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He and the team have raised it to another level.” We were looking at pitting for the fastest lap and so on. It’s a big step and not the end of his performance.”

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Max Verstappen is guaranteed of taking the season title if he wins the race today and also gets a bonus point for turning the fastest lap. We are minutes away from the race and we have wet weather conditions for the Japanese Grand Prix. CARLOS SAINZ CRASHES OUT OF THE RACE AND WE HAVE A SAFETY CAR IN THE VERY FIRST LAP. Racing has been suspended until the conditions improve and the drivers are back in the pit lane. Meanwhile, Vettel has spun and is now was back in the grid. The rain doesn’t relent and the attempts are abandoned. Max Verstappen holds on to the lead and Leclerc tracks him closely. Lando Norris tweets about the Pierre Gasly incident, where a recovery vehicle was on track while the AlphaTauri racer was passing in poor visibility and almost causing a potentially dangerous crash. The Ferrari racer had to cut a corner in the end and that would be under investigation. Drivers are moving to their car as the fans roar in approval. 40 minutes left on the race clock and Max Verstappen starts things off. Verstappen wins the Japanese Grand Prix and the world title after a prolonged rain delay.

Red Bull's Max Verstappen has officially clinched his second-consecutive Formula 1 championship after surviving a rain-soaked Japanese Grand Prix.

Max Verstappen has been crowned the 2022 Formula 1 world champion in bizarre circumstances after Charles Leclerc copped a late penalty in a heavily delayed ...

The new plan will allow the series to pump up the volume In a marathon Formula 1 Singapore Grand Prix, Sergio Perez’s victory was only assured hours after the race due to a stewards investigation. A testing return to the Singapore Grand Prix in tricky conditions created plenty of hazards and mistakes for the Formula 1 drivers to fall into.

Max Verstappen won the Japanese Grand Prix for Red Bull and secured his second Formula One world championship.

These incidents precipitated a terrifying moment for Pierre Gasly who had pitted on the opening lap and was out of sync with the rest of the field, behind the safety car with a tractor was on track attempting to deal with Sainz’s wreckage. Verstappen was consistently almost a second lap faster and closed out with ease, a fitting finale for the now-double world champion. Verstappen, though, was in complete control, his lap times hugely impressive given the conditions, quickly putting a full 12 seconds on Leclerc who was harried to the flag by Pérez and ultimately made the mistake that was crucial. The race opened in the rain and Verstappen made a slow start but clung on bravely to Leclerc around the outside of turn one to hold the lead as he entered the esses. After this tragedy the FIA introduced a slew of rules intended to prevent such thing happening again, including one which prohibited the use of recovery vehicles unless the safety car or a virtual safety car was deployed. He has become only the third driver to have secured the championship with four or more races remaining – Michael Schumacher took it in 2002 with six to go and Nigel Mansell in 1992 with five, while Sebastian Vettel won with four remaining also at the Japanese GP in 2011.

Max Verstappen has clinched his second Formula 1 world championship in confusing circumstances after winning a rain-shortened Japanese GP.

He added to Sky Sports F1: "It's a pretty crazy feeling, of course, because I didn't expect it when I crossed the line. 29 years, 137 days 25 years, 9 days

Max Verstappen clinched his second F1 drivers' championship in bizarre fashion on Sunday in the Japanese Grand Prix, only finding out in parc ferme after ...

In a marathon Formula 1 Singapore Grand Prix, Sergio Perez’s victory was only assured hours after the race due to a stewards investigation. A testing return to the Singapore Grand Prix in tricky conditions created plenty of hazards and mistakes for the Formula 1 drivers to fall into. After seemingly being stuck in limbo at AlphaTauri - too good to let go, but not a realistic prospect for a Red Bull return - Pierre Gasly has finally shaken off the shackles to join Alpine.

Max Verstappen shared his emotion as he described an “incredible” second F1 title win in dramatic circumstances at the Japanese Grand Prix, with his victory ...

“We’re leading the constructors’, so we really want to focus on that as well to try to secure that. Asked to compare his 2021 and 2022 title wins, Verstappen added: “I think the first one is always a little more emotional. “I’m so thankful to everyone who has been contributing to the success. But the second one is probably even more beautiful… It’s something I could never have imagined happening after last year already, fighting to the end and having such a good car again this year. What a year we’ve had so far – it’s been incredible.

