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A sole Ferrari of Fernando Alonso made it to the top ten. He finished seventh, while his team mate Felipe Massa finished 12th. Ferrari featured an 'all red' engine cover with no white 'Marlboro box'.The low-grip surface at the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve meant that most drivers sat out the first half of the 90 minutes. It became even more slippery by light drizzle at various stages.There were some off-track excursions, but none too far as to the concrete and the steel barriers. The only driver to not have set a timed lap was Lucas di Grassi who had a mechanical problem as his Virgin stopped at the Casino hairpin.Fastest of the new teams was Lotus's Heikki Kovalainen with a 1m21.869s in 19th position, while Hispania?s Karun Chandhok had an impressive run to finish 20th with a lap time of 1m21.977s, almost close to Kovalainen.Canadian Grand Prix free practice 1 times1. Jenson Button McLaren-Mercedes 1m 18.127sGEICO Toyota Mark Martin GoDaddy com Chevrolet Kevin Harvick
As those who follow the sport closely know only too well, Formula 1 is a hotbed of rumours and gossip - some of which turns out to be true, some of which does not.
One of the many whispers that have been knocking around recently is that the future of the Japanese Grand Prix is not especially rosy.
The story is that its place on the calendar is vulnerable because of all the new races Bernie Ecclestone is determined to put on, and that it could drop off the schedule in the next couple of years, or perhaps alternate with the new race in South Korea.
Should these claims turn out to have any foundation, I would not be the only one to be concerned about an F1 calendar without Japan - many of the drivers in F1 would feel the same way.
That's because the Suzuka circuit is arguably the greatest in the world, right up there with Spa-Francorchamps and Monaco as a place that tests the best drivers on the planet to the absolute limit.
It is also rich in history - a small but dramatic sample of which features in the latest edition of our classic F1 series.
We have four absolutely cracking races for you to choose from this time. But before I go through the options, a quick reminder of the rules.
We select four great past races, and you - by way of responses on this blog - tell us which one is your favourite.
We use those views to inform our selection of the race for which we will show the full 'Grand Prix' highlights programme of the time, alongside the shorter highlights packages we cut for all the races.
The slight complication is that we can only show the 'Grand Prix' programme when there was one - so there is no longer highlights option when a race falls within the ITV era - from 1997-2008.
As it happens, only one of the latest selections does - 1998. The others are 1990, '93 and '95.
And to head off the inevitable criticisms of that choice, I'd like to point out that 1976, 1989, 1994, 2000 and 2005 were all choices last year.
So, a quick run-down of what you're choosing from.The infamous 1990 race was the second chapter of the notorious Senna-Prost story in Japan.
In 1989, Alain Prost won the title after a hugely contentious race, from which Ayrton Senna was controversially disqualified following a collision between the two McLaren team-mates.
In 1990, with Prost now driving for Ferrari, they were again disputing the title, and the situation going into the race was the exact opposite of the year before - if neither finished, this time it would be Senna who would be crowned champion, not Prost.
Senna was determined to take his revenge - a determination that was heightened when pole position was switched to, in Senna's view, the 'wrong' side of the track.

Senna takes arch-rival Prost out at the start of the 1990 Japanese Grand Prix. Photo: Getty Images
Unknown to observers, he had decided that if Prost, who qualified second, beat him away from the line, the Frenchman would not make it around the first corner.
And, sure enough, Senna ploughed straight into the back of Prost's Ferrari at 160mph at the entry to Turn One, taking both men out of the race.
In the wake of all that drama, few remember the race itself.
It should have been a straight battle between Senna and Prost's respective team-mates, Gerhard Berger and Nigel Mansell.
But Berger spun out of the lead on the second lap, leaving Mansell apparently cruising to an easy victory from the Benettons of Brazilians Nelson Piquet and Roberto Moreno.
This, though, was another of those races that added to the Mansell's reputation for losing out for any one of a number of bizarre reasons.
This time, an over-enthusiastic getaway from his tyre stop broke the Ferrari's driveshaft, and his race was run, leaving his arch-rival Piquet to lead home a Benetton one-two.
Our next choice is 1993, and one of Senna's many brilliant wet-weather victories. The race is not remembered for that, though, but for the explosive F1 debut of Eddie Irvine.
The Northern Irishman had become a Suzuka expert in three years' racing in Japanese Formula 3000, and he was drafted in by Jordan for the final two races of the season.
Irvine was the talk of the paddock even before the race. He qualified eighth, four places up on team-mate Rubens Barrichello, and his media interviews had already made it clear that he was a unique, irreverent personality.
In the race, his impressive performance on the track continued when he jumped up to fifth at the start. But it was what he did later on in the race, after it had started to rain, that really made his name.
Senna was battling for the lead with Prost, who had already been crowned world champion for Williams in his final season in F1.
