Pit Lane F1
Round 16 qualifying — Q1, Q2 and Q3 timing - 2017-10-08
Lewis Hamilton (Mercedes) took pole for the 2017 Japanese Grand Prix with a 1:27.319 lap.
Valtteri Bottas (Mercedes) joined the front row, 0.332s shy of pole, with Sebastian Vettel (Ferrari) third on the grid. Fernando Alonso (McLaren) was the slowest into Q3 in P10, while Stoffel Vandoorne (McLaren) missed the cut by —s.
Q3 was settled inside 3.368s — pole to P10 — with Fernando Alonso (McLaren) closing the top ten.
| Pos | Driver | Team | Q1 | Q2 | Q3 | Gap |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 44Lewis Hamilton | Mercedes | 1:29.047 | 1:27.819 | 1:27.319 | 1:27.319 |
| 2 | 77Valtteri Bottas | Mercedes | 1:29.332 | 1:28.543 | 1:27.651 | +0.332 |
| 3 | 5Sebastian Vettel | Ferrari | 1:29.352 | 1:28.225 | 1:27.791 | +0.472 |
| 4 |
| 3Daniel Ricciardo |
| Red Bull |
| 1:29.475 |
| 1:28.935 |
| 1:28.306 |
| +0.987 |
| 5 | 3Max Verstappen | Red Bull | 1:29.181 | 1:28.747 | 1:28.332 | +1.013 |
| 6 | 7Kimi Räikkönen | Ferrari | 1:29.163 | 1:29.079 | 1:28.498 | +1.179 |
| 7 | 31Esteban Ocon | Force India | 1:30.115 | 1:29.199 | 1:29.111 | +1.792 |
| 8 | 11Sergio PĂ©rez | Force India | 1:29.696 | 1:29.343 | 1:29.260 | +1.941 |
| 9 | 19Felipe Massa | Williams | 1:30.352 | 1:29.687 | 1:29.480 | +2.161 |
| 10 | 14Fernando Alonso | McLaren | 1:30.525 | 1:29.749 | 1:30.687 | +3.368 |
| 11 | 2Stoffel Vandoorne | McLaren | 1:30.654 | 1:29.778 | — | +2.459 |
| 12 | 27Nico Hülkenberg | Renault | 1:30.252 | 1:29.879 | — | +2.560 |
| 13 | 20Kevin Magnussen | Haas F1 Team | 1:30.774 | 1:29.972 | — | +2.653 |
| 14 | 30Jolyon Palmer | Renault | 1:30.516 | 1:30.022 | — | +2.703 |
| 15 | 55Carlos Sainz | Toro Rosso | 1:30.565 | 1:30.413 | — | +3.094 |
| 16 | 8Romain Grosjean | Haas F1 Team | 1:30.849 | — | — | +3.530 |
| 17 | 10Pierre Gasly | Toro Rosso | 1:31.317 | — | — | +3.998 |
| 18 | 18Lance Stroll | Williams | 1:31.409 | — | — | +4.090 |
| 19 | 9Marcus Ericsson | Sauber | 1:31.597 | — | — | +4.278 |
| 20 | 94Pascal Wehrlein | Sauber | 1:31.885 | — | — | +4.566 |