Formula 1 arrived in Japan for its third race weekend of the 2025 season, and while the Japanese Grand Prix didn't feature much passing, the race up front was close. Max Verstappen, Lando Norris, and Oscar Piastri were under a three-second blanket for most of the event,

Max Verstappen, on the hunt for his fourth consecutive win at the Suzuka Circuit, will start the Japanese Grand Prix 2025 from pole position ahead of the McLaren duo. Follow all the live updates, highlights,

“Perfection, just perfection, Max,” was the succinct summary of Verstappen’s race engineer Gianpiero Lambiase, a cool character not usually prone to such hyperbole. It spoke volumes of the result that Verstappen had delivered on Sunday.