Win puts Hamilton’s fifth world championship firmly in his grasp as Sebastian Vettel finished sixth
The venue for so many dramatic denouements to the Formula One season, this year’s Japanese Grand Prix has now also surely delivered the decisive victory to ensure Lewis Hamilton will secure his fifth world championship. For Hamilton at least, it went entirely to script, a drive of serene control where the win never looked in doubt. But for his rival Sebastian Vettel, Suzuka’s glorious theatre simply closed the curtain on what has been a painful end to his title hopes.
There was incident in the race but far in Hamilton’s wake. Indeed as he now stands with the trophy all but raised, Hamilton’s ruthless closing out of the title and Ferrari’s failure to maintain a challenge means the season the Scuderia had opened with such an optimistic bang is ending with but a whimper.
Written by Giles Richards
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