With talk of budget cut fouls and a little driver reshuffle between the Alpine, Mercedes and Red Bull stables, this was going to be an interesting weekend.
Gasley massively struggled with his brakes and was out in Q1 along with the predictables: Stroll, Magnussen and both Williams. Latifi was both last and 5 places behind last, having "Latified" someone last weekend.
The second Qualifying session was very tight. Ricciardo had an amazing qualifying, up until the point Russell knocked him out by three milliseconds and put him in 11th place. Vettel was through to Q3 and home boy Tsunoda was out. The big news was Perez claiming the fastest time and Alonso (who was fastest in the wet practice session) second fastest time.
To finish it was all very predictable, with Verstappen taking pole despite have an awful final lap, ahead of LeClerc. Charles was hoping for a little bit of rain on race day. Vettel was very emotional to have driven his last Suzuka Qualifying.
There was some discussion whether Verstappen would receive a penalty for turning close to Norris. He got a reprimand and many would say the stewards continue to favour the Dutchman.
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