Max Verstappen secures his second World Championship after a late penalty for Charles Leclerc.

[Lewis Hamilton](/formula-1-drivers/lewis-hamilton) to finish in the top five, while [Sebastian Vettel](/formula-1-drivers/sebastian-vettel) was sixth on his final appearance at the Suzuka circuit. [Sergio Perez](/formula-1-drivers/sergio-perez) at the final corner, which dropped him to third at the flag. There was some ambiguity over whether the Dutchman had secured the title due to the application of points, but it was later clear that full points were awarded due to a rule discrepancy about the race being restarted after a red flag.

Pierre Gasly and other drivers have slammed the "unacceptable" use of a recovery truck on track at the Japanese GP after narrowly avoiding the vehicle at ...

I hope this is the last time ever I see a crane on track!" "How's this happened!?" He added on social media: "How can we make it clear that we never want to see a crane on track? "What is this tractor on track?" "Car 10, which had collected damage and pitted behind the Safety Car, was driving at high speed to catch up to the field. After a chaotic and crash-heavy start to the race in torrential rain at Suzuka, a recovery vehicle was sent onto the track to collect Carlos Sainz's Ferrari at Turn 12.

Red Bull's Max Verstappen won a rain-impacted, red-flagged and shortened Japanese Grand Prix at Suzuka on Sunday to be crowned Formula 1 world champion.

In a marathon Formula 1 Singapore Grand Prix, Sergio Perez’s victory was only assured hours after the race due to a stewards investigation. A testing return to the Singapore Grand Prix in tricky conditions created plenty of hazards and mistakes for the Formula 1 drivers to fall into. After seemingly being stuck in limbo at AlphaTauri - too good to let go, but not a realistic prospect for a Red Bull return - Pierre Gasly has finally shaken off the shackles to join Alpine.

F1 drivers and team officials have widely denounced a tractor being allowed on the Suzuka circuit while cars were still on-track, while some commentators ...

These guys have so many tools to when I was racing, GPS and everything else, the conversations that they have with the FIA, and that was where I - when there was a double waved yellow and I knew there was a crash - I backed off automatically.” Car 10, which had collected damage and pitted behind the Safety Car, was then driving at high speed to catch up to the field,” they said. “The VSC was brought in for a reason. I know we’re under Safety Car, but in turn 12, there’s this...” while Guanyu Zhou explained “you can’t see it like five metres away”. You know there’s been a crash before-hand. “Should NEVER EVER be a tractor on track until the cars are all collected up behind a safety car or in the pits. “In relation to the recovery of the incident on Lap 3, the Safety Car had been deployed and the race neutralised. We lost a life in this situation years ago. I really don’t understand, that’s where to me it’s unacceptable. We risk our lives, especially in conditions like this. Barely a second after a red flag was called Gasly flew past the tractor, with minimal visibility due to the rain, declaring “What is this tractor on track?” The safety car was guiding the pack around the Japanese circuit and all drivers went past the tractor but Gasly was going at a much higher pace, having pitted due to damage, trying to catch up to the pack.

Pierre Gasly has received a 20-second time penalty for red flag speeding during the Formula 1 Japanese GP, but the stewards noted his “shock” at the vehicle ...

In a marathon Formula 1 Singapore Grand Prix, Sergio Perez’s victory was only assured hours after the race due to a stewards investigation. A testing return to the Singapore Grand Prix in tricky conditions created plenty of hazards and mistakes for the Formula 1 drivers to fall into. After seemingly being stuck in limbo at AlphaTauri - too good to let go, but not a realistic prospect for a Red Bull return - Pierre Gasly has finally shaken off the shackles to join Alpine.

Red Bull's Max Verstappen wrapped up a second successive Formula One title on Sunday with victory in a rain-shortened Japanese Grand Prix after his closest ...

Verstappen as a result leaves Japan with a 113-point margin over Perez, who now moves into second in the overall standings. Verstappen's win in Japan was his 12th from 18 races. The conditions forced a halt to the race on the second lap and, after the two-hour delay, it resumed with a rolling start.

