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Full Q1, Q2 and Q3 results from F1 qualifying at the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix, Round 4 of the 2022 F1 world championship.

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World champion won the right to lead Saturday's 21-lap dash to decide P1, while Lewis Hamilton criticised his mishandling Mercedes after only managing 13th.

Leclerc set the pace on his opening hot lap in Q3, mighty through the second and third sectors but he was only two-hundredths clear of Verstappen with a time of 1min 28.778sec. Pole gives Verstappen the chance to claw back points in the title fight which Leclerc leads on 71, with the world champion, who has retired twice this season, in sixth on 25. The drivers kept lapping as the clock ticked down and Verstappen pipped his rival with a 1min 27.999sec lap just before another red flag as Valtteri Bottas ground to a halt on track. It really punishes you if you make a mistake you can go in the wall. By its close Red Bull’s Max Verstappen had earned “pole position” but such is the equally painful structuring of this format, while his pole counts statistically in the record books it is only for Saturday’s sprint race which will decide the literal pole for Sunday’s GP. Hamilton only narrowly made it into Q2 and finished in 13th place with his teammate George Russell in 11th.

After three entertaining and incident-packed Sprint weekends last year, the format returns at Imola for the Emilia Romagna GP. But what are the benefits of ...

The Sprint had its critics before debuting in 2021 in Silverstone, Monza and Interlagos - but nobody can dispute that the new format provided entertainment to the weekends. While not responsible for controversy directly, the Sprint also had its part to play in hugely dramatic moments last year. Again at Monza, the pair collided a day after the Sprint. Plus, if a driver wins all three Sprints in 2022, that almost adds up to a race win on its own (24). Handy. The winner will collect eight points, second place will score seven, with this continuing in descending order down to eighth (one point). It starts at 3.30pm and is live on Sky Sports F1 and Main Event, with build-up from 2.30pm.

Max Verstappen has taken pole position for Red Bull at the Formula 1 Emilia Romagna Grand Prix sprint race on Friday. Here's how and when to watch the ...

For the entire 2022 F1 season, Channel 4 will broadcast highlights of every qualifying and race of each event. The starting order for the sprint race will be decided by a traditional qualifying session held on Friday afternoon. Live streaming through NOW is also available in the UK. F1 has long been looking to make changes to the traditional race weekend format and while other options like reverse grid races were considered, they were ultimately unfancied compared to sprint races. In F2 the sprint race is 120km and the feature race covers 170km, though are usually no less exciting. They’re used in many other series, though perhaps most notably for Formula 1 is their inclusion in the Formula 2 race weekend.

Carlos Sainz felt he wasn't pushing hard prior to his Imola Formula 1 qualifying crash which he fears will cost him “quite a lot” through the rest of the ...

The car surprised me in that corner, [and] I missed it. Sainz said the target at Imola was now “to move forward and try and rescue some good points” over the sprint race and grand prix. Sainz acknowledged the damage on his car “looked bad” after the shunt and that it was “not going to be easy for the guys tonight” to get the repairs completed.

The drivers talk to the media ahead of the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix in Imola, Italy.

I know a lot of people from here and I guess like in karting a lot of the racing is around Italy. In this way you spend a lot of time growing up is here so yeah, I don't know if I will class it as a home away from home but I have a lot of fans here, a lot of supporters who are here in Italy, and so on so it's nice to come back and nice to see a lot of the fans back already, even in these terrible conditions. And when I was younger I was trying I was trying to be the best player I could be and actually play for a team. And I mean, Miami is going to be an experience for all of us, for the racing community, for those that are the fans out there that are watching, the fans that are going to be flying in that maybe have never been there before. And I hope I can be as successful in my sport as he's actually now and I can invest in something I like in the future. But I think what made it tricky in the last couple years was the last two corners, you know, following closely was difficult, I think we discussed it and it should be quite a lot easier and you should exit the corner quite a lot closer than before. It's been a difficult start to the season for you and the team. A few of us got to do it in testing in Barcelona, I think that was all, so yeah, probably a bit a bit unknown at the moment. And yeah, I think an overtake should always be an effort and not dictated by you being in the zone and you get the DRS. The race in Jeddah, where you had the leaders braking for the DRS line to try and be the second one to cross that line, that's a different type of racing. But I think from P1, we have to be in a rhythm reasonably quick or quicker than the last few races, so then that can pass in a good window for qualifying. I'm good friends with a lot of people that are that I raced against in the lower categories, and I have obviously three to five guys that I think they would have done a very good job in Formula 1 but they couldn't make it. I mean, with Carlos, other than being a great guy, he's also a great driver and I think one of the most important things is that we feedback the team with the same things, we want the same things from the car. And it's also an advantage, I think, for both drivers to have a long-term vision in the team, and that we can work long term.

