2015 Japanese Grand Prix

2015 Japanese Grand Prix
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Suzuka Circuit
Race details
Date	27 September 2015
Official name	2015 Formula 1 Japanese Grand Prix[1]
Location	Suzuka Circuit Suzuka, Japan
Course	Permanent racing facility
Course length	5.807 km (3.608 miles)
Distance	53 laps, 307.471 km (191.054 miles)
Weather	Partly cloudy 27 °C (81 °F) air temperature 52–54 °C (126–129 °F) track temperature 4.5 m/s (15 ft/s) wind from the east[2]
Attendance	165,000[3]
Pole position
Driver	Nico Rosberg	Mercedes
Time	1:32.584
Fastest lap
Driver	Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes
Time	1:36.145 on lap 33
Podium
First	Lewis Hamilton	Mercedes
Second	Nico Rosberg	Mercedes
Third	Sebastian Vettel	Ferrari
Lap leaders

The 2015 Japanese Grand Prix (formally known as the 2015 Formula 1 Japanese Grand Prix) was a Formula One motor race that was held on 27 September 2015 at the Suzuka Circuit in Suzuka, Japan. The race was the fourteenth round of the 2015 World Championship, and marked the forty-first running of the Japanese Grand Prix.

Lewis Hamilton entered the race as the defending winner of the Grand Prix and Drivers' Championship leader with a 41-point lead over his Mercedes teammate Nico Rosberg. Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel came into the event eight points further back in third. Mercedes led the Constructors' Championship over Ferrari by 153 points, with Williams a further 110 points behind Ferrari.

Hamilton won the race, having overtaken Rosberg at the start, who fell back to fourth, but recovered to finish second. Rosberg's deficit in the Drivers' Championship therefore increased to 48 points. Sebastian Vettel finished third for Ferrari. This was the first race in which all cars were classified as finishers since the 2011 European Grand Prix, which would not be replicated again until the 2016 Chinese Grand Prix.