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.

Second Abu Dhabi GP was also the last championship race as in 2009, but this time the championship was not decided. On the contrary, for the first time in the history of Formula 1, the title race included four drivers.

Nico Hulkenberg secured his first and only pole position in F1 career after being fastest in Williams FW32 in mixed conditions at Interlagos after beating both Red Bull drivers by more than a second.

On this day in 2013 Sebastian Vettel won for the tenth time in the season and clinched the fourth consecutive Red Bull drivers'championship title. It was the sixth consecutive victory for the German driver and after he won the remaining three races in 2013, he equated the record of Alberto Ascari, who celebrated the last six races in 1952 and the first three races in 1953.

Charles Leclerc and Sebastian Vettel set the two highest top speeds in each of the four measurements on the Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez track  and after Verstappen's penalty for ignoring yellow flags in Q3 they will be able to control the race from the first row with the fastest car on the straights.

Fernando Alonso took the championship lead in the first F1 race in Korea on this day in 2010 after Sebastian Vettel retired with an engine failure and Mark Webber crashed in very difficult conditions.

Sebastian Vettel believes that Ferrari has been on the upward trajectory in recent years in Mexico although Red Bull was the fastest last year and that decreasing gaps between the top three teams will make the race interesting.

Ross Brawn warns that Ferrari has a potentially 'explosive combination' of drivers after the latest controversy at the Russian GP in which the Italian team was again struggling to control its drivers.

Valtteri Bottas admits that the virtual safety car that came after Vettel's retirement was 'like a miracle' for Mercedes after they were under a threat of fourth consecutive defeat to Ferrari in Russia.

Sebastian Vettel says after the race in Singapore that 'it was about time' to win his first win in over a year, and despite the difficult times of recent weeks, he says he has never stopped believing in himself.