Japanese Modern Points: Lando Norris Vs Oscar PiaSSTRI, unanswered Red Bull exchange questions, early Ferrari pressure | F1 news

After the big winter bills, the new Formula 1 season certainly did not provide any end of early drama and surprise on the external track after the opening rounds of the campaign.

With the Japanese Grand Prize race in Suzuka immediately Sky SPORTS F1 At the end of this week, we delve into some of the biggest topics that go to the third round …

NORRIS VS PIASSTRI has been set to provide a different challenge McLaren

Grands Prix, Fawzan.

Any additional confirmation is required after the pre -season test that McLaren has the fastest car, which is the team that wins at least at the beginning of the new season, as it has been in the opening manner from the F1 2025, but they may try to run it.

Al -Hafid Al -Hafidin heroes opened a season with a consecutive victory for the first time since 2003, and it was certain that he would have got a couple of two finishes as well, but to rotate on the dry tires in Malbourne Rain, which proved to be very expensive for Oscar Piaasstri there.

Nevertheless, Pacide immediately returned and impressed him a week later in Shanghai to outperform Lando Norris via the weekend in the enemy race and reduce the early title deficit to his teammate by 13 points to 10 points.

Max Verstapen and George Russell are currently between McLaren’s pair in the arrangement of drivers, but in early evidence, Norris and PiaSSTRI, which will definitely be in the battle of the title that lasted for its season.

Norris and PiaSSTRI’s victory led early questions about how they dealt with the McLaren team with the couple heading to the crown of the drivers in the depth of the campaign, as pressure and risks are heading.

After the race, Norris said that they are “tense but excited” about such a possibility, while the team manager Andrea Stella said while “they tried to be ready for a long time now,” they still have to adapt to positions with their development.

“Like all things in Formula 1, it would be very arrogant to say” Oh, now we are ready, “or” we were ready. “

“You learn because the scenarios are very complicated, and they never appear in the same way, so you just have to continue learning, as you do in performance, reliability, and operations, you also do the way you manage a team.”

There is a lot of a face -to -face duel between the spouses in Suzuka, and the McLaren path has already performed well in the previous two seasons when Red Bull remained on the standards. The question that we will start to learn a little more through the head of Japan-Bahrin Saddi, the trio is the number of other competitors that will be accompanied by.

Numerous Red Bull exchange questions that have not been answered

Although McLaren may consider the possibility of managing controllers on the title representing a luxurious problem on the road, Red Paul’s competitive problems are currently more clearly urgent.

The first positions to improve the pace and compliance with their RB21; The second is in an attempt to circumvent the driver’s fortunes in the second street.

It took only two disturbed holidays from Liam Lawson for their confidence at the end of 2014 in New Zealand being the driver in a stable to escalate the challenge of disappearing, as Yuki Tsunoda was promoting many – including the Japanese driver himself – he should have every time in Sergio Perez Conglassed Stantlates in the seat three months ago.

Red Bull driver after China was surprising as it was a shock, so all the main players heard at the heart of this story – will be Tsunouda, Lawson, Christian Horner, for the first time personally at the weekend, Susoca.

Versaben will also hear everything.

If his official account, or at least his official account, “like” the critical Instagram post About the change is a reliable indicator, the hero appears to be four times, not especially like what is revealed.

But what is the aspect of the decision that may not be satisfied with? The simple fact that Lawson did not give more time? The latest change in his colleague comes to create new instability when he must set priority for a better car for both drivers?

And what, if there is anything, does all this mean for his future in the team?

All interesting questions that we must have decisive answers for this week …

Ferrari needs a large weekend

Their competitors continue to talk about them, but Ferrari’s start of the season was definitely mired compared to pre -season expectations. They arrive at Suzuka already need a strong weekend to start challenging the title.

For two completely different reasons, Ferrari was at the Grand News Center in the second round – Luis Hamilton’s first red victory in the Saturday race, then the double exclusion from the Grand Prix on Sunday that directed Britain and Charles Licerk from the final classification.

