Impossible to guess the winner this season, much less with rain and changing track conditions. And even more so when we end with an all-or-nothing sprint lap after a red flag. Sunday’s event was exciting Tokyo which left us several race leaders until it arrived De Vries from fifth position to take the final victory. I would have entered the fight Pepe Marti, that energy was saved for the end, but Buemi He threw him off track and caused him to abandon him.
Race action.
A shame for the Spaniard who had taken the point on one of the most complicated circuits of the season and after starting in the Top-10 was saving itself to attack with the track a little drier. Those who put pressure on the rain triumphed at the beginning, but as the track dried out, opportunities appeared for those who played it dry.
There he triumphed Dennis, who is the new leader of the World Cup after finishing on the podium starting from the back of the field. The drama experienced is incredible, leaving at least four pilots fighting face to face for the World at the last appointment in mid-August in London. There is more because mathematically even 17 pilots arrive with optionsa debacle would have to occur for many and a mess for others, but that’s the math.
In the second of Tokyo he threw everything Da Costa He took the lead even with three seconds difference, but the track changed so much that everything started again. He lost performance and his options went down. He became a leader Mortara and then Rowland and Barnardbut they also lost their options. He already lost them before Wehrlein with Porsche who wasted the ‘attack mode’ and stayed in the middle of the grid. He did not score points and lost all the distance in the World Cup that he had achieved until then. Now they are third, five points behind the leader. In between, Evans, who also did not score and is now second, two behind. Dennis and Rowland 4th already at 14 waiting for failures and with all the emotion to London.
The penalty It’s that we didn’t see Pepe fight in this final race that ended after a multiple accident with a red flag and a thrown start after Mortara will trump Eriksson and create a plug. Good for the FIA for stopping the race and letting us enjoy a green flag finish. The accident of Pepe it was before because Buemi He took it out when he went inside the chicane and when he went past it he almost hit the wall, however, he had a car on the outside that he did send against the protections. “Very good, what he has done is very nice,” said Pepe very calmly, who was left out of the race with a meaningless movement.
He will fight to be the best rookie of the season and will also have his final in London where he can be ahead of Drugovich in the general classification from which only 3 points separate him.
