The GP4 Legend's Trophy (all links on page 1) - Next session - Season 1 Review, News & Transfers
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ASCARI TAKES MALAYSIA POLE AFTER SCHUMACHER PENALTY
Alberto Ascari will start the Malaysian Grand Prix from pole position, after Michael Schumacher was demoted three places for impeding in qualifying.
Schumacher had set the fastest time of the session with a 1:34.093, over eight-tenths quicker than anybody else, but was handed the penalty after being judged to have blocked Nelson Piquet during one of his flying laps.
The penalty results in Ascari claiming his first ever Legend's Trophy pole position, and the first time he has out-qualified his team mate all season.
Juan Manuel Fangio will start alongside Ascari on the front row of the grid, with Sebastian Vettel third, and Schumacher - who wrapped up the Driver's Championship at the last race in Brazil - demoted to fourth.
But while Ascari's first pole of the season was a talking point, most of the focus this weekend will be on the drivers and teams battling to avoid being relegated to Division 2 next season - with both the Driver's and Constructor's Championships already having been won.
Nino Farina was the quickest of the bottom seven drivers, his 11th place being promoted to 10th thanks to an incident between Piquet and Lauda that gave Piquet a three-place grid penalty. Lauda himself was given a five place penalty for the same incident in which he drove into the back of Piquet heading into turn 1, the Austrian will start the race in 16th, with the penalty potentially damaging his chances of survival.
FULL QUALIFYING RESULT
1) Alberto ASCARI (Ferrari)
2) Juan Manuel FANGIO (Mercedes)
3) Sebastian VETTEL (Red Bull)
4) Michael SCHUMACHER (Ferrari)
5) Lewis HAMILTON (McLaren)
6) Alain PROST (Renault)
7) Jim CLARK (Lotus)
8) Damon HILL (Williams)
9) Jackie STEWART (BRM)
10) Nino FARINA (Benetton)
11) Nelson PIQUET (Williams)
12) Kimi RAIKKONEN (Cooper)
13) Graham HILL (Lotus)
14) Ayrton SENNA (McLaren)
15) Mike HAWTHORN (BRM)
16) Niki LAUDA (Brabham)
17) Denny HULME (Cooper)
18) Fernando ALONSO (Renault)
19) Mika HAKKINEN (Mercedes)
20) Jack BRABHAM (Brabham)
21) Jody SCHECKTER (Benetton)
22) Emerson FITTIPALDI (Red Bull)
Jody Scheckter is bottom of the Driver's Championship and needed a good session, but will start the race on the back row of the grid.
Fangio mistimed his opening run and was held up badly by Scheckter, who was also on a flying lap.
Alain Prost once again performed well in his Renault, he starts sixth.
Piquet and Lauda have a coming together at turn one, an incident that saw both drivers receive penalties.
Vettel suffered an engine fire on his penultimate run, but had already set a time quick enough for fourth (promoted to third after Schumacher's penalty).
Fittipaldi starts last on the grid for the fourth race in a row - final times on the left.
Alberto Ascari will start the Malaysian Grand Prix from pole position, after Michael Schumacher was demoted three places for impeding in qualifying.
Schumacher had set the fastest time of the session with a 1:34.093, over eight-tenths quicker than anybody else, but was handed the penalty after being judged to have blocked Nelson Piquet during one of his flying laps.
The penalty results in Ascari claiming his first ever Legend's Trophy pole position, and the first time he has out-qualified his team mate all season.
Juan Manuel Fangio will start alongside Ascari on the front row of the grid, with Sebastian Vettel third, and Schumacher - who wrapped up the Driver's Championship at the last race in Brazil - demoted to fourth.
But while Ascari's first pole of the season was a talking point, most of the focus this weekend will be on the drivers and teams battling to avoid being relegated to Division 2 next season - with both the Driver's and Constructor's Championships already having been won.
Nino Farina was the quickest of the bottom seven drivers, his 11th place being promoted to 10th thanks to an incident between Piquet and Lauda that gave Piquet a three-place grid penalty. Lauda himself was given a five place penalty for the same incident in which he drove into the back of Piquet heading into turn 1, the Austrian will start the race in 16th, with the penalty potentially damaging his chances of survival.
FULL QUALIFYING RESULT
1) Alberto ASCARI (Ferrari)
2) Juan Manuel FANGIO (Mercedes)
3) Sebastian VETTEL (Red Bull)
4) Michael SCHUMACHER (Ferrari)
5) Lewis HAMILTON (McLaren)
6) Alain PROST (Renault)
7) Jim CLARK (Lotus)
8) Damon HILL (Williams)
9) Jackie STEWART (BRM)
10) Nino FARINA (Benetton)
11) Nelson PIQUET (Williams)
12) Kimi RAIKKONEN (Cooper)
13) Graham HILL (Lotus)
14) Ayrton SENNA (McLaren)
15) Mike HAWTHORN (BRM)
16) Niki LAUDA (Brabham)
17) Denny HULME (Cooper)
18) Fernando ALONSO (Renault)
19) Mika HAKKINEN (Mercedes)
20) Jack BRABHAM (Brabham)
21) Jody SCHECKTER (Benetton)
22) Emerson FITTIPALDI (Red Bull)
Jody Scheckter is bottom of the Driver's Championship and needed a good session, but will start the race on the back row of the grid.
Fangio mistimed his opening run and was held up badly by Scheckter, who was also on a flying lap.
