Overall, a dominating race weekend for Current Formula 1 World Champion Lewis Hamilton. Lewis Hamilton was on pole for Sunday's Japanese Grand Prix, Hamilton took the advantage at the start and comfortably lead the race with team-mate Valtteri Bottas and Max Verstappen behind him and didn't look back leading all of the laps to conclude with a race win in this seasons Japanese Grand Prix for Lewis Hamilton's ninth race win of the season.
While, Hamilton's team-mate and Valtteri Bottas finished in second place in the other Mercedes to give the team its fourth one-two finish of the season, Bottas was thirteen seconds behind Hamilton at the end.
Meanwhile, Max Verstappen finished in third place in the Red Bull to complete the podium, Verstappen was fourteen seconds behind Hamilton at the end of the fifty-three lap race.
With Lewis Hamilton's win in Suzuka and Sebastian Vettel only managing a sixth place finish, but the gap is now improved from fifty points to sixty-seven points in the standings with four races to go.
Lewis Hamilton could win his fifth Drivers' Championship in Austin. If Hamilton wins the race, with Vettel no higher than third in the United States Grand Prix.
While Mercedes still leads F1 Constructors' Standings, the gap is now gained from fifty-three points to seventy-eight points for Ferrari who are second in the Constructors' Standings with four races to go.
Highlights of the race below, enjoy.
Rate the Teams and Drivers
Mercedes - 9
Lewis Hamilton - 10 (pole, race win)
Valtteri Bottas - 8 (finished second)
Ferrari - 6
Sebastian Vettel - 6 (finished sixth)
Kimi Räikkönen - 7 (finished fifth)
Red Bull Racing - 9
Daniel Ricciardo - 10 (finished fourth, fastest lap)
Max Verstappen - 9 (finished third)
Force India - 7
Sergio Pérez- 8 (finished seventh)
Esteban Ocon- 7 (finsiehd ninth)
Williams - 4
Lance Stroll - 4 (finished seventeenth, lap down)
Sergey Sirotkin - 4 (finished sixteenth, lap down)
Renault - 5
Nico Hülkenberg - 5 (DNF, Engine)
Carlos Sainz Jr. - 6 (finished tenth, lap down)
Toro Rosso - 6
Pierre Gasly - 6 (finished eleventh, lap down)
Brendon Hartley - 6 (finished thirteenth, lap down)
Haas - 5
Romain Grosjean - 7 (finished eighth)
Kevin Magnussen - 4 (Collision with Leclerc)
McLaren - 4
Fernando Alonso - 4 (finished fourteenth, lap down)
Stoffel Vandoorne - 4 (finished fifteenth, lap down)
Sauber - 6
Marcus Ericsson - 6 (finished twelfth, lap down)
Charles Leclerc - 7 (DNF, Spun off)
Next stop Circuit of the Americas, Austin in two weeks time for the United States Grand Prix.
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