Imola

Remarkably Friday's Formula 1 qualifying session in Imola was the first time since Japan 2012 that Mercedes did not have a car in Q3.

“So the remit of the power unit people is to focus on that, and look at any fine tuning that we can do to find gains. “That doesn't stop us looking at what we can do within the modes, and how we can use those better, and whether there is anything more we can gain in how we're deploying the modes that are available. “We're constantly doing analysis on that,” says Shovlin. “There's areas that we think we can improve in terms of managing the deployment. “But as an aside, we're still working hard to try and understand, get on top and solve the bouncing. “To be honest both of them are annoying issues at the moment,” Shovlin admitted. We just didn't have the grip that we needed to be quick.” “Lewis would have liked to have stayed out on one of the runs earlier on,” he said. One is, could we could we have run the earlier part of the session better? But we should be able to perform in the same position that we're racing, which is realistically third-quickest team.” “And we've not got to the bottom of it. “As I said, we still need to understand why we can't match some of the mid-grid teams, even. As I said, we don't know whether there's something else in terms of how we're setting the car up, or how we're approaching the way that we're generating heat in the tyres.

Franco Colapinto took victory in a dramatic FIA Formula 3 sprint race in Imola after snatching back the lead from Caio Collet on the final lap.

Cohen's race went from bad to worse, the Israeli forced to pit for a new front wing after making contact with Kaylen Frederick on the restart. Hadjar's attempt to follow Colapinto past Collet on the final lap ended in a trip to the gravel, although he continued to finish fifth Colapinto held on to second place throughout, but was able to regain the lead from Collet on the run to the Tamburello chicane beginning the final tour after a virtual safety car period had ended.

Formula 1 world championship leader Charles Leclerc says the wrong run plan choice for qualifying at the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix left him unhappy to be ...

So let’s keep pushing but for now we have the potential to do so [win].” We'll learn from it and, at the end, P2 is not a disaster.” So it is like this.

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Mercedes put a woeful Emilia Romagna Grand Prix qualifying performance behind them by setting the pace in a dry FP2 at Imola.

It was like the latter part of 2021 again with Red Bull and Mercedes locking out the top four, all of them using the soft tyres. That optimism never materialised – the Australian was in the same position as the session drew to a close. We're investigating a brake system issue on Lando's car which will require some time in the garage. The Finn’s problems from that continued and a full exhaust rebuild meant he could not run at all in FP2. Ferrari, unusually for 2022, were down in 12th and 13th entering the last 20 minutes, but a switch to the soft tyres for Leclerc saw him leap into P2 just under three tenths behind Russell. But that was soon beaten by Perez on the mediums. Daniel Ricciardo, set to be P6 on the grid for the sprint, was also watching proceedings on a screen in the garage, more in hope than expectation of getting into the car.

Charles Leclerc, fresh from his Australian Grand Prix triumph, has led the timesheets in first practice at the Emilia Romagna GP at Imola.

"Certainly when you see your car pounding around five seconds off the pace, you want to strangle yourself. Imola is the first European race of the season and also the first of three in the sprint format, with qualifying later on Friday to decide the starting grid for a 100km race on Saturday that establishes the order for Sunday's main event. Teammate George Russell, second in the championship but 34 points adrift of Leclerc, was in 10th place.

Formula One world champion Max Verstappen has put Red Bull on pole position in a wet and crash-interrupted...

The winner of Saturday's sprint race will start the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix at the front but Verstappen will have the best chance of doing so after ...

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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.

Max Verstappen won the first Sprint of 2022 having passed Charles Leclerc with two laps remaining, to ensure a first-place start for Sunday's Emilia Romagna ...

The championship leader skated away, Verstappen in tow. Green-flag racing would resume on Lap 5, Leclerc leading Verstappen then Norris at the time. Friday's wet qualifying session set the grid for this Sprint, Verstappen having taken pole position over Leclerc with Lando Norris leading Kevin Magnussen off the second row. Gearbox issues put Esteban Ocon 19th for the start of the Sprint and he made up three places for P16 in the Alpine, keeping Gasly – who collided with Zhou at the start and pitted for a nose change – 17th. Magnussen held on for the final point, finishing ahead of Alpine's Fernando Alonso in P9 – who started fifth but couldn't contend with his rivals' pace on the softs – and the other Haas of Mick Schumacher, who took P10 on mediums. It was Leclerc, to a rapturous reception from the tifosi, who took the lead off Verstappen as the lights went out – only for the Safety Car to interrupt proceedings as Zhou Guanyu (DNF) and Pierre Gasly (P19) made contact through Turn 9 on Lap 1.

