F1 2018: 5 Early Predictions for the Japanese GP

#1 Hamilton gets one step closer to the title

F1 Grand Prix of Russia

With the four-time world champion taking his 70th win in Russia, he is on his way to claiming his fifth world title, and to do so he has been driving phenomenally. Even the most hardcore of Ferrari fans must admit that the Scuderia's follies aside, Hamilton has been a fantastic driver on the grid this season and certainly deserves to be where he is in the championship race.

While it would be comforting to see Ferrari close the gap between themselves and Hamilton before the last four races, we see the Mercedes driver extending the gap between himself and his German rival to a whopping 75 points for the last few races, leaving Ferrari with a real impossible task to reclaim the drivers' world championship.

Hopefully, we are wrong, or at least we see a fantastic battle that gets us to this point. But for now, it would be silly to predict anything other than Mercedes continuing on their roll that they have been on for the past few years and more pertinently in the last few races.