Japan’s GP is special in F1 for both fans and pilots who enjoy running on this track.
The Japan Grand Prix of the 2025 season will be played this weekend, between April 3 and 6, in the International Circuit of Suzuka. It is one of the most difficult for some pilots, as well as the most entertaining to see for the public. Not all who run know how to dominate this track.
The Suzuka circuit is located near Nagoya, overlooking ISE’s bay. In 1962, Honda ordered its construction as a test track, under the direction of the Dutch designer John Hugenholtz. With an extension of 5.8 km and 18 curvesis one of the greatest, allowing vehicles reach speeds greater than 300 km/h In their lines.
The track offers the possibility of running in both directions. Experienced pilots find it challenging and exciting, while rookies can consider it complicated and, in some cases, risky.
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The pilots who knew how to dominate the Japanese track
The most successful pilot in the Suzuka circuit was not a Japanese, but is the legendary German Michael Schumacher, who was crowned world champion seven times. His first victory in Japan occurred in 1995, competing for the Benetton team. Subsequently, in 1997, 2000, 2001, 2002 and 2004, he reached the triumph aboard a Ferrari. The British is followed in statistics and also seven times champion, Lewis Hamilton, who currently keeps the record back on this track.
Another pilot who made history in Suzuka was the Brazilian Ayrton Sennawho took McLaren’s cars to the limits in the 80s and his rivalry with Alain Prost so iconic of those years. Suzuka was previously a circuit that was located in the final files of the calendar, a time that in that region rains a lot, so running was something that not everyone could do.
Winning in Suzuka makes you world champion?
In Formula 1 there is a myth that runs lately, in which the team that wins in Suzuka wins the championship. Although it seems a coincidence, the data indicates something else, all the brands that won in the Japan GP came out champions in that year:
- 2013: Sebastian Vettel (Red Bull, champion that year)
- 2014: Lewis Hamilton (Mercedes, champion that year)
- 2015: Lewis Hamilton (Mercedes, champion that year)
- 2016: Nico Rosberg (Mercedes, champion that year)
- 2017: Lewis Hamilton (Mercedes, champion that year)
- 2018: Lewis Hamilton (Mercedes, champion that year)
- 2019: Valtteri Bottas (Mercedes, his partner Hamilton was champion that year)
- 2022: Max Verstappen (Red Bull, champion that year)
- 2023: Max Verstappen (Red Bull, champion that year)
- 2024: Max Verstappen (Red Bull, champion that year)
Japan GP Hours 2025 in Argentina
The Japanese Grand Prix schedules are already published and as usually happens when running in a distant country, Argentines have to be revealed. The schedule for Argentina is as follows:
Thursday April 3
- Free practices: 23:30 hr.
Friday, April 4
- Free practices 2: 03:00 hr.
- Free practices 3: 23:30 hr.
Saturday April 4:
- Classification: 03:00 hr.
Sunday April 5
Source: Ambito
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