Formula 1 has headed back to Asia for the Japanese Grand Prix at the universally-loved figure-of-eight Suzuka Circuit. Motorsport Week looks at who’s hot and who’s not in the land of the rising sun. Wins Only three drivers on the current grid have triumphed at the Japanese Grand Prix. Lewis Hamilton has won on five occasions and in the hybrid era he and Mercedes have been the benchmark at Suzuka. Hamilton won in 2014, 2015, 2017 and 2018, with Mercedes’ clean sweep in the hybrid generation of racing facilitated by Nico Rosberg’s 2016 triumph. Hamilton’s first Japanese Grand Prix victory came at the rain-lashed 2007 race at Fuji Speedway, which briefly took...
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