Formula 1 returns to Suzuka this weekend for the Japanese Grand Prix – a race that has seen its fair share of title battles, of incredible racing, and incredible tragedy. The Track Set next to the East Philippine Sea, the Suzuka International Racing Course is a 3.609 mile-long, eighteen-turn track that snakes up and down the Japanese hills. It’s one of the few tracks with a bridge, and is the only one where drivers will be racing both above and below the bridge (discounting Abu Dhabi’s pit-lane bridge). It held its first Formula 1 race in 1987, and this will be the twenty-ninth time it’s held a Grand Prix (the Japanese Grand Prix having moved to Fuji for 2007 and ’08). It’s a...
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