Japanese GP: Qualifying - RE-CAP & RESULTS

JAPANESE GP - QUALIFYING - RE-CAP & RESULTS

    Lewis Hamilton took pole position ahead of the Japanese GP while Esteban Ocon was handed a grid penalty for an incident in FP3.

HOW IT WORKS:

Q1 = 18 minutes. All cars allowed to go out. At the end of the session, the five slowest are eliminated.

Q2 = 15 minutes. The remaining cars go out. At the end of the session, the five slowest are eliminated.

Q3 = 12 minutes. Final 10 cars go out. The final order at the end of the session is how the grid will line up. Fastest car starts from Pole Position.

GRID LINE-UP:

1. Lewis Hamilton / Mercedes-Mercedes / Great Britain

2. Valtteri Bottas / Mercedes-Mercedes / Finland

3. Max Verstappen / Red Bull Racing-TAG-Heuer / Netherlands

4. Kimi Raikkonen / Ferrari-Ferrari / Finland

5. Romain Grosjean / Haas-Ferrari / France

6. Brendon Hartley / Scuderia Toro Rosso-Honda / New Zealand

7. Pierre Gasly / Scuderia Toro Rosso-Honda / France

8. Sebastian Vettel / Ferrari-Ferrari / Germany

9. Sergio Perez / Racing Point Force India-Mercedes / Mexico

10. Charles Leclerc / Sauber-Ferrari / Monaco

11. Esteban Ocon / Racing Point Force India-Mercedes / France*

12. Kevin Magnussen / Haas-Ferrari / Denmark

13. Carlos Sainz / Renault-Renault / Spain

14. Lance Stroll / Williams-Mercedes / Canada

15. Daniel Ricciardo / Red Bull Racing-TAG-Heuer / Australia

16. Nico Hulkenberg / Renault-Renault / Germany

17. Sergey Sirotkin / Williams-Mercedes / Russia

18. Fernando Alonso / McLaren-Renault / Spain

19. Stoffel Vandoorne / McLaren-Renault / Belgium

20. Marcus Ericsson / Sauber-Ferrari / Sweden

* - (Ocon) 3-Place-Grid-Penalty for not slowing sufficiently under Red Flag conditions in Free Practice 3.

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