More Formula 1 drivers have criticised the decision to send recovery vehicles onto the track during the rain-hit Japanese Grand Prix.

“We lost Jules because of that mistake. “What happened today is totally unacceptable! “We risk our lives, especially in conditions like this. Of course, the FIA, I am sure there will be such discussions going into the next race about why a recovery crane was on the circuit.” “And still at those speeds, we see nothing. “I think people don’t realise that.

The Dutchman, who now has back-to-back world titles to his name, is just one race win shy of tying the record of most F1 race wins in a season.

The Frenchman had pitted after the first lap and was catching up to the rest of the pack, who were behind the safety car when the crane was on track. The FIA released the following statement about the incident: “In relation to the recovery of the incident on Lap 3, the safety car had been deployed and the race neutralized. We also take into account the shock the driver experienced on seeing a truck on the racing line in the corner of the incident.” We’ve got lucky so far.” He also [said](https://twitter.com/autosport/status/1579000131025862656?s=20&t=d1si5jhI63ZlWQz5YrZUmQ) “there needs to be a full investigation into why there was a full recovery vehicle on the track.” “However, in mitigation of penalty, we take into account that although the speed could not by any measure be regarded as ‘slow’ as required in the regulations, it was slower that the maximum speed that could be achieved under these conditions. But for Nicholas Latifi and Sebastian Vettel, the decision to be the first two to pit after the race resumed had the risk of being disastrous. He was part of the decision to make the early switch to intermediates and this paid handsomely as he soon got into a potential points scoring position,” Dave Robson, Williams’s Head of Vehicle Performance, said in the team’s post-race recap. We are far away from P1 but the feeling in the car is something special when the fuel is light and the tire is fresh.” He briefly ran in the top three and managed to lead the grand prix, even if it was just a passing moment before Verstappen overtook him. It’s something I could never have imagined happening after last year already, fighting to the end and having such a good car again this year,” Verstappen said after the race. With just over 40 minutes to get racing in, the drivers emerged from the pits behind the safety car and mixed reports emerged in terms of visibility. “Of course, also we’re leading the Constructors so we really want to focus on that as well to try and secure that.

The FIA has launched an investigation into the timing and use of the recovery vehicles at Formula 1's Japanese Grand Prix, following driver alarm over the ...

In a marathon Formula 1 Singapore Grand Prix, Sergio Perez’s victory was only assured hours after the race due to a stewards investigation. A testing return to the Singapore Grand Prix in tricky conditions created plenty of hazards and mistakes for the Formula 1 drivers to fall into. Here’s a play-by-play account of the 10 key moments which decided how the season turned out

The McLaren driver recalled Jules Bianchi's tragic accident in Japan under similar circumstances in 2014.

[tweeted](https://twitter.com/SChecoPerez/status/1579001746210566144), “How can we make it clear that we never want to see a crane on track? I hope this is the last time ever I see a crane on track!” “I was two metres away from passing away today, which is not acceptable as a racing driver.” He said, “We were all in the pit lane a minute later [for the red flag]. Gasly was going approximately 200 kph—roughly 124 mph—when he came up on the crane, which was deployed to help with Sainz’s car. A chaotic opening lap unfolded as rain resulted in very low visibility for the 20 cars zipping around Suzuka Circuit.

The FIA has launched an investigation into the timing and use of the recovery vehicles at Formula 1's Japanese Grand Prix, following driver alarm over the ...

In a marathon Formula 1 Singapore Grand Prix, Sergio Perez’s victory was only assured hours after the race due to a stewards investigation. A testing return to the Singapore Grand Prix in tricky conditions created plenty of hazards and mistakes for the Formula 1 drivers to fall into. Here’s a play-by-play account of the 10 key moments which decided how the season turned out

Dutchman had to display patience and composure after recovering from a shaky start to dominate his rivals, winning 12 times in 18 races.

