00:00So it could be a title decider, 53 laps to come, it's lights out and away we go
00:06and Verstappen crawling away from the start, gets away but not as well as
00:09Charles Leclerc on the inside, Esteban Ocon getting in but squirrelly as is Sebastian Vettel
00:13in the turn one we go, Verstappen is ahead of Charles Leclerc, Leclerc trying to find this one
00:18but as they now head towards the S's it's Verstappen who's leading from Charles Leclerc,
00:23Sergio Perez ahead of Carlos Sainz and then Esteban Ocon in fifth ahead of Lewis Hamilton
00:28and the start, Verstappen wasn't as quickly away as Charles Leclerc but by the time they hit the first corner
00:35he was ahead
00:37is a Ferrari off and it is Carlos Sainz into the barrier and out of the race
00:43and a safety car before the end of lap one, that is Alex Albon and he too is out of
00:50this race
00:53and we've just seen the replay of what happened to Carlos Sainz
01:03you just saw at the bottom of your screen Sebastian Vettel off in the gravel this is what happened to
01:09Sebastian Vettel
01:10saw him just edging towards the grass and getting a bit squirrelly he can barely see where he's meant to
01:15be braking and he makes contact doesn't he I got hit by Alonso really bad really bad
01:21this is Alex Albon I know he actually had a failure yeah he's stuck in second gear
01:28I took a thing what the hell is that oh my god I don't know I got I got something
01:37stuck I can't see in
01:38front of me he could barely see a few feet in front yeah as Joe goes around the pirouetting
01:46Joe Guanyu nearly collecting Alex Albon and the Williams before he got going once again but we know
01:53that Alex Albon came to a stop very suddenly after that this is into the hairpin yeah you can see
02:00how
02:00the rain intensifying and just too much for the intermediates the red flag the race with the rain
02:07intensifying race control have taken the decision to bring out the red flag
02:13race will resume at 4.15 ladies and gentlemen in 10 minutes time race will resume
02:23well as Max Verstappen then reaches the final corner we'll see if anyone does come in
02:28uh to the pit lane but we're racing again here at Suzuka the Japanese Grand Prix is go
02:34once more Verstappen leads the way then down into turn one Charles Leclerc follows on in second
02:41place you could barely see Charles Leclerc as Max made his way into turn one then comes Perez then
02:46comes Ocon then comes Hamilton into the pits Sebastian Vettel and Nicolas Latifi too have decided at the
02:53back of the field to take the gamble and go on to intermediate tyres yeah totally the right call
02:57it's just that you want to be the one that gets out of the pits first Sebastian has he done
03:01it
03:01just is that is that a safe release well they're running alongside each other and Latifi hasn't
03:06had to put his brakes on and now well who can get the power down fastest Sebastian Vettel is ahead
03:13of Nicolas Latifi Max Verstappen and Charles Leclerc and this is where uh the crews can make a huge
03:20difference George Russell's in Perez Ocon Alonso uh no he stays out Hamilton also into the pits
03:26decent uh stop there for Max Verstappen they're double stacking there for Checo as out comes Charles
03:32Leclerc and in comes Lewis Hamilton and down the main straight Max Verstappen on the intermediate tyres
03:40getting past uh the Haas of Mick Schumacher as Alonso feeds back into the race in eighth place there was
03:47plenty of room to run side by side and talking of side by side and now ahead Charles Leclerc gets
03:53past the Haas of uh
03:55Mick Schumacher this is giving a you know it's great for Lewis now he can get a good run on
04:00uh
04:00on Ocon Ocon probably doesn't even know he's there at this moment in time because there's so much spray
04:04out there but he's down the inside of uh of Mick Schumacher. Charles Leclerc now makes it 4.2 seconds
04:12the gap
04:12between Verstappen and himself Hamilton goes around the outside of the final turn and puts his car his
04:18Mercedes up into the top five. George Russell and Yuki Tsunoda going through the S's here that was uh that
04:26was tasteful. George Russell gets past Lando Norris up into the points. We're on board with Lewis Hamilton now
04:36towards 1.30 are we go are we going to get a pass through 1.30 are in the wet
04:41here at Suzuka they almost
04:42touch Hamilton and Ocon as Ocon defends for all his might. Hamilton under braking can he find a gap? No.
04:50That was the moment just going into 1.30 are and almost made contact
04:57on the very last lap could it possibly happen you never know Sergio Perez is giving it everything
05:02trying to get past Charles Leclerc goes down the inside it's imperative for these two that contact is not
05:07made certainly for Charles Leclerc who doesn't want to crash out of this race like his teammate did
05:12right there because he would be out of the championship and that would be the end of his
05:17title hoops this season as it is they don't touch and Charles Leclerc stays ahead of Sergio Perez. Max
05:25Verstappen has taken the chequered flag to win the Japanese Grand Prix it's a 12th win of the season
05:32meanwhile Leclerc goes across the rumble strip Perez tries to get him on the outside of the final corner
05:38Leclerc comes home to take second place ahead of Sergio Perez they might have a look at that
05:45in the stewards room after this race
05:49yeah so Leclerc's braked he's just outbraked himself and gone straight
05:54hey what is he doing mate he went off and he pushed me off
05:59he came really unsafe
06:03Charles Leclerc has been given a five second time penalty for leaving the track and gaining an advantage
06:10it gives Verstappen a 113 point lead because the race resumed after a red flag full points could be awarded
06:22a 32nd career win then for Max Verstappen same as Fernando Alonso a second world title for Max Verstappen he
06:31is
06:31champion of the world in 2022
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