2025 F1 Japanese Grand Prix - Friday Practice Results

Oscar Piastri topped Friday practice at the 2025 F1 Japanese Grand Prix. 

Piastri sets pace in FP2

Piastri set the pace for McLaren in a truncated second practice at the F1 Japanese Grand Prix.

Around 40 minutes of running was lost due to four red flags throughout the hour-long FP2 session, but Piastri produced the quickest time, 0.049s ahead of McLaren teammate Lando Norris.

Isack Hadjar was third-fastest for Racing Bulls, ahead of Lewis Hamilton's Ferrari and Liam Lawson, who has returned to Red Bull's sister team following his shock early demotion. 

George Russell took sixth in his Mercedes, ahead of Ferrari's Charles Leclerc and Red Bull's Max Verstappen.

Pierre Gasly and Carlos Sainz rounded out the top-10 for Alpine and Williams.

Jack Doohan caused a lengthy first red flag when he suffered a hefty crash at Turn 1, causing significant damage to his Alpine. 

The session had only just resumed when Fernando Alonso beached his Aston Martin in the gravel at Degner, resulting in a second red flag. 

Two late red flags disrupted the end of FP2 when grass fires broke out at the side of the track due to sparks from underneath the cars being blown onto the parched grass by the gusty winds. 

Norris fastest in FP1 

Lando Norris topped the opening F1 practice session for the Japanese Grand Prix at Suzuka.

It wasn’t an entirely smooth session for the F1 championship leader, who ran wide at the final chicane in the early minutes of FP1.

Once he got a lap together, it was good enough to put Norris top of the timesheets.

Norris was fastest by just over a tenth, with Mercedes’ George Russell completing the top two.

Russell showed great pace throughout the first session - setting the fastest time initially on the medium tyres.

Charles Leclerc rounded out the top three for Ferrari, although he was over four-tenths away from Norris’ best time.

Lewis Hamilton rounded out the top four in the second Ferrari.

Max Verstappen was in fifth-place, just ahead of new teammate Yuki Tsunoda.

It was an encouraging session for Tsunoda, who was around a tenth off the reigning world champion.

Fernando Alonso, Isack Hadjar, Kimi Antonelli and Carlos Sainz rounded out the top 10.