Jack Doohan
Jack Doohan

Four red flags in F1 Japanese GP Friday Practice as it happened

Recap Friday practice at the Japanese Grand Prix

The third round of the 2025 F1 season ta🌌kes us to Suzuka for the Japanese Grand Prix.

McLaren's Lando Norris leads the F1 driv𝐆ers' standings after two races. Norris is eight points ahead of Max Verstappen and nine clear 🍃of Mercedes' George Russell.

The major talking point heading into the weekend is Red Bull's brutal decision to drop Liam Lawson for Yuki Tsunoda♛.

Follow all of the acti🌠on from Friday practice in Japan here. 


 

08:10
Jack Doohan

Here's the🍰 state of Jack Doohan's car after his crash.

The Alꦇpine dꦬriver emerged gingerly after the incident.

That was a big impact.

Alpine
Alpine
08:09
FP2 results
2025 F1 Japanese Grand Prix - Free Practice Results (2)
PosDriverNat.TeamTime
1Oscar PiastriAUSMcLaren F1 Team1m28.114s
2Lando NorrisGBRMcLaren F1 Team1m28.163s
3Isack HadjarFRAVisa Cash App Racing Bulls F1 Team1m28.518s
4Lewis HamiltonGBRScuderia Ferrari HP1m28.544s
5Liam LawsonNZLVisa Cash App Racing Bulls F1 Team1m28.559s
6George RussellGBRMercedes AMG Petronas F1 Team1m28.567s
7Charles LeclercMONScuderia Ferrari HP1m28.586s
8Max VerstappenNEDOracle Red Bull Racing1m28.670s
9Pierre GaslyFRABWT Alpine F1 Team1m28.757s
10Carlos SainzESPAtlassian Williams Racing1m28.832s
11Alex AlbonTHAAtlassian Williams Racing1m29.023s
12Nico HulkenbergGERStake F1 Team Kick Sauber1m29.062s
13Gabriel BortoletoBRAStake F1 Team Kick Sauber1m29.335s
14Esteban OconFRAMoneyGram Haas F1 Team1m29.507s
15Oliver BearmanGBRMoneyGram Haas F1 Team1m29.654s
16Kimi AntonelliITAMercedes AMG Petronas F1 Team1m29.733s
17Fernando AlonsoESPAston Martin Aramco F1 Team1m29.978s
18Yuki TsunodaJPNOracle Red Bull Racing1m30.625s
19Lance StrollCANAston Martin Aramco F1 Team1m30.845s
20Jack DoohanAUSBWT Alpine F1 Team1m31.659s
08:03
Top 10

Piastri, Norris, Hadjar, Hamilton, Lawson, R🎀ussell, Leclerc, Verstappen, Gasly and Sainz.

08:02
Chequered flag

Piastri fastest in FP2 a𒉰head of Norris and Hadjar.

08:00
Another red flag

The 𒁃𒁏grass is on fire again. The clock is about to run down anyway. 

07:57
Piastri improves

A 1m28.114s for Piastri to move 0.049s ahead of Norris. Strong pace once again from McLaꦜren here.

07:53
Seven minutes on the clock

FP2 is underway (again). 

07:51
Three red flags
07:47
Red flag

Some of the grass is on fire. 

07:46
Strong lap from Norris

Norris lowers the b🐠enchmark to a 1m28.163s to go 0.3s ahead of Hadjar, who has just put in a tidy lap.

07:45
Hamilton goes fastest

A strong lap from the seven-time world champion to go 0.023s ahea✨d of Russell. Leclerc is less than a tenth off hi♎s teammate. 

07:42
FP2 back underway

18 minutes on the clock.

07:38
Just over 20 minutes on the clock

Current top 10: Russell, Hamilton, Alonso, Piastr♊i, Leclerc, Hadjar, Tsunoda, Lawson, St📖roll and Hulkenberg.

07:37
Alonso
07:34
Another red flag

Alonso has beache꧟d his Aston Martin in the gravel trap.

07:30
FP2 is back underway

Dooh💦an's car has been cl🍰eared and FP2 is back underway. 

07:24
News from the FIA

FP2 is expected to resume🅰 at 7:30am UK time. 

07:23
Doohan
07:20
Cause of Doohan's crash

F1 TV pundit Jolyon Palmer has suggested that the cause of the crash was Doohan k🔯eeping his DRS open into Turn 1.

Given drivers don't have to brake into T1, they're forced to manually turned it off - something Doohan pot꧟entially didn't do. 

07:16
Doohan's wrecked Alpine
Doohan
Doohan
07:12
Doohan

Doohan has got o🌌ut of his car and looks to be OK. A viol🍬ent crash for the Alpine driver. 

07:07
Big crash

Doohan has crashed his Alpine. Red flag.

07:07
Russell on top now

A 1m29.666s for Russell on the hards, 0.284s ahead of Hamilton, Alonso,ℱ Hadjar and Tsunoda round out the top five. 

07:04
Three times on the board

Lawson leads the way with a 1m30.756s, 0.4s ahead 𒉰of Bortoleto.&ꦓnbsp;

07:00
FP2 is underway

The secon🉐d practice session at Suzuka is now underway༒.