When Senna came up to lap Irvine, the Jordan was embroiled in a battle with Prost's team-mate Damon Hill.
Initially, Irvine let Senna past, but when Senna then struggled to pass Hill, Irvine unlapped himself, greatly angering the Brazilian, and went on to try to overtake Hill.
Irvine failed, Senna lapped him again, and then finally went past Hill - but by this time he had lost 15 seconds to Prost.
Senna went on to win but he was still cross about Irvine's cheekiness after the race and - after a couple of drinks - his friend Berger wound him up that he should go and have a word with the disrespectful newcomer.
Senna went off to the Jordan offices to confront Irvine, but he did not find him as apologetic as he expected. Instead, Irvine answered back, and the two got into an argument - all taped by the journalist Adam Cooper, a close friend of Irvine, who happened to be with him at the time.
Irvine at one point even said Senna had not been going fast enough and eventually it all got too much for Senna, and the two men came to blows.
The next choice is the 1995 Japanese race and, for those who have witnessed Michael Schumacher's struggles this season, a timely reminder of his former greatness.
The great German had already clinched his second consecutive title for Benetton. And it had been a painful year for his rival, Hill. The Englishman had the faster car, but Schumacher - in Hill's words from an interview I did with him a couple of years ago - "ran rings around us".
Suzuka was one of many examples of that, the German romping to a brilliant victory in a wet-dry race as Hill and team-mate David Coulthard struggled in his wake.
Hill spun twice at the same corner, Spoon, the second terminally, and Coulthard also suffered an embarrassing retirement, losing control on gravel that came out of his sidepods as he braked for 130R, the corner after his own off-course excursion at Spoon.
Our final choice is 1998, the race at which McLaren's Mika Hakkinen clinched his first world title.
The Finn went into the race with a four-point lead over Schumacher, who qualified his Ferrari on pole just ahead of Hakkinen.
But the German stalled on the grid and had to start from the back, allowing Hakkinen to coast to an easy win. Schumacher kept interest alive by fighting brilliantly back to third place, only for his tyre to explode and force him into retirement.
So, a great selection, I hope you'll agree. I look forward to reading your thoughts.
UPDATE 1000 THURSDAY 30 SEPTEMBER:
Thanks for all your responses so far. This was always going to be a tough choice, wasn't it?
I have to let you all know of a slight change of plan. Our multimedia team have discovered that there is a technical problem with the tape of the 1998 race which means that we will not be able to offer the highlights for that one next week. It's a shame, I know, but it's unavoidable, I'm afraid.
So there'll just be the three races next week, plus the long and short highlights of last year's race. Normal service will be resumed in two weeks' time for the new South Korea race, for which we will offer a selection of great races from circuits no longer on the calendar. It's worth waiting for, I can assure you.
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FONTANA , Calif. -- Danica Patrick was kept from her best career finish in the Nationwide Series by what her crew chief described as a "blatant" retaliatory collision late in the CampingWorld.com 300 at Auto Club Speedway on Saturday. As Kyle Busch crossed the finish line for his record 12th victory of the season, Patrick's mangled No. 7 JR Motorsports Chevrolet sat in the garage. Busch finished 1.034 seconds ahead of Brad Keselowski, who extended his points lead to 384 points with the second-place finish. Kevin Harvick, Carl Edwards and Joey Logano rounded out the top five. Patrick, who finished 30th, hinted her collision with James Buescher that collected two other cars with eight laps left may not have been by chance. She had raced as high as 10th and was in 13th at the time of the wreck, primed to finish on the lead lap for the first time and best her highest career finish through her first seven starts, 24th, in the Nationwide Series.
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Neil Goldberg, ESPN's top NASCAR producer and a veteran of television motorsports for almost 30 years, was arrested Tuesday and charged with several crimes in connection with an alleged "peeping tom" incident involving a neighbor, the Hartford (Conn.) Courant reported Wednesday. Goldberg, 52, who lives in the Farmington, Conn., complex where the incident happened, was arrested on a warrant that charged him with public indecency, simple trespass, disorderly conduct and breach of peace, police told the paper. The incident for which he was charged happened last month when a woman walking her dog called police and told officers she saw a man standing on a stool and peering into a window while he masturbated, the paper reported. When the man noticed the woman walking her dog, he stopped and went back inside his home, she told police. After further investigation, Goldberg was identified as a suspect and police told the Courant he admitted watching his neighbor get dressed in her bedroom. He turned himself in Tuesday to be formally charged and was released on $1,000 bail. He is scheduled to answer the charges in a Hartford courtroom later this month.
