Max Verstappen blew the opposition away to lead first practice for Formula 1\u2019s 2023 Japanese Grand Prix by 0.6 seconds for Red Bull ahead of Singapore winner Carlos Sainz and Lando Norris.
Max Verstappen blew the opposition away to lead first practice for Formula 1’s 2023 Japanese Grand Prix by 0.6 seconds for Red Bull ahead of Singapore winner Carlos Sainz and Lando Norris.Nearly a week on from Red Bull’s humbling in Singapore, Verstappen utterly dominated the early stages, heading the times from his first flier, a 1m33.719s set on the hard tyres that no one else could get anywhere near as the pack was split across the harder tyre compounds.
This included a prototype medium compound Verstappen switched to after going quickest again on his second flier, his next lap after a quick trip to the pits a 1m37.597s. He lowered the benchmark to a 1m32.442s before pitting a third of the way into the one-hour session, his gap to nearest rival Sergio Perez
was among the first to head back out on the softs, which require a slow preparation lap on the abrasive Suzuka circuit and its high-energy, demanding corners. After his first softs flier, Perez still trailed Verstappen’s best on the prototype mediums by 0.6s, before his world champion team-mate re-extended that gap to nearly 1.4s with his first softs effort – a 1m31.647s.
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