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

Red B⛄ull endured a horrible weekend last time out at the Singapore Grand Prix as their 15-race win streak came to an end, but normal service resumed on the opening day of action in Japan. 

"It felt really good today. From lap one the car was enjoyable to drive again," Versꦆtappen said.

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

"It looks lik🌼e it's all a bit tight behind me. Ferrari and M꧙cLaren are close, so we'll have a look.

"But I think at the end of the day, we just focus𒁏 on ourselves and try to optimise our performance. And 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澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史: Sergio Perez, who lagg⛦ed behind the Dutchman in ♉both sessions. 

Liꦦke Verstappen, Perez confirmed that Red Bu༺ll’s Singapore troubles appear to be a one-off. 

"We had problems with the balance of the car in 🧔FP1,🐭 we tried to improve it a bit in FP2," the Mexican explained. 

"I think we have some pretty good understan𓆏ding of t🐼he direction we need to take.

“Certainly, t💫hings are looking 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 temperatures ܫwe are expecting.

"I do believe that we were going to be strong toꦬmorrꦰow and also on Sunday."