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Formula 1 heads back to Japan for the first time since 2019 for a race around the highly rated and loved Suzuka Circuit. The figure-of-eight circuit has some of the fastest flowing sections of track on the calendar with zero margin for error. Expect to see full gravel traps as the drivers get back into the flow of this legendary circuit. Can Max Verstappen take the title at this circuit, as it's kind of a homecoming for Honda and the powertrain in the back of the champion's car (even if it is now RBPT). Can he take the title in the land of the rising sun? It's time for the JAPANESE GRAND PRIX!
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First Grand Prix
1987

Number of Laps
53

Circuit Length
5.807km

Race Distance
307.471 km

Lap Record
1:30.983
Lewis Hamilton (2019)​
 
Would be cool if Max can grab the championship here.
It's definitely the most significant place of the rest to the Red Bull - Honda story at Honda's own circuit at home.

USA would be cool for the growing Netflix crowd there who would welcome seeing a title crowned there.
Mexico is awesome in the stadium
Brazil is Brazil, always an epic place for a title decider.
Anything but an Abu Dhabi decider, mainly because this championship is over and it would have to be a massive disaster for Max to make the title continue to Abu Dhabi, he's been the best driver this season and doesn't deserve to bottle it like that.
 
It's definitely the most significant place of the rest to the Red Bull - Honda story at Honda's own circuit at home.

USA would be cool for the growing Netflix crowd there who would welcome seeing a title crowned there.
Mexico is awesome in the stadium
Brazil is Brazil, always an epic place for a title decider.
Anything but an Abu Dhabi decider, mainly because this championship is over and it would have to be a massive disaster for Max to make the title continue to Abu Dhabi, he's been the best driver this season and doesn't deserve to bottle it like that.
HeS not tHaT gOoD, hE juSt hAd tHe BeSt CaR.
 
It's definitely the most significant place of the rest to the Red Bull - Honda story at Honda's own circuit at home.

USA would be cool for the growing Netflix crowd there who would welcome seeing a title crowned there.
Mexico is awesome in the stadium
Brazil is Brazil, always an epic place for a title decider.
Anything but an Abu Dhabi decider, mainly because this championship is over and it would have to be a massive disaster for Max to make the title continue to Abu Dhabi, he's been the best driver this season and doesn't deserve to bottle it like that.
Didn’t Lewis clinch his 2019 title at COTA? That was fun to be at.
 
safe to say Mick will not be in that car next year, even if this one looked as much the fault of the conditions.

 
Was just watching the FP2 highlights on YT.
Latifi takes the suzuka west turn off and blames the car.

Frankly anyone here is better than him.
 
Was just watching the FP2 highlights on YT.
Latifi takes the suzuka west turn off and blames the car.

Frankly anyone here is better than him.
To be fair I'm pretty sure his comment about the car was its inability to do a 180 spin, not that it made him go the wrong way.
 
Even last week, he blamed the car when he screwed up.
Oh don't get me wrong, he's awful, but I just meant even he is beyond blaming the car for going the wrong way. It probably was his fault he didn't spin turn properly as well.
 
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After that, Kimi said the gate used to be open.
It had been the last time he went off there, which is why he tried to go through it again, but the first occasion was in 2001. Presumably someone shut it in the intervening 11 years.
 
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It had been the last time he went off there, which is why he tried to go through it again, but the first occasion was in 2001. Presumably someone shut it in the intervening 11 years.
I hate when that happens.
 
Any other team would have got rid of him a long time ago. It just makes me wonder how much money he actually brings with him, probably more than what Maldonado brought at this point. It’s definitely worth more than scoring the odd point with a better driver and still finishing last in the WCC.
 
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Any other team would have got rid of him a long time ago. It just makes me wonder how much money he actually brings with him, probably more than what Maldonado brought at this point. It’s definitely worth more than scoring the odd point with a better driver and still finishing last in the WCC.
Williams was basically pay driver central for a while so between Stroll and Sirokin and Latifi (and abit of Kubica to an extent), they were kinda desperate. Only way they would've gotten rid of him sooner is if someone commanded a much bigger wallet.
 
Yikes, Ricciardo knocked out by 0.003.

Really thought he was gonna be in Q3.

Verstappen moaning into the radio as usual, even tho he dangerously weaved to the left with that wheelspin. Felt that Australia qualifying PTSD.
 
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