F1: The 5 drivers who improved their form at the 2018 Japanese GP

#3 Romain Grosjean

F1 Grand Prix of Japan - Grosjean was dogged despite his eighth

Haas driver Grosjean was impressive the whole weekend at Suzuka. For starters, he began his Japanese challenge from fifth, stacking his car behind the Ferrari of Kimi Raikkonen.

But over the course of the race, even as he failed to withstand the mounting pressure of the superior pieces of machinery like the Red Bulls, he hung in there and didn't manage to fall outside of tenth.

In eventually finishing the 53-lap contest on eighth, he fought valiantly with Ocon for seventh a place that his compatriot held on brilliantly to and in so doing, collected his best result at Suzuka, having bagged an eleventh in 2016.