F1 Live: 2025 Japanese Grand Prix second practice

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The session is due to resume at 3:30pm local time, which is around five minutes from now, once barrier repairs have been completed.

Replays suggest Doohan may not have deactivated his DRS as he turned into the corner. It has to be cancelled manually as drivers often don’t brake heading into turn one.

Doohan of course did not take part in the first practice session as Alpine decided, in only his fourth grand prix weekend, to replace him with Ryo Hirakawa for the first hour of running.

Red flag: Jack Doohan has crashed at the first corner. The car just snapped around on him on the way in. “I don’t know what happened,” he says.

Carlos Sainz Jnr heads back in immediately: “Something is wrong with the car, it’s bouncing like crazy through turn 13, check the rear.

The pit exit light is green and the first cars are heading out.

Haas is another team to keep an eye on in this session. They’ve brought an updated floor to address some of the high-speed handling problems they encountered in Melbourne and team principal Ayao Komatsu said the early signs were encouraging after first practice.

Yuki Tsunoda had a promising first run for Red Bull earlier on. A crucial early barometer will be how he compares to team mate Max Verstappen in the qualifying simulations which teams usually do in second practice.

Lando Norris set the pace in the opening session but once again there wasn’t much to separate the front-running teams. The McLaren driver was concerned about graining he experienced on his longer medium tyre run towards the end of the session.

Second practice for the 2025 Japanese Grand Prix is coming up next.