Buckle up, you're in for a ride! The 2005 Grand Prix of Japan was quite an Event! From the weather mixed qualifying, to the post start drama, Montoya's off and ensuing safety car phase and finally, Kimi's pass for the lead. But the real drama is lining up after the end of the race....
Throughout all the chaos, Narain managed no less than 31 laps before being lapped.
In this longest HLWITTLx season ever, after 18 of 19 races, it looked like the championship was all but wrapped up. It looked like nobody was willing to take any risks.
Except, garth_b. pungzilla has been on top of the championship for a record breaking 13 races in a row. Now he's got company! That's right, with only one race to go, we have a tie for the lead! garth_b has jetted into the lead and kismet is trailing by only two laps!
Here are th standings after the Japanese Grand Prix:
1 garth_b 124 +2 1 pungzilla 124 3 kismet 126 -1 4 mark f1 131 5 Viceroy 134 -1 6 sek 136 +1 7 SkorbiF1 140 +14 8 Apex 141 +1 8 Alapan 141 +4 8 magicalonso 141 +9 11 int2str 143 -1 11 jomaizta 143 +6 13 scheivlak 144 +6 14 DREW 146 -2 14 Jimmino 146 16 weasle 147 -8 16 Ric Bol 147 -2 18 fisichella_2001 151 +2 18 Moanaman 151 +6 20 dnbn 158 -9 21 Get Sirius 160 +1 22 Bono 161 -8 23 Zawed 162 -1 24 Makarias 164 25 Barty 166 +1 26 Marcel Schot 171 +1 27 StickShift 172 -21 27 KWSN - DSM 172 +1 29 IMHO 178 +1 29 LB 178 31 d_view7 205 +4 32 Czesc 207 33 Frogman 208 34 WillieF1 213 +2 35 turin 215 +2 36 D82 221 +2 37 arcsine 228 -6 38 Deeq 247 -4 39 armonico 261 40 Cyruz 323 41 mimin 369 42 Pine 394 43 Schuting Star 494 44 maxie 507 45 130R 557 46 AussieF1 731 47 Youichi 734 48 Estwald 736 49 Jecko 745 50 zac510 752 51 skylark68 790 52 Martin Mew 793 53 kNt 842 54 Crazy Canuck 854 55 shays 905 56 maxpapis 931 57 fifi 968 58 gerry nassar 973 59 QdfV 974 60 DeathMasteR 975 61 Pioneer 981 62 firebone 1012 63 Brutom 1017 64 brett_sequeira 1019 65 fumes 1020 66 fissijo 1021 67 Steve Williams 1024 68 DeLorean 1028 69 Locai 1029 70 Gilles4Ever 1067 71 Lukin 1068 71 Woking 1068 73 surya 1069 74 Admiral Thrawn 1070 74 pippin 1070 74 SchuOz 1070 77 Ventura 1071 78 Halcyon9 1072 78 miniman 1072 80 GilesGuthrie 1075 80 JulKeZ 1075 82 ferbus 1076 83 Gaffer Sports 1080 84 Brandstormer 1085 85 V Squared 1086 86 Jack Rabbit 1090
Don't forget your last guess this week....
Cheers,
Andre
PS: In case of a tie after the last race, the number of perfect guesses will be a tie breaker (i.e. in case of a garth_b/pungzilla tie, garth_b will take it).
