2014 Japanese Grand Prix

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Racing data
15th of 19 races in the 2014 Formula 1 World Championship
Route profile
Surname: 2014 Formula 1 Japanese Grand Prix
Date: 5th October 2014
Place: Suzuka
Course: Suzuka International Racing Course
Length: 255.208 km in 44 laps of 5.807 km

Planned: 307.471 km in 53 laps of 5.807 km
Pole position
Driver: GermanyGermany Nico Rosberg GermanyGermany Mercedes
Time: 1: 32.506 min
Fastest lap
Driver: United KingdomUnited Kingdom Lewis Hamilton GermanyGermany Mercedes
Time: 1: 51.600 min (lap 39)
Podium
First: United KingdomUnited Kingdom Lewis Hamilton GermanyGermany Mercedes
Second: GermanyGermany Nico Rosberg GermanyGermany Mercedes
Third: GermanyGermany Sebastian Vettel AustriaAustria Red Bull-Renault

The Japanese Grand Prix in 2014 (officially 2014 Formula 1 Japanese Grand Prix ) took place on 5 October at the Suzuka Circuit in Suzuka place and was the 15th race of the Formula 1 World Championship in 2014 . The race was overshadowed by the serious accident of Jules Bianchis , who died of serious injuries nine months later.

Reports

background

After the Singapore Grand Prix , Lewis Hamilton led the drivers' standings with three points ahead of Nico Rosberg and 60 points ahead of Daniel Ricciardo . Mercedes led the constructors' championship with 174 points ahead of Red Bull-Renault and with 292 points ahead of Williams .

At the Japanese Grand Prix, Pirelli provided the drivers with the tire compounds P Zero Hard (orange) and P Zero Medium (white) as well as Cinturato Intermediates (green) and Cinturato Full Wets (blue) for wet conditions .

There was only one DRS zone on the start-finish straight , the measuring point was 50 meters in front of the Casio Triangle .

Compared to the previous year, only detailed changes were made to the route. TecPro barriers were installed on the inside of the 130R to improve security, and the area between 130R and Casio Triangle was re-paved. In addition, the street lamps were moved on the outside of the spoon , they are now a little further behind the safety fences.

Marcus Ericsson (five), Jules Bianchi , Kevin Magnussen , Pastor Maldonado (four each), Valtteri Bottas , Adrian Sutil (two each) and Jean-Éric Vergne (one) went into the race weekend with penalty points.

With Sebastian Vettel (four times), Fernando Alonso (twice), Kimi Räikkönen , Hamilton and Jenson Button (once each), five former winners competed in this Grand Prix. Alonso and Hamilton each won the Japanese Grand Prix once when the race was held at Fuji Speedway in 2007 and 2008 .

The race stewards were José Abed (MEX), Paul Gutjahr (CHE), Takashi Mitarashi (JPN) and Mika Salo (FIN).

training

In the first free practice, Rosberg was the fastest ahead of Hamilton and Alonso. At Toro Rosso , Max Verstappen took over the cockpit from Vergne. It was first used on a Formula 1 weekend and, at the age of 17 and three days, became the youngest driver to ever take part in a Formula 1 World Championship racing weekend. In addition, Roberto Merhi took over the Caterham from Kamui Kobayashi . Verstappen retired shortly before the end of training with an engine failure. An originally planned assignment by Will Stevens at Marussia failed for formal reasons. In the second free practice, Hamilton took the lead from Rosberg. Bottas finished third. There have been several incidents. Kobayashi lost control of his vehicle at the beginning of the S-curves. Ricciardo hit the tire wall in the last chicane. Esteban Gutiérrez slipped off the track in the Spoon . Magnussen damaged the lawn carpet in the Spoon . Due to an electrical defect in Vergne's vehicle in the last few minutes, the training session was ended prematurely.

In the third free practice, Rosberg set the fastest time ahead of Hamilton and Alonso. Hamilton dropped out due to an accident in the final phase of training.

