Australian Grand Prix

It's time for the third and final free practice session ahead of the 2022 Australian Grand Prix. Teams and drivers get one last chance to gather data and ...

The first corner and the third corner are wider to allow for different lines. However, there are only two detection points, so the chaser is at a great advantage if he manages to get past in zone one already. Mercedes hopes to make a new step towards the top teams, Aston Martin wants to get rid of the scoreless status as soon as possible, McLaren hopes to live up to the expectations in Australia even more and Haas hopes to maintain the current performance. However, Leclerc has to watch out for the competition. The Ferrari driver is at the top of the world championship after the Bahrain and Saudi Arabia GPs, so he will be doing everything he can in Australia to hold on to that position. It's time for the third and final free practice session ahead of the 2022 Australian Grand Prix. Teams and drivers get one last chance to gather data and make tweaks before qualifying later today.

In both sessions, the team was the fastest on track, Carlos Sainz in FP1, and Charles Leclerc during FP2. Max Verstappen, however, is following close on the ...

The third and last practice session starts at 04:00 UK time. The third Grand Prix of the season is just around the corner. It promises to be another exciting battle between Ferrari and Red Bull Racing on the Albert Park circuit.

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Alternatively, fans can watch the Grand Prix with a NOW day membership for £11.99 or monthly membership for £33.99 without signing up to a contract. The Australian Grand Prix gets underway at 6am BST and will last approximately two hours. The Australian Grand Prix returns for the first time since 2019 on Sunday as Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc looks to extend his lead at the top of this season’s Drivers’ Championship standings.

Formula One heads Down Under for the third race of the 2022 season with Max Verstappen and Charles Leclerc going head to head at the Australian Grand Prix.

Second practice follows at 7am. When is the F1 Australian Grand Prix? Hamilton was down in 13th and it looks like being another difficult weekend for Mercedes. There was a Ferrari one-two in first practice, with Sainz half a second clear of Leclerc.

Mercedes driver George Russell believes having the Australian Grand Prix as a standalone event is 'too tough' on Formula 1 teams amid a 23-race season.

"There's no reason why we couldn't have done a back-to-back with one of the Middle Eastern races. The season started with a Middle East double-header in Bahrain and Saudi Arabia. I think it needs to be thought about more.

Formula One returns to Melbourne for the Australian Grand Prix. Will McLaren's Daniel Ricciardo pull out all the stops for his home race this weekend?

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Ferrari edged out pre-weekend favourites Red Bull on the opening day of practice for the Australian Grand Prix. But a data dive suggests there is nothing to ...

There could be more to come, too, with Sporting Director Alan Permane saying they have work to do in extracting the most from the soft tyre on the first timed lap in qualifying. The race pace looks less good, as they drop down to fifth. Over one lap, they appear to have the sixth fastest car, but had Lando Norris hooked up all of his best sectors, he would have been sixth quickest of all. There’s work to do, though, with both drivers chasing more comfort in the car, Sainz admitting they are suffering from porpoising. The struggles of Barcelona pre-season running seem a world away for Alpine right now. Here are five things we learned at a revamped Albert Park in Melbourne.

Ferrari's Charles Leclerc beat Max Verstappen to the top spot for Formula 1's 2022 Australian Grand Prix – with the latter opting to complete extra ...

As he shot through Turn 12 during a lap on the mediums, Hamilton had to catch two oversteer snaps – the second of which sent him skating across the gravel trap at the corner’s exit. On his third softs flier, Verstappen posted a purple sector in the middle third of the lap, but had to back off late on after sliding off the exit kerbs for the Turn 12 right and then having bounced back onto the track locking up and sliding deep at the final corner. Sainz continued the exchange of best times with Leclerc as he then posted a 1m19.376s, but the championship leader then surged ahead definitively with a third flying lap on another set of softs with 25 minutes to go. Alonso broke the Ferrari dominance at the front with a 1m19.537s just before the halfway point, but just a few moments later Leclerc – who had been through the pits before continuing on the softs – demoted him with a new best of 1m19.487s. Leclerc got back ahead on his first run on the red-walled rubber – a 1m19.771s – albeit with no purple sectors and losing a chunk of time with a slide at the penultimate corner. As the opening five minutes drew to a close, Leclerc shot ahead on a 1m20.898s on the mediums, which he beat a few minutes later with a 1m20.523s.

Ferrari's Charles Leclerc set the fastest time in FP2 ahead of Red Bull's Max Verstappen and Scuderia team mate Carlos Sainz on Friday at the Australian ...

Vettel didn't emerge for FP2 and therefore ended up 20th, without a time on the board – the team having had to replace his Mercedes power unit. The Canadian finished 14th ahead of Alfa Romeo's rookie Zhou Guanyu. Ferrari's Charles Leclerc set the fastest time in FP2 ahead of Red Bull's Max Verstappen and Scuderia team mate Carlos Sainz on Friday at the Australian Grand Prix.

With the Scuderia on top again on Friday, Lando Norris was top for McLaren in FP3 after a truncated session saw both the returning Sebastian Vettel and Lance ...

A bad start to the season just gets worse for the Silverstone-based team. Now a heavy crash in FP3 that leaves the engineers with a frantic race to get his car ready for qualifying. but will they be ready for qualifying? The session was red-flagged twice after a nightmare for Aston Martin, who had already seen Sebastian Vettel - back behind the wheel this weekend after missing both of the opening races of the season due to Covid-19 - career across the gravel and smash into the wall after a high-speed off at turn 10. Not only did he miss the first two races of the season due to Covid, with reserve driver Nico Hulkenberg stepping up for Aston Martin, but he also had engine trouble after only 18 laps in FP1 and was then fined €5,000 for taking a scooter onto the Albert Park circuit. With the Scuderia on top again on Friday, Lando Norris was top for McLaren in FP3 after a truncated session saw both the returning Sebastian Vettel and Lance Stroll crash for Aston Martin.

Results from the third and final practice session at the Australian Grand Prix, Round 3 of the 2022 Formula 1 world championship.

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