It was a tremendous drive from Michael Schumacher in Suzuka, but I think it was a very determined drive on his behalf because he wanted to atone for the recent bad races he's had.

Those include Monza, where he spun off, he had quite a few spins in China and ended up finishing twelfth, starting from the back, which was his worst ever race. I think he was stinging from the criticism, and he was determined to put things to rights.

Right from the beginning, in the wet practice on Friday he was dominant, he was fast, it was one of those races where you expected Michael to do well.

The weather in qualifying on Sunday played into his hands, because it dried out towards the end - he hammered everybody anyway.

Because of the typhoon that was threatened here but missed the circuit by about 40 miles there was no action at all on Saturday. The track was closed, so we had this unique situation of squashing pre-qualifying, qualifying and a race all into one day, so Sunday was a little bit of a rush and we were all a little bit breathless!

The teams that have been running well this year were able to make more educated judgements on tyre choices, able to make decisions about the set-up of the car and what is required around Suzuka.

The more experienced drivers had the advantage, especially the drivers like Sato, like Ralf Schumacher, who raced here in Formula Nippon in 1996 and was Formula Nippon champion, even Jacques Villeneuve raced extensively in Japan and around the Suzuka track in his early career.