The fans that braved the wet and chilly conditions at Imola on Friday were rewarded with a thriller of a qualifying session that saw Max Verstappen snatch ...

Repeating the feat in race trim will be tricky, but confidence is growing inside the team – and there is still one hour of practice to work on long runs. There’s also second practice on Saturday morning, where the conditions are expected to be the warmest and driest they’ve been all weekend, with that good weather set to continue for the rest of the weekend. That ultimately left him P10 and his team with a lot of work to do overnight to rebuild his F1-75. He was confident when we spoke in the morning that Red Bull were on top of their reliability issues and hopeful they could be in the fight this weekend. This was Mercedes’ most chastening performance of a challenging 2022 season. Here are five things we learned from practice and qualifying…

Since Liberty Media bought the sport in 2017, attendance has jumped, and cities are clamoring for races. Las Vegas just got its wish.

Whether in the future there’ll be a rotation of races, I think that’s a really great idea.” It will also allow the European audience to watch the race Sunday morning. “For the home fans, it’s very special to them. That could be the French Grand Prix because its contract expires after its next race in July. There have been discussions with Formula 1 over an extension. “There’s a desire to do another Asian race potentially,” Maffei said. “The first meetings with the officials in Las Vegas were a little bit cautious,” Domenicali said. “It’s important for the sport to go there. “It doesn’t get any better. “It is incredible to see the space Formula 1 is in at the moment and the excitement around the sport,” George Russell, the Mercedes driver, said. A new deal is close to being completed. Hamilton may not have to wait too long. “What we are doing is pushing the system for a different approach, to force the promoters to think big because the level of the events we are building is getting bigger.”

Imola, officially known as Autodromo Internazionale Enzo e Dino Ferrari, appeared annually on the Formula 1 calendar from 1980 to 2006. But it took the COVID-19 ...

Verstappen won six other races in 2021, and only one of them was actually run in 2020. Be sure not to miss it, and don’t miss today’s knockout qualifying session (10:55 a.m. ET, ESPN2) or tomorrow’s sprint race (10:25 a.m. ET, ESPN) either. So it wouldn’t be completely accurate to put this track in the same category as Imola here. The Belgian Grand Prix, for all intents and purposes, wasn’t actually run. But Verstappen won in 2021 simply by qualifying on pole. Imola, officially known as Autodromo Internazionale Enzo e Dino Ferrari, appeared annually on the Formula 1 calendar from 1980 to 2006.

Carlos Sainz felt he wasn't pushing hard prior to his Imola Formula 1 qualifying crash which he fears will cost him “quite a lot” through the rest of the ...

The car surprised me in that corner, [and] I missed it. Sainz acknowledged the damage on his car “looked bad” after the shunt and that it was “not going to be easy for the guys tonight” to get the repairs completed. Sainz explained that he was surprised to lose the car in the fashion that he did, but took full blame for the mistake.

Imola plays host to the first F1 Sprint race of the 2022 season. Here's how you can watch the session that decides the starting grid for the Emilia Romagna ...

Viewers from selected countries can subscribe to F1 TV to stream the Imola Sprint race on a device of their choice. - Denmark - TV3 / TV3 Sport / Viaplay Can’t find your country or region in the list?

Max Verstappen starts from pole position for today's sprint race, ahead of the Formula One Emilia Romagna Grand Prix.

How to watch the F1 Emilia Romagna GP sprint race Charles Leclerc put his Ferrari second, ahead of Lando Norris with Lewis Hamilton lodged in 13th. How to watch F1 Emilia Romagna GP sprint race today: TV channel and live stream for 2022 event at Imola

Formula 1 is in talks with several venues about replacing it with F1 CEO Stefano Domenicali saying there is a list of several candidates open to taking the ...

“We basically have zero time for ourselves and for our families. But on the other hand, having too many races is a no-go, at least for me. “I think there is potential to go to 24 [races],” he told Sky Sports last month.

Live coverage of Saturday's second Formula 1 practice session for the 2022 Emilia Romagna Grand Prix at Imola in Italy.