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Close qualifying session sets up interesting race at Suzuka
- Lewis Hamilton qualified P7 and George Russell P9 in a tight qualifying session ahead of the Japanese Grand Prix.
- After limited running in FP2, the team was keen to complete a mixture of high fuel work and single lap running in FP3.
- George ended the session P3 with Lewis P4; it was a closely packed field hinting at what was to come in qualifying.
- After negotiating Q1 and Q2, both drivers carried two sets of the new Soft compound tyre into Q3.
- Their first push laps were competitive but unfortunately neither could improve on their second efforts as the track temperature dropped.
- That left them P7 and P9 respectively, where an improvement of just one tenth would have seen Lewis on the second row of the grid.
- Tomorrow’s race is set to be an interesting affair with numerous tyre strategies possible.
| Driver | FP3 | Q1 | Q2 | Q3 | |||
| Lewis Hamilton | P4 | 3 Laps | P9 | 6 Laps | P3 | 6 Laps | P7 |
| 1:29.661 | Soft | 1:28.887 | Soft, Soft | 1:28.766 | Soft, Soft | ||
| George Russell | P3 | 3 Laps | P12 | 6 Laps | P7 | 6 Laps | P9 |
| 1:29.799 | Soft | 1:29.140 | Soft, Soft | 1:29.008 | Soft, Soft |
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