Round 03 · 2026

Japanese Grand Prix

Suzuka, Japan27–29 Mar

Drawn from car positions, 2026 FP1

Practice 1
Fri 02:30
Data published
track 37° ·air 16° ·49% hum ·6.8 km/h wind
Practice 2
Fri 06:00
Data published
track 27° ·air 17° ·47% hum ·6.8 km/h wind
Practice 3
Sat 02:30
Data published
track 37° ·air 16° ·54% hum ·5.8 km/h wind
Qualifying
Sat 06:00
Data published
track 30° ·air 17° ·51% hum ·6.5 km/h wind
Fantasy lock
Grand Prix
Sun 05:00
Data published
track 34° ·air 19° ·52% hum ·7.2 km/h wind

Times in UTC

Grand Prix result

Pos	Driver	Team	Grid	Moved	Time / gap	Pts
1	ANT	Mercedes	1	—	1:28:03.403	25
2	PIA	McLaren	3	1	+13.722	18
3	LEC	Ferrari	4	1	+15.270	15
4	RUS	Mercedes	2	2	+15.754	12
5	NOR	McLaren	5	—	+23.479	10
6	HAM	Ferrari	6	—	+25.037	8
7	GAS	Alpine	7	—	+32.340	6
8	VER	Red Bull Racing	11	3	+32.677	4
9	LAW	Red Bull Racing	14	5	+50.180	2
10	OCO	Haas F1 Team	12	2	+51.216	1
11	HUL	Audi	13	2	+52.280
12	HAD	Red Bull Racing	8	4	+56.154
13	BOR	Audi	9	4	+59.078
14	LIN	Racing Bulls	10	4	+59.848
15	SAI	Williams	16	1	+65.007
16	COL	Alpine	15	1	+65.773
17	PER	Cadillac	19	2	+92.453
18	ALO	Aston Martin	21	3	+26.548
19	BOT	Cadillac	20	1	+42.621
20	ALB	Williams	17	3	+5.067
21	STR	Aston Martin	22	1	Retired
22	BEA	Haas F1 Team	18	4	Retired

Qualifying

Pos	Driver	Q1	Q2	Q3	Gap to pole
1	ANT	1:30.035	1:29.048	1:28.778
2	RUS	1:29.967	1:29.686	1:29.076	+0.298
3	PIA	1:30.200	1:29.451	1:29.132	+0.354
4	LEC	1:29.915	1:29.303	1:29.405	+0.627
5	NOR	1:30.401	1:29.795	1:29.409	+0.631
6	HAM	1:30.309	1:29.589	1:29.567	+0.789
7	GAS	1:30.584	1:29.874	1:29.691	+0.913
8	HAD	1:30.662	1:30.104	1:29.978	+1.200
9	BOR	1:30.359	1:29.990	1:30.274	+1.496
10	LIN	1:30.781	1:30.109	1:30.319	+1.541
11	VER	1:30.519	1:30.262	—	+1.484
12	OCO	1:30.915	1:30.309	—	+1.531
13	HUL	1:30.358	1:30.387	—	+1.609
14	LAW	1:30.657	1:30.495	—	+1.717
15	COL	1:30.931	1:30.627	—	+1.849
16	SAI	1:30.927	1:31.033	—	+2.255
17	ALB	1:31.088	—	—	+2.310
18	BEA	1:31.090	—	—	+2.312
19	PER	1:32.206	—	—	+3.428
20	BOT	1:32.330	—	—	+3.552
21	ALO	1:32.646	—	—	+3.868
22	STR	1:32.920	—	—	+4.142

How the weekend has moved

Practice 11:31.666run 1:36.509

Practice 21:30.133−1.533run 1:36.627

Practice 31:29.362−0.771run 1:34.769

Qualifying1:28.778−0.584

Grand Prix1:32.432+3.654run 1:35.578

Fastest lap of each session, the change from the session before, and the midfield's median fuel-corrected long run. Times normally tumble as the track rubbers in.

