Japanese GP: Lando Norris tops Practice Three as grass fires continue to interrupt Suzuka event | F1 News

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Lando Norris topped the final practice of the Japanese Grand Prix, as the grass fires around the Suzuka circuit continued to cause anxiety before the qualifiers.

The driver’s leader Norris has struggled to control his car in most of the session, but he threw a time of 1: 27.965 to provide his teammate in the McLaren team, Oscar Bayastiri, with a few hundred seconds.

The only driver who seems to have a pace to challenge McLares to put the pole in the qualifiers, Live on Sky Sports F1 at 7 amHe is George Russell, who was the tenth of the second back of Norris for Mercedes.

Ferrari remained out of the pace with Charles Licork IV and Luis Hamilton in sixth place, with the couple on two sides of the second of McLares.

World champion Max Versaben Ferraris was divided into fifth, but he said on the team’s radio in the closing stages of the session that Red Bull was “all over the store.”

The new colleague of Versaben, Yuki Tsunoda, was three tenths of the second back of the Dutchman in the ninth place, where Williams Alex Albun and Pierre Jasli from the Alps in front of him were in front of him.

Ysunoda for the first time in Red Bull after his promotion from Junior, the bullfield in a great key with Liam Lawson only two races in the season.

However, the full competitive image was left unclear as a lot of the field was prevented from completing the final simulations to qualify when the red flag was thrown to the session seven minutes away.

A similar length of delay occurred in the early stages of the session for the same reason, after two red marks in the second practice on Friday.

FIA cut the grass and created it before the session in an attempt to overcome the case, but the possibility of more interruptions to qualify on the horizon now, with possible more serious effects on the Sunday race.

Japanese GP practices three schedule


driver	a team	time
1) Lando Norris	McLaren	1: 27.965
2) Oscar Pasri	McLaren	+0.026
3) George Russell	Mercedes	+0.112
4) Charles Licerrick	Ferrari	+0.449
5) Max Versaben	Red Ball	+0.532
6) Louis Hamilton	Ferrari	+0.559
7) Alex Albon	Williams	+0.589
8) Pierre Jasli	Alpine Mountains	+0.638
9) Yuki Tsunoda	Red Ball	+0.820
10) Isack Hadjar	RB	+0.821
11) Carlos Science	Williams	+0.881
12) Liam Lawson	RB	+1.139
13) Kimi Antonelle	Mercedes	+1.161
14) Jacques Douuhan	Alpine Mountains	+1.802
15) Fernando Alonso	Aston Martin	+1.807
16) Oliver Berman	Hay	+2.119
17) Gabriel Portolo	Spoiler	+2.169
18) Esteban Okon	Hay	+2.218
19) Lance Nuzha	Aston Martin	+2.302
20) Niko Holkenberg	Spoiler	+2.656

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2025-04-05 03:50:00

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