2018 Japanese Grand Prix
The 2018 Japanese Grand Prix (formally known as the Formula 1 2018 Honda Japanese Grand Prix) was a Formula One racing event held on 7 October 2018 at the Suzuka International Racing Course in Suzuka in the Mie Prefecture, Japan. The race was the seventeenth round of the 2018 FIA Formula One World Championship and marked the 44th running of the Japanese Grand Prix. The 2018 event was the 34th time that the race had been run as a World Championship event since the inaugural season in 1950, and the 30th time that it had been held at Suzuka.
| 2018 Japanese Grand Prix | |||||
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Race 17 of 21 in the 2018 Formula One World Championship
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Layout of the Suzuka International Racing Course | |||||
| Race details | |||||
| Date | 7 October 2018 | ||||
| Official name | Formula 1 2018 Honda Japanese Grand Prix | ||||
| Location | Suzuka International Racing Course, Suzuka, Mie Prefecture, Japan | ||||
| Course | Permanent racing facility | ||||
| Course length | 5.807 km (3.608 miles) | ||||
| Distance | 53 laps, 307.471 km (191.054 miles) | ||||
| Weather | Partly cloudy | ||||
| Attendance | 165,000 | ||||
| Pole position | |||||
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| Mercedes | |||
| Time | 1:27.760 | ||||
| Fastest lap | |||||
| Driver | Sebastian Vettel | Ferrari | |||
| Time | 1:32.318 on lap 53 | ||||
| Podium | |||||
| First |
| Mercedes | |||
| Second | Mercedes | ||||
| Third |
| Red Bull Racing-TAG Heuer | |||
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Lap leaders | |||||
Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton entered the round with a fifty-point lead over Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel in the World Drivers' Championship. Hamilton's team-mate Valtteri Bottas sat third, a further 67 points behind. In the World Constructors' Championship, Mercedes held a lead of fifty-three points over Ferrari, with Red Bull Racing a further one hundred and fifty points behind in third place.