Hamilton Wins In Japan - Lead grows to 12 points heading into China.

It was the worst race of the season, in treacherous wet conditions, but ended as the best – outside of the Montreal race that is. After 19 laps behind the safety car the officials decided to let the boy's race. Wow! And what a race it was. Chock-a-block full of wheel to wheel slicing and dicing, plenty of excursions off the track for those who were overzealous in their driving and points paying positions for those who held it together.

For Slowlonso, however, it was a day of disaster. Hamilton blew him off without any problem. This was a race where you could clearly see the benefit of getting pole position on Saturday (better vision while driving in the rain, preferential pitting options etc…). Fernando slipped way back after his first pit stop, had several off-course excursions, collided with Vettel and then properly fucked himself by crashing heavily in turn six later in the race. Now he's 12 points back and let me just say it will be very hard to make them up over the last two races.
I got nervous as hell when Kubica came down the inside of Lewis going into a turn while driving like it was bone dry on the track. He consequently lost all grip and slammed right into the side of Hamilton spinning both cars around in what looked like a synchronized ballet move. Thankfully the McLaren is built almost to Ferrari Spec's, so Hamilton's car was not affected by the incident and he continued on. The stewards of the race soon penalized Kubica with a drive through penalty for his stupidity.
Outstanding drives go to Kimi (whom I wish would drive that way at EVERY race), Kovalainen, Coulthard, and everyone else who brought their cars to the finish line in one piece. Every driver earned their stipend during this race, that's for sure.
Hamilton now leads the title chase with 107 points to Alonslow's static 95, while Raikkonen is now up to 90 points. Massa, on 80, is now officially out of the title chase with two races remaining, and he will be expected to help Kimi in his quest for the Championship. Basically, that means he could also be helping Lewis by slowing up Alonslow if he is ahead of either of them during the races.
Well, that's all for now. It will get nail bitingly fun from here on in.

See you next weekend in Shanghai.