Alain Prost once again performed well in his Renault, he starts sixth.
Piquet and Lauda have a coming together at turn one, an incident that saw both drivers receive penalties.
Vettel suffered an engine fire on his penultimate run, but had already set a time quick enough for fourth (promoted to third after Schumacher's penalty).
Fittipaldi starts last on the grid for the fourth race in a row - final times on the left.
FANGIO WINS CHAOTIC AND CONTROVERSIAL MALAYSIAN GRAND PRIX
Mercedes' Juan Manuel Fangio took victory at an action-packed Malaysian GP which featured more fuel-related issues.
Fangio finished over 35 seconds clear of Red Bull's Sebastian Vettel, with Michael Schumacher concluding the podium of a race that saw just six cars cross the finish line.
Just like in Hockenheim and Montreal, several cars ran out of fuel on the last lap, but here in Sepang the problem was even worse as five cars ran out of fuel earlier in the race while trying to head to the pits for their scheduled stop.
Before the fuel tanks became a talking point, though, there was plenty more action on track. Alberto Ascari, who had inherited pole position after Michael Schumacher was penalised for impeding in qualifying, kept his lead for the opening lap, with Schumacher himself making the most of a good start off the line to move himself up to second.
However, it all went wrong for Ferrari when the two drivers
crashed into each other at the start of lap two, Schumacher's attempted overtake proving disastrous, and sending both the red cars to the back of the field.
This gave Fangio the lead, ahead of Prost, Vettel, Hamilton and Damon Hill - the top five that would remain in this order until the pit stops on lap 16.
This is when the fuel problems started rearing their ugly head.
Whilst some cars - including Vettel and Hill - were able to make their way safely to their pit boxes, others ran out of fuel on the pit entry, including a very frustrated Lewis Hamilton, who suffered his seventh retirement of the season. Jack Brabham, Fernando Alonso, Mika Hakkinen and Jody Scheckter also failed to make the pit lane, a list that includes three of the drivers fighting against relegation.
Alain Prost had his own pit lane problems, as he was forced to spin his Renault in order to avoid Jack Brabham's ailing Brabham car, and the Frenchman was lucky not to hit the wall and retire from the race.
The Ferraris, meanwhile, were doing their best to carve their way through the field and try to salvage something from their earlier crash.
On lap 22, six laps after the others, Fangio came in for his stop, reducing his lead over Vettel to just five seconds. But just when we thought we could be in for a grandstand finish, several teams brought their cars in for an emergency stop on the last lap of the race when they realised they didn't have enough fuel to make it to the end.
Fangio did have enough fuel in his Mercedes, and took just his second win of the season - his first after the opening round at Spa. Others weren't so lucky, with Ascari, Hulme, Lauda, Fittipaldi, Hawthorn and both Lotus cars stopping on track on the final lap.
The LTO were quick to reassure drivers, teams and fans that different versions of the affected tracks will be used for next season, ensuring the fuel problems won't happen again, but that was scant consolation to the drivers battling to avoid dropping to division 2 who failed to finish the race.
The only driver of the bottom seven in the championship to score points in Sepang was Denny Hulme, who bagged two points for ninth, which means that five drivers are separated by just four points heading into the final race of the season. The two points for Cooper increase their margin over Brabham in the Constructor's Championship, with Benetton needing a very strong race in Suzuka to stand any chance of surviving.
FULL RACE RESULT
Malaysia - Sepang
(28 Laps)
Pos Driver Time/Speed
1st juan-manuel fangio 45m 42.755s
mercedes-AMG
2nd sebastien vettel +35.045s
red bull-renault
3rd michael schumacher +35.797s
ferrari-ferrari
4th damon hill +39.270s
williams-renault
5th alain prost +56.311s
renault-renault
6th nelson piquet +58.515s
williams-renault
7th graham hill -1 Lap
lotus-cosworth
8th jim clark -1 Lap
lotus-cosworth
9th alberto ascari -1 Lap
ferrari-ferrari
10th denny hulme -1 Lap
cooper-cosworth
11th emerson fittipaldi -1 Lap
red bull-renault
12th niki lauda -1 Lap
brabham-ford
13th mike hawthorn -1 Lap
BRM-BRM
14th kimi raikkonen Puncture
cooper-cosworth
15th lewis hamilton Didn't Finish
mclaren-mercedes
16th jack brabham Didn't Finish
brabham-ford
17th fernando alonso Didn't Finish
renault-renault
18th mika hakkinen Didn't Finish
mercedes-AMG
19th jody scheckter Didn't Finish
benetton-renault
20th ayrton senna Transmission
mclaren-mercedes
21st nino farina Didn't Finish
benetton-renault
22nd jackie stewart Didn't Finish
BRM-BRM
DRIVER'S CHAMPIONSHIP
1) Michael SCHUMACHER (Ferrari) 241
2) Juan Manuel FANGIO (Mercedes) 197
3) Sebastian VETTEL (Red Bull) 167
4) Alain PROST (Renault) 139.5
5) Ayrton SENNA (McLaren) 130
6) Alberto ASCARI (Ferrari) 129.5
7) Lewis HAMILTON (McLaren) 101
8) Damon HILL (Williams) 70
9) Graham HILL (Lotus) 68
10) Fernando ALONSO (Renault) 51
11) Jim CLARK (Lotus) 50
12) Nelson PIQUET (Williams) 42
13) Jackie STEWART (BRM) 39
14) Emerson FITTIPALDI (Red Bull) 27
15) Kimi RAIKKONEN (Cooper) 26
16) Nino FARINA (Benetton) 16
17) Niki LAUDA (Brabham) 15.5
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18) Jack BRABHAM (Brabham) 15
19) Mike HAWTHORN (BRM) 14
20) Denny HULME (Cooper) 12
21) Mika HAKKINEN (Mercedes) 9
22) Jody SCHECKTER (Benetton) 6
CONSTRUCTOR'S CHAMPIONSHIP
1) FERRARI 370.5
2) MCLAREN 231
3) MERCEDES 206
4) RED BULL 194
5) RENAULT 190.5
6) LOTUS 118
7) WILLIAMS 112
8) BRM 53
9) COOPER 38
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10) BRABHAM 30.5
11) BENETTON 22
The Ferraris enter the first corner in first and second place, with Fangio just behind.
