Restricted development
There was a nice piece of historical symmetry to Giuliano Alesi’s unexpected victory at a rain-soaked Autopolis last weekend in just his second Super Formula start. Exactly a decade earlier, Kazuki Nakajima – the driver Alesi is standing in for – had done the same thing: he took a first win at only the second time of asking, with TOM’S at Autopolis in the wet.
The difference is, of course, that Nakajima was already a veteran rebuilding his career in Japan after seeing his Formula 1 dreams crumble as a
