The second round of qualifying begins at 8:39 a.m.!
Thanks to the last opportunity of Alonso, Hamilton and Albon, those eliminated in Q1 are the following: Bottas, Stroll, Hülkenberg, Zhou and Sargeant.
Fernando Alonso secures his place in Q2 thanks to his twelfth place.
Less than a minute left! Most drivers are improving in sector 1, but not by much.
Bottas, Hülkenberg, Albon and Gasly are on the tightrope! None have a timed safety lap.
Fernando Alonso and both Mercedes put on new tires for these last three minutes of the tie.
The Ferraris climb to the top 5! Leclerc is 3rd, Sainz 5th.
The Ferraris, Williams, Bottas, Hülkenberg and Gasly are the ones who don’t have time.
Carlos Sainz, Leclerc and Lawson are the only ones riding now.
GREEN LIGHT!
The Scuderia Ferrari drivers opt for new soft tires. Because of the red flag, none of them were able to set a safety time.
Q1 resumes in three minutes!
TOP 10 POSITIONS
1st Verstappen, 2nd Norris, 3rd Piastri, 4th Pérez, 5th Russell, 6th Hamilton, 7th Fernando Alonso, 8th Ocon, 9th Tsunoda, 10th Zhou. Carlos Sainz is out of time.
Albon and Gasly’s times were annulled for having exceeded the track limits.
The countdown stops at 9:05 minutes. There is still a lot of time ahead.
The Williams driver heads to his box.
RED FLAG! Logan Sargeant crashes into the barriers in the final corner. Williams’ car has been destroyed. Fortunately, the pilot got out on his own.
Max Verstappen is the first to go under 1:30 (1:29.878). Norris (2nd) is two tenths behind the Dutchman.
All the drivers are already on the track.
Liam Lawson clocks a 1:31.729.
The Red Bull Racing drivers leave the pit lane. We remember that the Austrians can win the constructors’ title this weekend.
Lance Stroll and Liam Lawson are the only ones on the track right now.
Everything ready for the start of Q1! Lance Stroll positions himself at the end of the pit lane.
We are less than 10 minutes away from the start of Q1! The sixteenth qualifying session starts at 8:00 a.m.
As we have seen throughout the year, any slight error in classification has a major impact. If in Singapore we had the elimination of the two Red Bulls in Q2, what will be the surprise this time?
Fernando Alonso finished in ninth place, behind the drivers mentioned above.
In terms of results, the two members of the four leading teams of this second half of the year have finished in the lead.
1st Verstappen, 2nd Norris, 3rd Piastri, 4th Pérez, 5th Leclerc, 6th Carlos Sainz, 7th Hamilton and Russell 8th.
Focusing on what happened in Free Practice 3, Max Verstappen once again dominated the three training sessions, returning everything to normal. At least with what we have seen so far in Suzuka.
With this renewal, Tsunoda will continue to represent the Faenza team for the fourth consecutive season. On the other hand, the team is opting for Ricciardo’s experience in F1 instead of giving the opportunity to Liam Lawson, who has shown a great level since he debuted in this year’s Dutch GP.
It should be noted that in Singapore, the young talent from the Red Bull academy managed to score points thanks to his ninth place.
OFFICIAL
The most notable news of the last few hours has been the confirmation of the AlphaTauri driver duo for the next seasonwhich is composed by Yuki Tsunoda and Daniel Ricciardo.
Good morning! We begin the live Classification of the Formula 1 Japanese Grand Prix. In less than half an hour the moment of truth begins.