F1 Mexico GP, 28 October 2018

1. M. Verstappen       2. S. Vettel       3. K. Räikkönen

Hamilton secures title in Mexico as Verstappen wins race.
Mexico City          [28 October 2018]

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Lewis Hamilton secured his fifth world championship at Sunday's Mexican Grand Prix as Max Verstappen took the race victory.

Hamilton finished in fourth place, but with title rival Sebastian Vettel failing to win the race, he would have been crowned champion, regardless of his finishing position.

It was a scrappy race for Hamilton, as he struggled with tyre wear throughout and dropped positions, but he will soon forget those minor setbacks as the scale of his remarkable achievement sinks in.

 

MotoGP Australia, 28 October 2018

1. M. Viñales       2. A. Iannone       3. A. Dovizioso

Top Gun: Maverick and Yamaha end 490 day win wait.
Phillip Island, 28 October 2018

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Viñales puts a stop to Yamaha's 25-race losing streak with a phenomenal Phillip Island victory.

One year, four months, three days. That’s how long Yamaha have waited to taste a MotoGP™ victory but at long last, at the Michelin® Australian Motorcycle Grand Prix, Maverick Viñales (Movistar Yamaha MotoGP) crossed the line in P1 to lift the curse.

With four laps to go the gap was hovering around four seconds but then Andrea Iannone (Team Suzuki Ecstar) and Andrea Dovizioso (Ducati Team) started to reel in the Yamaha at a high rate of knots, with Viñales’ lead being cut to 1.8 seconds with two laps to go. Viñales didn’t lose sight of his target though and took the victory at a track he really, really enjoys.
  
 

F1 USA GP, 21 October 2018

1. K. Räikkönen       2. M. Verstappen       3. LC. Hamilton

Kimi Räikkönen wins in Austin, Lewis Hamilton can't wrap up title.
Austin          [21 October 2018]

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Ferrari's Kimi Räikkönen won an enthralling U.S. Grand Prix as Lewis Hamilton missed out on an opportunity to clinch the title at the Circuit of the Americas on Sunday.

Hamilton needed to outscore title rival Sebastian Vettel by eight points to secure the title, but a combination of race strategy and brilliant drives by Räikkönen and Max Verstappen ahead deprived him of the points gap he needed and left him third at the finish.

Although Vettel is still mathematically in the title hunt, it had nothing to do with his own race as he spun out on the opening lap trying to pass Daniel Ricciardo and had to recover from 15th to fourth.

 

MotoGP Japan, 21 October 2018

1. M. Márquez       2. C. Crutchlow       3. A. Rins

Magnificent 7: Márquez seals title with win in Motegi.
Motegi, 21 October 2018

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A race-long battle with Dovi ends with the Italian crashing with two to go, handing the Spaniard title number seven.

Marc Márquez (Repsol Honda Team) wrapped up a sensational seventh World Championship title at the home of Honda after claiming a stunning victory at the Motul Grand Prix of Japan, a race-long battle with Andrea Dovizioso (Ducati Team) ended with the latter crashing out of contention at Turn 10 with two laps to go, handing the title to the number 93.

Crutchlow held off Rins for P2 at the line, with Rins less than two tenths behind the British rider to secure a phenomenal home podium for Suzuki. Rossi brought his YZR-M1 home in a second consecutive P4, with Alvaro Bautista (Angel Nieto Team) claiming P5 in Japan after a strong latter half to the race – an equal best result of the season for the Spaniard. Zarco couldn’t recover from a difficult start, he ended P6, with fellow Yamaha rider Maverick Viñales (Movistar Yamaha MotoGP) seventh.

 

MotoGP Thailand, 7 October 2018

1. M. Márquez       2. A. Dovizioso       3. M. Viñales

3 tenths splits the podium in breathtaking Buriram battle.
Chang IC, 7 October 2018

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Márquez and Dovi went head-to-head once more as Viñales and Yamaha make a welcome return to the podium.

Breathtaking. A word that perfectly encapsulates the first ever PTT Thailand Grand Prix which saw Marc Márquez (Repsol Honda Team) emerge victorious to take another giant leap towards the 2018 MotoGP™ World Championship, as the battle in Buriram went down to the wire between the Spaniard and second place Andrea Dovizioso (Ducati Team) with Movistar Yamaha MotoGP’s Maverick Viñales claiming a valiant comeback podium.

It was Márquez who got the holeshot from pole as the lights went out, with Valentino Rossi (Movistar Yamaha MotoGP) tucked in behind his rival from P2 on the grid. Cal Crutchlow (LCR Honda Castrol) launched well from P5 to slot into third, before Dovizioso re-took P3 into Turn 3 as the front three in qualifying held station, spearheading the field into a high-speed game of chess at the Chang International Circuit.

 
  

F1 Japan GP, 7 October 2018

1. LC. Hamilton       2. V. Bottas       3. M. Verstappen

Lewis Hamilton on verge of title after Japan win, Sebastian Vettel sixth.
Suzuka          [7 October 2018]

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Lewis Hamilton has inched ever closer to a fifth world championship after dominating an incident-filled Japanese Grand Prix as title rival Sebastian Vettel once again hit trouble.

Vettel had enjoyed a lightning start to go from eighth to fourth by the end of the first lap but his race, and championship challenge, unraveled soon after. On lap eight, the German attempted a dubious pass on Red Bull's Max Verstappen upon entry into Spoon Curve, only to run out of tarmac. As a result, the pair made light contact and Vettel was spun around, dropping back to last place.

He recovered to finish P6 after scrapping his way past the midfield teams, but with Hamilton claiming yet another win, he has slipped to what is surely an insurmountable 67 points behind in the championship standings. In fact, Hamilton can claim the title next time out in Austin if he is to win and Vettel doesn't finish second.