The rജeigning world champion dominated Friday’s running at Suzuka, finishing a comfortable six tenths of a second fastest in first practice, before again topping the timesheets in FP2. 

Red Bull endured a horrible weekend last tౠime out at the Singapore Grand Prix as their 15-race win streak came to an end, but normal serv✅ice resumed on the opening day of action in Japan. 

"It felt really good today. From lap one t🎉he car was enjoyable to drive again," Verstappen said.

"It seems like we had a strong day, on short runs, long runs... There's a lot of degrad🦋ation on this track, so it will be quite tough on tyres in the race. But 𒁃so far we had a good start to the weekend.

"It looks like🦩 it's all a bit tight behind me. Ferrari and McLaren are close, so we'll have aജ look.

"But I think at the end of the day, we just focus on ourselves and try to optimise our performance. An👍d then if we do that, then I'm confident that we can fight for pole.”

Verstappen being happy in his car once more is ominous for his rivals, including Red Bull teammate168澳洲5最新开奖结果: Sergio Perez, ဣwho la✃gged behind the Dutchman in both sessions. 

Like Verstappen, Pe🐭rez confirmed that Red Bull’s Singap🦋ore troubles appear to be a one-off. 

"We had problems with the balance of the car in FP1, we tried to im♍prove it a bit in FP2," the Mexica🌌n explained. 

"I think we have some pretty good understanding of the direction we nee🔯d to take.

“Certainly, things are looki💃ng a lot better than they were last weekend which is positive.

"I look forward to qualifying well tomorrow because the degradation seems to be quite high around this place, especially with the hot temperaturesܫ we are expecting.

"I꧙ do believe that we were going to be strong tomorrow and als🅰o on Sunday."