Schumacher goes for the overtake at the start of lap two...
But it all goes horribly wrong and they both end up in the gravel.
Fangio inherited the lead, and did not relinquish it for the remainder of the race.
The Ferraris try to move their way back up the order, with Ascari doing a better job initially.
Most of the cars were on a one-stop strategy, but not all of them had enough fuel to make it to the pits.
Damon Hill avoided all the action around him to finish a solid fourth.
Fangio was able to retain his lead after his late scheduled stop.
Vettel makes an emergency stop on the last lap, but keeps second place with others behind him having to do the same.
Ascari's miserable race concluded with him being one of several cars to run out of fuel on the last lap, and was classified in eighth.
Fangio's win guarantees him second place in the Driver's Championship.
Mercedes' Juan Manuel Fangio took victory at an action-packed Malaysian GP which featured more fuel-related issues.
Fangio finished over 35 seconds clear of Red Bull's Sebastian Vettel, with Michael Schumacher concluding the podium of a race that saw just six cars cross the finish line.
Just like in Hockenheim and Montreal, several cars ran out of fuel on the last lap, but here in Sepang the problem was even worse as five cars ran out of fuel earlier in the race while trying to head to the pits for their scheduled stop.
Before the fuel tanks became a talking point, though, there was plenty more action on track. Alberto Ascari, who had inherited pole position after Michael Schumacher was penalised for impeding in qualifying, kept his lead for the opening lap, with Schumacher himself making the most of a good start off the line to move himself up to second.
However, it all went wrong for Ferrari when the two drivers
crashed into each other at the start of lap two, Schumacher's attempted overtake proving disastrous, and sending both the red cars to the back of the field.
This gave Fangio the lead, ahead of Prost, Vettel, Hamilton and Damon Hill - the top five that would remain in this order until the pit stops on lap 16.
This is when the fuel problems started rearing their ugly head.
Whilst some cars - including Vettel and Hill - were able to make their way safely to their pit boxes, others ran out of fuel on the pit entry, including a very frustrated Lewis Hamilton, who suffered his seventh retirement of the season. Jack Brabham, Fernando Alonso, Mika Hakkinen and Jody Scheckter also failed to make the pit lane, a list that includes three of the drivers fighting against relegation.
Alain Prost had his own pit lane problems, as he was forced to spin his Renault in order to avoid Jack Brabham's ailing Brabham car, and the Frenchman was lucky not to hit the wall and retire from the race.
The Ferraris, meanwhile, were doing their best to carve their way through the field and try to salvage something from their earlier crash.
On lap 22, six laps after the others, Fangio came in for his stop, reducing his lead over Vettel to just five seconds. But just when we thought we could be in for a grandstand finish, several teams brought their cars in for an emergency stop on the last lap of the race when they realised they didn't have enough fuel to make it to the end.
Fangio did have enough fuel in his Mercedes, and took just his second win of the season - his first after the opening round at Spa. Others weren't so lucky, with Ascari, Hulme, Lauda, Fittipaldi, Hawthorn and both Lotus cars stopping on track on the final lap.
The LTO were quick to reassure drivers, teams and fans that different versions of the affected tracks will be used for next season, ensuring the fuel problems won't happen again, but that was scant consolation to the drivers battling to avoid dropping to division 2 who failed to finish the race.
The only driver of the bottom seven in the championship to score points in Sepang was Denny Hulme, who bagged two points for ninth, which means that five drivers are separated by just four points heading into the final race of the season. The two points for Cooper increase their margin over Brabham in the Constructor's Championship, with Benetton needing a very strong race in Suzuka to stand any chance of surviving.
