Team radio - Verstappenpublished at 15:58 Greenwich Mean Time 20 March 2022
"OK, this is two times that I have taken it easy on the out lap when I could have easily been in front. I am never ever doing it again."
Summary
Leclerc wins, with Sainz 2nd in Ferrari one-two
Multiple overtakes as Leclerc and Verstappen fight for lead
Both Red Bulls retire late on
First race of new car design era
Gasly, Verstappen, Perez out
Team radio - Verstappenpublished at 15:58 Greenwich Mean Time 20 March 2022
Postpublished at 15:58 Greenwich Mean Time 20 March 2022
Carlos Sainz is the on-track leader, but on the soft tyres and needs to stop soon. Second on track is Sergio Perez on the mediums.
Third, but in effect in first when the others pit as they will need to, is Charles Leclerc with Max Verstappen two seconds behind.
And Verstappen is absolutely furious at being told to take it easy on the out lap.
Image source, Getty ImagesPostpublished at Lap 32/57
Nothing wrong with that Charles Leclerc stop, 2.5 seconds.
Ferrari needed it to be good, and it was, and he is ahead of Max Verstappen. Another hurdle cleared for Leclerc as he is aiming for his first race win since the Italian Grand Prix back in September 2019.
Postpublished at 15:55 Greenwich Mean Time 20 March 2022
Sam Bird
Formula E driver on BBC Radio 5 Live Sports ExtraThe medium can get you home from here. Maybe the plan was for Charles Leclerc to go to the hard compound and have another stop, but now they will try to get home with the medium instead.
Postpublished at 15:54 Greenwich Mean Time 20 March 2022
And Ferrari respond with Charles Leclerc coming into the pits the next lap.
Postpublished at 15:54 Greenwich Mean Time 20 March 2022
Verstappen comes in from second and off go the softs, on come the mediums and, for the second time, Red Bull try the undercut of pitting earlier than Leclerc in an attempt to swipe the lead away from the Monaco man.
Team radio - to Leclercpublished at 15:53 Greenwich Mean Time 20 March 2022
"Medium compound is stronger than expected."
Postpublished at 15:53 Greenwich Mean Time 20 March 2022
Sam Bird
Formula E driver on BBC Radio 5 Live Sports ExtraMercedes and Lewis Hamilton are going to push this tyre until the end, or there was no point in putting the hards on in the previous stop.
Image source, Getty ImagesPostpublished at 15:52 Greenwich Mean Time 20 March 2022
First half - superb. Second half - who knows?
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Sam Bird
Formula E driver on BBC Radio 5 Live Sports ExtraThe biggest gainer of the race so far is Yuki Tsunoda - gaining six places.
Started 16th, now 10th.
Image source, Getty ImagesPostpublished at Lap 29/57
It's a 3.9 second stop, the slow front left being a bit of a problem. Hamilton only made 16 laps on the hard tyres, what the others have been doing so on the soft tyres.
So the strategy is being changed all the time. He's now having to go another 28 laps on these new mediums.
Team radio - to Mercedespublished at 15:50 Greenwich Mean Time 20 March 2022
"It is important we don't push this tyre too much on the out lap."
Team radio - Verstappenpublished at 15:49 Greenwich Mean Time 20 March 2022
"They are almost dead again - the tyres."
Postpublished at 15:49 Greenwich Mean Time 20 March 2022
Hamilton pits again. That's his second stop.
BBC Sport shown new driving guidancepublished at 15:49 Greenwich Mean Time 20 March 2022
Andrew Benson
BBC Sport’s chief F1 writerFormula 1 drivers have been given new driving standards guidelines before the 2022 season.
The move is part of the series of changes governing body the FIA has made to try to learn the lessons from the mistakes made last year.
The new guidelines outline the ways in which drivers overtaking and being overtaken must behave while fighting.
The onus is on drivers to take responsibility for matters such as gaining advantage by leaving the track.
'I don't see how a three-stop would work for Sainz'published at 15:48 Greenwich Mean Time 20 March 2022
Sam Bird
Formula E driver on BBC Radio 5 Live Sports ExtraI don't see how a three-stop would work for Carlos Sainz. All he would do is drop a long way down on Sergio Perez by doing it then would have to make up 20 seconds on Perez who is on a tyre that should last longer than his anyway.
When is this three-stop going to happen? Maybe he is thinking outside the box. Right now I can't see how a three-stop would work for him so he could still finish third.
Postpublished at Lap 28/57
Fernando Alonso makes his second stop, the first of anyone to do so, so expect a flurry of activity in the pits sometime soon.
We're still in the first half of this race, though. It's pretty frantic out there.
Get involvedpublished at 15:46 Greenwich Mean Time 20 March 2022
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quixoticgeek: Lots of bouncing on the straights. How much of this is porpoising and how much is bumpy track?
Rachel T: This is absolutely disastrous for poor old McLaren.
Lando Norris 17th, Daniel Ricciardo 19th.
Postpublished at 15:45 Greenwich Mean Time 20 March 2022
One stop? Two stop? Three stop? It's a headache-inducing time for the chief strategists, but thrilling for the rest of us.
Who wins this one? Leclerc 3.8 seconds ahead is the man in charge, but expect many more fun and games before the chequered flag.
Full credit to Leclerc too, holding off Verstappen after three laps of crazy racing that saw the lead passed back and forth again and again before Leclerc pulled clear.