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Starting orderpublished at 06:20 British Summer Time 7 April

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1. Max Verstappen (Red Bull)

2. Sergio Perez (Red Bull)

3. Lando Norris (McLaren)

4. Carlos Sainz (Ferrari)

5. Fernando Alonso (Aston Martin)

6. Oscar Piastri (McLaren)

7. Lewis Hamilton (Mercedes)

8. Charles Leclerc (Ferrari)

9. George Russell (Mercedes)

10. Nico Hulkenberg (Haas)

11. Valtteri Bottas (Sauber)

12. Yuki Tsunoda (RB)

13. Esteban Ocon (Alpine)

14. Pierre Gasly (Alpine)

15. Lance Stroll (Aston Martin)

16. Kevin Magnussen (Haas)

17. Logan Sargeant (Williams)

18. Zhou Guanyu (Sauber)

Jennie Gow
F1 pit-lane reporter

On Daniel Ricciardo, this was exactly what he didn't need, a heavy crash. This is going to take away again the momentum he was hoping to get.

Postpublished at 06:16 British Summer Time 7 April

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Andrew Benson
BBC F1 correspondent

Restart will be a standing start, FIA says.

Jennie Gow
F1 pit-lane reporter

I think you couldn't ask for two teams who didn't need that crash more. I don't know what they (Williams) are going to do, until they've got that car back and can have a good look they don't won't know the extent of the damage that is done to the chassis. They don't have another one, they won't have another one ready for the next race in China in two weeks, they will have it ready for Miami if they can get it back on track.

But if all the resources are going into fixing the other chassis now, Sargeant was running the old one, this is the newer one and that is really difficult for the team.

Red flagpublished at 06:14 British Summer Time 7 April

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The top nine stayed in position after lights out, but the Haas of Nico Hulkenberg moved from 12th to 10th just before the impact between Daniel Ricciardo and Alex Albon.

Andrew Priestley: That is going to take a bit of time to clear up before we get back racing again. The danger of drifting back to sleep before the race restart is now a very real possibility…

Carrie: I've eaten one of my last bags of mini eggs as I figured the sugar rush will wake me up!

Red flagpublished at 06:11 British Summer Time 7 April

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Well, go grab yourselves a cup of tea/coffee/make some breakfast, as we'll probably be sat here for a while. All the remaining drivers are out of their cars and having a watch of that opening-lap crash.

"He just squeezed me, no where to go."

Red flagpublished at 06:09 British Summer Time 7 April

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Alex Albon tells his pit wall he was squeezed out and had nowhere to go. Daniel Ricciardo was aiming for the racing line heading to Turn Three but didn't spy the Williams just to his right.

Alice Powell
British racing driver on BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra

I agree with Albon he was squeezed but I don't think Ricciardo had any intention of doing that on purpose I genuinely don't think he actually saw him.

Alice Powell
British racing driver on BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra

That's a big hit into the tyres, out of the car is Daniel Ricciardo and Alex Albon was blocked by advertising boards trying to get out of the car there.

A lot of the drivers had to stamp on the brakes, the tyre temperatures are not fully up to speed and when you are having to lift with that amount of load it can unsettle the car quite a lot.

Red flagpublished at 06:07 British Summer Time 7 April

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Both drivers have said they are OK. Daniel Ricciardo is out of the car, Alex Albon is just climbing out now. That is a very heavy hit, with the tyre barriers strewn across the gravel.

Red flagpublished at 06:05 British Summer Time 7 April

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There's a red flag out within a few seconds of this race starting. It's Daniel Ricciardo and Alex Albon who are involved.

The Red Bull of Max Verstappen is charging off the line and is put in front leading the field down to Turn One.

We have on off already! Looks like an RB and a Williams have made contact at Turn Two!

Track temperature is now 40.3C.

HOT ONE!

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Behind Fernando Alonso, the next six drivers are on the yellow mediums, then it's softs all the way down Kevin Magnussen in 18th, who fancies some C2 medium action.

Logan Sargeant and Zhou Guanyu are propping up the field in soft and medium respectively.

Yuki Tsunoda will be looking to get some points in his home race, he said pre-race: "I'm very optimistic I feel ready, the last two days with the crowds that are supporting me and the amount of energy I've got was definitely special so I can't wait to get on track today, definitely the points will be to target, I've never achieved but I'm sure with the pace we have now it's very realistic."

The top four are all on the medium tyres, Fernando Alonso on his new softs, is just behind in fifth.

Andrew Benson
BBC F1 correspondent

Image source, Pirelli 2024

Red Bull will win, the car with number one on its nose; that’s the expectation going into the Japanese Grand Prix, as pretty much any race in this era of Formula 1. Aside from that, though, the race is finely poised from a strategy point of view. The five top teams have chosen divergent tyre choices. Red Bull and Ferrari going for two sets of the medium compound and one of hard; McLaren and Mercedes two hards and one medium. None of these teams expect the soft to be used in the race. And no one knows which tyre choice is best, although it is slightly warmer than it has been so far this weekend and that could swing things towards the hard.

Aston Martin, though, have gone out on a limb. Fernando Alonso has one set of each tyre, including the soft. So he has to use the softs in the race, and is likely to use them at the start, to gain positions. That could cause headaches for Carlos Sainz and perhaps even Lando Norris ahead of him.

A pit stop takes about 22.5 seconds under green flag condition, 10 under a safety car. DRS is worth only 0.3secs per lap.