The 19th Malaysian Grand Prix is set to be the last at Sepang for the forseeable future, having fallen off the F1 calendar for 2018. This year it will host the 15th round of this year's title fight, with Lewis Hamilton arriving 28 points in front of Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel in the drivers' fight.
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Alonso punched hole in wall after Singapore DNF
Fernando Alonso remains convinced he could have claimed his "biggest achievement of the last decade" in Singapore if he had not been caught up in the first-corner incident which took him out of contention.