Japanese F1 Grand Prix

Mercedes SLS AMG Safety Car leads the way for the first part of the race. Image Source: The Telegraph

Yesterdays Japanese Grand Prix was a wild one, there's no doubt about that. Parts of the Suzuka Circuit were pretty much flooded before the race and a typhoon was spooling in the distance. The race had to start under a safety car, but even that didn't last long as a red flag came out on lap two. This forced the cars to wait in a line at the pit exit before following the safety car around the track again. Fernando Alonsos car stopped working shortly after they went back on the track, the likely cause being water somehow finding its way into the electrics while sitting in the pits. The safety car didn't come back in until about lap eight and the cars could finally go racing on the soaked Suzuka Circuit.