Verstappen takes his first win of the year, Antonelli becomes the youngest driver to lead a lap and Hadjar scores points for the first time in his career. Here are the facts and statistics from the 2025 Japanese Grand Prix!
VERSTAPPEN WINS THE 2025 JAPANESE GRAND PRIX
Reigning champion Max Verstappen claimed his first victory of the season at the 2025 Japanese Grand Prix, claiming the 64th victory of his F1 career. This was his first win since the 2024 Qatar Grand Prix.
Verstappen won at Suzuka for the fourth year in a row, becoming the first driver to win the Japanese Grand Prix in four consecutive seasons. Verstappen equalled his longest winning streak at a circuit, having previously won every Abu Dhabi Grand Prix at Yas Marina Circuit from 2020 to 2023. It’s the 11th time in F1 that a driver has taken as many as four successive victories at a single circuit.
2025 becomes the tenth year in a row that Verstappen has won a Grand Prix. He is the sixth driver to have won in as many as ten Formula 1 seasons and the fourth – after Alain Prost, Michael Schumacher and Lewis Hamilton – to have won a race in ten consecutive seasons.
Red Bull’s victory in the 2025 Japanese Grand Prix made Red Bull the first team to have taken as many as eight wins at Suzuka, moving clear of both Ferrari and McLaren at the top of the list.
This was Verstappen’s 24th consecutive points-scoring Grand Prix, equalling the fifth-longest scoring streak in F1 history.
The points scored by Verstappen in the 2025 Japanese Grand Prix saw Red Bull become the first team to score 400 points at Suzuka in its history on the F1 calendar.
ON THE PODIUM
Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri joined Max Verstappen on the podium at the 2025 Japanese Grand Prix. McLaren recorded a double podium result for the second race in a row, recording consecutive double podium finishes for the first time since the 2023 Japanese and Qatar Grands Prix.
The podium at the 2025 Japanese Grand Prix was identical to the podium at the 2023 Japanese Grand Prix.
Lando Norris finished second in the 2025 Japanese Grand Prix, finishing in the top two for a fourth consecutive race.
Finishing in third place on his birthday, Oscar Piastri became the seventh driver to finish on the podium on his birthday. He is the first driver to finish in the top three on his birthday since Rubens Barrichello at the 2004 Monaco Grand Prix.
Piastri became the seventh driver, after Eddie Irvine, Lewis Hamilton, Max Verstappen, Sebastian Vettel, Takuma Sato and Thierry Boutsen to score points on all of his first three appearances at Suzuka.
This was the 12th podium finish of Piastri’s career, seeing him equal Stefan Johansson and Robert Kubica for 73rd on the all time list.
The 2025 Japanese Grand Prix was the 31st consecutive race which Piastri has finished. It saw him equal Carlos Sainz for the sixth-longest finishing streak in F1 history.
IN THE POINTS
For the second year in a row, all of the top ten starters at Suzuka finished in the points. The top six finished in the same order as they started for the first time since the 2024 Monaco Grand Prix.
Charles Leclerc finished fourth in the 2025 Japanese Grand Prix, finishing fourth at Suzuka for the third year in a row.
The points scored by Leclerc saw him overtake Sebastian Vettel as the driver who has scored the most points with Ferrari in F1 history.
With fifth place in the 2025 Japanese Grand Prix, George Russell finished off the podium for the first time in 2025. Russell finished in the top five for an eighth consecutive race weekend.
This was Russell’s best result at Suzuka to date. He had never previously finished in the top six here.
Finishing sixth for the second race in a row, Kimi Antonelli became the fifth driver in F1 history to score points on all of his first three Grand Prix appearances. He is the first driver to do so since Lewis Hamilton in 2007.
Antonelli set the fastest lap of the race for the first time in his career and led ten laps during the race. He therefore broke Max Verstappen’s record of the youngest driver to lead a lap, the previous record having been set at the 2016 Spanish Grand Prix, by three days. He broke Verstappen’s record of the youngest driver to set the Fastest Lap, which had been set at the 2016 Brazilian Grand Prix.