Suzuka in earlier seasons

20261:29.362run 1:36.490

20251:27.965−1.397run 1:34.235

20241:29.563+0.201run 1:36.510

20231:30.267+0.905run 1:38.821

20221:30.671+1.309run 1:37.749

20191:27.785−1.577run 1:36.535

Fastest practice lap per season at this circuit. Layout changes, resurfacing and weather all move these numbers, so read them as context rather than a like-for-like comparison.

Practice 1

Fri 27 Mar, 02:30 UTCFastestRUS1:31.666

Single-lap pace

RUS1:31.666—27 laps

ANT1:31.692+0.02626 laps

NOR1:31.798+0.13220 laps

PIA1:31.865+0.19923 laps

LEC1:31.955+0.28925 laps

HAM1:32.040+0.37423 laps

VER1:32.457+0.79127 laps

LAW1:32.529+0.86327 laps

OCO1:32.601+0.93523 laps

LIN1:32.665+0.99929 laps

BOR1:32.759+1.09327 laps

HUL1:32.798+1.13226 laps

HAD1:32.803+1.13727 laps

BEA1:32.900+1.23427 laps

GAS1:32.978+1.31225 laps

COL1:33.361+1.69524 laps

SAI1:33.383+1.71726 laps

ALB1:33.697+2.03122 laps

PER1:34.221+2.55518 laps

BOT1:34.490+2.82424 laps

STR1:35.294+3.62822 laps

CRA1:36.362+4.69611 laps

Best lap regardless of fuel load or compound — a sighting shot, not a form guide.

Long runs, fuel-corrected

Driver	Tyre	Laps	Fuel-corrected	Gap	Spread	Deg / lap
NOR	S	5*	1:33.838	—	±1.171	—
BOR	S	7*	1:34.876	+1.038	±1.388	—
COL	S	6*	1:35.021	+1.183	±1.281	—
RUS	H	7*	1:35.670	+1.832	±0.206	—
ANT	S	6*	1:36.426	+2.588	±0.745	—
HUL	M	6*	1:36.509	+2.671	±0.759	—
VER	M	9	1:36.922	+3.084	±0.269	+0.039s
BEA	S	7*	1:37.403	+3.565	±0.803	—
LAW	S	5*	1:37.563	+3.725	±0.691	—
GAS	M	5*	1:38.060	+4.222	±0.495	—
BOT	H	5*	1:40.392	+6.554	±0.649	—

Each driver's longest clean stint, using green-flag laps only. Cool-down laps go first (anything more than 7% slower than that stint's best), then laps sitting well above the stint's own trend — traffic and mistakes — and a stint is discarded entirely if what remains isn't one continuous run. Times are corrected for fuel burn at 60 ms per lap, measured from 2024 race stints rather than assumed. Runs under eight laps (marked *) get no degradation figure, because a trend through so few laps is noise. Teams don't publish fuel loads, and 15 kg is worth about 0.4s a lap, so read these as driver groupings rather than exact gaps, and compare runs on the same compound.

Sectors and the lap they could have done

Driver	S1	S2	S3	Ideal lap	Best lap	Left out
RUS	33.004	40.322	18.102	1:31.428	1:31.666	0.238
ANT	33.421	40.258	17.887	1:31.566	1:31.692	0.126
PIA	33.133	40.689	17.957	1:31.779	1:31.865	0.086
NOR	33.176	40.719	17.903	1:31.798	1:31.798	0.000
LEC	33.129	40.590	18.091	1:31.810	1:31.955	0.145
HAM	33.249	40.798	17.952	1:31.999	1:32.040	0.041
OCO	33.392	40.923	17.919	1:32.234	1:32.601	0.367
VER	33.292	41.096	17.983	1:32.371	1:32.457	0.086
LAW	33.679	40.807	17.942	1:32.428	1:32.529	0.101
LIN	33.681	41.015	17.865	1:32.561	1:32.665	0.104
BOR	33.494	41.082	18.013	1:32.589	1:32.759	0.170
HAD	33.491	41.261	17.894	1:32.646	1:32.803	0.157
GAS	33.351	41.292	18.036	1:32.679	1:32.978	0.299
HUL	33.704	41.143	17.852	1:32.699	1:32.798	0.099
BEA	33.440	41.365	17.944	1:32.749	1:32.900	0.151
SAI	33.981	41.170	18.054	1:33.205	1:33.383	0.178
COL	34.122	41.118	18.051	1:33.291	1:33.361	0.070
ALB	33.819	41.333	18.249	1:33.401	1:33.697	0.296
PER	34.127	41.684	18.346	1:34.157	1:34.221	0.064
BOT	34.401	41.739	18.044	1:34.184	1:34.490	0.306
STR	34.508	42.324	18.403	1:35.235	1:35.294	0.059
CRA	34.927	42.791	18.644	1:36.362	1:36.362	0.000

