2018 Japanese Grand Prix
The 2018 Japanese Grand Prix was a Formula One racing event held on 7 October 2018 at the Suzuka International Racing Course in Suzuka in the Mie Prefecture, Japan. The race was the seventeenth round of the 2018 Formula One World Championship and marked the 44th running of the Japanese Grand Prix. The 2018 event was the 34th time that the race had been run as a World Championship event since the inaugural season in, and the 30th time that it had been held at Suzuka.
Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton entered the round with a fifty-point lead over Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel in the World Drivers' Championship. Hamilton's team-mate Valtteri Bottas sat third, a further 67 points behind. In the World Constructors' Championship, Mercedes held a lead of fifty-three points over Ferrari, with Red Bull Racing a further one hundred and fifty points behind in third place.Classification
Qualifying
;Notes
- – Esteban Ocon received a three-place grid penalty for failing to slow sufficiently during a red flag period in FP3.
- – Marcus Ericsson received a 15-place grid penalty: 10 places for change his power unit and 5 places for an unscheduled gearbox change.
Race
;Drivers' Championship standings
;Constructors' Championship standings
- Note: Only the top five positions are included for both sets of standings.
