The Dutchman led home a Red Bull one-two as Sergio Perez finished second.
Max Verstappen returned to winning ways in dominant fashion as the world champion cruised to victory at the Japanese Grand Prix.
From there he controlled the pace of the race and the result never looked in doubt, with Verstappen taking the chequered flag and the fastest lap to open up a 13-point lead at the top of the drivers’ championship as he aims for a fourth successive title. Fernando Alonso hung on to take sixth for Aston Martin with a late push from George Russell seeing him pass the second McLaren of Oscar Piastri on the closing lap to secure seventh.
Verstappen shot off the line, only for a red flag to drop as Daniel Ricciardo and Alex Albon came together with both crashing into the tyre wall. With Hamilton continuing to drop down the field, Norris got past Perez in the first round of pit stops – only for a call to pit early for his last set of tyres proving costly.
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