This was the first time since their double podium finish in 2019 that both Mercedes drivers finished in the top six at Suzuka.
Scoring six points for a seventh place finish, Lewis Hamilton became the first driver to have scored 200 points at the Japanese Grand Prix in its history on the F1 calendar.
Hamilton’s points finish saw him overtake Michael Schumacher as the driver who has scored points on the most occasions at Suzuka. This was Hamilton’s 14th points-scoring appearance at the track. It was also his 14th top ten finish, overtaking both Schumacher and Jenson Button at the top of the list.
Isack Hadjar finished eighth in the 2025 Japanese Grand Prix, scoring points for the first time in his Formula 1 career.
Alex Albon finished ninth at the 2025 Japanese Grand Prix, scoring for a third race in a row. This is the first time Albon scored at three consecutive races since the end of the 2020 season, when he was racing with Red Bull.
This was the first time since 2019, when he finished fourth, that Albon crossed the finish line at the Japanese Grand Prix.
Albon’s points mean that Williams scored 19 points in the first three races of the 2025 season. That’s two more points than they scored in total throughout 2024.
Finishing tenth in the 2025 Japanese Grand Prix, Ollie Bearman scored a point for a second consecutive race weekend. It’s the first time he has scored points in consecutive races, though he scored points on consecutive appearances at the 2024 Saudi Arabian and Azerbaijan Grands Prix.
Bearman became the first Haas driver to score a point at Suzuka since Romain Grosjean finished eighth in the 2018 Japanese Grand Prix.
Antonelli, Bearman and Hadjar joined Cristiano da Matta, Nicholas Latifi and Stefan Johansson in the club of drivers who’ve finished in the points on all of their appearances at Suzuka.
THE OTHER FINISHERS
Finishing in 11th place, Fernando Alonso crossed the finish line for the first time in 2025 – but he remains yet to score a point this year.
This was the first time since 2018 that Alonso failed to score a point in the Japanese Grand Prix. It was the 16th time that he has finished a race here, moving clear of Jenson Button at the top of the list of drivers who’ve completed the most Grands Prix at Suzuka.
During the 2025 Japanese Grand Prix, Alonso became the second driver – after Michael Schumacher – to have raced 800 laps at Suzuka.
With Alonso 11th and Lance Stroll 20th, the 2025 Japanese Grand Prix was the first Suzuka race in which neither of the Silverstone-based team’s drivers scored a point since 2013.
Yuki Tsunoda failed to score points on his first appearance with Red Bull, finishing 12th in the 2025 Japanese Grand Prix. Nevertheless, he was voted Driver of the Day for the second time in his career, having last won the vote at the 2023 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix.
Tsunoda failed to score for a fifth consecutive race, recording his third 12th place finish in that time.
Tsunoda gained two positions in the 2025 Japanese Grand Prix – the first time he has finished a race at Suzuka in a better position than where he started.
Jack Doohan gained four places to finish 15th in the 2025 Japanese Grand Prix. He was the only driver to gain more than two positions in the race.
Finishing 16th in the 2025 Japanese Grand Prix, 2016 remains the last time that Nico Hulkenberg scored a point at Suzuka.
With Hulkenberg 16th and Gabriel Bortoleto 19th, this was the first Suzuka race in which neither of the Sauber team’s cars finished in the top 15 in the team’s history.
With 18th place, Esteban Ocon recorded his worst result at Suzuka since finishing 21st on his first appearance here in the 2016 Japanese Grand Prix.
EVERY DRIVER FINISHES
All 20 drivers finished the 2025 Japanese Grand Prix. Lance Stroll finished last of the 20 starters, finishing in 20th place for the second time in his career. He last crossed the finish line in 20th place at the 2021 Belgian Grand Prix.
This was the second time, after the 2016 Japanese Grand Prix, that every car which started a race at Suzuka crossed the finish line.
