It was a Red Bull 1-2 snoozefest at the 2024 Japanese Grand Prix as Max Verstappen won followed by his Red Bull teammate, Sergio Perez, with Ferrari’s Carlos Sainz, Jr. claiming the third and final podium position. All the drama was in the first lap when RB [formerly AlphaTauri, Red Bull’s sister team] Daniel Ricciardo […]
Red Bull’s Max Verstappen claimed the pole position for the 2024 Japanese Grand Prix with his teammate, Sergio Perez, alongside him in the front row…
Red Bull was fastest in the third and final practice session for the 2024 Japanese Grand Prix, with Max Verstappen doing the honors…
McLaren was fastest in the wet second practice session for the 2024 Japanese Grand Prix, with Oscar Piastri doing the honors…
Red Bull was fastest in the first practice session for the 2024 Japanese Grand Prix, with Max Verstappen doing the honors…
Formula One has signed the Japanese Grand Prix at the Suzuka circuit for five more years – until at least the 2029 season – after successfully fending off a street race challenge from Osaka. Traditionally held in September, the 2024 Japanese Grand Prix is moving to a new home this year – in April – […]
Red Bull’s Max Verstappen won the 2023 Japanese in what began as a moderately contested race but eventually wound up being a snoozefest for Verstappen as the McLaren’s of Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri were a distant second and third, respectively, to finish out the podium places. Verstappen began the race on pole position and […]
Setting up an expected upcoming snoozefest, Red Bull’s Max Verstappen unsurprisingly claimed pole position for tonight’s 2023 Japanese Grand Prix after going fastest in all three practice sessions. The real drama is for the podium positions as McLaren, Ferrari and Mercedes will tussle for those spots as they did for the victory in last week’s […]
Red Bull was fastest again in the third and final practice session for the 2023 Japanese Grand Prix, with Max Verstappen doing the honors.
It was same old, same old as Red Bull was fastest again in the second practice session for this weekend’s 2023 Japanese Grand Prix, with Max Verstappen doing the honors…
After a refreshing diversion to competitive racing in last week’s 2023 Singapore Grand Prix, it was back to business as usual in Formula One this week as Red Bull was fastest in the first practice session for this weekend’s 2023 Japanese Grand Prix at Suzuka, with Max Verstappen doing the honors…
Alpine was the fastest in a wet first practice session for this weekend’s 2022 Japanese Grand Prix, with Fernando Alonso doing the honors. 2022 Japanese Grand Prix – Top 10 First Practice Session 1] Fernando Alonso Alpine 1:42.248 2] Carlos Sainz Jr. Ferrari 1:42.563 3] Charles Leclerc Ferrari 1:42.634 4] Esteban Ocon Alpine 1:43.022 5] […]
Not too surprisingly, the 2021 Japanese Grand Prix – scheduled for October 10, 2021 – has been cancelled due to the continued rise in Delta variant Covid-19 cases in the country. “The decision has been taken by the Japanese government to cancel the race this season due to ongoing complexities of the pandemic,” said Formula […]
The Japanese Grand Prix will continue to be held at Suzuka through the 2024 Formula One racing season according to an announcement from Formula 1. The last race was held in 2019 – with Mercedes’ Valtteri Bottas winning that – but last year’s race was cancelled due to the Covid-19 pandemic and this year’s race […]
Formula One has announced that three 2020 Grands Prix – the Azerbaijan, Japanese and Singapore – have been cancelled due to the ongoing recovery process from the worldwide coronavirus pandemic. In the case of the 2020 Japanese Grand Prix which was to be held at Suzuka, an additional reason is Japan’s ban on many international […]
After winds increased 100 mph earlier today, Tropical Storm Hagibis was upgraded to Super Typhoon status and the now-Category 5 Typhoon is headed in a northwesterly direction from its current spot in the northern Pacific Ocean – directly toward a potential meeting with Formula One’s 2019 Japanese Grand Prix track at Suzuka on Saturday. The […]
A Mercedes won another 2016 Formula One as Nico Rosberg led from start-to-finish at the 2016 Japanese Grand Prix, putting himself closer to clinching the 2016 world championship. Rosberg took advantage of a poor start from his Snapchatting Mercedes teammate, Lewis Hamilton, to vault off from the rest of the field and enjoy a mostly […]
The official 2015 ASN Driver Rankings have been updated to reflect the 2015 Japanese Grand Prix – which we are calling the I Think I’m Turning Japanese Grand Prix [for what are obvious “vaporous” reasons]. The I Think I’m Turning Japanese Grand Prix is held on the sweeping Suzuka circuit – one of the more […]
After a brief one race respite that held the promise of giving us some competitive races for the remaining Formula One year, the 2015 Japanese Grand Prix returned everybody to the sleep-inducing, mind-numbing reality that is the Mercedes domination. Unlike last week’s 2015 Singapore Grand Prix, where both Mercedes were put under pressure from the […]
The 2015 Japanese Grand Prix occurs this weekend so Red Bull thought some good preparations for the Suzuka race course might be to toss their two drivers – Daniel Ricciardo and Daniil Kvyat – up against some actual Japanese sumo wrestlers…with predictable results. If you have ever seen an episode of the former comedy show […]