Home favourite Kamui Kobayashi will face the media in Thursday’s Drivers Press Conference ahead of the Japanese Grand Prix at Suzuka.

Alongside the Caterham man will be the previous two winners of the race – Red Bull’s Sebastian Vettel and McLaren’s Jenson Button.

Romain Grosjean, Nico Hulkenberg and Jules Bianchi complete the line-up and you can see the Press Conference live on Sky Sports F1 from 7am.

On Friday Honda’s Head of Motorsport Yasuhisa Arai will be on hand to answer questions ahead of the firm's return to F1 with McLaren in 2015.

Alongside him will be Andy Cowell of Mercedes, Ferrari’s Pat Fry, Red Bull’s Paul Monaghan, Jonathan Neale from McLaren and Renault Sport F1’s Head of Track Operations Remi Taffin.

Press conference line-ups:

Thursday: Jules Bianchi (Marussia), Jenson Button (McLaren), Romain Grosjean (Lotus), Nico Hulkenberg (Force India), Kamui Kobayashi (Caterham), Sebastian Vettel (Red Bull).

Friday: Yasuhisa Arai (Honda), Andy Cowell (Mercedes), Pat Fry (Ferrari), Paul Monaghan (Red Bull), Jonathan Neale (McLaren), Remi Taffin (Renault F1).

The 2014 Japanese GP is live on Sky Sports F1 this weekend. Extensive coverage of Race Day at Suzuka begins at 5.30am on Sunday with lights out at 7am.