How would you rate the Japanese GP?

10, outstanding. I guess we better start praying it rains in the last 2 gps as well.

9: not as good as the Nurburgring but better than anything else we've seen this season.

I gave it an 8. was a great race, shame about the start. really sorted the men out from the boys.It may have been a higher score from me but, my team didn't win. Rain has proved that we need it to spice things up.

I've given it a 7 as I felt that the conditions weren't really that brilliant and therefore precluded any decent racing which we may otherwise have seen.

"... and it's a 7 from the masked Welsh judge"

Can't give a ten because there's always room for imporvements.

Bad bits:

So many laps under safety car. Why not have an hour's rain delay instead?
Stupid penalty on Kubica.
Ferrari's woeful strategy - "Not told about tyres for start" - yeah, right! As for Massa pitting with about a dozen laps left, what on earth was that about?
Vettel taking Webber out - I really wondered if Mark might challenge Lewis.
Hamilton's highly suspect antics on the restarts - serious thought he'd be given a penalty because I'm sure the rules state no silly false starts.....

Good bits:

Alonso crashing.
Serious mix up of unusual names.
Both Ferraris making it from the front, to the back and back to the front.
Vettel crying in the pits after his crash with Webber.
Kubica and Massa fight in last lap or so. I was wetting myself over the last two or three corners!

That's the first time I've ever heard someone claim better conditions might mean better racing in F1..! It's completely the other way around in my opinion.

By comparison, if we'd had a rate the race on the A1GP race I'd have given BOTH the sprint race and the feature race 10s.

Superb clean racing by equally matched cars AND lots of overtaking - yes overtaking, at Zandvoort, which is not renowned for being the widest track on the planet.

7, not much overtaking but Webber almost jumping Hamilton at the pitstops was a high point.

I thought it was an exciting race full of drama and unpredictable things happening.

In my view the conditions were okish to race in and wish I was out there racing myself. It was very hard but it looked like decent fun as DC himself said after the race.

Sometimes wet races don't have lots of overtaking, but it is all the errors, the mix up of the order and that unpredictability that make them so exciting and they have a huge effect on the outcome of championships, this race certainly did anyway.

All seasons should have 3 or 4 wet races a year, rain is part of the test of motorsport.

I give this race a 9

Would have been 10 if we had had Vettel and Webber challenging for victory at the end which they would have done, they were both mighty quick in these conditions.