Ferrari’s embarrassment from seeing their cars was excluded for various technical violations – the first time in the history of 75 years of the world championship in which the famous Scoderia suffered from dual DSQ – there was one thing that losing its fifth and sixth positions that it determined one day was already on a hidden day.

Hamilton was the only driver in the sixth to twice to the tires, and although Leclerc was better than before, as soon as his team -mate suggested positions, the superior Monegasque speed was somewhat confusing that he was carrying a damaged front wing for all the 56 continuing to communicate with sister sisters through the race.

However, the Leclerc was eventually repaired by Verstapen in fourth place and finished 23 seconds behind the Piastri race before his car was not a deficiency of 1 kg.

The double exclusion stripped Ferrari from 18 points, where Khalaf Williams moved them to fifth in the standings and created a large 61 -point deficit of the leaders of the McLaren championship already.

Speaking shortly after the race before he knew that his cars failed after the race, the team coach, Farid Vasuor, confirmed that it was not time to panic early in the campaign.

Vasuor pointed out that the Leclerc race showed a promise, and that the emerging weekend had shown that all big teams were suffering from a level of inconsistency with the tires, and that they only needed to know how to extract the best constantly from SF-25.

“I think the gap with McLaren is the gap that we got with Red Bal last year, and that they did two in the first two race,” Vasour said.

“I think if I returned to the second race press conference last year, I had the question,” Do you think they (Red Bull) will be a champion in June? “

“This is the reason why we should take it with a pinch of salt. I’m sure it is in good condition, and they are in good condition. A strong pace, and this is clear, and I think they are a step forward, but it is not the end of the tournament.”

All this is true, but Ferrari certainly can’t afford a lot of weekends it is difficult any time soon if they do not lose his connection with McLaren.

Suzuka: The Challenge of the Eternal Drivers

The race in the eighth circle in Japan in Japan may be at the opposite end of the calendar to where it has become linked to some of the most famous title in sports, but, as F1 drivers will undoubtedly explain in the interviews he had this week, whatever time they get Suzuka.

F1 is now racing in Japan during the month of picturesque cherry blossom in the country, or Sakura, and this definitely adds an additional attractiveness to its annual visit.

The only thing that has almost changed since the sport visited Suzuka for the first time in 1987, though, is its 3.66 miles planning, 18 Corner itself.

If it becomes aspects of the preferred path of drivers – SPA -FRARARCORCHAMPS – a lower challenge over recent years due to the development of modern F1 cars, Suzuka is still a great test of speed and accuracy thanks to the presence of Esses, Degners, Spoon and 130R to name four fast sections of the most famous school methods in Japan.

Monaco’s narrow lining of the “LAP” monaco is ultimately considered to watch drivers at low fuel qualifiers, but a look at the 360 ​​-degree camera shots on board at the top of this page of the electrode in Verstapen last year, strong evidence that Suzuka cannot be backward.

It is worth waking up early and then to see the qualifiers at 7 am on Saturday, to live on Sky SPORTS F1And then, as you will be in GROVE WAKE-UP Adary, the full grand prize race is 53 rolls on Sunday at 6 am as well!

Thursday, April 3

• 5 am: Press conference for drivers

Friday, April 4

• 3 in the morning: Japanese GP exercise is one (the session begins at 3:30 am)*
• 5.30 am: The press conference of the team managers
• 6.45 in the morning: Japanese GP practice two (the session begins at 7 am)*
• 8.15 am: F1 show*

Saturday, April 5

• 3.15 in the morning: Japanese GP practice Three (the session begins at 3:30 am)*
• 6 in the morning: Japanese GP qualification accumulated*
• 7 am: Japanese GP is qualified*
• 9 in the morning: TED booklet*

Sunday, April 6

• 4.30 AM: Japanese GP accumulation: Grand Prix Sunday*
• 6 am: Japanese Grand Prix*
• 8 in the morning: Japanese GP reaction: fluctuating flag*
• 9 in the morning: Ted Book*

*I also live on the main sky sports event

Formula 1 heads to the famous Suzuka circuit of the Japanese Grand Racing from 4 to 6 April, live on Sky SPORTS F1. Stream Sky SPORTS at now – no contract, cancellation at any time