Japanese GP review: Controversy, confusion, champion!
The Race F1 Podcast
The Race Media Ltd
4.5 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 9 October 2022
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Scott Mitchell-Malm and Mark Hughes join Edd Straw to look back at Max Verstappen's Japanese Grand Prix victory, which sealed his second Formula 1 world championship - as well as the truck-on-track incident that so angered Pierre Gasly.
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic |
| 0:02.7 | The Races on. |
| 0:10.4 | The race is on, and Max Verstappan, |
| 0:12.8 | what a rain hit Japanese Grand Prix |
| 0:14.3 | to clinch the World Championship |
| 0:15.6 | in confusing fashion, |
| 0:17.2 | on a day when the drivers were furious |
| 0:18.8 | about a recovery vehicle on track. So did F1's |
| 0:22.3 | latest controversy overshadow 2020's Coronation Day and exactly what did go wrong at |
| 0:27.7 | Suzuki? I'm Edshaw and joining us to answer those questions and many more are Scott Mitchell |
| 0:32.4 | Malm and Mark Hughes. Well Scott, how's Japan? Because I'm not there for this weekend, I'm relying on |
| 0:39.2 | you to give me a taste of what's actually one of my favourite races. Yeah, it's been brilliant, |
| 0:44.9 | to be honest. I've loved being back. This is absolutely one of the great races to be at. |
| 0:53.6 | And one of the great places to come to. |
| 0:56.0 | This time I came through Tokyo. |
| 0:57.9 | Sometimes I come from a couple of times in the past. |
| 1:00.4 | I've come from Osaka. |
| 1:01.7 | And it's just been great. |
| 1:02.9 | And I'm really pleased as well that the race returned with a proper crowd |
| 1:07.2 | because the Japanese fans are unique. |
| 1:10.7 | It's quite beautiful in um, in, in, in a way, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I had a conversation with Alex Albin about this on Thursday, actually, and, um, he said that they mob you you here but they do it in such a quiet |
| 1:29.2 | and polite way and I just said it's almost like respectful enthusiasm is what I would describe |
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