FULL RACE RESULT
Malaysia - Sepang
(28 Laps)
Pos Driver Time/Speed
1st juan-manuel fangio 45m 42.755s
mercedes-AMG
2nd sebastien vettel +35.045s
red bull-renault
3rd michael schumacher +35.797s
ferrari-ferrari
4th damon hill +39.270s
williams-renault
5th alain prost +56.311s
renault-renault
6th nelson piquet +58.515s
williams-renault
7th graham hill -1 Lap
lotus-cosworth
8th jim clark -1 Lap
lotus-cosworth
9th alberto ascari -1 Lap
ferrari-ferrari
10th denny hulme -1 Lap
cooper-cosworth
11th emerson fittipaldi -1 Lap
red bull-renault
12th niki lauda -1 Lap
brabham-ford
13th mike hawthorn -1 Lap
BRM-BRM
14th kimi raikkonen Puncture
cooper-cosworth
15th lewis hamilton Didn't Finish
mclaren-mercedes
16th jack brabham Didn't Finish
brabham-ford
17th fernando alonso Didn't Finish
renault-renault
18th mika hakkinen Didn't Finish
mercedes-AMG
19th jody scheckter Didn't Finish
benetton-renault
20th ayrton senna Transmission
mclaren-mercedes
21st nino farina Didn't Finish
benetton-renault
22nd jackie stewart Didn't Finish
BRM-BRM
DRIVER'S CHAMPIONSHIP
1) Michael SCHUMACHER (Ferrari) 241
2) Juan Manuel FANGIO (Mercedes) 197
3) Sebastian VETTEL (Red Bull) 167
4) Alain PROST (Renault) 139.5
5) Ayrton SENNA (McLaren) 130
6) Alberto ASCARI (Ferrari) 129.5
7) Lewis HAMILTON (McLaren) 101
8) Damon HILL (Williams) 70
9) Graham HILL (Lotus) 68
10) Fernando ALONSO (Renault) 51
11) Jim CLARK (Lotus) 50
12) Nelson PIQUET (Williams) 42
13) Jackie STEWART (BRM) 39
14) Emerson FITTIPALDI (Red Bull) 27
15) Kimi RAIKKONEN (Cooper) 26
16) Nino FARINA (Benetton) 16
17) Niki LAUDA (Brabham) 15.5
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18) Jack BRABHAM (Brabham) 15
19) Mike HAWTHORN (BRM) 14
20) Denny HULME (Cooper) 12
21) Mika HAKKINEN (Mercedes) 9
22) Jody SCHECKTER (Benetton) 6
CONSTRUCTOR'S CHAMPIONSHIP
1) FERRARI 370.5
2) MCLAREN 231
3) MERCEDES 206
4) RED BULL 194
5) RENAULT 190.5
6) LOTUS 118
7) WILLIAMS 112
8) BRM 53
9) COOPER 38
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10) BRABHAM 30.5
11) BENETTON 22
The Ferraris enter the first corner in first and second place, with Fangio just behind.
Schumacher goes for the overtake at the start of lap two...
But it all goes horribly wrong and they both end up in the gravel.
Fangio inherited the lead, and did not relinquish it for the remainder of the race.
The Ferraris try to move their way back up the order, with Ascari doing a better job initially.
Most of the cars were on a one-stop strategy, but not all of them had enough fuel to make it to the pits.
Damon Hill avoided all the action around him to finish a solid fourth.
Fangio was able to retain his lead after his late scheduled stop.
Vettel makes an emergency stop on the last lap, but keeps second place with others behind him having to do the same.
Ascari's miserable race concluded with him being one of several cars to run out of fuel on the last lap, and was classified in eighth.
Fangio's win guarantees him second place in the Driver's Championship.
SCHUMACHER STORMS TO POLE IN SOAKING SUZUKA
Michael Schumacher will start the season finale on pole position after setting the fastest time on a wet Suzuka circuit.
Sebastian Vettel forms an all-German front row of the grid, with Lewis Hamilton and Jim Clark qualifying third and fourth respectively.
Juan-Manuel Fangio, who will finish second in the inaugural Legend's Trophy Driver's Championship, behind Schumacher, starts fifth, with Alberto Ascari sixth.
With weather and track conditions constantly changing throughout the session, it was important to get out and set a lap time at the right time, and that's exactly what Schumacher did, posting a time 1.344 seconds quicker than anyone else could.
Mika Hakkinen also got his timing right, the relegation-threatened Finn starts eighth place - the highest of the seven drivers battling for survival - but will need to finish at least 6th to stand any chance of avoiding the drop.
Jody Scheckter also impressed, qualifying in the top ten for the first time this season, but the Benetton driver will need to convert his tenth place start into at least a fifth place finish or he will be driving in Division 2 next season.
Driver's Championship Standings - the relegation battle:
14) Emerson FITTIPALDI (Red Bull) 27
15) Kimi RAIKKONEN (Cooper) 26
16) Nino FARINA (Benetton) 16
17) Niki LAUDA (Brabham) 15.5
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18) Jack BRABHAM (Brabham) 15
19) Mike HAWTHORN (BRM) 14
20) Denny HULME (Cooper) 12
21) Mika HAKKINEN (Mercedes) 9
22) Jody SCHECKTER (Benetton) 6
Nino Farina qualified 12th, but the other drivers aiming for survival are further down the field and need a combination of skill and luck to score any points in tomorrow's race.
For the Constructors, Brabham's 20th and 22nd starting positions mean the eight points they need to outscore Cooper by to avoid relegation will be difficult to obtain. Benetton, meanwhile, had a much stronger session with 10th and 12th, but need to outscore Cooper by 16 points and Brabham by 9 in order to survive.
