00:03Big avoidance move here from Piastri.
00:06Third side of penalty, I don't know what it is.
00:10Copy, we saw all that.
00:11It doesn't look good for them on the evidence of previous penalties that have been dished out.
00:17Daniel, Ricciardo gets himself into the top 10.
00:20Very solid performance from both V-Carbs up there.
00:23Hamilton now into 10th, but massive lap from Norris.
00:25So, good lap from the V-Carbs, from Tsunoda, from Ricciardo.
00:29Hamilton's got there as well.
00:31Hülkenberg's lap gets him up into the drop zone.
00:33So, Joe is in the pits. He's done.
00:35Gasly now back into the bottom five.
00:38Russell moves up to fourth.
00:39We go on board now with the Williams trying to find a way, trying to fight a way into the
00:45next section.
00:46Ah, Sargent was quick, but he's...
00:48That was Albin across the line.
00:50You've got Sargent across the line.
00:52Albin in the drop zone, misses out by 43 thousandths of a second.
00:56Sargent is out-qualified once again, and we wait to see.
01:01Gasly's not on a push lap either.
01:03Bottas has come back to the pits.
01:04Stroll improves up to 12th, and here comes Fernando Alonso, who is looking for an improvement.
01:10Finds an improvement up to second place, and that will do it for the first part of sprint qualifying.
01:17With a McLaren 1-2, Norris, then Piastri, who beats the driver that we focus on across the line, Fernando
01:23Alonso.
01:24I'm such a dumb...
01:27Albin's lap time's got to be deleted for track limits.
01:30It was for turn 15, and that means that Williams find themselves on the back row for the sprint.
01:38Alcon gonna need everything he's got in this final sector.
01:41I'm not sure it's going to be enough.
01:42Look how close it is.
01:44So Alcon really giving it everything now.
01:47Now Pincar finally at the weight.
01:49Not overweight.
01:51The team stressing that, but that's not the lap time that he needs.
01:54And we're looking for improvements then for anyone in the drop zone.
01:58Can Russell find the lap time?
02:00Because those in the drop zone at the moment are struggling to find any sort of performance when it matters.
02:06I hit the wall.
02:07So that's why Hamilton is struggling.
02:09He's made contact with the barriers around the racetrack.
02:12Hamilton can't find his way into the final part of sprint qualifying.
02:16What about his teammate, George Russell?
02:18Trying to improve to inside the top 10.
02:21And that is going to be key.
02:23We're waiting for the silver Mercedes.
02:25There he is in the background.
02:26Russell can't get there.
02:27Both Mercedes out in the second part of sprint qualifying.
02:32I don't got nothing, man.
02:38It was fine margins, but no one was able to improve at the end.
02:43Russell, Hamilton, both Mercedes out along with Ocon, Magnussen and Tsunoda.
02:51Max Verstappen full attack looking to take his first sprint pole of the year.
02:56It is so, so impressive what Max is able to do in SQ3, Q3, whatever it is.
03:00That last little bit of performance he's able to extract from himself, from the car, when it's really all on
03:06the line, is what's so important.
03:07We've seen it out of Hamilton in the past, you know, compared to teammates like Valtteri, like Nico back in
03:13the day.
03:13He always just had that little bit more.
03:15And Max is the exact same.
03:17You see Purple and Sector 1 there.
03:19He's going to want to carry on his Grand Prix pole streak with a sprint pole here, I think.
03:23Wants to interrupt his good friend, Lando Norris, who's been the driver to beat in this format of Formula 1
03:28qualifying.
03:29We're setting the grid for the sprint race.
03:31And Verstappen's first sector, two tenths of a second, better than Perez.
03:35Bit of a swap, bit of a fighting.
03:38The red ball as he rotates the car through the 16th corner.
03:42He hasn't got much of the lap left to do as he beats Perez's middle sector as well.
03:47And Perez has gone across the line.
03:49He's gone ahead of Hülkenberg.
03:50It's a 127.876.
03:53Verstappen on course to beat that.
03:55And we'll see what Norris can do as he makes his way round the lap as well.
03:58But Verstappen setting the benchmark.
04:00Sector 1, sector 2.
04:02There are others behind that will respond.
04:04The chequered flag will wave in a few seconds' time.
04:06And Verstappen moves two tenths of a second clear of Sergio Perez on board with Lando Norris.
04:12And he's seven tenths of a second back from Max Verstappen as Daniel Ricciardo goes up to third ahead of
04:20Hülkenberg.
04:21Ricciardo back on the front foot.
04:23And he will be happy with that lap time.
04:25He's four tenths of a second away from Verstappen.
04:27But that is decent.
04:28Middle sector for Charles Leclerc.
04:30Not too far away from Verstappen.
04:33The man who barely took part in practice earlier on today is within a couple of tenths of a second
04:39of Verstappen's time.
04:40Norris across the line on the soft tyres.
04:42British driver only sixth behind the Aston Martins.
04:45Behind his old teammate and behind the two Red Bulls.
04:48What can Charles Leclerc do across the line?
04:50He'll take second place and he's missed out by a tenth of a second.
04:54His teammate is going to follow him across the line.
04:57Here is Carlos Sainz.
04:59Sainz cuts the beam.
05:00He's behind Daniel Ricciardo who really did find a brilliant lap when he needed it.
05:05Oscar Piastri trying to take the McLaren further up the order.
05:10What can he manage to do?
05:11It's good enough for sixth.
05:13But that will be that.
05:15And it's Max Verstappen who has taken sprint pole position.
05:19Smiles for Red Bull.
05:22And this is on board with Lando Norris who finds himself down in ninth position fighting the car and the
05:28grip going away with the change of compounded tyre and that was rotating the car through 11.
05:34This is a lockup for Carlos Sainz at the final hairpin at turn 17.
05:40Pop, pop, pop, pop, pop.
05:44P4.
05:45What are they?
05:46Do, do, do, do, do.
05:49Oh, yeah, yeah, I'm boiling.
05:51Oh, mate, I'm so pleased for you.
05:53Yeah, wow, awesome, awesome, yeah, it's good.
05:59Verstappen will be joined on the front row with Charles Leclerc who's ahead of Perez and Daniel Ricciardo beat Sainz,
06:07Piastri, Stroll, Alonso, Norris whose pace melted away and Hülkenberg who will line up 10.
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