Seven key questions for F1’s last race for over a month

Formula 1’s 2026 season will go on a five-week hiatus after this weekend’s Japanese Grand Prix, following the recent cancellation of the Bahrain and Saudi Arabia races.There won’t be as big a break in racing until the winter break in late December, leaving some key questions to be answered at the last F1 race for some time…How badly will Honda’s home race go?Honda felt it made progress across the Australian and Chinese GP weekends, and will have benefitted too from this two-week gap to try to solve more of its problems.But it admits it’s coming from such a troubled position that whatever progress it makes will be nowhere near enough.”We must find more solutions to establish the cause of the vibrations affecting the drivers,” Shintaro Orihara, Honda’s trackside general m …