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This weekend’s Japanese Grand Prix is at risk of being called off due to a typhoon barrelling through southwestern Japan.

Typhoon Nanmadol has been classified as a ‘violent’ typhoon, Japan’s most severe tropical storm rating, and made landfall on Sunday night on Kyushu, the southernmost of Japan’s four major islands.

With wind gusts of up to 200 kilometres per hour as of Monday, the Japanese Meteorological Association has issued a ‘special warning’, an alert level used for only the most extreme forecast conditions.

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Seven million people have been told to take shelter or evacuate. Already 200,000 homes are without power, while some parts of the country are expecting up to 400 millimetres of rain.

Though the…