Lando Norris at the top is the first practice for McLaren on the Japanese Grand Prix while Yuki Tsunoda firmly started his debut Red Bull.
Just a few moments after he started his way while fighting his MCL39 handling, Norris delivered a 1: 28,549 time to beat Mercedes’ George Russell by 0.163.
Despite the fastest time, the driver’s championship leader sounded upset across the Team radio as he complained of the tire outrage during a long run later in the session, while his teammate Oscar Piastra was only 15. After making mistakes in the flying circuit attempts.
The Ferrari duo Charles Leclerc and Lewis Hamilton were third and fourth, in front of Max Verstappen in fifth place, which was just over ten seconds ahead of his new teammate Tsunod in the sixth.
Tsunoda was extremely promoted to Red Bull from junior racing bulls only two races in the season, and Liam Lawson overthrew just over three months after Milton Keynes Squad chose the new Zealander for Verstappen’s teammate for the 2025 season.
Since only a dozen of the ruling world champion, he represented the encouragement to start for Tsunoda at his home race, although it seemed to be a significant bay during their longer rides later on the session.
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Carlos Sainz laughed at Team Radio as he missed the pit box, believing that the team was at the other end of Pit Lane during the FP1 from the Japanese Grand Prix.
Speaking to the team radio at the end of the session, Tsunoda said, “I found a car interesting on the track. But that’s fine. Good sesh (session).”
Lawson was 13th place to return to Racing Bulls, where he made the previous 11 Grands Prix appearance before he quickly entered the Red Bull seat.
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Sky Sports F1 live Japanese general schedule
Friday 4th. April
- 6.45am: Japanese GP Exercise Two (session starts at 7 o’clock)*
- 8.15am: F1 Show*
Saturday 5th. April
- 3.15am: Japanese medical practice three (session starts at 3.30am)*
- 6:00: Japanese GP qualifying buildup*
- 7:00: Japanese GP qualification*
- 9:00: TED -O’s qualifying notebook*
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Refer to some of the most dramatic moments that occurred on the Japanese Grand Prix
Sunday 6 April
- 4.30 hours: Japanese GP Building-up: Grand Prix Sunday*
- 6:00: Japanese Grand Prix*
- 8:00: Japanese reaction GP -a: Plated flag*
- 9:00: Ted’s notebook*
*Also live at the main event Sky Sports
The formula is this weekend in the Suzuk iconic circle for the Japanese Grand Prix, live on Sky Sports F1. Stream Sky Sports with now – No Treaty, cancel anytime
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