{"id":350466,"date":"2026-03-27T11:18:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T11:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/350466\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T11:18:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T11:18:08","slug":"2026-f1-japanese-grand-prix-free-practice-2-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/350466\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 F1 Japanese Grand Prix &#8211; Free Practice 2 results"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oscar Piastri topped the second free practice session at Suzuka, on a strong opening day of the Japanese Grand Prix for McLaren.<\/p>\n<p>Having ended FP1 in fourth, just behind Lando Norris, the Australian upped the ante in FP2, going quicker than both Mercedes drivers and his team-mate.<\/p>\n<p>Behind Kimi Antonelli and George Russell sat the second MCL40, ahead of the Ferrari pair of Charles Leclerc and Lewis Hamilton.<\/p>\n<p>The order behind the leading three teams was less clear, with Max Verstappen and Red Bull continuing to suffer with the idiosyncrasies of the RB22.<\/p>\n<p>It was a late start to the session for Norris, with McLaren having to fix a hydraulic leak. Sergio Perez and Gabriel Bortoleto also endured difficulties.<\/p>\n<p>Arvid Lindblad, however, was the only driver not to set a competitive lap time, with a gearbox issue on his Racing Bulls car.<\/p>\n<p>Franco Colapinto <a href=\"https:\/\/racingnews365.com\/max-verstappen-dragged-back-to-stewards-office-for-second-japanese-gp-investigation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">will be the subject of a post-session investigation for potentially impeding<\/a> Verstappen early in the second hour of running.<\/p>\n<p>Check out the full results from FP2 at the Japanese Grand Prix below!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oscar Piastri topped the second free practice session at Suzuka, on a strong opening day of the Japanese&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":350467,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[3518,3521,3519,3522,3520,3517,3515,42,3513,3516,3514,43,3512,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-350466","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-daniel-ricciardo","9":"tag-f1-calendar","10":"tag-f1-live","11":"tag-f1-results","12":"tag-f1-standings","13":"tag-ferrari","14":"tag-formula-1","15":"tag-headlines","16":"tag-lewis-hamilton","17":"tag-max-verstappen","18":"tag-motorsport","19":"tag-news","20":"tag-racing","21":"tag-top-news","22":"tag-top-stories","23":"tag-topnews","24":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=350466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350466\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/350467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}