Qualifying

The qualifying consisted of three parts with a net running time of 45 minutes. In the first qualifying segment (Q1), the drivers had 18 minutes to qualify for the race. All drivers who achieved a time in the first section that was a maximum of 107 percent of the fastest lap time qualified for the Grand Prix. The best 16 drivers reached the next part. Hamilton drove the fastest lap. The Marussia, Caterham and Lotus pilots were eliminated.

The second section (Q2) lasted 15 minutes. The ten fastest pilots qualified for the third part of qualifying. Rosberg drove the fastest lap. The Sauber , Force India and Toro Rosso pilots were eliminated.

The final section (Q3) lasted twelve minutes, during which the first ten starting positions were awarded. Rosberg finally achieved pole position in front of Hamilton and Bottas.

Maldonado was moved ten positions back because of the use of the sixth internal combustion engine (ICE). Since he could only be moved back by five positions, he took a penalty transfer of five positions into the next race.

run

Before the race it was raining heavily, so that Pérez went off the track as he drove to the starting grid.

The race started behind the safety car because of the heavy rain . Ericsson spun into the gravel in the last corner but was able to continue after the Marshalls pushed him back onto the track. At the end of the third lap, the race was interrupted for about 15 minutes because there was too much water on the track. During the break, the rain subsided, so the race continued behind the safety car. After just a few hundred meters, Alonso had to park his vehicle at the edge of the track. During the following laps the drivers made contradicting statements over the radio. Hamilton asked several times for the race to be released because, in his opinion, the track was already so dry that it was possible to switch to intermediate tires. Vettel, however, complained about aquaplaning at a speed of 80 km / h . When the race was released on lap ten, Rosberg retained the lead. Button and Maldonado were the first drivers to switch to intermediate tires when the safety car came back inside. The other drivers followed suit over the next few laps, with Vettel passing Magnussen and Ricciardo with a later pit stop.

After all drivers had switched to intermediate tires, Rosberg was in the lead ahead of Hamilton, Button, Bottas, Massa, Vettel and Ricciardo. Vettel and Ricciardo were able to pass Massa and Bottas shortly afterwards. On lap 25 the track was so dry that the race management approved the use of DRS on the start-finish straight.

Hamilton eventually put Rosberg under pressure, overtook him on lap 29 and pulled away from him for a few seconds. Like all drivers, both changed tires one more time, but stayed on intermediates. There was a problem with Button's pit stop, he lost several seconds so that Vettel could pass.

After the rain got heavier again, Sutil lost control of his car at the seventh corner on lap 41 and hit the boundary. The vehicle was recovered without sending the safety car onto the track. During the recovery work, Bianchi lost control of his vehicle at the same point and slipped under the recovery vehicle. The roll bar of his vehicle broke and Bianchi was seriously injured. He was treated on the route and taken to the hospital by ambulance. At the hospital he was immediately performed emergency surgery and then transferred to the intensive care unit. Nine months later, Bianchi died as a result of the accident. It was the first fatal accident for the driver in a Formula 1 World Championship race since the San Marino Grand Prix in 1994 , in which Roland Ratzenberger and Ayrton Senna had a fatal accident.

Meanwhile, the race continued behind the safety car. Some drivers switched to rain tires and others, like Vettel, who had been third up to that point, to new intermediates. Button had already switched to rain tires immediately after the Sutil accident and had therefore fallen behind Ricciardo. Hamilton and Rosberg stayed out at the top. Hulkenberg stopped at the end of the pit lane. On the 46th lap the race was canceled with the red flag. The result was the status after the 44th round. Accordingly, Hamilton won ahead of Rosberg and Vettel. Ricciardo was fourth, Button fifth. Bottas, Massa, Hülkenberg, Vergne and Pérez completed the top 10. Although Pérez was not eliminated, he was not at the finish in the official final result and ranked tenth. The reason for this was that Pérez had been lapped by Hamilton on the 45th lap and thus had not finished the 44th lap before Hamilton had started his 46th lap.

Maldonado received a subsequent time penalty of 20 seconds for a drive-through penalty that had not been started. However, this did not change his result - 16th place.

In the world championship, the first three positions in both ratings remained unchanged.

