{"id":566002,"date":"2026-03-28T06:34:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T06:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/566002\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T06:34:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T06:34:14","slug":"watch-the-fp3-action-from-japan-as-kimi-antonelli-beats-george-russell-to-top-spot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/566002\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch the FP3 action from Japan as Kimi Antonelli beats George Russell to top spot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"typography-module_body-s-regular__ul7F5 typography-module_md_body-m-regular__d9VRg typography-module_lg_body-l-regular__dPa5z\">Kimi Antonelli set the pace in the final practice session for the Japanese Grand Prix, leading George Russell and Ferrari\u2019s Charles Leclerc to put Mercedes in the strongest position ahead of Qualifying.<\/p>\n<p class=\"typography-module_body-s-regular__ul7F5 typography-module_md_body-m-regular__d9VRg typography-module_lg_body-l-regular__dPa5z\">As the times tumbled drastically throughout the hour, <a class=\"text-brand-hot-red underline decoration-1 hover:decoration-[3px]\" data-f1rd-a7s-click=\"rich_text_atom_click\" data-f1rd-a7s-context=\"eyJhY3Rpb25UeXBlIjoidGhlX2l0YWxpYW5fZHJpdmVyX2xpbmtfY2xpY2tlZCIsImNsaWNrVGV4dCI6dHJ1ZSwicGF0aCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3LmZvcm11bGExLmNvbS9lbi9kcml2ZXJzL2tpbWktYW50b25lbGxpIiwicGF0aFR5cGUiOiJpbnRlcm5hbCJ9\" href=\"https:\/\/www.formula1.com\/en\/drivers\/kimi-antonelli\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the Italian driver<\/a> posted the fastest lap of the weekend so far with a 1m 29.362s, putting him 0.254s clear of his team mate while Leclerc ended up eight-tenths adrift of the benchmark.<\/p>\n<p class=\"typography-module_body-s-regular__ul7F5 typography-module_md_body-m-regular__d9VRg typography-module_lg_body-l-regular__dPa5z\">Oscar Piastri found himself comfortably in the top four, but his McLaren team mate Lando Norris missed a significant chunk of the session due to an ERS (Engine Recovery System) issue, putting him on the back foot in terms of mileage despite placing P6.<\/p>\n<p class=\"typography-module_body-s-regular__ul7F5 typography-module_md_body-m-regular__d9VRg typography-module_lg_body-l-regular__dPa5z\">Elsewhere, it was an impressive showing for Audi with Nico Hulkenberg finishing seventh and Gabriel Bortoleto a few tenths further back in ninth, giving them some useful momentum for Qualifying which gets underway at 1500 local time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"typography-module_body-s-regular__ul7F5 typography-module_md_body-m-regular__d9VRg typography-module_lg_body-l-regular__dPa5z\">Haas&#8217; Ollie Bearman had a big moment coming out of Turn 14, saving a spin after running a touch wide out of Spoon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"typography-module_body-s-regular__ul7F5 typography-module_md_body-m-regular__d9VRg typography-module_lg_body-l-regular__dPa5z\">Click go on the video player above to catch up with the action from FP3 at the Suzuka Circuit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kimi Antonelli set the pace in the final practice session for the Japanese Grand Prix, leading George Russell&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":566003,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[441],"tags":[49,48,578,576,577,82],"class_list":["post-566002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-f1","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=566002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566002\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/566003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=566002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=566002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=566002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}