{"id":351983,"date":"2026-03-28T08:56:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T08:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/351983\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T08:56:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T08:56:10","slug":"2026-f1-japanese-grand-prix-free-practice-3-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/351983\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 F1 Japanese Grand Prix &#8211; Free Practice 3 results"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kimi Antonelli finished FP3 for the Japanese Grand Prix at the top of the timing sheets, getting the better of Mercedes team-mate George Russell by +0.254.<\/p>\n<p>Charles Leclerc rounded out the top three in the final free practice session at Suzuka, ahead of Oscar Piastri and Lewis Hamilton in the second Ferrari.<\/p>\n<p>Piastri will <a href=\"https:\/\/racingnews365.com\/mclaren-struck-by-double-trouble-as-oscar-piastri-faces-investigation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">face a post-session investigation<\/a> for potentially impeding Nico Hulkenberg into 130R early in the hour.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, McLaren team-mate Lando Norris suffered <a href=\"https:\/\/racingnews365.com\/lando-norris-hit-by-major-pain-ahead-of-japanese-gp-qualifying\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">another interrupted practice session<\/a>, with a battery issue on his MCL40 keeping him from venturing out on track until past the halfway point \u2014 particularly damaging given the hydraulic leak he had in FP2.<\/p>\n<p>The reigning drivers&#8217; champion was able to go sixth fastest, ahead of the impressive Nico Hulkenberg.<\/p>\n<p>FP3 reconfirmed Red Bull&#8217;s lack of pace, with Max Verstappen down in eighth. Isack Hadjar could only go P11.<\/p>\n<p>Check out the full results from FP3 at the Japanese Grand Prix below!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kimi Antonelli finished FP3 for the Japanese Grand Prix at the top of the timing sheets, getting the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":351984,"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-351983","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\/351983","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=351983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351983\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/351984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}