Paul Humphreys rambles on....

With Button's third place and Sato's fourth BAR are within two points of clinching the second place in the constructors championship. Today's race was pretty dismal for everyone except Shumi as he just walked away from the pack. I am sure others would disagree but I think it was a shame Button was asked to move out of the way of Sato he lost four seconds that would have been useful later on... However he is a team player so he did the right thing. His team do need to look at why the car is so slow when fat on fuel. Any car will be slower carting a ton of petrol around but BAR do seem to suffer more than others.

So on Saturday Button will know his fate BAR or Williams. I see Villneuve was not spectacular in this race like the Chinese race but I suspect he has not had the mileage to get to know the car to push it hard. Mind you Trulli was pretty good in his first qualification in the Toyota. The final race is Brazil in two weeks.

Comments:

No questions about it, it was an interesting race. All the action was back in P6-P12. Kimi and David didn't have a chance, Juan was lost in space, and Rubens was just stuck in traffic the whole race, which is sad. Rubens' set fast lap several times and if you watched live timing (formula1.com, thanx to Java!) you could see that Rubens' and Michael's times matched almost each lap that Rubens' wasn't directly held up. It all just came down to qualifying, again.

Frankly, I dunno about you, but I was bummed out that we didn't get to race in the wet. Granted Sasuka is a very dangerous track in the wet, namely in the final cicanes, but we'd have had a VERY interesting wet race.

Sato's performance was good but his strategy just sucked. It would have been nice to see him on the podium, and he's earned it... but not this year. What will be important I think is to give Rubens' a chance to finally win Brazil. The final race is going to be a very intersting one.

Posted by benr on October 10, 2004 at 01:26 PM PDT #