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Ferrari says that its Russian tester Robert Shwartzman will drive under an Israeli licence during any outings with the Formula 1 team this year.

"So, at the moment, he is still our test driver and he will remain for that. In 2020, he drove a SF1000 at the Yas Marina circuit, while last year he drove for both Ferrari and Haas at the post-season young driver and tyre test. Shwartzman has been a member of the Ferrari Driver Academy since 2017, and showed his potential to the Maranello squad by winning the 2019 FIA Formula 3 championship, as well as finishing runner-up in last year's F2 championship.

Valtteri Bottas was forced to miss Saturday's FP2 session at Imola as his Alfa Romeo Formula 1 team worked to build up the spare chassis for the Finn.

“I trust him on the fact that the adaptation will be quite quick, and he will have a look at the data from Zhou, and have a good understanding,” he said. "We expected yesterday to have to do it, but the car is sealed. The loom is going inside the chassis, and it's easier to change it.

Mercedes racer George Russell topped the second practice session ahead of Formula 1's 2022 Emilia Romagna Grand Prix to head Red Bull's Sergio Perez and ...

Leclerc’s run plan was offbeat by comparison, as he stuck to the yellow-walled compound for the early part of the session as part of a near-20-lap stint on the Ferrari. Valtteri Bottas was also on the sidelines for the duration of the hour as Alfa Romeo sought to remedy the exhaust issue that forced the Finn to park up and cause a red flag in qualifying. But as the final quarter of an hour approached, he returned to the track on soft tyres for a quicker stint and buzzed over the timing line in 1m19.740s to land second, ceding 0.2s to Russell but pipping third-fastest Perez by 0.05s as Carlos Sainz settled in sixth place. By comparison, Max Verstappen was in the high 1m20s for the bulk of his soft tyre run and occasionally nudged the 1m21s to suggest a simulation more akin to the full grand prix. Perez appeared to be on a one-third-capacity low-fuel dash to mimic the shorter afternoon sprint race as he consistently turned in a run of laps in the high 1m19s and low 1m20s. But then it was Perez who moved and, for a large chunk of the early afternoon run, remained at the head of the leaderboard as he completed a stint on the C4 compound soft Pirellis.

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

Results from the second F1 practice session at the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix, Round 4 of the 2022 F1 world championship.

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Mercedes' George Russell set the pace in second practice for the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix as teams focused on gathering long-run data for the main race on ...

That classification will then define the order for Sunday’s main event – the Grand Prix. Visit our RACE HUB to find out how and when to watch it where you are. As this is a F1 Sprint weekend, there are only two one-hour practice sessions, the second of which takes place on Saturday morning. There was frustration on the other side of the garage, too, as while Lando Norris – who starts the F1 Sprint third – was able to get out and about early on, a brake issue meant he was unable to set a meaningful lap time.

Live updates, highlights and results from the first Formula 1 Sprint race of the season, at F1's Emilia Romagna Grand Prix.

15 mins to lights out: There are a few drivers who will be looking to make up places as they qualify for the full length race tomorrow. Of the cars with medium tyres, Magnussen is the furthest forward. He came together with Gasly, who gets new parts in the pits and will rejoin the back of the pack. Some teams struggled to get heat in their tyres yesterday, and they'll be hoping for a more driveable circuit today. Lap 12: Sainz gets past Magnussen, to cheers from the home fans. Perez is up to P4, and it's Lando Norris separating Perez from his teammate in P2. Formation lap: A mix of soft and medium tyres, as the teams begin the formation lap. Fernando Alonso is slow off the mark, with a couple of cars overtaking him. It was an interesting choice from Haas to go with the medium tyres. Lap 19: LeClerc's tyres have looked in poor condition for the last few laps. The Haas strategy might be paying off, as Mick Schumacher gets past Vettel. Lap 20: Verstappen takes the lead!

Sebastian Vettel says that his future in Formula 1 may depend on how his 2022 season with Aston Martin plays out. The Silverstone-based team has endured a ...

“I feel that it would be wrong to write this season off, absolutely wrong. I think others have the same or similar problems. My contract ends at the end of this season.”

Aston Martin Formula 1 boss Mike Krack says he saw “smiling faces” for the first time after Sebastian Vettel qualified ninth at Imola as the team enjoying ...

And then the second attempt I was braking too late and went wide in Turn 2, but then it was all red flags from there, so a bit of an anti-climax to finish. But that does not mean that we're not going to give a hard time to the people around us and behind us.” “I think we take it,” said the German. “Obviously we qualified today where we normally wouldn't belong. Definitely a lot more potential in the car, so a bit frustrated. Circumstances didn't go quite our way, but it was the same for a lot of people down the pitlane. I think it was good to enjoy the moment yesterday, but today is another day.

Red Bull's Max Verstappen won the Formula 1 sprint event to take pole position for the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix after a fantastic duel with Ferrari's ...

2022 Emilia Romagna Grand Prix sprint fastest laps Going into the final five laps, Verstappen got into Leclerc’s DRS range as the Ferrari began get encounter some tyre graining. Leclerc led Verstappen and Norris at the restart on Lap 5.

