Austrian Grand Prix 2022 - Sprint

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Max Verstappen won the F1 Sprint at the Red Bull Ring, beating the duelling Ferraris of Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz, as he cruised to victory and secured a P1 start for Sunday’s Austrian Grand Prix.

The yellow flag fluttered on the formation lap when Fernando Alonso's Alpine failed to get off (forcing him out of the race) and Zhou Guanyu briefly stopped at the final corner as he approached the grid, Prompting the second formation lap and the Alfa Romeo driver was forced to start from the pit lane. The other 18 cars passed through a layer of orange smoke (The orange army) and ended up sprinting 23 laps instead of 24.

Max Verstappen lead comfortably and eventually won by 1.6 seconds over Leclerc, who began to close in at the very end.

• Top 10

On tomorrows Big Race, Max Verstappen will be starting in P1, followed by Charles Leclerc on P2 and the other Ferrari Carlos Sainz on P3.

Sergio Perez had a great session and moved a lot of grid positions ending up starting on P5

Now we wait for the Big Race of tomorrow!