Lando Norris set the early tempo in Free Follow 1 on the Japanese Grand Prix in a session the place all eyes have been on new Purple Bull recruit, Yuki Tsunoda.
The McLaren driver topped the timesheet with a 1m 28.549s effort, which put him 0.163s away from Mercedes’ George Russell. After seeing each vehicles disqualified final outing in China, Ferrari confirmed robust tempo with each Charles Leclerc and Lewis Hamilton inside the highest 4.
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Purple Bull had hoped {that a} shakeup in its driver line-up, changing Liam Lawson with Tsunoda, would see the crew run with two vehicles in direction of the entrance as soon as extra, and this was the case within the opening session, with Max Verstappen fifth and the Japanese driver solely 0.107s additional again in sixth.
Kimi Antonelli, Alex Albon and Carlos Sainz all explored the grass and gravel that line the Suzuka structure, however all stored away from the shut quarters partitions.
Click on play on the video above to compensate for the highlights from FP1 in Japan.
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