FULL QUALIFYING RESULT
1) Michael SCHUMACHER (Ferrari)
2) Sebastian VETTEL (Red Bull)
3) Lewis HAMILTON (McLaren)
4) Jim CLARK (Lotus)
5) Juan Manuel FANGIO (Mercedes)
6) Alberto ASCARI (Ferrari)
7) Damon HILL (Williams)
8) Mika HAKKINEN (Mercedes)
9) Alain PROST (Renault)
10) Jody SCHECKTER (Benetton)
11) Jackie STEWART (BRM)
12) Nino FARINA (Benetton)
13) Ayrton SENNA (McLaren)
14) Mike HAWTHORN (BRM)
15) Graham HILL (Lotus)
16) Kimi RAIKKONEN (Cooper)
17) Fernando ALONSO (Renault)
18) Nelson PIQUET (Williams)
19) Emerson FITTIPALDI (Red Bull)
20) Niki LAUDA (Brabham)
21) Denny HULME (Cooper)
22) Jack BRABHAM (Brabham)
Raikkonen struggled to 16th in his Cooper, but the British team are favourites to survive relegation with both Brabhams behind him on the grid.
Hakkinen was impressive for 8th, but needs a strong race to avoid relegation.
Vettel failed to score any pole positions all season, but was the only driver to qualify in the top 10 in every race.
Jim Clark set a quick first lap, which was good enough for 4th place.
Schumacher was once again the class of the field.
Heavy rain prevented anyone improving their times at the end of the session, final times on the left.
Michael Schumacher will start the season finale on pole position after setting the fastest time on a wet Suzuka circuit.
Sebastian Vettel forms an all-German front row of the grid, with Lewis Hamilton and Jim Clark qualifying third and fourth respectively.
Juan-Manuel Fangio, who will finish second in the inaugural Legend's Trophy Driver's Championship, behind Schumacher, starts fifth, with Alberto Ascari sixth.
With weather and track conditions constantly changing throughout the session, it was important to get out and set a lap time at the right time, and that's exactly what Schumacher did, posting a time 1.344 seconds quicker than anyone else could.
Mika Hakkinen also got his timing right, the relegation-threatened Finn starts eighth place - the highest of the seven drivers battling for survival - but will need to finish at least 6th to stand any chance of avoiding the drop.
Jody Scheckter also impressed, qualifying in the top ten for the first time this season, but the Benetton driver will need to convert his tenth place start into at least a fifth place finish or he will be driving in Division 2 next season.
Driver's Championship Standings - the relegation battle:
14) Emerson FITTIPALDI (Red Bull) 27
15) Kimi RAIKKONEN (Cooper) 26
16) Nino FARINA (Benetton) 16
17) Niki LAUDA (Brabham) 15.5
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18) Jack BRABHAM (Brabham) 15
19) Mike HAWTHORN (BRM) 14
20) Denny HULME (Cooper) 12
21) Mika HAKKINEN (Mercedes) 9
22) Jody SCHECKTER (Benetton) 6
Nino Farina qualified 12th, but the other drivers aiming for survival are further down the field and need a combination of skill and luck to score any points in tomorrow's race.
For the Constructors, Brabham's 20th and 22nd starting positions mean the eight points they need to outscore Cooper by to avoid relegation will be difficult to obtain. Benetton, meanwhile, had a much stronger session with 10th and 12th, but need to outscore Cooper by 16 points and Brabham by 9 in order to survive.
FULL QUALIFYING RESULT
1) Michael SCHUMACHER (Ferrari)
2) Sebastian VETTEL (Red Bull)
3) Lewis HAMILTON (McLaren)
4) Jim CLARK (Lotus)
5) Juan Manuel FANGIO (Mercedes)
6) Alberto ASCARI (Ferrari)
7) Damon HILL (Williams)
8) Mika HAKKINEN (Mercedes)
9) Alain PROST (Renault)
10) Jody SCHECKTER (Benetton)
11) Jackie STEWART (BRM)
12) Nino FARINA (Benetton)
13) Ayrton SENNA (McLaren)
14) Mike HAWTHORN (BRM)
15) Graham HILL (Lotus)
16) Kimi RAIKKONEN (Cooper)
17) Fernando ALONSO (Renault)
18) Nelson PIQUET (Williams)
19) Emerson FITTIPALDI (Red Bull)
20) Niki LAUDA (Brabham)
21) Denny HULME (Cooper)
22) Jack BRABHAM (Brabham)
Raikkonen struggled to 16th in his Cooper, but the British team are favourites to survive relegation with both Brabhams behind him on the grid.
Hakkinen was impressive for 8th, but needs a strong race to avoid relegation.
Vettel failed to score any pole positions all season, but was the only driver to qualify in the top 10 in every race.
Jim Clark set a quick first lap, which was good enough for 4th place.
Schumacher was once again the class of the field.
Heavy rain prevented anyone improving their times at the end of the session, final times on the left.
Hamilton doing great job, hopefully tomorrow can be really exciting to end the S1. 
Not impressed..
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JAPANESE GP: ASCARI WINS AS HAKKINEN AND BRABHAM SURVIVE
Alberto Ascari has won an extraordinary Japanese Grand Prix, but it was Mika Hakkinen and Jack Brabham who stole the headlines.
Ascari's victory - which came after both Michael Schumacher and Sebastian Vettel crashed out from the lead - is his third of the season, finishing over 23 seconds clear of the rest of the field.
Lewis Hamilton took second place after Juan Manuel Fangio had to pit late on with a throttle problem, the Argentine making it home in third.
But despite an imperious drive by Ascari to conclude a strong final few races of the season, it was Mika Hakkinen who impressed the most on the Suzuka circuit. The Finn converted his eighth on the grid to a superb fourth place finish to gain more than the points he needed to ensure his survival, and will compete in the top division once again next season.
