FORMULA 1 continues with JAPANESE GRAND PRIX this weekend.
This will be a schedule for this weekend:
FRIDAY 07.10.2016
Practice 1 results
Practice 2 results
SATURDAY 08.10.2016
QUALIFYING RESULTS
| Position | Driver | Team | Time |
| 1 | Nico Rosberg | Mercedes | 1:30.647 |
| 2 | Lewis Hamilton | Mercedes | 1:30.660 |
| 3 | Kimi Raikkonen | Ferrari | 1:30.949 |
| 4 | Sebastian Vettel | Ferrari | 1:31.028 |
| 5 | Max Verstappen | Red Bull | 1:31.178 |
| 6 | Daniel Ricciardo | Red Bull | 1:31.240 |
| 7 | Sergio Perez | Force India | 1:31.961 |
| 8 | Romain Grosjean | HAAS | 1:31.961 |
| 9 | Nico Hulkenberg | Force India | 1:32.142 |
| 10 | Esteban Gutierrez | HAAS | 1:32.547 |
The leader in Formula One Championship - Nico Rosberg will start the Japanese Grand Prix 2016 from pole position after beating Mercedes team-mate Lewis Hamilton by just 0.013s in qualifying at Suzuka on Saturday. Ferrari and Red Bull were breathing down their necks, with the Scuderia winning that battle as Kimi Raikkonen took third and Sebastian Vettel - carrying a three-place grid penalty for his collision in Malaysia - fourth.
SUNDAY 09.10.2016
Race
JAPANESE GRAND PRIX 2016 will be held on 9 October 2016 at the SUZUKA Circuit in Suzuka-Mie-Japan. The race will mark the forty-first running of the Japanese Grand Prix.
The first Japanese Grand Prix was run as a non-championship Formula 1 race at the Suzuka Circuit 80 kilometres (50 mi) south west of Nagoya in May 1963. This marked the beginning of motor racing in earnest in Japan. For the next 11 years, however; the non-championship Grand Prix was run at the Fuji Speedway, 40 miles (64 km) west of Yokohama and 66 miles (106 km) west of the Japanese capital of Tokyo. The circuit had a banked corner called Daiichi and was the scene of many fatal accidents. It was then run as a number of disciplines of motorsports, particularly Formula 2, sports cars and Can-Am-type sprint racing.
- Gerhard Berger caused an upset for Honda in 1987, beating Ayrton Senna's Lotus-Honda to win for Ferrari, as Suzuka debuted on the F1 calendar.
- After a slow getaway off the line, Ayrton Senna fought back to win the 1988 Japanese Grand Prix, and with it, the first of his three F1 world titles.
- The two battling McLaren team-mates came together at the last chicane in 1989. Prost was out on the spot, while Senna continued. But while Senna went on to win, it was Prost who claimed that year's title.
- Damon Hill's 1996 Japanese Grand Prix win secured him his one and only world title. In doing so, Damon became the first son of a former world champion to win the F1 title.
- With Michael Schumacher forced out with a puncture, Mika Hakkinen cruises home at Suzuka in 1998 to claim his first world title win.
- Mika Hakkinen recorded back-to-back win at Suzuka in 1999, the second one was enough to make him a double F1 world champion.
- Michael Schumacher's emotional win at the 2000 Japanese Grand Prix ended a 21-year title drought for Ferrari and secured the German a third drivers' crown.
- Kimi Raikkonen stared at Suzuka in 2005, charging from P17 on the grid to win the Japanese Grand Prix with a final lap pass.
- Japanese driver Kamui Kobayashi was a popular visitor to the Suzuka podium after coming home third for Sauber at his home race in 2012
The track is built by Honda as a test facility in 1962, the track was designed by Dutchman John Hugenholz. A huge theme park was also constructed at the track, including the famous big wheel which dominates the Suzuka skyline.
The track has also become a favourite with drivers, featuring some of the F1 calendar's most challenging corners. Among the most popular are the high-speed 130R and the famous Spoon Curve. On top of this the circuit's figure-of-eight layout makes it unique in F1 racing.
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