Race · Round 3 of 24 · 6 April 2025

2025 Japanese Grand Prix

Max Verstappen won for Red Bull Racing from pole at Suzuka Circuit. Every starter was classified.

Dry, with cloud · High of 18 °C, 18.7 mm of rain on the day (modelled, Open-Meteo)

How it is modelled

ERA5's reanalysis, through Open-Meteo, of the circuit's whole local day and not the race's hours, for the grid cell the circuit sits in and not the track, so a shower can be missing from it. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026. Neither the European Commission nor ECMWF is responsible for any use that may be made of the Copernicus information or data it contains.

Circuit: Suzuka CircuitSuzuka, Japan
Winner: Max VerstappenRed Bull Racing
Pole: Max Verstappen
Fastest lap: Andrea Kimi Antonelli
Entries: 2020 classified

Two sources disagree about this race

Conditions

dryagainst18.7 mm of rain on the day, modelled

The race's Wikipedia article's words are read as dry: by data/harvest.py's rule, which finds no rain, showers or wet track in them, or by a reading declared there (race_weather_reported holds the words). ERA5's reanalysis of 6 April 2025, through Open-Meteo, holds 18.7 mm of rain over 18 hours of that day in the grid cell the circuit is in - a heavy-precipitation day, 10 mm or more. A daily total cannot say whether the rain fell during the race, and a grid cell is not the track, so neither is overruled. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_Japanese_Grand_Prix; weather data by Open-Meteo.com, https://open-meteo.com/

Recorded rather than resolved, and open for somebody to settle. Every one is listed on the quality page. If you can settle it against a source that can be checked, report what you have.

Classification

Classification
Pos	Driver	Constructor	Chassis	Grid	Laps	Out	Points	FL
1	Max Verstappen	Red Bull Racing	RB21	1	53	Finished	25
2	Lando Norris	McLaren	MCL39	2	53	Finished	18
3	Oscar Piastri	McLaren	MCL39	3	53	Finished	15
4	Charles Leclerc	Ferrari	SF-25	4	53	Finished	12
5	George Russell	Mercedes	F1 W16	5	53	Finished	10
6	Andrea Kimi Antonelli	Mercedes	F1 W16	6	53	Finished	8	fastest lap
7	Sir Lewis Hamilton	Ferrari	SF-25	8	53	Finished	6
8	Isack Hadjar	Racing Bulls	VCARB 02	7	53	Finished	4
9	Alexander Albon	Williams	FW47	9	53	Finished	2
10	Oliver Bearman	Haas F1 Team	VF-25	10	53	Finished	1
11	Fernando Alonso	Aston Martin	AMR25	12	53	Finished	0
12	Yuki Tsunoda	Red Bull Racing	RB21	14	53	Finished	0
13	Pierre Gasly	Alpine	A525	11	53	Finished	0
14	Carlos Sainz	Williams	FW47	15	53	Finished	0
15	Jack Doohan	Alpine	A525	19	53	Finished	0
16	Nico Hulkenberg	Sauber	C45	16	53	Finished	0
17	Liam Lawson	Racing Bulls	VCARB 02	13	53	Finished	0
18	Esteban Ocon	Haas F1 Team	VF-25	18	53	Finished	0
19	Gabriel Bortoleto	Sauber	C45	17	53	Finished	0
20	Lance Stroll	Aston Martin	AMR25	20	52	Finished	0

F1DB layout suzuka-2 · 5.807 km · 18 turns, F1DB’s figures
F1DB, CC BY 4.0 · drawn by Jules Roy
The outline is F1DB’s, for every layout; the trace is OpenStreetMap’s, where it exists.

Grid to flag

Lines run from grid slot to result, ending at the last lap completed. Nothing between is recorded, so a crossing is not an overtake at that lap.