Further down the field, Jack Brabham finished eighth to put himself in the other safe spot at the tail end of the Driver's Championship, pushing his teammate Niki Lauda into the relegation places.
The race started with Schumacher and Vettel on the front row of the grid, and despite a lot of pressure from the Red Bull, they maintained their positions for the opening few laps.
Meanwhile, further back, Denny Hulme outbraked himself for the hairpin on lap one, hitting the back of his teammate Raikkonen, who in turn hit Lauda, sending the Austrian into the wall and out of the race. Lauda would now have to hope that the drivers behind him in the championship didn't score enough points to overcome his slender advantage over them.
For the rest of the field, the opening exchanges became as much about keeping it on the island as about gaining positions, a feat several cars were unable to manage on the slippery-but-drying circuit. Jackie Stewart, Graham Hill, Mike Hawthorn and Ayrton Senna were just some of the drivers who lost control of their cars - mainly at the "S" curves - demoting them to the back of the field.
But whilst those drivers were able to continue racing, the same could not be said for Michael Schumacher when he lost control of his championship-winning Ferrari going into turn one. The German - who had already wrapped up the Driver's Championship - became the race's second retirement as his car reversed into the tyre barrier at speed.
Schumacher's retirement gave Sebastian Vettel the lead, but he became the second German to retire at turn one when he did a carbon copy of Schumacher's crash just three laps later.
Denny Hulme, meanwhile, had retired with a suspension failure, confirming his relegation.
Hamilton was now leading the race, but had both Fangio and Ascari less than a second behind him, and the three of them engaged in a classic battle for supremacy in the final race of the season.
Perhaps the biggest story of the race, however, was unfolding just behind them, as Mika Hakkinen had made the most of a good start and the retirements around him to move his Mercedes up to fourth place. Hakkinen needed to finish at least sixth to survive relegation, and looked like he had every chance of doing just that as he was able to keep the fast Alain Prost's Renault behind him.
Hamilton was the first car to pit, on lap 12, and looked to make his fresher tyres work to keep himself ahead of his main rivals. But with the car much heavier with fuel, his lap times suffered, and when Ascari and Fangio came in for their stops two laps later, they both came out ahead of the McLaren.
By this stage, Damon Hill had got past Hakkinen and into fourth, with Fernando Alonso, who was once again driving a superb recovery from a poor grid position, yet to stop and up into sixth place.
Ascari was able to build a five-second lead over Fangio, and, despite a wobble with three laps to go, kept his lead in tact for the remainder of the race. Fangio was looking good for second until a throttle issue forced him to pit on the penultimate lap, bringing Hamilton up to second.
Meanwhile, Hakkinen continued to keep up the pace, and brought his Mercedes home in fourth to guarantee his survival. Jack Brabham, who had a quiet race, was also safe thanks to his eighth, but Nino Farina, despite his tenth, was relegated.
In the Constructor's Championship, Benetton didn't score the 16 points they required to give them a chance of safety, and the Brabham team will be joining them through the trap door to Division 2 next season, falling just 3.5 points short of Cooper.
FULL RACE RESULT
Japan - Suzuka
(26 Laps)
Pos Driver Time/Speed
1st alberto ascari 41m 21.282s
ferrari-ferrari
2nd lewis hamilton +23.794s
mclaren-mercedes
3rd juan-manuel fangio +32.082s
mercedes-AMG
4th mika hakkinen +37.397s
mercedes-AMG
5th fernando alonso +41.780s
renault-renault
6th damon hill +47.787s
williams-renault
7th graham hill +48.272s
lotus-cosworth
8th jack brabham +53.043s
brabham-ford
9th nelson piquet +59.450s
williams-renault
10th nino farina +1m 00.322s
benetton-renault
11th mike hawthorn +1m 05.960s
BRM-BRM
12th emerson fittipaldi +1m 12.165s
red bull-renault
13th kimi raikkonen +1m 15.093s
cooper-cosworth
14th ayrton senna +1m 15.587s
mclaren-mercedes
15th jody scheckter -1 Lap
benetton-renault
16th alain prost Brakes
renault-renault
17th jackie stewart Didn't Finish
BRM-BRM
18th jim clark Loose Wheel
lotus-cosworth
19th sebastien vettel Didn't Finish
red bull-renault
20th denny hulme Suspension
cooper-cosworth
21st michael schumacher Didn't Finish
ferrari-ferrari
22nd niki lauda Didn't Finish
brabham-ford
DRIVER'S CHAMPIONSHIP - FINAL STANDINGS
1) Michael SCHUMACHER (Ferrari) 241
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2) Juan Manuel FANGIO (Mercedes) 212
3) Sebastian VETTEL (Red Bull) 167
4) Alberto ASCARI (Ferrari) 154.5
5) Alain PROST (Renault) 139.5
6) Ayrton SENNA (McLaren) 130
7) Lewis HAMILTON (McLaren) 119
8) Damon HILL (Williams) 78
9) Graham HILL (Lotus) 74
10) Fernando ALONSO (Renault) 61
11) Jim CLARK (Lotus) 50
12) Nelson PIQUET (Williams) 44
13) Jackie STEWART (BRM) 39
14) Emerson FITTIPALDI (Red Bull) 27
15) Kimi RAIKKONEN (Cooper) 26
16) Mika HAKKINEN (Mercedes) 21
17) Jack BRABHAM (Brabham) 19
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18) Nino FARINA (Benetton) 17
19) Niki LAUDA (Brabham) 15.5
20) Mike HAWTHORN (BRM) 14
21) Denny HULME (Cooper) 12
22) Jody SCHECKTER (Benetton) 6
CONSTRUCTOR'S CHAMPIONSHIP - FINAL STANDINGS
1) FERRARI 395.5
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2) MCLAREN 249
3) MERCEDES 233
4) RENAULT 200.5
5) RED BULL 194
6) LOTUS 124
7) WILLIAMS 122
8) BRM 53
9) COOPER 38
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10) BRABHAM 34.5
11) BENETTON 23
Schumacher fends off Vettel going into the first corner.
