ROUND 3: 🇯🇵 Japan
FORMULA 1 ARAMCO JAPANESE GRAND PRIX 2026
Weekend Schedule
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- Practice 1: Friday, 04:30 CEST | 02:30 UTC
- Practice 2: Friday, 08:00 CEST | 06:00 UTC
- Practice 3: Saturday, 04:30 CEST | 02:30 UTC
- Qualifying: Saturday, 08:00 CEST | 06:00 UTC
- Race: Sunday, 07:00 CEST | 05:00 UTC
Circuit stats & Tyres
- First Grand Prix: 1987
- Number of laps: 53
- Circuit Length: 5.807 km
- Race Distance: 307.471 km
- Lap record: 1:30.983 Lewis Hamilton (2019)
- 2025 Pole: Max Verstappen (1:26.983)
- 2025 Fastest Lap: Kimi Antonelli (1:30.965)
- 2025 winner: Max Verstappen
- Pirelli Tyres: C1 (Hard) ⚪, C2 (Medium) 🟡, C3 (Soft) 🔴
Track Map

Oh God Bearman looks really hurt. He was limping.
They confirmed no fractures. 50G though!
Frightening to watch.
A passenger as soon as he was forced onto the grass.
Hope he’s OK
Glad to hear that he doesn’t have a fracture. Thankfully he has a while to recover with the two race cancellations.
Yeah, it was 50G-s into the wall.
Fernando Alonso finished the race!
Don’t call it a come back baby!
Back to back wins for Kimi. Let’s go!
Welcome back, Piastri.
Wondered when Oscars season was going to start
What do we call a DRS train now there is no DRS?
“Overtake train” really doesn’t work…
Snail trail? 🤣
These regs were always going to cause this kind of crash. At some point, the car behind is going to plough into the car in front at high speed and cause a major accident.
Man, I have so much respect for Bearman there. He knew if he held his line, there would have been pretty heavy contact with the other car. And then you probably have 2 cars out of control.
So, he purposely let his car drift wide, knowing he was going to have wheels on the grass, but hoping he could coax it back on the track and then brake.
But he couldn’t, and grass doesn’t slow you down much.
Really hope he’s OK. Deserves a medal, not a serious injury.
Reminds me of Riccardo breaking his hand, he could have let go of the wheel and avoided it, but kept steering to avoid hitting Liam.
What did f1tv say again ? 15 years no safety car after the first 10 or so laps in Japan? 🙄
Yeah they jinxed it.
Nooooo Ollie! Edit: seems he is in pain :(
George can’t catch a break, sheesh.
Good weekend for Mclaren. Gg piastri
Piastri is doing really well holding off Russell.
Without bad luck Russell will have no luck at all.
Wow all 22 cars making the start today!
That anthem was badass
Wait why is the formation lap delayed by 10 minutes?
Ah a crash in one of the support races.
Edit: they showed the replay for it. Holy shit it was wild. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IdLuZA3Bwak
Indy had a Grosjean-like crash as well today https://youtu.be/XQPm-tDpC_Q thankfully the car didn’t catch on fire.
Wow, both crashes are wild! Hopefully both drivers walked away unscathed.
While we wait for the race to begin, I suggest watching https://www.instagram.com/mercedesamgf1/reel/DWbTVvnjfXQ/
Adorable.
Those name overlays that appear over the cars are really annoying.








