Lewis Hamilton qualified P7 and George Russell P9 in a tight qualifying session ahead of the Japanese Grand Prix. After limited running in FP2, the team was keen to complete a mixture of high fuel work and single lap running in FP3. George ended the session P3 with Lewis P4; it was a closely packed field hinting at what was to come in qualifying. After negotiating Q1 and Q2, both drivers carried two sets of the new Soft compound tyre into Q3. Their first push laps were competitive but unfortunately neither could improve on their second efforts as the track temperature dropped. That left them P7 and P9 respectively, where an improvement of just one tenth would have seen Lewis on the second...
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