Grid to flag
Driver	Grid	Result	Laps
Max Verstappen	1	1	53
Lando Norris	2	2	53
Oscar Piastri	3	3	53
Charles Leclerc	4	4	53
George Russell	5	5	53
Andrea Kimi Antonelli	6	6	53
Sir Lewis Hamilton	8	7	53
Isack Hadjar	7	8	53
Alexander Albon	9	9	53
Oliver Bearman	10	10	53
Fernando Alonso	12	11	53
Yuki Tsunoda	14	12	53
Pierre Gasly	11	13	53
Carlos Sainz	15	14	53
Jack Doohan	19	15	53
Nico Hulkenberg	16	16	53
Liam Lawson	13	17	53
Esteban Ocon	18	18	53
Gabriel Bortoleto	17	19	53
Lance Stroll	20	20	52

Qualifying

Qualifying
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Q1	Q2	Q3	Gap	≈ Distance	Interval
1	Max Verstappen	Red Bull Racing	1	1:27.943	1:27.502	1:26.983	—	0 m	—
2	Lando Norris	McLaren	4	1:27.845	1:27.146	1:26.995	+0.012	1 m	+0.012
3	Oscar Piastri	McLaren	81	1:27.687	1:27.507	1:27.027	+0.044	3 m	+0.032
4	Charles Leclerc	Ferrari	16	1:27.920	1:27.555	1:27.299	+0.316	21 m	+0.272
5	George Russell	Mercedes	63	1:27.843	1:27.400	1:27.318	+0.335	22 m	+0.019
6	Andrea Kimi Antonelli	Mercedes	12	1:27.968	1:27.639	1:27.555	+0.572	38 m	+0.237
7	Isack Hadjar	Racing Bulls	6	1:28.278	1:27.775	1:27.569	+0.586	39 m	+0.014
8	Sir Lewis Hamilton	Ferrari	44	1:27.942	1:27.610	1:27.610	+0.627	42 m	+0.041
9	Alexander Albon	Williams	23	1:28.218	1:27.783	1:27.615	+0.632	42 m	+0.005
10	Oliver Bearman	Haas F1 Team	87	1:28.228	1:27.711	1:27.867	+0.884	59 m	+0.252
11	Pierre Gasly	Alpine	10	1:28.186	1:27.822	—	—	45 m	—
12	Carlos Sainz	Williams	55	1:28.209	1:27.836	—	—	46 m	—
13	Fernando Alonso	Aston Martin	14	1:28.337	1:27.897	—	—	50 m	—
14	Liam Lawson	Racing Bulls	30	1:28.554	1:27.906	—	—	51 m	—
15	Yuki Tsunoda	Red Bull Racing	22	1:27.967	1:28.000	—	—	57 m	—
16	Nico Hulkenberg	Sauber	27	1:28.570	—	—	—	58 m	—
17	Gabriel Bortoleto	Sauber	5	1:28.622	—	—	—	62 m	—
18	Esteban Ocon	Haas F1 Team	31	1:28.696	—	—	—	67 m	—
19	Jack Doohan	Alpine	7	1:28.877	—	—	—	79 m	—
20	Lance Stroll	Aston Martin	18	1:29.271	—	—	—	105 m	—

Before knock-out qualifying arrived in 2006 there is one time per driver; from 2006, the best lap of each of the three sessions.

How it is derived: distance

Distance at the session-best lap’s average speed, on the layout raced that year. Each driver is measured against the fastest lap of the last part they set a time in.

Pit stops

Bars run in finishing order, ticked at each stop. Ticks and strip mark the lap, not cause, tyres or gain; the table gives times.

Pit stops
Driver	Result	Laps	Stops recorded	Stopped on lap	Pit-lane time (s)
Max Verstappen	1	53	1	21	24.4
Lando Norris	2	53	1	21	23.2
Oscar Piastri	3	53	1	20	23.0
Charles Leclerc	4	53	1	21	23.3
George Russell	5	53	1	19	23.2
Andrea Kimi Antonelli	6	53	1	31	24.4
Sir Lewis Hamilton	7	53	1	30	22.9
Isack Hadjar	8	53	1	25	23.3
Alexander Albon	9	53	1	24	23.1
Oliver Bearman	10	53	1	23	24.8
Fernando Alonso	11	53	1	24	25.7
Yuki Tsunoda	12	53	1	23	24.2
Pierre Gasly	13	53	1	24	26.0
Carlos Sainz	14	53	1	33	23.3
Jack Doohan	15	53	1	15	23.4
Nico Hulkenberg	16	53	1	22	23.5
Liam Lawson	17	53	1	33	23.7
Esteban Ocon	18	53	1	32	24.5
Gabriel Bortoleto	19	53	1	31	23.4
Lance Stroll	20	52	2	9, 30	23.7, 23.6

A pit-lane time is all of a stop’s time in the pit lane, any wait or repair there included.

