Tonight honey 3.00 and 4.30 p.m. is in Suzuki took place the first free practice of the GP of Japan. Because it was clear before training that it was Saturday's events were completely canceled due to the looming typhoon and that they will qualifiers on Sunday morning, there was a lot of traffic on the track. Because the teams got extra complete tires, which were intended for third free practice on Saturday, which is finally deleted. Because it is times proved still forgiving, although it started towards the end of training it is already raining lightly, the teams drove away as well some longer distance simulations. This is usually done in another workout.
On the first, however, he was the fastest Valtteri Bottas with time 1: 28.731 minutes. Right behind him was his teammate Lewis Hamilton, Sebastian Vettel, who was third, fell behind almost a second. All times have been reached on soft rubber compounds. He was fourth Charles Leclerc, which was about two tenths of a second slower than Vetteland was fifth Max Verstappen, who was 1,3 seconds behind Bottas. We find another racer behind the Dutchman Red Bulland Alexa Albona, who was three tenths slower than his teammate. He was seventh Carlos Sainz (+1,9), eighth Sergio Perez (+2,0), ninth Lance stroll (+2,2) and tenth Lando Norris (+ 2,2).
Od eleventh place onwards, the racers were classified as follows: Romain Grosjean, Kimi Raikkonen, Nico Hülkenberg, Daniel Ricciardo, Kevin Magnussen, Daniil Kvjat, Naoki Jamamoto, George Russell, Robert Kubica, Antonio Giovinazzi.
Worth mentioning examples: It's right at the beginning of training Carlos Sianz stopped with his race car. They are after a short phase virtual safety car brought back to the garage. Techniques McLaren they eliminated minor electronics problem, so it can be Sainz continued training.
But he could not continue Antonio Giovinazzi from the team Alfa Romeo, who lost in the fourth round - due to hydraulic oil leakage - the performance of the race car and slowly drove to the team garage. For him, the training was over.
