Summary

  • Piastri takes first ever Grand Prix pole, Russell 2nd, Norris 3rd

  • Red Bull's Lawson out in first session; Aston Martin's Alonso out in second

  • Hamilton wins sprint race, Piastri 2nd, Verstappen 3rd

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Live Reporting

Lorraine McKenna

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    Josh Earl: Liam Lawson is having a torrid time

  2. 'Seems impossible for anybody to carry that burden'

    Sam Bird
    Formula E driver on BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra

    Liam Lawson will be disappointed, that second seat at Red Bull seems impossible for anybody to carry that burden because nobody has been able to grab it and make it their own.

  3. Out in Q1

    16. Pierre Gasly (Alpine)

    17. Oliver Bearman (Haas)

    18. Jack Doohan (Alpine)

    19. Gabriel Bortoleto (Sauber)

    20. Liam Lawson (Red Bull)

  4. Harry Benjamin
    BBC F1 Commentator

    A disaster for the man up against Max Verstappen, Liam Lawson is 20th and out of qualifying.

  5. Red Bull man Liam Lawson is out in Q1 again.

  6. Leclerc goes P2

    For a moment it felt like Charles Leclerc could be a surprise elimination in Q1 but the Ferrari man is up to second. But he's falling down the timesheets again as Yuki Tsunoda goes quickest, then Lando Norris. Rookie Isack Hadjar has now taken his team-mate's spot on the timesheets.

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  7. George Russell is told by his Mercedes engineer that they really need this lap. The Briton is being pushed down the order to 12th as others improve.

    Fernando Alonso takes the chequered flag and goes sixth on the timesheets.

  8. Drop zone

    16. Esteban Ocon

    17. Pierre Gasly

    18. Carlos Sainz

    19. Liam Lawson

    20. Jack Doohan

  9. Investigation over. Carry on with your qualifying, Liam. The Red Bull driver is stuck in the drop zone, however, and desperate to avoid another Q1 knockout.

    Max Verstappen is quickest, Oscar Piastri is second and Kimi Antonelli is third. Lando Norris is in seventh and Charles Leclerc is all the way down in P13.

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  10. Antonelli up to P3

    Teenager Kimi Antonelli waves good by to the elimination zone and plonks his Mercedes ahead of the Ferrari of Lewis Hamilton in third spot. Liam Lawson is under investigatio for failing to slow under the yellow flags for Jack Doohan's spin.

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  11. Sam Bird
    Formula E driver on BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra

    The order right now is very jumbled, I think we will find some kind of stability come the end of Q1.

  12. The bottom five is changing with every glance. Briton Oliver Bearman vaults up to seventh place, pushing the Mercedes of Kimi Antonelli down in to the dumps. Charles Leclerc is also starting to sweat slightly, as the he only moves to 10th on the timesheets on his latest run.

  13. Liam Lawson twitches in the final sector and crosses the line to move up to 15th place, just above the drop zone. Meanwhile, Nico Hulkenberg pulls his Sauber out of danger and goes seventh quickest on the timesheets.

  14. Verstappen goes quickest

    Max Verstappen goes purple in the final sector and shoots over the Ferrari of Lewis Hamilton and the McLaren of Oscar Piastri. The reigning word champion's time is a 1:31.424.

    Isack Hadjar has put his Racing Bulls in the mix of the top five as his team-mate Yuki Tsunoda goes fourth fastest.

  15. Sam Bird
    Formula E driver on BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra

    It's so difficult to pick that braking point when you're on the limit after that long straight, it's so challenging to get it right and not snatch that inside front.

  16. Oscar Piastri has put down his first flying lap and gone straight to top of the timesheets ahead of Lewis Hamilton's Ferrari. The Australian's marker is a 1:31.591.

    The other Scuderia of Charles Leclerc of down in ninth place, while the Red Bull of Max Verstappen is yet to stamp his authority with a lap time.

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  17. Sam Bird
    Formula E driver on BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra

    Carlos Sainz hasn't looked that comfortable this weekend. The [Williams] car looks ok, it looks a little bit unresponsive from the front end.

    The track will ramp up throughout this session, I expect the times to get quicker and quicker.

  18. Spin for Doohan

    Jack Doohan had a moment with Gabriel Bortoleto at the end of the sprint which resulted in a 10-second time penalty and two penalty points on his licence - ouch. The Australian takes a spin in the Alpine but gets himself out of the gravel and back on track.

    Lando Norris goes quickest, but that's scrubbed by man-of-the-moment Lewis Hamilton.

  19. Who needs a good run in qualifying today? Well, Liam Lawson would be a good shout. The Red Bull driver hasn't made it out of Q1/SQ1 yet, so saving himself from another early knockout is a must.

    Nico Hulkenberg is top of the board in the Sauber with a 1:32.677.

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  20. Sam Bird
    Formula E driver on BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra

    It's a challenging and demanding circuit that is easy to underdrive, yet really easy also to overdrive.