Verstappen wins chaotic, rain-shortened Japanese GP to clinch title

Max Verstappen sealed his 2nd Formula 1 satellite title amid immense disorder aft winning a chaotic, rain-shortened Japanese Grand Prix.

There was immense disorder astatine the chequered emblem amid uncertainty implicit whether afloat oregon partial points would beryllium awarded for a contention successful which lone 29 of the 53 scheduled laps were completed.

Regardless of whether oregon not afloat points were awarded, Verstappen would person been denied the rubric if Charles Leclerc had travel second, but the Ferrari driver's final-lap mistake saw him fixed a five-second punishment that demoted him to 3rd down the different Red Bull of Sergio Perez.

The contention had earlier threatened to beryllium overshadowed by controversy, arsenic an archetypal effort to commencement successful dense rainfall resulted successful chaos, with Carlos Sainz crashing into a barrier, earlier a betterment tractor came connected way earlier the contention had been reddish flagged, with the cars inactive connected the circuit.

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