Heavy Rain Postpones Qualifying in Japan

After a final practice session in which only Jamie Alguersuari and Timo Glock actually set a time, the chances of qualifying taking place were very slim. The rain that effectively cancelled P3 failed to ease and as a result Qualifying was finally cancelled at about 03:30 local time. This came after three delays at half-hour intervals. Qualifying will now take place tomorrow morning (weather permitting). So what does all this mean for the race? And the Championship? As far as the race is concerned, the delay wouldn’t affect the show at all. In fact, having qualifying and the race on the same day may make for an extremely tense and exciting competition. The same thing happened in 2004 and whilst the race itself was pretty standard (Schu...

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