Race report
Max Verstappen won the Japanese Grand Prix with a commanding drive for Red Bull, sealing the constructors’ title for the team and all but concluding the drivers’ title race as well. The Dutchman won with a flawless drive from pole unchallenged once he had kept his nose in front at the first corner.
McLaren’s Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri, with his first podium, were in second and third. Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc was fourth with Lewis Hamilton in fifth for Mercedes.
Here is Giles Richards’ full report:
Righto, that’s all from me this afternoon, or whatever time of the day it is from where you’ve been following along. The Japanese Grand Prix has been run and won and normal service resumed: Max Verstappen and Red Bull taking back first place. The result sealed the latter a sixth constructor’s championship and Verstappen will all but certainly take out the drivers’ title in two weeks’ time in Qatar to continue the domination. McLaren, though, will also head to the Middle East on a high after getting both Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri on the podium.
Giles Richards’s race report will be up on the site at some point soon and that will absolutely be worth hanging around for. But Thanks for following along.
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