McLaren’s Oscar Piastri leads the way in rain-affected second practice at Suzuka

McLaren driver Oscar Piastri was quickest in a rain-affected second practice session for the Japanese Grand Prix (Hiro Komae/AP)

Second practice for Sunday’s Japanese Grand Prix proved to be a damp squib as McLaren’s Oscar Piastri set the fastest time on a weather-affected session.

Local favourite Yuki Tsunoda and his RB team-mate Daniel Ricciardo were the only drivers to set lap times early on in changeable conditions, but set their times on the intermediate tyre.