So it happened after all. For a time the 2019 Japanese Grand Prix looked under threat from Typhoon Hagibis, to the point that on Saturday its host Suzuka circuit was close to a no-go area. But come Sunday’s race day the clouds parted both metaphorically and literally, and as scheduled we had a race. As in Formula 1 we always seem to. And this point is backed by fact as well as perception. Plenty of scheduled F1 meetings have been cancelled in advance of course, but it may come as a surprise that never once in the F1 world championship’s entire existence stretching all the way to 1950 has a race been ditched after a meeting has got going. Despite F1’s notorious modern-day...
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