Lauda's early retirement gave him slim hope of survival.
Several cars had trouble negotiating the "S" bends at the start of the race.
Mike Hawthorn's survival hopes took a dent when he spun at the Degner curves.
Schumacher's season did not end how he wanted it to - in the barrier at turn one.
Denny Hulme became the first driver to be relegated when he suffered a suspension failure.
Prost nurses his Renault back to the pits with wing damage - promoting Nino Farina into the points.
Vettel follows in Schumacher's tyre tracks, throwing away his opportunity for his second win of the season.
Hamilton, Fangio and Ascari - all battling for the lead - try to negotiate their way past the lapped Scheckter.
Lewis Hamilton's earlier stop proved to be the wrong strategy.
Ascari and Fangio make their stops on the same lap, with the Ferrari coming out in the lead of the race.
Damon Hill made his way up to fourth before his pit stop, with Hakkinen (behind) and Brabham (background) successfully driving their survival races.
Jackie Stewart becomes the third driver to crash at turn one, his eighth retirement of the season - more than any other driver.
Hamilton loses his patience in trying to lap Jody Scheckter, and bumps him out the way - Scheckter received a 20-second penalty for ignoring blue flags, but finished last anyway, confirming his relegation.
Prost's eventful race - and season - concludes with a brake failure.
Ascari has a moment coming out of Spoon, but it wasn't enough to cost him the lead.
Ascari takes his third victory of the season, and finishes fourth in the Driver's Championship.
Hakkinen - who was in the relegation places for the whole season - finishes a superb fourth to avoid the drop.
A bittersweet day for Jack Brabham as his eighth place finish gives him survival but isn't enough to keep his team from being relegated.
Alberto Ascari has won an extraordinary Japanese Grand Prix, but it was Mika Hakkinen and Jack Brabham who stole the headlines.
Ascari's victory - which came after both Michael Schumacher and Sebastian Vettel crashed out from the lead - is his third of the season, finishing over 23 seconds clear of the rest of the field.
Lewis Hamilton took second place after Juan Manuel Fangio had to pit late on with a throttle problem, the Argentine making it home in third.
But despite an imperious drive by Ascari to conclude a strong final few races of the season, it was Mika Hakkinen who impressed the most on the Suzuka circuit. The Finn converted his eighth on the grid to a superb fourth place finish to gain more than the points he needed to ensure his survival, and will compete in the top division once again next season.
Further down the field, Jack Brabham finished eighth to put himself in the other safe spot at the tail end of the Driver's Championship, pushing his teammate Niki Lauda into the relegation places.
The race started with Schumacher and Vettel on the front row of the grid, and despite a lot of pressure from the Red Bull, they maintained their positions for the opening few laps.
Meanwhile, further back, Denny Hulme outbraked himself for the hairpin on lap one, hitting the back of his teammate Raikkonen, who in turn hit Lauda, sending the Austrian into the wall and out of the race. Lauda would now have to hope that the drivers behind him in the championship didn't score enough points to overcome his slender advantage over them.
For the rest of the field, the opening exchanges became as much about keeping it on the island as about gaining positions, a feat several cars were unable to manage on the slippery-but-drying circuit. Jackie Stewart, Graham Hill, Mike Hawthorn and Ayrton Senna were just some of the drivers who lost control of their cars - mainly at the "S" curves - demoting them to the back of the field.
But whilst those drivers were able to continue racing, the same could not be said for Michael Schumacher when he lost control of his championship-winning Ferrari going into turn one. The German - who had already wrapped up the Driver's Championship - became the race's second retirement as his car reversed into the tyre barrier at speed.
Schumacher's retirement gave Sebastian Vettel the lead, but he became the second German to retire at turn one when he did a carbon copy of Schumacher's crash just three laps later.
Denny Hulme, meanwhile, had retired with a suspension failure, confirming his relegation.
Hamilton was now leading the race, but had both Fangio and Ascari less than a second behind him, and the three of them engaged in a classic battle for supremacy in the final race of the season.
Perhaps the biggest story of the race, however, was unfolding just behind them, as Mika Hakkinen had made the most of a good start and the retirements around him to move his Mercedes up to fourth place. Hakkinen needed to finish at least sixth to survive relegation, and looked like he had every chance of doing just that as he was able to keep the fast Alain Prost's Renault behind him.
Hamilton was the first car to pit, on lap 12, and looked to make his fresher tyres work to keep himself ahead of his main rivals. But with the car much heavier with fuel, his lap times suffered, and when Ascari and Fangio came in for their stops two laps later, they both came out ahead of the McLaren.
By this stage, Damon Hill had got past Hakkinen and into fourth, with Fernando Alonso, who was once again driving a superb recovery from a poor grid position, yet to stop and up into sixth place.
