Motorsports Reporter

It’s perhaps divine retribution that pouting Alonso crashes out of Japan in a solo accident, trying to catch up with Louie who shows signs of being the new Rainmeister!

And even Hamilton has to endure a humbling scare with a blameless collision but gets away relatively unscathed.

And ever devious Ferrari claims to be left out of the loop and violates an FIA tire mandate, a doubly stupid move that all but took their drivers out of the race, but for the brilliance of Raikkonen. While McLaren acted foolishly in not turning over the pilfered data immediately, was Ferrari really blameless in this?

And finally, bad vibes hit the luckless Red Bull teams, taking them off TWO likely (and unprecedented!) podium finishes when wunderkind Vettel ran into veteran Weber under a pace car slowdown.