In the final lap of the championship, Sergio Perez overtook Land Norris and thus directly secured 10th place in the drivers' championship, calling his overtaking move 'one of the best of his career'.

Carlos Sainz is very disappointed with his qualifying performance which put him in ninth place after being very fast in the first and second stages of qualifying, citing the poor out lap in which he was interupted by Mercedes and Ferrari.

Lewis Hamilton won the first F1 race in Austin on this day in 2012 after he defeated Sebastian Vettel in Red Bull who started from pole position, overtaking him on the longest straight with DRS assistance.

Ayrton Senna won the 1993 Australian Grand Prix which was his 41st and last career victory in his last race for McLaren, where he won all of his three drivers' championship.

Mika Hakkinen won the Japanese GP in Suzuka on this day in 1999 and won his second consecutive world championship at the same track where he won his first title one year earlier.

Japanese GP was the decisive championship race between Senna and Prost, who were driving for McLaren Honda that year. Their car MP4-4 was a class of the field and the duo Senna Prost won 15 of 16 races in 1988.

Three Formula 1 drivers became champions od 21st October - Niki Lauda (1984), Ayrton Senna (1990) and Kimi Raikkonen (2007).

Kimi Raikkonen secured one of his best wins in Formula 1 on this day in 2005, after starting from the 17th on the grid in the Japanese GP and overtaking Giancarlo Fisichella in the last lap.

McLaren's F1 team boss Andreas Seidl is disappointed that his team did not score points with both cars after a disastrous first lap for Carlos Sainz, but is pleased that they increased points lead over Renault in the constructors' standings with seventh place for Lando Norris.

Kimi Raikkonen and Juan Pablo Montoya were on their way to the first 1-2 victory of the season for McLaren, but the incident between Montoya and Pizzonia allowed Fernando Alonas to finish the second and limit the damage in the title fight.