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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Verstappen wins Japanese Grand Prix for fourth straight year
SUZUKA, Japan :World champion Max Verstappen claimed a pole to flag victory for Red Bull at the Japanese Grand Prix on Sunday, winning his first race of the Formula One season and an unprecedented fourth in a row at Suzuka.
Japanese GP LIVE Updates, Formula 1: Pole-Sitter Max Verstappen Eyes First Win Of Season At Suzuka
Formula 1 Japanese Grand Prix Live Updates: Red Bull's four-time world champion Max Verstappen will start the 2025 Japanese Grand Prix on pole, ahead of the two McLarens, Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri. Charles Leclerc, 4th, outqualified his Ferrari teammate and seven-time champion Lewis Hamilton, who starts from the fourth row alongside Racing Bulls' French rookie Isack Hadjar.
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.
Max Verstappen leaves McLarens behind to claim Japanese Grand Prix pole position
Max Verstappen produced an incredible lap to stun McLaren pair Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri and claim a shock pole position for the Japanese Grand Prix.
Hadjar says he almost crashed from seatbelt pain
SUZUKA, Japan :French Formula One rookie Isack Hadjar said he almost crashed as he battled seatbelt pain to qualify seventh at the Japanese Grand Prix on Saturday.
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.