Ascari was able to build a five-second lead over Fangio, and, despite a wobble with three laps to go, kept his lead in tact for the remainder of the race. Fangio was looking good for second until a throttle issue forced him to pit on the penultimate lap, bringing Hamilton up to second.
Meanwhile, Hakkinen continued to keep up the pace, and brought his Mercedes home in fourth to guarantee his survival. Jack Brabham, who had a quiet race, was also safe thanks to his eighth, but Nino Farina, despite his tenth, was relegated.
In the Constructor's Championship, Benetton didn't score the 16 points they required to give them a chance of safety, and the Brabham team will be joining them through the trap door to Division 2 next season, falling just 3.5 points short of Cooper.
FULL RACE RESULT
Japan - Suzuka
(26 Laps)
Pos Driver Time/Speed
1st alberto ascari 41m 21.282s
ferrari-ferrari
2nd lewis hamilton +23.794s
mclaren-mercedes
3rd juan-manuel fangio +32.082s
mercedes-AMG
4th mika hakkinen +37.397s
mercedes-AMG
5th fernando alonso +41.780s
renault-renault
6th damon hill +47.787s
williams-renault
7th graham hill +48.272s
lotus-cosworth
8th jack brabham +53.043s
brabham-ford
9th nelson piquet +59.450s
williams-renault
10th nino farina +1m 00.322s
benetton-renault
11th mike hawthorn +1m 05.960s
BRM-BRM
12th emerson fittipaldi +1m 12.165s
red bull-renault
13th kimi raikkonen +1m 15.093s
cooper-cosworth
14th ayrton senna +1m 15.587s
mclaren-mercedes
15th jody scheckter -1 Lap
benetton-renault
16th alain prost Brakes
renault-renault
17th jackie stewart Didn't Finish
BRM-BRM
18th jim clark Loose Wheel
lotus-cosworth
19th sebastien vettel Didn't Finish
red bull-renault
20th denny hulme Suspension
cooper-cosworth
21st michael schumacher Didn't Finish
ferrari-ferrari
22nd niki lauda Didn't Finish
brabham-ford
DRIVER'S CHAMPIONSHIP - FINAL STANDINGS
1) Michael SCHUMACHER (Ferrari) 241
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2) Juan Manuel FANGIO (Mercedes) 212
3) Sebastian VETTEL (Red Bull) 167
4) Alberto ASCARI (Ferrari) 154.5
5) Alain PROST (Renault) 139.5
6) Ayrton SENNA (McLaren) 130
7) Lewis HAMILTON (McLaren) 119
8) Damon HILL (Williams) 78
9) Graham HILL (Lotus) 74
10) Fernando ALONSO (Renault) 61
11) Jim CLARK (Lotus) 50
12) Nelson PIQUET (Williams) 44
13) Jackie STEWART (BRM) 39
14) Emerson FITTIPALDI (Red Bull) 27
15) Kimi RAIKKONEN (Cooper) 26
16) Mika HAKKINEN (Mercedes) 21
17) Jack BRABHAM (Brabham) 19
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18) Nino FARINA (Benetton) 17
19) Niki LAUDA (Brabham) 15.5
20) Mike HAWTHORN (BRM) 14
21) Denny HULME (Cooper) 12
22) Jody SCHECKTER (Benetton) 6
CONSTRUCTOR'S CHAMPIONSHIP - FINAL STANDINGS
1) FERRARI 395.5
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2) MCLAREN 249
3) MERCEDES 233
4) RENAULT 200.5
5) RED BULL 194
6) LOTUS 124
7) WILLIAMS 122
8) BRM 53
9) COOPER 38
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10) BRABHAM 34.5
11) BENETTON 23
Schumacher fends off Vettel going into the first corner.
Lauda's early retirement gave him slim hope of survival.
Several cars had trouble negotiating the "S" bends at the start of the race.
Mike Hawthorn's survival hopes took a dent when he spun at the Degner curves.
Schumacher's season did not end how he wanted it to - in the barrier at turn one.
Denny Hulme became the first driver to be relegated when he suffered a suspension failure.
Prost nurses his Renault back to the pits with wing damage - promoting Nino Farina into the points.
Vettel follows in Schumacher's tyre tracks, throwing away his opportunity for his second win of the season.
Hamilton, Fangio and Ascari - all battling for the lead - try to negotiate their way past the lapped Scheckter.
Lewis Hamilton's earlier stop proved to be the wrong strategy.
Ascari and Fangio make their stops on the same lap, with the Ferrari coming out in the lead of the race.
Damon Hill made his way up to fourth before his pit stop, with Hakkinen (behind) and Brabham (background) successfully driving their survival races.
Jackie Stewart becomes the third driver to crash at turn one, his eighth retirement of the season - more than any other driver.
Hamilton loses his patience in trying to lap Jody Scheckter, and bumps him out the way - Scheckter received a 20-second penalty for ignoring blue flags, but finished last anyway, confirming his relegation.
Prost's eventful race - and season - concludes with a brake failure.
Ascari has a moment coming out of Spoon, but it wasn't enough to cost him the lead.
Ascari takes his third victory of the season, and finishes fourth in the Driver's Championship.
Hakkinen - who was in the relegation places for the whole season - finishes a superb fourth to avoid the drop.
A bittersweet day for Jack Brabham as his eighth place finish gives him survival but isn't enough to keep his team from being relegated.
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