Summary

  • Hamilton takes first Ferrari pole position for sprint race

  • Verstappen 2nd, Piastri 3rd, Norris 5th

  • Norris topped practice

  • Tributes as legendary team boss and pundit Eddie Jordan passes away

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  • Sprint race weekends explained

Live Reporting

Lorraine McKenna

  1. Out in SQ2

    11. Fernando Alonso (Aston Martin)

    12. Ollie Bearman (Haas)

    13. Carlos Sainz (Williams)

    14. Gabriel Bortoleto (Sauber)

    15. Isack Hadjar (Racing Bulls)

  2. Kimi Antonelli is safe in fourth, George Russell goes up to second. Mercedes are safe.

  3. Lewis Hamilton goes third as Charles Leclerc stays in fifth. George Russell and Carlos Sainz are in trouble as Alex Albon rockets up the order to fifth!

  4. Isack Hadjar has a moment at Turn One in the Racing Bulls car but the Frenchman briefly climbs out of the drop zone before tumbling back down. The top three - Lando Norris, Oscar Piastri and Max Verstappen are staying put in the garage.

    A lovely tow from team-mate Hadjar lifts Yuki Tsunoda to seventh on the timesheets.

  5. Danger zone

    11. Alex Albon

    12. Isack Hadjar

    13. Ollie Bearman

    14. Yuki Tsunoda

    15. Lance Stroll

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  6. The Mercedes of Kimi Antonelli is running in the top three, but that becomes top four as the McLaren of Oscar Piastri sticks in a 1:31.362 to go second behind McLaren team-mate Lando Norris.

    George Russell is on the radio to the Silver Arrows to say his medium tyres just aren't working.

  7. The McLaren is looking very fast this weekend in the hands of Lando Norris. The Briton beats Max Verstappen's quickest time of 1:31.521 by over three tenths to sit top with less than five minutes to go.

  8. An encouraging display by Lewis Hamilton to pop up late on and put his Ferrari on top of the pile in SQ1. The seven-time world champion holds just about every record in Shanghai, so if any driver can ace this track, it's him.

    No further investigation for that impeding incident between George Russell and Yuki Tsunoda, so carry on with your session.

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  9. Go! Go! Go!

    Put 10 minutes on the clock this time, but bolt your mediums on again.

    SQ2 is green.

  10. The Red Bull was struggling for grip and Liam Lawson could not wrangle it back in. The most experienced of this season's rookies will start tomorrow's sprint at the back of the grid.

  11. Out in SQ1

    16. Jack Doohan (Alpine)

    17. Pierre Gasly (Alpine)

    18. Esteban Ocon (Haas)

    19. Nico Hulkenberg (Sauber)

    20. Liam Lawson (Red Bull)

  12. Red Bull receive an apology from Liam Lawson as he says he couldn't get the tyres down. Lewis Hamilton was quickest in that session with a 1:31.212.

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  13. Lawson out

    Liam Lawson has a lap time deleted and drops to 19th place. There is no time left for the Red Bull man and he's out in SQ1.

    Haas' Oliver Bearman, meanwhile, shoots up to 10th spot.

  14. Carlos Sainz in setting off in the Williams aiming to pull himself out of the danger zone. The Spaniard's lap is enough to lift him ti ninth, but now he's down to 11th because of Lance Stroll's better time.

  15. Danger zone

    16. Yuki Tsunoda

    17. Carlos Sainz

    18. Oliver Bearman

    19. Gabriel Bortoleto

    20. Esteban Ocon

  16. George Russell and Kimi Antonelli have not ruffled any feathers at the top of the timesheets. The more experienced Russell is sixth and Italian teenager Antonelli is eighth.

    Meanwhile, Yuki Tsunoda flags to his Racing Bulls pit wall Russell got in his way around Turn 14. Race control of noted that spot of impeding.

  17. Piastri goes top

    Liam Lawson goes sixth on the board - that will be a confident booster for the New Zealander.

    Oscar Piastri has thrown his hat in to the ring with a 1:31.723, ahead of the Aston Martin of Fernando Alonso. Lando Norris can only manage fifth place on his opening flyer.

  18. Lewis Hamilton puts his Ferrari a tenth above the Red Bull of Max Verstappen. Scuderia team-mate Charles Leclerc is next to cross the line and goes second, 0.010 seconds off the seven-time world champion.

  19. Max Verstappen is the first if the big names to go top of the timesheets with a 1:32.329. The Racing Bulls of Isack Hadjar, who didn't even make it past the formation lap in Melbourne, is second fastest.

  20. The yellow mediums are bolted on for all 20 drivers in this opening sprint qualifying session. The Mercedes of George Russell and Kimi Antonelli have come out together followed by the Sauber of Gabriel Bortoleto. Time is ticking away but getting temperature in those tyres is important, so no-one is lining up a lap just yet.