Max Verstappen has stormed to pole for the Japanese Grand Prix, in an apparent resetting of the form book after missing out in Singapore.
The Red Bull driver went almost six tenths clear of everybody else in Q3, with Verstappen set to be joined by Oscar Piastri on the front row on the young Australian’s first ever visit to Suzuka.
But halfway through Q1, the red flag was out. Logan Sargeant put the throttle down coming out of the final chicane and suffered a twitch of oversteer, and the Williams driver kept his foot pinned to the floor as he looked to complete his lap. The cooling in air temperatures as the session progressed led to significant improvement across the board as the drivers scrambled to get out of Q1, with Liam Lawson setting a time good enough for fourth come session’s end.
But Oscar Piastri showed an impressive turn of speed in his McLaren, having never driven at Suzuka before the race weekend, going just 0.158s behind Verstappen in Q2 and ahead of Norris and Sergio Perez. On track, the fight to get into Q3 intensified – and Alonso found himself on the cusp of elimination when George Russell leapfrogged him after improving his best lap time.
But on the other side of the AlphaTauri garage, fresh from signing his new contract with the team, Yuki Tsunoda gave his home support something to cheer by making it through to Q3.Max Verstappen storms to Japanese Grand Prix pole
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