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Michael Schumacher spun off at turn 8 on his final lap and ended the session in the gravel. Despite this, he ended up ahead of his Mercedes team mate Nico Rosberg. They line up fifth and sixth.Ferrari had a disappointing day as Massa, three times a winner at this track, could only manage eighth fastest time while Alonso was eliminated in Q2.Ferrari team principal Stefano Domenicali spoke to BBC, ?For sure the performance in qualifying was not up to our standard. We don?t know why and we need to understand. For sure we were expecting much more performance.?Top ten drivers in Q31. Mark Webber Red Bull-Renault 1m 26.295s5 hour Energy Toyota Tony Raines Long John Silver s Chevrolet Tayler Malsam
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Car owner Richard Childress received only the slightest relief in his final appeal to National Stock Car Racing Chief Appellate Officer John Middlebrook, who on Tuesday upheld the severest penalties against Clint Bowyer's No. 33 Chevrolet team, but reduced the fine and the suspensions. In a statement released by NASCAR Tuesday afternoon, Middlebrook said he had reduced the fine to crew chief Shane Wilson from $150,000 to $100,000 and reduced the suspensions of Wilson and car chief Chad Haney from six weeks to four weeks. MIddlebrook upheld the most crucial penalties -- the deduction of 150 championship points from both car owner and driver. The driver points penalty almost surely killed any chance Bowyer had to win the Sprint Cup championship. "After reviewing all the data, presentation and factors involved, I am ruling NASCAR was correct in its decision to levy penalties," Middlebrook said. "I believe that the revisions that have been made to the penalties are consistent and fair to both parties involved." The RCR team was penalized by NASCAR on Sept. 22 after inspectors determined that the rear end of the car was too low following Bowyer's victory at Richmond and failed to meet NASCAR height specifications by a fraction of an inch. The points penalty sent Bowyer tumbling from second to 12th in points and a poor finish the following week at Dover meant his only realistic remaining hope to contend for the title was in a successful appeal.
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In the pampered world of Formula 1, it is not the norm to hear a driver offering to mop up a spilt cup of tea.
Neither is it usual to arrange to interview a driver only to find them intent on turning the tables by asking their own questions.
"I am a demanding person to interview," said Nico Rosberg, pondering the pool of tea I had knocked onto the pristine floor of the Mercedes motorhome.
"If people are interested [in me], I'm happy enough to let them know, but don't you think people would be more interested in you?"

Rosberg can hardly be blamed for wanting to maintain a low profile.
The 25-year-old arrived in Formula 1 four years ago with the 'son of 1982 world champion Keke Rosberg' tag, which he underlined by joining his Dad's former stable at Williams.
This season he is under an even greater shadow, that of seven-time champion Michael Schumacher, who came out of retirement to join his German compatriot at Mercedes.
"That was definitely a bit of a surprise," smiled Rosberg, who signed exactly a month before Schumacher.
But now Rosberg has got the better of his 41-year-old team-mate. He has out-qualified Schumacher in all but two races and finished below him in just three - and is again ahead of him on the Italian Grand Prix grid. And Rosberg is at last carving a reputation of his own.
"I measure myself against Michael because he's my team-mate," said Rosberg, who first raced against Schumacher as a teenager, finishing third to his second in a go-kart race.
"I'm happy if I can be in front of him but I have to try not to take these things on board too much.
"If I think 'I'm compared against Michael but apparently he says he is not the driver he was' - which I don't think he does say - it'll make me go crazy.
"I don't want to do that. I want to do well with the team, get a good car, win races and see where my team-mate is.
"If he is behind me, good; if he is in front of me then I need to work harder."
Rosberg's rise has been frustrated by the team's failure to convert last season's championship-winning Brawn into a lightning-quick Silver Arrow.
Despite taking the final podium spots in Malaysia, China and Britain, Rosberg is eighth in the standings, two points behind Renault's Robert Kubica.
"It has been a disappointment, yes. My results are disappointing. It's worse than last year, when I was seventh with Williams."
"I joined the team to win the championship this year. But I'm confident we can do better, don't you agree? Don't you believe in us?"
And so we are back to Rosberg's table-turning interrogation.
There is a sense that Rosberg's playful inquisition and dry sense of humour belie a desire to show he is not a carbon-copy F1 driver - that, and to defy the nickname 'Britney', after Ms Spears, which was given to him by his peers because of his blond hair, good looks and fashionable clothes.
"I've had better nicknames," laughed Rosberg, who speaks five languages. "But if they want to call me that it's fine. There are a lot of pleasurable sides about our job and there is fun that you can get out of it.
"It is as if you are the CEO of a great company at the age of 20; you are pushed into it and you get on with it. You learn to cope and it's a great experience for life.
"Take Ross [Brawn], how much have I learned from him about how to get the best out of people and how to build relationships? It's very valuable.
"I'm a happy person. It's a very difficult thing to achieve."
And, if he could choose between winning the world championship or happiness?
"Happiness," he decides. "I've actually made it one of my goals."