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Fernando Alonso sets pace in wet F1 practice at Japanese Grand Prix

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Alpine's Fernando Alonso set the fastest time in a wet opening practice session for the Japanese Grand Prix on Friday. The Spaniard lapped the soaked Suzuka track in one minute, 42.248 seconds ahead of Ferrari's Carlos Sainz with Charles Leclerc in the second Ferrari Ferrari third.

Runaway championship leader Max Verstappen, who could clinch a second successive F1 drivers' title on Sunday, was only sixth fastest behind Alpine's Esteban Ocon and Haas racer Kevin Magnussen.

Dutchman Verstappen, who leads Leclerc by 104 points in the standings, completed only four laps around the venue where he made his F1 weekend debut a few days after his 17th birthday in 2014.

Mick Schumacher was seventh fastest for Haas. The German crashed after the end of the session at the uphill left-handed Dunlop sweep having completed a practice start from the grid.

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