Three sprint races, three more to go this season.

And we still have qualifying to look forward to. Let's all take a break and regroup at 14:30 BST for build-up.

See you shortly!

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Red Bull are still top of the pile in the constructors' championship with a 63-advantage over Ferrari in second.

McLaren are closing the gap on the Scuderia, though, with only 26 points between the two teams following today's sprint.

1. Red Bull - 339

2. Ferrari - 276

3. McLaren - 250

4. Mercedes - 159

5. Aston Martin - 58

6. RB - 28

7. Alpine - 8

8. Haas - 7

9. Williams - 2

10. Sauber - 0

The top eight in the drivers' championship all scored points in the sprint.

Max Verstappen extends his title lead to 71 points over Lando Norris in second, who in turn pulls six points ahead of third-placed Charles Leclerc.

1. Max Verstappen - 227

2. Lando Norris - 156

3. Charles Leclerc - 150

4. Carlos Sainz - 120

5. Sergio Perez - 112

6. Oscar Piastri - 94

7. George Russell - 86

8. Lewis Hamilton - 73

McLaren's Lando Norris, who finished third: "A good race between us especially with Max at the beginning was good fun.

"Probably some things I should have done better but i understand that but the pace of the car was very strong, especially at the end of the race and I had a good battle trying to get past Oscar but just didn't have enough speed.

"I don't think we had the pace to go for Max, he was too quick for us today."

McLaren's Oscar Piastri, who finished second: "I finished one spot higher than I started but didn't quite have the pace in the second part of the lap. Thought Max and Lando were going to pave the way for me to come through at one point but not quite!

"Some things to look out for this afternoon for tomorrow's race but we'll definitely take the points - it's a really good haul compared to the other teams around us.

"I could see [Verstappen and Norris] battling quite hard, the move was quite late and I knew there would be an opportunity on the exit. I was hoping I'd get both but just bided my time and tried my best."

Red Bull's Max Verstappen, who won his 10th career sprint race: "It was a good first lap but once the DRS opens it is very hard to get out of it, took a few laps. Few exciting battles as well but once we cleared the DRS I could do my own race. We have two cars pushing flat out making things difficult for me.

"We had to work for it. A few things to think about what we can do better for tomorrow especially, like longer races, harder on the tyres and we’ll have to see how that can evolve."

On the clipping – Is that a weak spot? "It’s just because they are in the DRS because they spend less time on the straight catching up to me.

"Once we were out then I could back to my normal management and everything was fine again."

Who else will you be looking at in the rear view mirror? "I have to look at the whole race.

"I was very busy with myself I have to look at the data of the others was well and see if we can do better as well."

Max Verstappen holds up his sprint prize - the 10th win of his career - alongside Oscar Piastri and Lando Norris. Now it's back to the normal schedule and preparation for qualifying for tomorrow's grand prix this afternoon.

The fact that Lando is so disappointed with third is a measure of where he is right now.

He wants a championship. He’s not content with a podium in a more.

1. Max Verstappen (Red Bull) - 8 pts

2. Oscar Piastri (McLaren) - 7

3. Lando Norris (McLaren) - 6

4. George Russell (Mercedes) - 5

5. Carlos Sainz (Ferrari) - 4

6. Lewis Hamilton (Mercedes) - 3

7. Charles Leclerc (Ferrari) - 2

8. Sergio Perez (Red Bull) - 1

That's another sprint victory for Max Verstappen to add to his growing collection.

Oscar Piastri finishes his 100km dash in second place after overtaking his McLaren team-mate Lando Norris, who comes home in third spot.

The stewards are going to look at that incident between Nico Hulkenberg and Fernando Alonso at Turn Three.

Lando Norris is trying to pass his team-mate Oscar Piastri but it looks like the Australian is going to cross the line in second place...

Fernando Alonso is being harassed by the Haas of Nico Hulkenberg and the Spaniard loses position to the German and drops to 16th place. The Aston Martin driver had started his sprint race in 13th place.

The Ferrari of Carlos Sainz is the filling in a Mercedes a sandwich. Max Verstappen is cruising out in front with a 3.9-second advantage from McLaren's Oscar Piastri.

1. Verstappen

2. Piastri

3. Norris

4. Russell

5. Sainz

6. Hamilton

7. Leclerc

8. Perez

It is a bit early in the season (for McLaren) to be imposing team orders at this stage in a sprint race.

That might do more harm than good in taking away from Piastri than celebrating the team’s performance, and embracing him.

The third sprint of the 2024 season looks to be heading Max Verstappen's way, with Oscar Piastri sitting in second and Lando Norris still trying to make up ground on his team-mate in third.

The Red Bull of Max Verstappen is three seconds up the road from Oscar Piastri and Lando Norris. Australian Piastri is looking good for this runners-up spot but Norris is keeping him on his toes.

The cameras are firmly fixed on the McLaren drivers now. George Russell is just behind the pair in fourth.

In a sprint race scenario you are going to go for your first five, six, seven laps which are the opportunity to make those overtakes when everyone is bunched up and then you get this phase where everyone settles down a bit and gets temperatures under control, maybe start to think about long after tyres and then towards the end, maybe think of performance off-set to utilise to have another go.

This is the calm before the storm.