Vettel showed good pace throughout the race and eventually won the race after Lewis Hamilton was forced to retire with a gearbox failure. Vettel was joined on the podium by Jenson button and championship leader Fernando Alonso who is 29 points clear of Vettel at the top the standing's.
However there is a possibility that the result may change as following one of the safety car periods Vettel broke away from Button and then applied the brakes extremely hard that nearly caused Button to crash into the back of him. In my opinion Vettel Brake tested Button but we will have to wait and see what the stewards have to say as the incident is under investigation.
It was another great race for Kimi Raikkonen and Lotus. The Finn qualified in 12th place and managed to bring his car home in 6th place with Romain Grosjean finishing in 7th giving the team a good haul of points. Kimi maintain's his 100% finishing record this season and also held onto third in the driver's championship just 16 points behind Vettel as the team's head for Suzuka a track the Iceman has alway's done well at.
It was a disappointing race for Michael Schumacher and Mercedess as the German caused a massive collision with the Toro Rosso of Jean Eric Vergne resulting in both cars being forced to retire.
So with six race's to go in the championship the battle looks set to go down to the wire and the final race in Brazil because despite the fact he still leads Alonso hasn't won a race since Germany. It is going to be extremely interesting to see what happens next time out in Japan and reports in Singapore this weekend suggest that Mercedes will announce on Wednesday their plans for the future which could end the speculation about driver line-ups for next season. So watch this space.
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