What happened in Friday practice at the F1 Japanese GP?

Sainz edges ahead of Leclerc for P1 - less than a tenth betwen the pair.

The rain is starting to fall more heavily now.

Leclerc takes to the top, 0.3s ahead of Ocon.

Ocon displaces Verstapepn at the top of the order - 0.3s between the duo.

A lock up for Nicholas Latifi in the wet conditions pic.twitter.com/3pG9zj5mn8

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Verstappen goes 3.6s clear on the inters.

Verstappen, Ocon and Bottas are on inters.

Verstappen takes to the circuit for the first time this morning.

"We're expecting rain for the last 15 minutes of the session."

Current order with 30 minutes to go: Sainz, Leclerc, Ricciardo, Bottas, Norris, Magnussen, Schumacher, Gasly, Zhou and Tsunoda.

The times continue to tumble.

Shouldn't be far off from seeing some intermediates.

"Inters would be better. These tyres are already overheating"

You can just see him... 

Sainz has reported that the conditions are not far away from intermediate conditions #JapaneseGP#F1pic.twitter.com/WnlWy8VjBd

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Current order: Leclerc, Sainz, Schumacher, Bottas and Zhou.

"I actually think we could already go on inters," Leclerc reports.

Leclerc storms to the top, 0.9s ahead of Schumacher.

Schumacher sets a 1m50.343s - the first time of the day.

Stroll returns to the pit lane as Hamilton and Bottas take to the track.

The tracks getting busier with Stroll, Vettel, Leclerc, Sainz and Albon joining Schumacher. 

Schumacher also takes to the track.

Latifi breaks the silence and takes to the track for the first time.

"There's a couple of rivers" reports Tsunoda.

Both he and Magnussen return to the pit lane.