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Mercedes pulled clear of Ferrari during the qualifying simulation programmes in Japan, with Lewis Hamilton finishing over eight-tenths of a second ahead of Sebastian Vettel.
In the long run pace Mercedes still appears to have the upper hand but going by the times, things seem a lot closer on the soft compound, the middle tyre that Pirelli has brought to the Suzuka Circuit this weekend.
Each driver set a representative series of laps on the yellow-walled soft tyre, while Kimi Raikkonen set just one lap on the red-walled super soft compound. Below, you can see the list of the times from each driver from Mercedes, Ferrari and Red Bull.
| Hamilton | Bottas | Vettel | Raikkonen | Ricciardo | Verstappen |
| 1:33.830 | 1:35.344 | 1:34.655 | 1:33.400 | 1:34.958 | 1:34.591 |
| 1:34.227 | 1:35.063 | 1:34.123 | 1:35.096 | 1:34.964 | |
| 1:35.050 | 1:35.331 | 1:35.532 | 1:35.101 | 1:35.313 | |
| 1:34.661 | 1:34.902 | 1:35.232 | 1:34.889 | 1:35.150 | |
| 1:34.430 | 1:34.669 | 1:34.896 | 1:35.357 | 1:35.332 | |
| 1:34.373 | 1:34.559 | 1:35.704 | 1:35.487 | 1:35.176 | |
| 1:34.190 | 1:35.334 | 1:35.379 | 1:35.032 | ||
| 1:35.240 | |||||
| 1:35.166 | |||||
| 1:35.553 | |||||
| Average | Average | Average | Average | Average | Average |
| 1:34.394 | 1:34.978 | 1:35.144 | 1:33.400 | 1:35.181 | 1:35.080 |
| Hamilton | Bottas | Vettel | Raikkonen | Ricciardo | Verstappen |
| 1:33.433 | 1:33.858 | 1:33.560 | 1:34.357 | 1:34.137 | 1:34.050 |
| 1:33.320 | 1:34.350 | 1:33.703 | 1:34.459 | 1:34.033 | 1:34.092 |
| 1:33.378 | 1:33.815 | 1:33.569 | 1:34.911 | 1:33.934 | 1:34.474 |
| 1:33.612 | 1:34.049 | 1:33.505 | 1:35.022 | 1:33.491 | 1:34.138 |
| 1:33.563 | 1:33.517 | 1:35.395 | 1:34.218 | 1:34.555 | |
| 1:33.584 | 1:35.689 | 1:33.788 | 1:34.831 | ||
| 1:35.159 | 1:33.619 | 1:34.226 | |||
| 1:35.185 | 1:34.174 | ||||
| 1:35.216 | |||||
| 1:35.654 | |||||
| 1:35.344 | |||||
| 1:35.663 | |||||
| 1:35.489 | |||||
| Average | Average | Average | Average | Average | Average |
| 1:33.482 | 1:34.018 | 1:33.771 | 1:35.196 | 1:33.889 | 1:34.318 |
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Thanks guys, great overview.