Max Verstappen has reignited his season by winning the sprint race at the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix but Charles Leclerc still improved his F1 championship ...

The safety car was brought out on lap two when Alfa Romeo's Chinese rookie Guanyu Zhou and Alpha Tauri's Pierre Gasly got in a tangle. Leclerc said it had been a struggle with the tyre degradation at the end but was confident Ferrari would come back stronger on Sunday in front of their army of red-shirted home 'tifosi'. "My start was not very good and it took a while to try and put the pressure on," said Verstappen, who made his move two laps from the end.

Mercedes bounced back from a poor display in qualifying on Friday as George Russell topped the timesheets in the second practice session in Imola ahead of ...

Similarly, Valtteri Bottas also failed to make it out of the pits with an issue. Mercedes bounced back from a poor display in qualifying on Friday as George Russell topped the timesheets in the second practice session in Imola ahead of The Sprint. HIGHLIGHTS: Relive the action from the second practice session in Imola as Mercedes fight back

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"It has clearly been a difficult weekend for us, and we probably overachieved in the first few races. That will give us an opportunity to fight and move up the grid but I am sure we'll understand a bit more tonight, but it is going to be tricky. The race just isn't long enough to get some tyre degradation there and have some differences between the drivers and the cars, but we have got work to do.

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Max Verstappen produced a stunning late pass on Charles Leclerc to take victory in the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix Sprint and ensure a first-place start for ...

Russell lost a place at the start, while Hamilton lost two. "We struggled with the tyres at the end, so we need to analyse that for tomorrow. That's life, we'll go to work and come back stronger tomorrow." We need to make sure that we're ready. Kevin Magnussen took the final point-scoring position for Haas in eighth. "My start was not very good and it took a while to try and put the pressure on," Verstappen said after the Sprint. "We were a bit better on our tyres at the end of the race so I could get into DRS and we had a good fight into Turn 2."

Lewis Hamilton wrote off his hopes of winning a record eighth Formula One world championship this year after falling 50 points adrift of Ferrari's Charles ...

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Formula One champion Max Verstappen has won a sprint for pole position at the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix...

Lewis Hamilton wasn't exactly thrilled after qualifying 13th on Friday evening at Imola, but after finishing 14th in Saturday's Sprint his woes were only ...

“We’re faced with this issue, there’s nothing I can do. well I lost positions, so it wasn’t a rescue. “Well, I lost points…

Mercedes Formula 1 chief Toto Wolff has admitted the Emilia Romagna GP weekend is a write-off for the team after George Russell and Lewis Hamilton were ...

"It has clearly been a difficult weekend for us, and we probably overachieved in the first few races. That will give us an opportunity to fight and move up the grid but I am sure we'll understand a bit more tonight, but it is going to be tricky. The race just isn't long enough to get some tyre degradation there and have some differences between the drivers and the cars, but we have got work to do.

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Franco Colapinto took his, and Van Amersfoort Racing's first win in FIA F3 in a chaotic Sprint Race at Imola.

Reece Ushijima and Federico Malvestiti tangled as David Schumacher went off on Lap 13 to bring the safety car back out again. During the resulting safety car period, Kush Maini received a drive-through penalty for starting outside his grid box. The Campos Racing driver joined him in a separate incident several seconds later.

Charles Leclerc reckons he can retaliate against Max Verstappen and “fight for the win” in Formula 1's Emilia Romagna Grand Prix if Ferrari can “cure” its ...

If not, it's going to be a bit more difficult.” “I tried to push at the beginning to get a bit of a gap and for Max to not be in the DRS zone because I knew that I would have been vulnerable if it was the case. “But I paid the price a little bit later on in the race and had some graining and then really struggled in the last two, three laps.”