The starting grid for the Japanese Grand Prix

Max Verstappen achieved an impressive pole position, beating the two McLaren de Lando Norris et Oscar piastri, who will set off after him this Sunday. Charles Leclerc achieved the fourth best time, while the two Mercedes George Russell and Andrea Kimi Antonelli monopolized the third row. Despite comfort issues in his cockpit, Isack Hadjar climbed to an excellent seventh place, ahead of Ferrari de Lewis Hamilton. Alexander albon and Oliver Bearman will start in the fifth row.

Having just three hundredths of a second away from qualifying for Q3, Pierre Gasly will start eleventh in front of theAston Martin de Fernando Alonso. Carlos Sainz, under investigation for impeding Lewis Hamilton, was found guilty and given a three-place penalty, dropping him to fifteenth. Liam Lawson put his Racing Bulls just in front of the Red Bull de Yuki tsunoda, they will share the seventh line. Nico Hulkenberg accompanies Sainz in the sixth row. His Sauber teammate, Gabriel Bortoleto, is seventeenth ahead of the Haas byEsteban Ocon. Jack Doohan and Lance stroll, finally, complete this starting grid of the third Grand Prix of the season.

The Japanese Grand Prix is ​​scheduled to start at 7 a.m. this Sunday, French time.

F1 – Japanese Grand Prix
The starting grid

1) Max Verstappen (Red Bull)
2) Lando Norris (McLaren)
3) Oscar Piastri (McLaren)
4) Charles Leclerc (Ferrari)
5) George Russell (Mercedes)
6) Andrea Kimi Antonelli (Mercedes)
7) Isack Hadjar (Racing Bulls)
8) Lewis Hamilton (Ferrari)
9) Alexander Albon (Williams)
10) Oliver Bearman (Haas)
11) Pierre Gasly (Alpine)
12) Fernando Alonso (Aston Martin)
13) Liam Lawson (Racing Bulls)
14) Yuki Tsunoda (Red Bull)
15) Carlos Sainz (Williams)
16) Nico Hulkenberg (Sauber)
17) Gabriel Bortoleto (Sauber)
18) Esteban Ocon (Haas)
19) Jack Doohan (Alpine)
20) Lance Stroll (Aston Martin)

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