Mark Hughes: Trackside View
"Mount Fuji's peak sleeps behind a cloud blanket"
the beginning of the Friday afternoon session Mount Fuji's peak is sleeping behind a blanket of cloud. Even amid all this noise. How do you wake a giant some 3,776 metres below that peak?
Turn 10, Dunlop, sits at the lowest far corner of the track and precedes the twisty incline that eventually takes the cars back to the pitstraight. It's a rude, first gear interruption to a top-gear straight - six rapid-fire downshifts - and is already beginning to go uphill at its apex.
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