Registration list

team No. driver chassis engine tires
AustriaAustria Infiniti Red Bull Racing 01 GermanyGermany Sebastian Vettel Red Bull RB10 Renault 1.6 V6T P
03 AustraliaAustralia Daniel Ricciardo
RussiaRussia Marussia F1 Team 04th United KingdomUnited Kingdom Max Chilton Marussia MR03 Ferrari 1.6 V6T P
17th FranceFrance Jules Bianchi
GermanyGermany Mercedes AMG Petronas F1 Team 06th GermanyGermany Nico Rosberg Mercedes F1 W05 Mercedes-Benz 1.6 V6T P
44 United KingdomUnited Kingdom Lewis Hamilton
ItalyItaly Scuderia Ferrari 07th FinlandFinland Kimi Raikkonen Ferrari F14 T Ferrari 1.6 V6T P
14th SpainSpain Fernando Alonso
United KingdomUnited Kingdom Lotus F1 Team 08th FranceFrance Romain Grosjean Lotus E22 Renault 1.6 V6T P
13 VenezuelaVenezuela Pastor Maldonado
MalaysiaMalaysia Caterham F1 team 09 SwedenSweden Marcus Ericsson Caterham CT05 Renault 1.6 V6T P
10 JapanJapan Kamui Kobayashi
45 SpainSpain Roberto Merhi
IndiaIndia Sahara Force India F1 Team 11 MexicoMexico Sergio Perez Force India VJM07 Mercedes-Benz 1.6 V6T P
27 GermanyGermany Nico Hulkenberg
United KingdomUnited Kingdom Williams Martini Racing 19th BrazilBrazil Felipe Massa Williams FW36 Mercedes-Benz 1.6 V6T P
77 FinlandFinland Valtteri Bottas
United KingdomUnited Kingdom McLaren Mercedes 20th DenmarkDenmark Kevin Magnussen McLaren MP4-29 Mercedes-Benz 1.6 V6T P
22nd United KingdomUnited Kingdom Jenson Button
SwitzerlandSwitzerland Sauber F1 Team 21st MexicoMexico Esteban Gutiérrez Clean C33 Ferrari 1.6 V6T P
99 GermanyGermany Adrian Sutil
ItalyItaly Scuderia Toro Rosso 25th FranceFrance Jean-Éric Vergne Toro Rosso STR9 Renault 1.6 V6T P
26th RussiaRussia Daniil Kvyat
38 NetherlandsNetherlands Max Verstappen
Remarks
  1. a b The Caterham with starting number 45 was used in the first free practice for Merhi. Kobayashi then took over the vehicle with his number 10 for the rest of the race weekend.
  2. a b The Toro Rosso with the start number 38 was used in the first free practice for Verstappen. Vergne then took over the vehicle with its number 25 for the rest of the race weekend.

