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Layout of the Suzuka International Racing Course
Race details[1]
Date
7 October 2018 (2018-10-07)
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[2]
Pole position
Driver
Lewis Hamilton
Mercedes
Time
1:27.760
Fastest lap
Driver
Sebastian Vettel
Ferrari
Time
1:32.318 on lap 53
Podium
First
Lewis Hamilton
Mercedes
Second
Valtteri Bottas
Mercedes
Third
Max Verstappen
Red Bull Racing-TAG Heuer
Lap leaders
Motor car race
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.
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.
^"Japan". Formula1.com. Retrieved 30 September 2018.
^"Formula 1 Honda Japanese Grand Prix 2022 – Media Kit" (PDF). Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile. 5 October 2022. Retrieved 5 October 2022.
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