JAPANESE GRAND PRIX 2022

MAX WINS the world championship for the second time here!

Race

- OH MY GOSH it’s RAINING at SUZUKA

- 100% rain this whole race

- Charles gets a better start than Max but then Max zooms past and gets ahead

- First lap, Seb aquaplanes down the straight and collided with Alonso and then goes off but continues

- First lap, Sainz aquaplanes and goes into the wall, then the car lands back into the middle of the track with all the cars going by in the spray and it’s a miracle no one hit him so anyway Sainz it out

- First lap, Pierre somehow collects a giant advertising board that was fallout from the Sainz crash and it totally blocks his vision

- First lap, Albon had a mechanical failure and parks it alongside the track

- Okay 3/53 they’ve Red flagged it, it’s so rainy and dangerous

- there was a two and a half hour delay and then it started again with forty minutes of racing left. I did not think it was going to start again but we stayed up anyway just in case cause what if Max won the championship tonight? So it did start and then at the last corner of the last lap, Charles went across a runoff and the stewards gave him a penalty for going off the track and gaining an advantage WHILE they were doing the post race interviews and Johnny Herbert called Max back over and told home he was champion. Then Max said in the cool down someone had said he wasn’t champion, so he wasn’t, but then someone else said he was and he was like "are you sure?" And it was all very surreal and confusing. But so happy for Dutch child!! Two time world champion!!

- MAX VERSTAPPEN IS A TWO TIME WORLD CHAMPION