunity. Nico didn't seem angry or upset when asked about the 'incident' at the winners interview.

Good morning all

RTS48, much the same here but expected, brilliant moon until 00.20 (BST) then the clouds came with a vengeance, not that surprised.