🏎️ Constructors Championship winner & Japanese Grand Prix Analysis

In this week’s email:

• Japanese Grand Prix Results 🏎️

• Points by team over the last 3 races 📊

• Williams Racing decision over last driver spot 🧐

• Red Bull wins Constructors Championship 🏆

Japanese Grand Prix Results

Max Verstappen ended up winning the Japanese Grand Prix and securing Red Bull’s Constructors Championship for 2023. Below are results from the race:

1. Max Verstappen (Red Bull)

2. Lando Norris (McLaren)

3. Oscar Piastri (McLaren)

4. Charles Leclerc (Ferrari)

5. Lewis Hamilton (Mercedes)

6. Carlos Sainz (Ferrari)

7. George Russell (Mercedes)

8. Fernando Alonso (Aston Martin)

9. Esteban Ocon (Alpine)

10. Pierre Gasly (Alpine)

11. Liam Lawson (AlphaTauri)

12. Yuki Tsunoda (AlphaTauri)

13. Zhou Guanyu (Alfa Romeo)

14. Nico Hülkenberg (Haas)

15. Kevin Magnussen (Haas)

Drivers that DNF - Alex Albon (Williams), Logan Sargeant (Williams), Lance Stroll (Aston Martin), Sergio Pérez (Red Bull), Valterri Bottas (Alfa Romeo)

Other things to note:

• With Lewis Hamilton’s top 5 finish, he is now at 190 points for the season. Closing in on P2 for the season behind Sergio Pérez 220 points.

• Oscar Piastri had his first podium finish at the Japanese Grand Prix.

• Sergio Pérez lap 13 pit stop was 43 minutes long. The longest so far this F1 season.

Points over last 3 races by team:

Williams Racing decision for last driver spot for 2024 F1 season

With Oscar Piastri contract extension with McLaren going until 2026, Williams racing is the only team now with one driver spot available for the 2024 F1 season. There has been speculation that Williams Racing will make a push for Liam Lawson of AlphaTauri over current driver Logan Sargeant.

Below are Lawson’s results since joining F1:

P13 🇳🇱, P11 🇮🇹, P9 🇸🇬, P11 🇯🇵

Those results have been impressive and have made people wonder if there will be a spot for Lawson in F1 next year. Christian Horner recently stated “It will be unlikely that they will take a driver for one year,” Horner told Sky when asked about the possibility of placing Lawson at Williams for next year.

It will be interesting to see in the upcoming weeks who Williams Racing will decide to sign as their second driver next to Alex Albon.

Red Bull wins Constructors Championship

With Red Bull clinching their 2nd straight Constructor’s Championship this past weekend, below are the results of the season so far with 6 races left this season:

Over the last 13 years, Red Bull & Mercedes are the only two teams to have won the constructors championship. Red Bull having won it six times and Mercedes winning it eight times.