Who stopped first, between neighbours

Who stopped first, between neighbours
Drivers, in grid order	Grid	Result	First recorded stop, lap	Stopped first	Grid to flag
Max Verstappen · Lando Norris	1 · 2	1 · 2	21 · 21	Same lap	Kept their order
Lando Norris · Oscar Piastri	2 · 3	2 · 3	21 · 20	Oscar Piastri	Kept their order
Oscar Piastri · Charles Leclerc	3 · 4	3 · 4	20 · 21	Oscar Piastri	Kept their order
Charles Leclerc · George Russell	4 · 5	4 · 5	21 · 19	George Russell	Kept their order
George Russell · Andrea Kimi Antonelli	5 · 6	5 · 6	19 · 31	George Russell	Kept their order
Andrea Kimi Antonelli · Sir Lewis Hamilton	6 · 8	6 · 7	31 · 30	Sir Lewis Hamilton	Kept their order
Andrea Kimi Antonelli · Isack Hadjar	6 · 7	6 · 8	31 · 25	Isack Hadjar	Kept their order
Isack Hadjar · Sir Lewis Hamilton	7 · 8	8 · 7	25 · 30	Isack Hadjar	Swapped places
Sir Lewis Hamilton · Alexander Albon	8 · 9	7 · 9	30 · 24	Alexander Albon	Kept their order
Isack Hadjar · Alexander Albon	7 · 9	8 · 9	25 · 24	Alexander Albon	Kept their order
Alexander Albon · Oliver Bearman	9 · 10	9 · 10	24 · 23	Oliver Bearman	Kept their order
Oliver Bearman · Fernando Alonso	10 · 12	10 · 11	23 · 24	Oliver Bearman	Kept their order
Oliver Bearman · Pierre Gasly	10 · 11	10 · 13	23 · 24	Oliver Bearman	Kept their order
Pierre Gasly · Fernando Alonso	11 · 12	13 · 11	24 · 24	Same lap	Swapped places
Fernando Alonso · Yuki Tsunoda	12 · 14	11 · 12	24 · 23	Yuki Tsunoda	Kept their order
Fernando Alonso · Liam Lawson	12 · 13	11 · 17	24 · 33	Fernando Alonso	Kept their order
Pierre Gasly · Yuki Tsunoda	11 · 14	13 · 12	24 · 23	Yuki Tsunoda	Swapped places
Liam Lawson · Yuki Tsunoda	13 · 14	17 · 12	33 · 23	Yuki Tsunoda	Swapped places
Yuki Tsunoda · Carlos Sainz	14 · 15	12 · 14	23 · 33	Yuki Tsunoda	Kept their order
Pierre Gasly · Carlos Sainz	11 · 15	13 · 14	24 · 33	Pierre Gasly	Kept their order
Carlos Sainz · Jack Doohan	15 · 19	14 · 15	33 · 15	Jack Doohan	Kept their order
Carlos Sainz · Nico Hulkenberg	15 · 16	14 · 16	33 · 22	Nico Hulkenberg	Kept their order
Nico Hulkenberg · Jack Doohan	16 · 19	16 · 15	22 · 15	Jack Doohan	Swapped places
Esteban Ocon · Jack Doohan	18 · 19	18 · 15	32 · 15	Jack Doohan	Swapped places
Jack Doohan · Lance Stroll	19 · 20	15 · 20	15 · 9	Lance Stroll	Kept their order
Liam Lawson · Nico Hulkenberg	13 · 16	17 · 16	33 · 22	Nico Hulkenberg	Swapped places
Nico Hulkenberg · Gabriel Bortoleto	16 · 17	16 · 19	22 · 31	Nico Hulkenberg	Kept their order
Liam Lawson · Esteban Ocon	13 · 18	17 · 18	33 · 32	Esteban Ocon	Kept their order
Gabriel Bortoleto · Esteban Ocon	17 · 18	19 · 18	31 · 32	Gabriel Bortoleto	Swapped places
Gabriel Bortoleto · Lance Stroll	17 · 20	19 · 20	31 · 9	Lance Stroll	Kept their order

