The typhoon here in Japan has caused the officials to move qualifying to Sunday.

 

and the crowd goes wild...

 

lol, nice picture

 

Anyone know when it's going to be on TV, now? I don't think my Tivo can react this quickly, considering the program titles on the guide won't change at this late notice.

 

FIA race director Charlie Whiting called a meeting at 5:30 p.m. local time to discuss the options open to the race organizers. They decided to abandon Saturday’s running altogether, cancel free practice and move qualifying to Sunday. Pre-qualifying will now start at 09:00 Japanese time, with qualifying proper kicking off an hour later. The race will begin as scheduled at 14:30.
Let's see, Sunday at 14:30 Japan would be Saturday 22:30 Pacific, then Sunday 9:00 Japan would be Saturday 17:00 Pacific. But Speed channel won't have qualifying live, so it's schedule at 7:30pm Pacific on Saturday and race at 10pm pacific.
I hope it was kind of clear

 

I stayed up and watched practice last night ...

 

Does anyone know what Speed will do to fill that 1hr or so spot?

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by ITRbroham &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">Does anyone know what Speed will do to fill that 1hr or so spot?</TD></TR></TABLE>

i will put .25 cents they will fill it with NASCAR stuff

 

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i will put .25 cents they will fill it with NASCAR stuff</TD></TR></TABLE>

I hope they fill it with Formula 1 Decade or Legends of Motorsports.

 

yahoo news photos 0wn





"Ferrari driver and Formula One champion Michael Schumacher of Germany plays at a bowling alley annex to Suzuka Circuit in Suzuka, southwestern Japan, Saturday, Oct. 9, 2004. Saturday's qualifying for the Japanese Grand Prix was rescheduled for Sunday morning before the afternoon's race due to a typhoon. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi) "

 

the word is that the whole racemight be cancelled

 

Damn Super Typhoon 22!

 

UPDATE: SPEED Channel's website says that the storm changed courses overnight and missed the track, and that the race will go on as scheduled.

 

My TiVo shows:

10:30pm - 12:00am EST Qualifying
12:00am - 12:30am EST Speed News Saturday
12:30am - 1:00am EST Pit Bull
1:00am - 3:30am EST Race

 

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That was a big typhoon. It shut down both Tokyo airports and most train services. Pretty much paralized the region for about 3 hours. The race should be run under cloudy and mostly dry conditions.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by Floyd &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">My TiVo shows:

10:30pm - 12:00am EST Qualifying
1:00am - 3:30am EST Race</TD></TR></TABLE>

I'm looking forward to keeping my neighbors up tonight (j/k)... always nice to see qualifying and then the race shortly afterwards (the same night).

 

I kinda really like this idea.

If you're going to require the fuel loads and tires to remain the same between qualifying and race anyway, why not qualify the morning of the race? One less day of expensive logistics, data analysis and PR to bullshit with when outside of europe, and one more free day for testing for the teams that need cheap testing during the races in europe.

*cues up weather machine*

 

Also, since I seem to be the only loser on the boards tonight...

TAKU, IF YOU CAN HEAR ME, <FONT SIZE="20">SHORT SHIFT!!!</FONT>

 

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Race starts in a few min. ...