Classifications

Qualifying

Item driver constructor Q1 Q2 Q3 begin
01 GermanyGermany Nico Rosberg GermanyGermany Mercedes 1: 33.671 1: 32.950 1: 32.506 01
02 United KingdomUnited Kingdom Lewis Hamilton GermanyGermany Mercedes 1: 33.611 1: 32.982 1: 32.703 02
03 FinlandFinland Valtteri Bottas United KingdomUnited Kingdom Williams-Mercedes 1: 34.301 1: 33.443 1: 33.128 03
04th BrazilBrazil Felipe Massa United KingdomUnited Kingdom Williams-Mercedes 1: 34.483 1: 33.551 1: 33.527 04th
05 SpainSpain Fernando Alonso ItalyItaly Ferrari 1: 34.497 1: 33.675 1: 33.740 05
06th AustraliaAustralia Daniel Ricciardo AustriaAustria Red Bull-Renault 1: 35.593 1: 34.466 1: 34.075 06th
07th DenmarkDenmark Kevin Magnussen United KingdomUnited Kingdom McLaren-Mercedes 1: 34.930 1: 34.229 1: 34.242 07th
08th United KingdomUnited Kingdom Jenson Button United KingdomUnited Kingdom McLaren-Mercedes 1: 35.150 1: 34.648 1: 34.317 08th
09 GermanyGermany Sebastian Vettel AustriaAustria Red Bull-Renault 1: 35.517 1: 34.784 1: 34.432 09
10 FinlandFinland Kimi Raikkonen ItalyItaly Ferrari 1: 34.984 1: 34.771 1: 34.548 10
11 FranceFrance Jean-Éric Vergne ItalyItaly Toro Rosso-Renault 1: 35.155 1: 34.984 - 20th
12 MexicoMexico Sergio Perez IndiaIndia Force India-Mercedes 1: 35.439 1: 35.089 - 11
13 RussiaRussia Daniil Kvyat ItalyItaly Toro Rosso-Renault 1: 35.210 1: 35.092 - 12
14th GermanyGermany Nico Hulkenberg IndiaIndia Force India-Mercedes 1: 35,000 1: 35.099 - 13
15th GermanyGermany Adrian Sutil SwitzerlandSwitzerland Clean Ferrari 1: 35.736 1: 35.364 - 14th
16 MexicoMexico Esteban Gutiérrez SwitzerlandSwitzerland Clean Ferrari 1: 35.308 1: 35.681 - 15th
17th VenezuelaVenezuela Pastor Maldonado United KingdomUnited Kingdom Lotus Renault 1: 35.917 - - 22nd
18th FranceFrance Romain Grosjean United KingdomUnited Kingdom Lotus Renault 1: 35.984 - - 16
19th SwedenSweden Marcus Ericsson MalaysiaMalaysia Caterham-Renault 1: 36.813 - - 17th
20th FranceFrance Jules Bianchi RussiaRussia Marussia Ferrari 1: 36.943 - - 18th
21st JapanJapan Kamui Kobayashi MalaysiaMalaysia Caterham-Renault 1: 37.015 - - 19th
22nd United KingdomUnited Kingdom Max Chilton RussiaRussia Marussia Ferrari 1: 37.481 - - 21st
107 percent time : 1: 40.163 min (based on Q1 best time of 1: 33.611 min)
Remarks
  1. Jean-Éric Vergne was moved ten positions back because of the use of the sixth internal combustion engine (ICE).
  2. Pastor Maldonado was moved ten positions back because of the use of the sixth internal combustion engine (ICE). Since he could only be moved back five positions, he will take a five-position penalty into the next race.

run

Item driver constructor Round Stops time begin Fastest lap
01 United KingdomUnited Kingdom Lewis Hamilton GermanyGermany Mercedes 44 3 1: 51: 43.021 02 1: 51,600 (39th)
02 GermanyGermany Nico Rosberg GermanyGermany Mercedes 44 3 + 9.180 01 1: 52.551 (15.)
03 GermanyGermany Sebastian Vettel AustriaAustria Red Bull-Renault 44 3 + 29.122 09 1: 51.915 (32nd)
04th AustraliaAustralia Daniel Ricciardo AustriaAustria Red Bull-Renault 44 3 + 38.818 06th 1: 52.231 (38.)
05 United KingdomUnited Kingdom Jenson Button United KingdomUnited Kingdom McLaren-Mercedes 44 4th +1: 07.550 08th 1: 51.721 (33rd)
06th FinlandFinland Valtteri Bottas United KingdomUnited Kingdom Williams-Mercedes 44 3 +1: 53.773 03 1: 54.103 (41st)
07th BrazilBrazil Felipe Massa United KingdomUnited Kingdom Williams-Mercedes 44 3 +1: 55.126 04th 1: 53,450 (39.)
08th GermanyGermany Nico Hulkenberg IndiaIndia Force India-Mercedes 44 4th +1: 55.948 13 1: 52.814 (28th)
09 FranceFrance Jean-Éric Vergne ItalyItaly Toro Rosso-Renault 44 3 + 2: 07.638 20th 1: 53,562 (35.)
10 MexicoMexico Sergio Perez IndiaIndia Force India-Mercedes 43 4th DNF 11 1: 53.556 (27.)
11 RussiaRussia Daniil Kvyat ItalyItaly Toro Rosso-Renault 43 4th + 1 lap 12 1: 54.021 (25.)
12 FinlandFinland Kimi Raikkonen ItalyItaly Ferrari 43 5 + 1 lap 10 1: 52.426 (36th)
13 MexicoMexico Esteban Gutiérrez SwitzerlandSwitzerland Clean Ferrari 43 3 + 1 lap 15th 1: 55,372 (40th)
14th DenmarkDenmark Kevin Magnussen United KingdomUnited Kingdom McLaren-Mercedes 43 5 + 1 lap 07th 1: 53,510 (38th)
15th FranceFrance Romain Grosjean United KingdomUnited Kingdom Lotus Renault 43 5 + 1 lap 16 1: 55.302 (28.)
16 VenezuelaVenezuela Pastor Maldonado United KingdomUnited Kingdom Lotus Renault 43 4th + 1 lap 22nd 1: 54.702 (26.)
17th SwedenSweden Marcus Ericsson MalaysiaMalaysia Caterham-Renault 43 4th + 1 lap 17th 1: 54.669 (27.)
18th United KingdomUnited Kingdom Max Chilton RussiaRussia Marussia Ferrari 43 3 + 1 lap 21st 1: 56.472 (25.)
19th JapanJapan Kamui Kobayashi MalaysiaMalaysia Caterham-Renault 43 5 + 1 lap 19th 1: 55.641 (29.)
20th FranceFrance Jules Bianchi RussiaRussia Marussia Ferrari 41 3 DNF 18th 1: 55.985 (27.)
21st GermanyGermany Adrian Sutil SwitzerlandSwitzerland Clean Ferrari 40 4th DNF 14th 1: 55.753 (25.)
- SpainSpain Fernando Alonso ItalyItaly Ferrari 02 - DNF 05 -

