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Rosberg leads Hamilton in opening Suzuka practice

Nico Rosberg was the pacesetter in opening practice for this weekend’s Japanese Grand Prix as the Mercedes AMG PETRONAS team once again had a significant advantage on Friday morning. Rosberg set a lap of 1:32.431 to put himself at the head of the timing screens, with team-mate Lewis Hamilton the only driver to get within a second of that time. Hamilton’s best lap was 0.215 seconds shy, but third placed Sebastian Vettel, a four time winner at Suzuka and a driver who has stood on the podium in Japan for the past seven seasons, was 1.094 seconds down in the leading Scuderia Ferrari. Kimi Raikkonen was almost three-tenths of a second down on his Ferrari team-mate in fourth, while last...
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