Best sector times are usually set on different laps, so their sum — the ideal lap — is quicker than anyone's actual best. The last column is the time left out there. Purple marks the session's fastest sector.

What the tyres are worth here

SSoft — referenceM+0.614(8 drivers ran both)H+0.791(13 drivers ran both)

Measured within each driver — only drivers who set a representative time on both compounds count — then averaged, so this isn't distorted by who happened to run which tyre. A lap counts only if it is within 2% of that driver's own best of the session, which keeps genuine runs on a slower tyre while dropping in-laps and aborted runs that would otherwise masquerade as a compound's best. A compound fewer than three drivers tried is listed but not priced. Even so, these laps aren't all qualifying simulations, so read this as the order of the compounds rather than an exact price.

Team-mates, head to head

MercedesRUSahead of ANT+0.026

McLarenNORahead of PIA+0.067

FerrariLECahead of HAM+0.085

Red Bull RacingVERahead of LAW+0.072

Haas F1 TeamOCOahead of BEA+0.299

AudiBORahead of HUL+0.039

AlpineGASahead of COL+0.383

WilliamsSAIahead of ALB+0.314

CadillacPERahead of BOT+0.269

Aston MartinSTRahead of CRA+1.068

Same car, so the gap on their best lap is the clearest read on the driver available.

Stints and compounds

RUS17793

ANT9683

NOR1109

PIA5567

LEC81187

HAM91175

VER533313

LAW6588

OCO19337

LIN652916

BOR111015

HUL17549

HAD82566

BEA55611

GAS55348

COL4614

SAI9107

ALB112513

PER5355

BOT978

STR3847

CRA227

SSoftMMediumHHard

Practice 2

Fri 27 Mar, 06:00 UTCFastestPIA1:30.133

Single-lap pace

PIA1:30.133—29 laps

ANT1:30.225+0.09228 laps

RUS1:30.338+0.20529 laps

NOR1:30.649+0.51617 laps

LEC1:30.846+0.71328 laps

HAM1:30.980+0.84727 laps

HUL1:31.441+1.30827 laps

ALB1:31.496+1.36330 laps

BEA1:31.498+1.36528 laps

VER1:31.509+1.37629 laps

OCO1:31.532+1.39930 laps

LAW1:31.590+1.45730 laps

SAI1:31.608+1.47530 laps

GAS1:31.734+1.60129 laps

HAD1:31.759+1.62629 laps

BOR1:31.933+1.80011 laps

COL1:32.438+2.30528 laps

BOT1:32.615+2.48228 laps

ALO1:33.596+3.46324 laps

PER1:33.689+3.55614 laps

STR1:33.951+3.81821 laps

Best lap regardless of fuel load or compound — a sighting shot, not a form guide.