As a long-respected driver he recognised only too well that Belgium was the moment when Verstappen had the hammer on the opposition. At Monaco, where the car’s inherent understeer was clearly frustrating and not to his liking, he worked through it, kept it clean and with a superb strategy call from Red Bull managed third, crucially, in front of Leclerc. We have seen it with Lewis Hamilton and Michael Schumacher in the past but this is Max’s time right now, a combination of the Red Bull and his driving.” By the ninth round in Canada, Red Bull had taken the weight out and given Verstappen the sharp front-end he enjoys and his superb win there was indicative of how comfortable he was. He nailed qualifying in the wet and was unstoppable from there despite Ferrari potentially having the quicker race car. This season has belonged to Verstappen who delivered with the command and control of a champion, with an almost untrammelled confidence and ease, yet it was a title for which he most assuredly had to work.

The Dutch driver's Japanese Grand Prix victory, which came in a rain-marred event, was his 12th of the season.

That enabled Verstappen to pass Hamilton on the final lap of the race, inviting confusion and acrimony from Hamilton’s Mercedes team and many observers Two hours later, the race was resumed but only 28 of 53 laps were completed, with Verstappen leading all the way. With one more victory, the 25-year-old Dutch driver would tie the single-season record set by Michael Schumacher in 2004 and matched by Sebastian Vettel in 2013. “Once I crossed the line I thought: ‘It was an amazing race, good points again, but I’m not world champion yet,’” he later said. “The championship obviously did not come the way this time around,” he said, That gave Verstappen a 113-point lead with only 112 points possible over the final four races.

Red Bull team boss Christian Horner thinks Formula 1 made a mistake with the wording of revised points rules that handed Max Verstappen the world ...

In a marathon Formula 1 Singapore Grand Prix, Sergio Perez’s victory was only assured hours after the race due to a stewards investigation. A testing return to the Singapore Grand Prix in tricky conditions created plenty of hazards and mistakes for the Formula 1 drivers to fall into. After seemingly being stuck in limbo at AlphaTauri - too good to let go, but not a realistic prospect for a Red Bull return - Pierre Gasly has finally shaken off the shackles to join Alpine.

Max Verstappen found the points confusion over his Japanese Grand Prix victory and second Formula 1 world championship win “quite funny” after the race at ...

In a marathon Formula 1 Singapore Grand Prix, Sergio Perez’s victory was only assured hours after the race due to a stewards investigation. A testing return to the Singapore Grand Prix in tricky conditions created plenty of hazards and mistakes for the Formula 1 drivers to fall into. Here’s a play-by-play account of the 10 key moments which decided how the season turned out

Red Bull's Max Verstappen wrapped up a second successive Formula One title with victory in a rain-shortened Japanese Grand Prix.

Verstappen's win in Japan was his 12th from 18 races. The conditions forced a halt to the race on the second lap and, after the two-hour delay, it resumed with a rolling start. "We will try to push over the last four races to improve as a team and hopefully put more of a challenge next year." Verstappen as a result leaves Japan with a 113-point margin over Perez, who moved into second in the overall standings. Sunday's race was halted after two laps due to heavy rain but it resumed a little over two hours later, with drivers completing 28 of the scheduled 53 laps and full points awarded. "It's a crazy feeling of course as I didn't expect it when I crossed the line," said Verstappen amid confusion over whether reduced points under new rules introduced this year would apply with the race running to just over its halfway mark.

Max Verstappen won his second Formula 1 World Driver's Championship with a dominant wet weather victory at the end of a rain-disrupted, time-limited ...

With 20 minutes left on the clock, Leclerc began to struggle with his front tyres and Pérez began to close in on the Ferrari driver and soon the Mexican was just 3.9s behind his rival. Checo jumped to P2 and Max became world champion for the second time. Sebastian Vettel recovered from a lap one spin to take a well-deserved sixth place ahead of the second Alpine of Fernando Alonso, while George Russell was eighth ahead of Williams’ Nicholas Latifi. The impact flung a section of hoarding back onto the track and was hit by Pierre Gasly, with the result that the AlphaTauri driver was left to drive back to the pits with the fencing stuck to the nose of his car. On lap 23 the gap was down to a second and Leclerc, now 17 seconds behind the imperious Verstappen, was suddenly on the defensive. Ahead, Max cruised onward to eventually win the race by 27. Pérez took second and Verstappen was champion for the second time. In the end the race began after a two-hour delay. At the start, polesitter Verstappen made a fractionally slower start than front-row rival Leclerc and as the pair headed towards Turn 1, the Ferrari driver pulled ahead. Max led the field back into the pit lane and, with the rain gaining in intensity, the waiting game began. When he took the chequered flag the Dutchman had carved out a remarkable 27-second lead in just 28 laps to take his 12th win of the season. The grand prix eventually resumed with a rolling start behind the Safety car, and then it left the track, Verstappen simply powered away from second-placed Leclerc and the rest of the field.

