Here's 10 things we learned from a controversial and confusing JapaneseGP, where Verstappen sealed his second F1 title in style with a dominant win:
crash site – following his delta time isn't an excuse when he could've braked and gone by slower – and he then got penalised for going even quicker under the red flag afterwards.
And such circumstances must never be repeated. With such scrutiny on the FIA's systems and the price so awful if anything goes badly wrong in motorsport, it's surely also worth considering if races now do need to be stopped every time a recovery vehicle has to be sent onto a track, even in dry conditions.
Leclerc being unaware"this was the last lap" presents somewhat mitigating circumstances given he'd been told there was still one final tour to complete and so wasn't at the point of all that pressure being released, but this was another 2022 error. It's more akin to his Imola off chasing Perez rather than his Paul Ricard crash, but the total is still swelling.
Then at Suzuka, it took just minutes for Leclerc to be slapped with a five-second penalty for cutting the chicane ahead of Perez and he wasn't able to present his explanation for what happened. Perez returns to second in the drivers' championship, but must focus on closing the gap to Verstappen"It doesn't change my life much if I am third or fourth, the most important thing is that we have a strong race car and we are able to progress through the field."
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