Suzuka is the next stop for the Formula One teams, and a much beloved event for most. The circuit emphasises driver skill the old fashioned way with sweeping corners and unforgiving gravel traps. The combination of corners, relentless flow through high speed sections and radial turns, esses and hairpins makes Suzuka one of the toughest challenges of the year for F1 engines. A high-speed figure of eight track, it really is the perfect storm of every type of corner imaginable. As with all the very 'driven' tracks, at Suzuka the long, fast turns also determine not-so-demanding braking. In fact, the single-seaters do not face any particularly sudden braking sections except for the chicane ahead...
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