Pairs of classified drivers who started or finished next to each other, each with a stop recorded; the two names in a row are in grid order. Both are read from the stops F1DB records, which has gaps. It is the order things happened in and no more: with no lap times, the record cannot say whether stopping first won or lost a place.

Practice sessions Practice 1 · Practice 2 · Practice 3

Practice 1

Practice 1
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Best lap	Gap	≈ Distance	Interval	Laps
1	Lando Norris	McLaren	4	1:28.549	—	0 m	—	24
2	George Russell	Mercedes	63	1:28.712	+0.163	11 m	+0.163	29
3	Charles Leclerc	Ferrari	16	1:28.965	+0.416	27 m	+0.253	27
4	Sir Lewis Hamilton	Ferrari	44	1:29.051	+0.502	33 m	+0.086	25
5	Max Verstappen	Red Bull Racing	1	1:29.065	+0.516	34 m	+0.014	23
6	Yuki Tsunoda	Red Bull Racing	22	1:29.172	+0.623	41 m	+0.107	25
7	Fernando Alonso	Aston Martin	14	1:29.222	+0.673	44 m	+0.050	25
8	Isack Hadjar	Racing Bulls	6	1:29.225	+0.676	44 m	+0.003	28
9	Andrea Kimi Antonelli	Mercedes	12	1:29.284	+0.735	48 m	+0.059	28
10	Carlos Sainz	Williams	55	1:29.333	+0.784	51 m	+0.049	28
11	Alexander Albon	Williams	23	1:29.392	+0.843	55 m	+0.059	25
12	Ryō Hirakawa	Alpine	62	1:29.394	+0.845	55 m	+0.002	24
13	Liam Lawson	Racing Bulls	30	1:29.536	+0.987	65 m	+0.142	28
14	Pierre Gasly	Alpine	10	1:29.547	+0.998	65 m	+0.011	23
15	Oscar Piastri	McLaren	81	1:29.708	+1.159	76 m	+0.161	25
16	Lance Stroll	Aston Martin	18	1:29.758	+1.209	79 m	+0.050	25
17	Nico Hulkenberg	Sauber	27	1:30.023	+1.474	97 m	+0.265	21
18	Oliver Bearman	Haas F1 Team	87	1:30.077	+1.528	100 m	+0.054	17
19	Esteban Ocon	Haas F1 Team	31	1:30.123	+1.574	103 m	+0.046	21
20	Gabriel Bortoleto	Sauber	5	1:30.147	+1.598	105 m	+0.024	26

Each driver’s best lap of the session and the laps they ran: a classification, not lap timing.

How it is derived: distance

Distance at the session-best lap’s average speed, on the layout raced that year.

