Suzuka's sector one: The happiest place in Formula One

Jake Michaels is attending his third Japanese Grand Prix this weekend and spent first practice watching trackside in the famous sector one.

SUZUKA, Japan -- For a moment, just a brief moment, it's eerily silent. The only sound you hear is the light wind rustling against your shirt and tickling the back of your ears. It's overcast with no sun in sight, but it's warm. Warm and humid. In the distance, trucks are laboring by, occasionally poking out from behind the trees as they make their way north towards the city of Nagoya. You can't hear them at all.

Then the PA system springs to life. An energetic Japanese man's voice is blasted through speakers perched high on wooden poles, and the Suzuka…