Long runs, fuel-corrected

Driver	Tyre	Laps	Fuel-corrected	Gap	Spread	Deg / lap
ANT	M	7*	1:34.977	—	±0.590	—
RUS	M	7*	1:35.200	+0.223	±0.480	—
LEC	M	6*	1:35.494	+0.517	±0.292	—
PIA	M	8	1:36.134	+1.157	±0.866	+0.201s
GAS	H	8	1:36.298	+1.321	±0.212	+0.031s
VER	H	9	1:36.437	+1.460	±0.363	+0.064s
OCO	M	10	1:36.472	+1.495	±0.147	−0.033s
BEA	M	11	1:36.619	+1.642	±0.406	+0.082s
HUL	H	6*	1:36.634	+1.657	±0.562	—
HAD	H	8	1:36.848	+1.871	±1.104	+0.197s
COL	M	10	1:37.061	+2.084	±0.375	+0.098s
LAW	M	8	1:37.250	+2.273	±0.565	+0.090s
ALB	M	9	1:37.488	+2.511	±0.316	+0.068s
SAI	H	7*	1:37.509	+2.532	±0.310	—
PER	H	5*	1:38.269	+3.292	±0.259	—
BOT	M	11	1:38.285	+3.308	±0.384	+0.107s

Sectors and the lap they could have done

Driver	S1	S2	S3	Ideal lap	Best lap	Left out
PIA	32.412	39.990	17.731	1:30.133	1:30.133	0.000
ANT	32.653	39.877	17.614	1:30.144	1:30.225	0.081
RUS	32.470	40.001	17.785	1:30.256	1:30.338	0.082
NOR	32.627	40.243	17.779	1:30.649	1:30.649	0.000
LEC	32.811	40.150	17.737	1:30.698	1:30.846	0.148
HAM	32.774	40.262	17.811	1:30.847	1:30.980	0.133
HUL	32.946	40.513	17.725	1:31.184	1:31.441	0.257
VER	33.053	40.720	17.663	1:31.436	1:31.509	0.073
LAW	33.131	40.425	17.908	1:31.464	1:31.590	0.126
BEA	32.966	40.642	17.867	1:31.475	1:31.498	0.023
ALB	33.146	40.589	17.761	1:31.496	1:31.496	0.000
OCO	33.058	40.601	17.873	1:31.532	1:31.532	0.000
GAS	33.430	40.417	17.746	1:31.593	1:31.734	0.141
SAI	33.250	40.617	17.741	1:31.608	1:31.608	0.000
HAD	33.218	40.775	17.733	1:31.726	1:31.759	0.033
BOR	33.175	40.884	17.792	1:31.851	1:31.933	0.082
COL	33.525	40.839	17.863	1:32.227	1:32.438	0.211
BOT	33.664	41.069	17.882	1:32.615	1:32.615	0.000
ALO	33.924	41.483	18.022	1:33.429	1:33.596	0.167
PER	33.729	41.347	18.365	1:33.441	1:33.689	0.248
STR	34.104	41.662	18.012	1:33.778	1:33.951	0.173

What the tyres are worth here

SSoft — referenceM+0.956(13 drivers ran both)H+0.727(5 drivers ran both)

Team-mates, head to head

McLarenPIAahead of NOR+0.516

MercedesANTahead of RUS+0.113

FerrariLECahead of HAM+0.134

AudiHULahead of BOR+0.492

WilliamsALBahead of SAI+0.112

Haas F1 TeamBEAahead of OCO+0.034

Red Bull RacingVERahead of LAW+0.081

AlpineGASahead of COL+0.704

CadillacBOTahead of PER+1.074

Aston MartinALOahead of STR+0.355

Same car, so the gap on their best lap is the clearest read on the driver available.

