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The championship leader had rarely looked beatable throughout the session and ploughed a lonely furrow in pursuit of pole position, particularly as nobody had been able to beat his opening 1m33.977s effort - let alone his ultimate pole lap.This set up a thrilling battle to join him on the front row, however, and a series of contenders all staked their claim to start at the front. Fernando Alonso ...Keep reading

Max Verstappen is in imperious form as he takes pole position for the Chinese Grand Prix, leading Sergio Perez to a Red Bull one-two.

Following a season-opening race in Qatar that ran without interruption from safety cars, there is widespread expectation that Imola’s tight and undulating nature may conspire to produce incidents that the open, flowing nature of the Losail International Circuit helped negate.Imola, which has replaced Monza as the host of Italy’s WEC round for 2024 on what is expected to be a one-off basis ...Keep reading

The Spaniard was locked in a super-tight fight with the Ferraris for third place in the closing stages of the Shanghai sprint event, as he battled rapidly degrading tyres.But as the pair swapped positions back and forth, they clashed at Turn 9 two laps from home in an incident that earned Alonso a puncture – which forced him into the pits for fresh tyres before he eventually retired.The stewards ...Keep reading

Live coverage of Saturday's qualifying session for the 2024 Chinese Grand Prix in Shanghai.

The closing laps of the Shanghai Sprint saw the two Ferraris of Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz battling hard – with Leclerc left feeling that his team mate had been “over the limit” in his dealings with him.

Max Verstappen emerged as the class of the field during Saturday’s Sprint race at the Chinese Grand Prix, beating Lewis Hamilton to victory in a dramatic encounter at the Shanghai International Circuit.

Lap 16 of 19 of the Shanghai Sprint witnessed a fascinating battle between the Ferrari of Carlos Sainz and the Aston Martin of Fernando Alonso for third place – with an unlikely driver coming out on top in the scrap…

Lewis Hamilton described himself as “super, super happy” after he followed Max Verstappen home to record a breakthrough podium for Mercedes during Saturday’s Sprint race at the Shanghai International Circuit.

Max Verstappen stormed from fourth on the grid to take an impressive victory in the first F1 Sprint of 2024, amid a dramatic battle for P3 in China that saw his team mate Sergio Perez prevail.

Lando Norris’s hopes of scoring his first F1 win in any format disappeared in the Shanghai Sprint, with the McLaren driver dropping from pole position to P7 by the end of the first lap.

Red Bull driver Max Verstappen returned to the top of the pecking order during Saturday’s Sprint race at the Shanghai International Circuit as he turned his low-key P4 starting position into a commanding victory.

The Auckland-born driver took the lead after the first of two pit cycles on a wet 3.3km Taupo International Motorsport Park.Heimgartner took advantage of Brad Jones Racing's ace pitcrew, the nearly perennial winner of Supercars’ teams pitstop ratings, to jump past early leader Will Brown (Triple Eight Chevrolet), and held off Chaz Mostert for most of the first half of the race.When Mostert fell ...Keep reading

Norris had started from the front after a brilliant showing in Friday’s wet qualifying session, but it all went wrong at Turn 1 of the sprint race after he came off worse in a side-by-side tussle with Lewis Hamilton.Having lost ground away from the grid, he found himself on the dirt on the outside of the long right- hand first corner. And, after instantly losing grip, he ran wide and dropped ...Keep reading

Norris had started Saturday’s sprint event in Shanghai from pole position but did not get away at the lights as well as fellow front-row starter Hamilton, who got inside him on the entry to the first corner.Hamilton hugged the inside line throughout the long right-hander, while Norris tried to hang it around the outside before he lost grip off-line and ran off the circuit, dropping down the ...Keep reading

In a DRS train behind Fernando Alonso, the battle erupted when Sainz attacked the Aston Martin driver around the outside of Turn 7 which invited both Serigo Perez and Charles Leclerc into the fight.After Alonso picked up a puncture in contact with Sainz, as the pair touched in Turn 7 before both going wide at Turn 9 to allow Perez to fly past, there was an all-Ferrari incident at the Turn 14 ...Keep reading

Mercedes’ Lewis Hamilton grabbed the lead at the start, when pole-winner Lando Norris (McLaren) was slow away from the startline. After battling with Hamilton through Turn 1, Norris slid wide and off the track, tumbling a further five places.Promoted to third, Verstappen bided his time early on and then cruised past Fernando Alonso (Aston Martin) and Hamilton to notch yet another F1 victory.F1 ...Keep reading

In dry conditions – compared to the squall that appeared in the final part of Sprint Qualifying on Friday afternoon – Lando Norris led the field away from pole position for the Shanghai Sprint… but his lead wouldn’t last long.

Live coverage of Saturday's F1 Sprint ahead of the 2024 Chinese Grand Prix in Shanghai.