Red Bull team principal Christian Horner has demanded an inquiry, with F1 sill raw from Jules Bianchi dying after hitting a crane at the 2014 Japanese Grand ...

Other drivers were equally angry they had not been warned the recovery vehicle was on the track as they circulated behind the safety car before the race was stopped. “I don’t understand how eight years later we can see a crane on the racing line. “We lost Jules eight years ago in similar conditions, with a crane on track,” he said. While the rules around the use of such vehicles has been changed since, once more cars were driving in heavy rain and limited visibility at Suzuka when a crane was deployed on track and it prompted a furious reaction. AlphaTauri’s Gasly was catching up with the field behind the safety car at 200km/h when he passed the recovery vehicle on the racing line. His anger at the incident was echoed across the grid as almost every driver condemned the decision to use the vehicle on track.

Gasly's close call comes eight years after Jules Bianchi died when his car crashed into a crane during a rainy Japanese Grand Prix.

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In the grand scheme of everything that happened on Sunday and in the context of Verstappen’s enormous points lead, it seems like a trivial matter, particularly given only two positions changed on the final lap. They’ll then go around one more time on the final lap, at the end of which the chequered flag will be shown and the race will be over. There was a delay of more than two hours between the race being red flagged and then resumed behind the safety car. Though the TV graphics were correct, the teams, drivers and media were all unclear about whether the race would be rewarded with full points or partial points. “We lost Jules eight years ago in similar conditions, with a crane on track or in the gravel,” Gasly said. But that can’t distract from the more egregious error of creating an unsafe circuit environment in already unsafe conditions. At the heart of that sorry episode was excess speed in wet conditions with external vehicles on track. “The most important thing is for the future,” Gasly said. When cars are bunched behind the safety car, they’re forced to drive at a safe speed and have the safety car driver guiding them out of harm’s way. But it’s yet another unnecessary and messy mistake from race control in conditions and on a day it needed to be better, whether to protect the safety of the drivers or protect the integrity of the championship. It ultimately lost him his life. But the point of contention isn’t whether the FIA followed the letter of the law; it’s that the truck was deployed to the track in borderline undriveable conditions and with one of the cars not yet in the safety car queue.

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Max Verstappen claimed the 2022 Formula 1 World Championship crown after winning his 12th race of the season in Sunday's Japanese Grand Prix.

In a marathon Formula 1 Singapore Grand Prix, Sergio Perez’s victory was only assured hours after the race due to a stewards investigation. A testing return to the Singapore Grand Prix in tricky conditions created plenty of hazards and mistakes for the Formula 1 drivers to fall into. Here’s a play-by-play account of the 10 key moments which decided how the season turned out

Rage rules at Suzuka as recovery vehicle sent out in heavy rain sets up deadly situation for Pierre Gasly.

“It's a great feeling, but when I crossed the line I didn't believe that we would have won the title right there.” In Suzuka, Verstappen started from the pole in pouring rain only for the race to be stopped after two laps as those several cars crashed. How today can we see a crane, not only in the gravel, on a race track, while we are still on the track? “We could have waited one more minute to get back in the pit lane and then put the tractors on track. So nearly all the teams figured Sunday's race was only going to be worth half points again. We saw what happened here a few years ago with our friend Jules and absolutely I don't care about what was the reason for that. We lost a life in this situation years ago. Eight years ago, on the same track, in the same conditions, with a crane,” Gasly fumed after the race. I just hope ever in the sport we never get to see this situation ever again. It triggered rage throughout the paddock because in 2014, French driver Jules Bianchi collided with a recovery vehicle on the Suzuka track. “It's disrespectful to Jules, disrespectful to his family. We all lost an amazing guy, an amazing driver, for the reasons that we know.