Stints and compounds

PIA753104

ANT1733104

RUS1354394

NOR269

LEC77212

HAM7938

HUL7587

ALB105114

BEA73315

VER44318

OCO93315

LAW96114

SAI554124

GAS10613

HAD633314

BOR227

COL8614

BOT73315

ALO45357

PER59

STR73335

LIN1

SSoftMMediumHHard

Practice 3

Sat 28 Mar, 02:30 UTCFastestANT1:29.362

Single-lap pace

ANT1:29.362—18 laps

RUS1:29.616+0.25418 laps

LEC1:30.229+0.86720 laps

PIA1:30.364+1.00219 laps

HAM1:30.383+1.02123 laps

NOR1:30.600+1.23813 laps

HUL1:30.658+1.29621 laps

VER1:30.910+1.54822 laps

BOR1:31.000+1.63821 laps

GAS1:31.082+1.72020 laps

HAD1:31.094+1.73221 laps

LAW1:31.097+1.73521 laps

LIN1:31.288+1.92617 laps

OCO1:31.326+1.96422 laps

BEA1:31.558+2.19618 laps

ALB1:31.733+2.37120 laps

COL1:31.759+2.39725 laps

SAI1:31.829+2.46726 laps

BOT1:32.503+3.14120 laps

PER1:32.540+3.17818 laps

STR1:33.485+4.12319 laps

ALO1:33.529+4.16714 laps

Best lap regardless of fuel load or compound — a sighting shot, not a form guide.

Long runs, fuel-corrected

Driver	Tyre	Laps	Fuel-corrected	Gap	Spread	Deg / lap
HAD	M	6*	1:32.976	—	±1.178	—
SAI	M	6*	1:34.769	+1.793	±0.383	—
COL	M	6*	1:35.377	+2.401	±0.846	—

Sectors and the lap they could have done

Driver	S1	S2	S3	Ideal lap	Best lap	Left out
ANT	32.159	39.646	17.520	1:29.325	1:29.362	0.037
RUS	32.029	39.675	17.642	1:29.346	1:29.616	0.270
LEC	32.318	40.078	17.616	1:30.012	1:30.229	0.217
PIA	32.581	39.869	17.694	1:30.144	1:30.364	0.220
HAM	32.407	40.138	17.743	1:30.288	1:30.383	0.095
NOR	32.643	39.943	17.811	1:30.397	1:30.600	0.203
HUL	32.678	40.327	17.653	1:30.658	1:30.658	0.000
BOR	32.811	40.345	17.634	1:30.790	1:31.000	0.210
VER	32.659	40.457	17.712	1:30.828	1:30.910	0.082
LAW	33.061	40.325	17.624	1:31.010	1:31.097	0.087
GAS	32.971	40.346	17.721	1:31.038	1:31.082	0.044
HAD	32.756	40.566	17.744	1:31.066	1:31.094	0.028
LIN	33.038	40.578	17.622	1:31.238	1:31.288	0.050
OCO	33.126	40.375	17.756	1:31.257	1:31.326	0.069
BEA	33.156	40.445	17.745	1:31.346	1:31.558	0.212
SAI	33.223	40.779	17.668	1:31.670	1:31.829	0.159
COL	33.266	40.617	17.787	1:31.670	1:31.759	0.089
ALB	33.446	40.533	17.754	1:31.733	1:31.733	0.000
BOT	33.663	40.931	17.797	1:32.391	1:32.503	0.112
PER	33.471	40.916	18.025	1:32.412	1:32.540	0.128
STR	33.791	41.533	18.043	1:33.367	1:33.485	0.118
ALO	33.807	41.483	18.169	1:33.459	1:33.529	0.070

What the tyres are worth here

SSoft — referenceM+0.396(9 drivers ran both)

Team-mates, head to head

MercedesANTahead of RUS+0.254

FerrariLECahead of HAM+0.154

McLarenPIAahead of NOR+0.236

AudiHULahead of BOR+0.342

Red Bull RacingVERahead of HAD+0.184

AlpineGASahead of COL+0.677

Haas F1 TeamOCOahead of BEA+0.232

WilliamsALBahead of SAI+0.096

CadillacBOTahead of PER+0.037

Aston MartinSTRahead of ALO+0.044

Same car, so the gap on their best lap is the clearest read on the driver available.

Stints and compounds

ANT333333

RUS36333

LEC7211

PIA71353

HAM5810

NOR67

HUL10533

VER355333

BOR552333

GAS7229

HAD129

LAW1146

LIN81143

OCO37633

BEA91233

ALB911

COL7387

SAI63863

BOT333317

PER747

STR5536

ALO5351

SSoftMMedium