Winner of last week's Singapore Grand Prix, McLaren's 24-year-old world champion Lewis Hamilton signs autographs for fans as the build up for the Japanese GP intensifies
Sebastian Vettel - still in with a shout of winning the drivers' championship in which he sits in third position - meets and greets fans as the Japanese GP returns to much-loved Suzuka for the first time since 2006
All eyes are on two-time world champion Fernando Alonso after his move from Renault to Ferrari for 2010 is finally confirmed, sparking predictions the Spaniard can deliver a number of drivers' titles for the Italians
Magnum? Blue Steel? La Tigra? Who knows what pose championship leader Jenson Button is striking, but the wannabe world champion has definitely gone all 'Zoolander' on us
Unlike the man himself, Button's girlfriend Jessica Michibata is actually a model. The Englishman could win the world title at Suzuka on Sunday should he make five points on Brawn team-mate Rubens Barrichello
Ahead of the practice sessions, a number of the Formula 1 drivers speak to the media as we enter into the 14th race of 2009's 17-race season. 2010 is set to comprise of a whopping 19 races
Rain hits the area in which the Suzuka circuit stands, hundreds of miles east of Tokyo near the southern Japanese coast, in what is expected to be a wet Friday practice and Saturday qualifying
Red Bull, who are widely expected to have the best cars for drivers Vettel and Mark Webber at the medium downforce Suzuka track, tinker with their pit stop run-through as practice gets under way for the Japanese GP
Button makes his way tentatively through the wet conditions over the figure-of-eight Sukuka circuit to finish 18th in the first, 90-minute long practice session
Toro Rosso's rookie driver Sebastien Buemi eyes up the challenging conditions before heading out to post the fifth-quickest time of the uneventful first session
Frenchman Romain Grosjean, who endured a "black weekend" at last week's Singapore Grand Prix, struggles again as he limps home with the slowest time of the first free practice session
Stagnant water gets the better of Toro Rosso's Spanish driver Jaime Alguersuari as he skids across the Suzuka circuit while many cars choose not to run because of the poor weather
A near torrential downpour saturates the Suzuka circuit in the 150 minute break between each practice session on Friday as Force India driver Vitantonio Liuzzi looks on wistfully
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