Motor racing-Formula One statistics for the Japanese Grand Prix

Total distance: 307.471km (53 laps) No race since 2019 Race lap record: Lewis Hamilton (Britain) Mercedes, 2019: One minute 30.983 seconds. Start time: 0500GMT (1400 local) JAPAN Sunday's race will be the 36th Japanese Grand Prix in world championship history. Hamilton has won five times in Japan, Sebastian Vettel four and Fernando Alonso twice. Mercedes have won the last six Japanese Grands Prix.

Formula One statistics for Sunday's Japanese Grand Prix at Suzuka (round 18 of the 22-race championship): Lap distance: 5.807km. Total distance: 307.471km (53 laps)

No race since 2019 Race lap record: Lewis Hamilton (Britain) Mercedes, 2019: One minute 30.983 seconds.

Start time: 0500GMT (1400 local) JAPAN

Sunday's race will be the 36th Japanese Grand Prix in world championship history. Hamilton has won five times in Japan, Sebastian Vettel four and Fernando Alonso twice.

Mercedes have won the last six Japanese Grands Prix. Ferrari have not won at Suzuka since Michael Schumacher in 2004. The German won the Japanese Grand Prix a record six times.

Alfa Romeo's Valtteri Bottas won with Mercedes in 2019. In 31 races at Suzuka, the winner has come from the front row on 26 occasions and been on pole in 15. Kimi Raikkonen won from 17th on the grid in 2005 with McLaren.

Eight of the last 15 winners have started on pole. The drivers' championship has been settled 12 times in Japan.

Suzuka is a Honda-owned circuit, with the Japanese manufacturer leaving Formula One last season but still providing Red Bull with power units under a support agreement. TITLE

Verstappen will secure his second title if he beats Ferrari's Charles Leclerc by eight points -- the difference between a victory with fastest lap and second place -- and scores six more than Red Bull team mate Sergio Perez. RACE WINS

Red Bull have won 13 of 17 races and Ferrari the rest. Verstappen has won 11 and can set a record for most victories in a season.

Leclerc has won three times, Perez twice and Ferrari's Carlos Sainz once. Verstappen is chasing the 32nd win of his career, which would move him alongside Fernando Alonso as sixth-equal in the all-time winning list.

Hamilton has a record 103 wins and 188 podiums from 304 starts. The seven-times world champion last won a race in Saudi Arabia in December and is now on the longest streak of his career without a win. Ferrari have won 242 races since 1950. McLaren have 183 wins, Mercedes 124, Williams 115 and Red Bull 88.

POLE POSITION Leclerc has had nine poles this year, Verstappen four, Sainz two, Perez and Russell one each. Hamilton has a record 103, most recently in Saudi Arabia last year.

FASTEST LAP Seven drivers have taken fastest laps this season.

5 - Verstappen (Imola, Miami, Austria, Belgium, Netherlands) 3 - Leclerc (Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Australia)

- Perez (Spain, Azerbaijan and Italy) 2 - Sainz (Canada, France)

- Hamilton (Britain, Hungary) 1 - Norris (Monaco), Russell (Singapore)

POINTS Verstappen leads Leclerc by 104 points.

Red Bull lead Ferrari by 137 points in the constructors' standings. Williams' Nicholas Latifi is the only race driver yet to score this season.

MILESTONE Alpine's Fernando Alonso started his 350th race in Singapore, a Formula One record.

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