Practice 2

Practice 2
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Best lap	Gap	≈ Distance	Interval	Laps
1	Oscar Piastri	McLaren	81	1:28.114	—	0 m	—	13
2	Lando Norris	McLaren	4	1:28.163	+0.049	3 m	+0.049	12
3	Isack Hadjar	Racing Bulls	6	1:28.518	+0.404	27 m	+0.355	12
4	Sir Lewis Hamilton	Ferrari	44	1:28.544	+0.430	28 m	+0.026	14
5	Liam Lawson	Racing Bulls	30	1:28.559	+0.445	29 m	+0.015	13
6	George Russell	Mercedes	63	1:28.567	+0.453	30 m	+0.008	13
7	Charles Leclerc	Ferrari	16	1:28.586	+0.472	31 m	+0.019	14
8	Max Verstappen	Red Bull Racing	1	1:28.670	+0.556	37 m	+0.084	9
9	Pierre Gasly	Alpine	10	1:28.757	+0.643	42 m	+0.087	13
10	Carlos Sainz	Williams	55	1:28.832	+0.718	47 m	+0.075	9
11	Alexander Albon	Williams	23	1:29.023	+0.909	60 m	+0.191	11
12	Nico Hulkenberg	Sauber	27	1:29.062	+0.948	62 m	+0.039	12
13	Gabriel Bortoleto	Sauber	5	1:29.335	+1.221	80 m	+0.273	13
14	Esteban Ocon	Haas F1 Team	31	1:29.507	+1.393	92 m	+0.172	13
15	Oliver Bearman	Haas F1 Team	87	1:29.654	+1.540	101 m	+0.147	10
16	Andrea Kimi Antonelli	Mercedes	12	1:29.733	+1.619	107 m	+0.079	13
17	Fernando Alonso	Aston Martin	14	1:29.978	+1.864	123 m	+0.245	5
18	Yuki Tsunoda	Red Bull Racing	22	1:30.625	+2.511	165 m	+0.647	12
19	Lance Stroll	Aston Martin	18	1:30.845	+2.731	180 m	+0.220	12
20	Jack Doohan	Alpine	7	1:31.659	+3.545	234 m	+0.814	4

Each driver’s best lap of the session and the laps they ran: a classification, not lap timing.

How it is derived: distance

Distance at the session-best lap’s average speed, on the layout raced that year.

Practice 3

Practice 3
Pos	Driver	Constructor	No.	Best lap	Gap	≈ Distance	Interval	Laps
1	Lando Norris	McLaren	4	1:27.965	—	0 m	—	17
2	Oscar Piastri	McLaren	81	1:27.991	+0.026	2 m	+0.026	17
3	George Russell	Mercedes	63	1:28.077	+0.112	7 m	+0.086	15
4	Charles Leclerc	Ferrari	16	1:28.414	+0.449	30 m	+0.337	13
5	Max Verstappen	Red Bull Racing	1	1:28.497	+0.532	35 m	+0.083	21
6	Sir Lewis Hamilton	Ferrari	44	1:28.524	+0.559	37 m	+0.027	13
7	Alexander Albon	Williams	23	1:28.554	+0.589	39 m	+0.030	19
8	Pierre Gasly	Alpine	10	1:28.603	+0.638	42 m	+0.049	15
9	Yuki Tsunoda	Red Bull Racing	22	1:28.785	+0.820	54 m	+0.182	15
10	Isack Hadjar	Racing Bulls	6	1:28.786	+0.821	54 m	+0.001	16
11	Carlos Sainz	Williams	55	1:28.846	+0.881	58 m	+0.060	22
12	Liam Lawson	Racing Bulls	30	1:29.104	+1.139	75 m	+0.258	19
13	Andrea Kimi Antonelli	Mercedes	12	1:29.126	+1.161	77 m	+0.022	20
14	Jack Doohan	Alpine	7	1:29.767	+1.802	119 m	+0.641	15
15	Fernando Alonso	Aston Martin	14	1:29.772	+1.807	119 m	+0.005	17
16	Oliver Bearman	Haas F1 Team	87	1:30.084	+2.119	140 m	+0.312	17
17	Gabriel Bortoleto	Sauber	5	1:30.134	+2.169	143 m	+0.050	13
18	Esteban Ocon	Haas F1 Team	31	1:30.183	+2.218	146 m	+0.049	17
19	Lance Stroll	Aston Martin	18	1:30.267	+2.302	152 m	+0.084	16
20	Nico Hulkenberg	Sauber	27	1:30.621	+2.656	175 m	+0.354	17

Each driver’s best lap of the session and the laps they ran: a classification, not lap timing.

How it is derived: distance

Distance at the session-best lap’s average speed, on the layout raced that year.

Photographs from this race

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Where this comes from

Round: 3 of 2025
Grand Prix: Japanese Grand Prix
Dates: 6 Apr 2025
Layout raced: —
Format: Standard weekend
Constructor: Red Bull Racing
Entrant: —
Confidence: verified

No layout is recorded for this round: this register has no layout timeline for the circuit, and a blank here is better than a guess.