Renault's Fernando Alonso [Images] stormed to his second straight win at the Japanese Grand Prix on Sunday while McLaren's championship leader Lewis Hamilton [Images] went from first to last and failed to score.
Hamilton finished 12th after starting on pole, with Ferrari [Images] rival Felipe Massa [Images] taking eighth place to close the gap on the Briton to six points with two races left.
The title rivals both received drive-through penalties, Hamilton for cutting across Kimi Raikkonen's [Images] Ferrari in a mad dash to the first corner and Massa after forcing Hamilton to spin on lap two, leaving him in 18th.
Poland's Robert Kubica [Images] was second in the race for BMW-Sauber, with Raikkonen third.
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