- Red Bull collect constructors’ title with six races still to go
- Dutchman can win latest championship in Doha sprint race
Max Verstappen won the Japanese Grand Prix with a commanding drive for Red Bull, sealing the constructors’ title for the team and all but concluding the drivers’ title race as well. The Dutchman won with a flawless drive from pole unchallenged once he had kept his nose in front at the first corner.
McLaren’s Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri, with his first podium, were in second and third. Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc was fourth with Lewis Hamilton in fifth for Mercedes.