How to Watch Japanese Grand Prix Qualifying: Stream Formula 1 Live, TV Channel
Qualifying for Sunday's Formula 1 Japanese Grand Prix is set for Saturday at the Suzuka International Racing Course, three years after the race was last run in 2019. Then with Ferrari, Sebastian Vettel posted a 1:27.064 lap in the third qualifying session to win the pole. Vettel, a four-time world champion, is retiring at the end of this season, which will have four races remaining after Japan. Vettel is a four-time winner at Suzuka, taking the top of the podium four times in a five-year stretch from 2009-13. Vettel wound up second in 2019 after a poor start allowed Valtteri Bottas to take the lead and the Finn wound up taking the top of the podium.
How to Watch Japanese Grand Prix Qualifying Today:
Date: Oct. 8, 2022
Time: 1:55 a.m. ET
TV: ESPN2
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In Friday's wet practice session, George Russell and Lewis Hamilton of Mercedes posted the fastest laps, both coming in the second session. Veteran Fernando Alonso had the third-best lap, posting the best run in FP1.
Suzuka Circuit is a 3.608-mile course with 18 turns. Hamilton set the record for the fastest race lap in 2019 with a 1:30.983. It first hosted F1 racing in 1987 and has done so since, save for 2007-08, when the race was held at Fuji Speedway and the pandemic cancellations in 2020 and 2021.
With a victory and the fastest lap on Sunday, Red Bull's Max Verstappen will clinch his second consecutive Formula 1 title.
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