World Cup stands after the race

The first ten of the race got 25, 18, 15, 12, 10, 8, 6, 4, 2 and 1 point (s) respectively.

Driver ranking

Item driver constructor Points
01 United KingdomUnited Kingdom Lewis Hamilton Mercedes 266
02 GermanyGermany Nico Rosberg Mercedes 256
03 AustraliaAustralia Daniel Ricciardo Red Bull-Renault 193
04th GermanyGermany Sebastian Vettel Red Bull-Renault 139
05 SpainSpain Fernando Alonso Ferrari 133
06th FinlandFinland Valtteri Bottas Williams-Mercedes 130
07th United KingdomUnited Kingdom Jenson Button McLaren-Mercedes 82
08th GermanyGermany Nico Hulkenberg Force India-Mercedes 76
09 BrazilBrazil Felipe Massa Williams-Mercedes 71
10 MexicoMexico Sergio Perez Force India-Mercedes 46
11 FinlandFinland Kimi Raikkonen Ferrari 45
12 DenmarkDenmark Kevin Magnussen McLaren-Mercedes 39
Item driver constructor Points
13 FranceFrance Jean-Éric Vergne Toro Rosso-Renault 21st
14th FranceFrance Romain Grosjean Lotus Renault 8th
15th RussiaRussia Daniil Kvyat Toro Rosso-Renault 8th
16 FranceFrance Jules Bianchi Marussia Ferrari 2
17th GermanyGermany Adrian Sutil Clean Ferrari 0
18th SwedenSweden Marcus Ericsson Caterham-Renault 0
19th VenezuelaVenezuela Pastor Maldonado Lotus Renault 0
20th MexicoMexico Esteban Gutiérrez Clean Ferrari 0
21st United KingdomUnited Kingdom Max Chilton Marussia Ferrari 0
22nd JapanJapan Kamui Kobayashi Caterham-Renault 0
- GermanyGermany André Lotterer Caterham-Renault 0

Constructors' championship

Item constructor Points
01 GermanyGermany Mercedes 522
02 AustriaAustria Red Bull-Renault 332
03 United KingdomUnited Kingdom Williams-Mercedes 201
04th ItalyItaly Ferrari 178
05 IndiaIndia Force India-Mercedes 122
06th United KingdomUnited Kingdom McLaren-Mercedes 121
Item constructor Points
07th ItalyItaly Toro Rosso-Renault 29
08th United KingdomUnited Kingdom Lotus Renault 8th
09 RussiaRussia Marussia Ferrari 2
10 SwitzerlandSwitzerland Clean Ferrari 0
11 MalaysiaMalaysia Caterham-Renault 0

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