Max Verstappen wins Japanese Grand Prix after pit-lane tussle with Lando Norris
Max Verstappen won his first race of the season after again tussling with Lando Norris at the Japanese Grand Prix.
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F1 GP Jepang 2025: Verstappen Juara, Hentikan Dominasi McLaren
Max Verstappen menjadi juara di F1 Grand Prix Jepang 2025. Driver asal Belanda itu membawa Red Bull Racing-Honda RBPT menyetop dominasi McLaren-Mercedes.
Max Verstappen Snatches 'Insane' Pole For Japan GP In Track Record
Four-time world champion Max Verstappen smashed the track record to snatch pole position for Sunday's Japanese Grand Prix ahead of McLaren's Lando Norris, as Yuki Tsunoda qualified a lowly 15th in his Red Bull debut. Verstappen clocked a blistering lap of 1min 26.983sec in his Red Bull, 0.012sec ahead of championship leader Norris, with McLaren's Oscar Piastri third. Verstappen set a new Suzuka track record with his final lap in Saturday's qualifying, pipping Norris right at the death.
Sainz handed three place grid drop for impeding Hamilton
SUZUKA, Japan :Williams driver Carlos Sainz was handed a three place grid penalty for impeding Lewis Hamilton, his successor at Ferrari, in Japanese Grand Prix qualifying on Saturday.
Verstappen takes pole for Japanese Grand Prix ahead of Norris
SUZUKA, JAPAN: Four-time world champion Max Verstappen smashed the track record to snatch pole position for Sunday’s Japanese Grand Prix ahead of McLaren’s Lando Norris, as Yuki Tsunoda qualified a lowly 15th in his Red Bull debut. Verstappen clocked a blistering lap of 1min 26.983sec in his Red Bull, 0.012sec ahead of championship leader Norris, with McLaren’s Oscar Piastri third. Verstappen set a new Suzuka track record with his final lap in Saturday’s qualifying, pipping Norris right at the death. “Each session we kept making little improvements, then the last lap was flat out,” said Verstappen, who has won the Japanese GP for the last three years. “In a Formula One car around here is insane. This is a proper highlight for us to be back on pole here.” It was Verstappen’s first pole position of the season. The Dutchman is still looking for his first grand prix win of the new campaign. Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc was fourth ahead of Mercedes’ George Russell, with Mercedes’ Kimi Antonelli sixth and RB’s Isack Hadjar seventh. Ferrari’s Lewis Hamilton was eighth, followed by Williams’s Alex Albon and Haas’s Oliver Bearman. Norris is looking for his second grand prix win of the season, after triumphing in the season opener in Australia. He finished second behind Piastri in China a fortnight ago in a dominant start to the campaign for McLaren. “I’m happy, congrats to Max, he did a good job,” said Norris. “You have to credit something when it is a lap that good that he must have done.
McLarens fastest in third practice at Suzuka
SUZUKA, Japan :Lando Norris put McLaren top of the timesheets in third practice for the Japanese Grand Prix on Saturday with a sizzling lap of one minute 27.965 seconds that bettered Max Verstappen's time for pole position last year.
Formula 1 "Very Serious" About Thailand Grand Prix, Confirms Thai-Brit Driver Alex Albon
British-Thai driver Alex Albon says that Thailand is taking its bid to host a Formula One race "very seriously" after meeting the prime minister and seeing the plans for himself. Thailand is among a number of countries eager to host the sport for the first time, with a race around the streets of the capital Bangkok mooted. F1 chief Stefano Domenicali met Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra last month and Albon paid her a visit before this weekend's Japanese Grand Prix. "We're trying to help get the Thai GP under way and seeing how we can help," Albon, who races for Williams and is Thailand's only F1 driver, told reporters on Thursday at Suzuka.
Tsunoda shines again as Lawson's struggles continue
SHANGHAI : Yuki Tsunoda stepped up again for Racing Bulls on Saturday as Liam Lawson, preferred over the Japanese as Max Verstappen's new Red Bull teammate, continued his difficult start to the Formula One season.