World champion will start P1 on Sunday and claimed championship eight points, while Lewis Hamilton struggled with his Mercedes and will begin in 14th.

With the victory Verstappen has secured pole for Sunday a potentially vital achievement at Imola where overtaking is difficult. It was a bravura move, perfectly executed and the sort of racing the sprint race has long needed. He was third several laps later, an impressive run and vital for Red Bull so he can play his part in the race tomorrow. Max Verstappen won the sprint race for the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix at Imola and in doing so secured pole for Sunday’s race. Out front however while Leclerc was in control, Verstappen closed in the final four laps to within a second. Both Hamilton and Russell struggled to make any headway through the field, unsurprisingly with a tricky can on a track where overtaking is far from easy.

Red Bull's Max Verstappen overthrew polesitter Charles Leclerc late on to win the first sprint race of the 2022 Formula 1 season at the Emilia Romagna Grand ...

And Perez kept putting the slipstream out of the final corner for the run into the chicane to good use as he then copied the manoeuvre on Norris with the help of DRS to climb to third. Leclerc had not made an error, as Verstappen brought the gap below a second and then used DRS and the slipstream out of the final corner to bring the difference down to half a second. Leclerc gave his rival space at the first apex, and Verstappen kept within the painted lines to make the move stick before romping to a 1.5s lead before sealing the win by 2.9s. Leclerc settled a little over the 1s threshold for three tours and then on lap seven, set what was at the time the fastest lap of the race to stretch his cushion to 1.5s over the RB18. With the aid of DRS and as his Ferrari rival battled oversteer, Verstappen dived around the outside into Tamburello and kept his car on track to take the win and pole for the full GP on Sunday. Leclerc had nailed his launch and with the kink on the main straight placing him on the inside, he could sprint past a wheel-spinning Verstappen to seize first into Tamburello.

Max Verstappen will start the Emilia-Romagna Grand Prix from pole position after snatching victory from Charles Leclerc in the Saturday sprint.

And for the first time this season he got close to admitting that an eighth title was fully out of his grasp this season. There was plenty of shuffling through the field during the sprint as some cars found their natural position in the pack. But the sprint is somewhere in between: a flat-out 100 kilometres on a single set of tyres and with a moderate fuel load. But if they’re off the pace, as they have been in the three races so far this season, it might ironically prove to be ammunition for those against the new weekend format despite the action they were central to generating on Saturday. Therefore any action we get on Saturday — say, from drivers who qualified out of position — is effectively robbed from Sunday, which is supposed to still be the weekend’s main event. “With these cars, it is better to follow, but it’s still very hard to pass. Both drivers will be pleased to have inserted themselves back into the victory conversation for Sunday. Leclerc’s front-left started graining, and all of a sudden Verstappen was all over the back of him. The track then dried out overnight for Saturday practice and the sprint, and teams had to hope the decisions they’d made the day before would translate for dry conditions. But the sprint is also an unusual event in the bigger F1 picture. There’s only one DRS zone this weekend, but it’s around 1100 metres long. It was F1’s fourth sprint experiment and arguably its most successful.

Max Verstappen will start from pole position for the Formula 1 Emilia Romagna Grand Prix at Imola after winning the sprint race. Here's how and when you can ...

For the entire 2022 F1 season, Channel 4 will broadcast highlights of every qualifying and race of each event. Current weather forecasts predict cool and cloudy conditions at Imola, with a good chance of rain during the race. Will the F1 Emilia Romagna GP be on the radio? Sky Sports can also be accessed through NOW with a one-off day payment of £11.98p or a month membership of £33.99p per month. Live streaming through NOW is also available in the UK. In the United Kingdom, Sky Sports will be live broadcasting the Emilia Romagna GP, with the race shown live on Sky Sports F1. Pre-race coverage will be starting on Sky Sports F1 at 12:30pm BST ahead of the race start at 2:00pm BST.

Leclerc, struggling with tyre wear, came home second ahead of Sergio Perez in the other Red Bull, Carlos Sainz in the second Ferrari and Lando Norris of McLaren ...

On Lando’s side, we experienced a brake system issue when he did his first run,” McLaren team principal Andreas Seidl told Sky Sports of the problem. This collision prompted a Safety Car intervention while the debris was cleared. “I had a very bad start with too much wheel spin,” said Verstappen. “I had to stay calm. By lap 11, Leclerc led by 1.4 seconds with Perez charging through to third, six seconds adrift, Norris fourth and a charging Ricciardo up to fifth ahead of Sainz, also on a charge for Ferrari, and Magnussen. Mercedes struggled again despite an improved showing in second practice. “I pushed hard at the beginning to try and not be too vulnerable with Max having the DRS behind, and I feel like I’ve paid the price of doing that at the end of the race,” he said.

Lewis Hamilton has compared his Mercedes W13 with the 2009 McLaren MP4-24, the Formula 1 car he regards as the worst he has ever experienced.

"And unfortunately, we got on track and we didn't see that. And we got there." "But I didn't have the experience at the time. "The new rules said that we would have 50% less downforce in 2009, so they designed the car to have 50%, less downforce! And I have the utmost faith that my team can do that here too." "And I can assure you I have.