Japan:
1. Lewis
2. Max
3. Riciardo
4 Races left.
Standings:
1 Lewis Hamilton GBR MERCEDES 306
2 Sebastian Vettel GER FERRARI 247
3 Valtteri Bottas FIN MERCEDES 234
4 Daniel Ricciardo AUS RED BULL RACING TAG HEUER 192
5 Kimi Räikkönen FIN FERRARI 148
6 Max Verstappen NED RED BULL RACING TAG HEUER 111
7 Sergio Perez MEX FORCE INDIA MERCEDES 82
8 Esteban Ocon FRA FORCE INDIA MERCEDES 65
9 Carlos Sainz ESP TORO ROSSO 48
10 Nico Hulkenberg GER RENAULT 34
11 Felipe Massa BRA WILLIAMS MERCEDES 34
12 Lance Stroll CAN WILLIAMS MERCEDES 32
13 Romain Grosjean FRA HAAS FERRARI 28
14 Kevin Magnussen DEN HAAS FERRARI 15
15 Stoffel Vandoorne BEL MCLAREN HONDA 13
16 Fernando Alonso ESP MCLAREN HONDA 10
17 Jolyon Palmer GBR RENAULT 8
18 Pascal Wehrlein GER SAUBER FERRARI 5
19 Daniil Kvyat RUS TORO ROSSO 4
20 Marcus Ericsson SWE SAUBER FERRARI 0
21 Antonio Giovinazzi ITA SAUBER FERRARI 0
22 Pierre Gasly FRA TORO ROSSO 0
It is less boring than it used to be , it depends on the car of Verstappen, whether it keeps running or not. ;)
Lewis won't give this away. But if......the gap between Mercedes and RB was like this at the start of the season and Max didn't had all this bad luck, who knows what could have happened.