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“I think it was a bit of a photo finish. “It is by far our best result of the season, personally and a team result. There was a second safety car on Lap 22 when Sebastian Vettel completed a shocking weekend with a spin and crash into the wall at the exit of Turn 4. Earlier, after a slow start, Ferrari’s Carlos Sainz lost control at Turn 9 on the second lap and becahed his car in the gravel, forcing the safety car to come out. I was told Lando was having some issues so the team said be sensible so I had to control myself a little bit but of course a 5th and a 6th is a fantastic result. “I knew there was a problem (before the race). It was always going to be a question finishing the race, but these sorts of things, if you want to fight for the title, cannot happen.”

Ferrari's Charles Leclerc took pole position for the Australian Grand Prix in Melbourne, the third round of the 2022 F1 World Championship.

On the first runs, Verstappen lapped in 1m18.399s before Perez circulated 0.001s faster. Time Time Time Time Cla

Full Q1, Q2 and Q3 results from qualifying at the Australian Grand Prix, Round 3 of the 2022 Formula 1 world championship.

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Max Verstappen thought he had pole at the Australian Grand Prix. But Ferrari's Charles Leclerc had other ideas.

Championship leader Charles Leclerc will start on pole for the Australian Grand Prix after outpacing 2022 rival Max Verstappen with his final lap of an ...

No time set (crashed) 20) Lance Stroll No time set (crashed) 10) Fernando Alonso Heading into qualifying it looked like there could be a four-team fight for pole, with Alpine and McLaren joining Ferrari and Red Bull in the battle at the front. "It feels great," said Leclerc, who now has two poles out of three this year.

Ferrari's Charles Leclerc took pole position for Formula 1's Australian Grand Prix in Melbourne, beating Red Bull pair Max Verstappen and Sergio Perez after ...

Driver On the first runs, Verstappen lapped in 1m18.399s before Perez circulated 0.001s faster. Driver Driver Driver Cla

There was drama aplenty in Melbourne as Nicholas Latifi and Lance Stroll were involved in a controversial collision after Fernando Alonso had already ...

“It is so frustrating. “I don’t know if we could fight for pole but for sure top three. And then yesterday was a difficult day. He wasn’t looking in his mirrors. Fellow Canadian Latifi said: “I don’t understand what he was doing. Aston Martin driver Stroll screamed: “F___ Latifi, man.

The drivers and teams report back on all the action from final practice and qualifying at Albert Park, for the Formula 1 Heineken Australian Grand Prix 2022 ...

This is the last thing I would have wanted; the goal here was to have a clean weekend and so this is extremely frustrating.” Sadly, the congested track and the cooler tyres meant that Alex could not improve, but it was a valiant effort in the circumstances. We struggled a bit with the balance in qualifying, but we cleared a very tight battle with our rivals in Q1 and we still got into a position that will allow us to fight for the points tomorrow. We did the best we could and we had the right approach to this session. I don’t think the result is representative of what the car can do in the race – there is more to come. Hopefully we’ll be in a position to fight tomorrow as the car in the long run felt good and we were able to follow, so hopefully we can follow and pass.” "We found a bit of pace overnight with the changes and were able to get the tyres in a better temperature region today but there wasn't much left in the car. “It was hard but there was potential to be in the top 10. It wasn’t the right thing to do and that costs us a couple of tenths, but Charles put in a tremendous lap, he put everything together and I didn’t. Hopefully tomorrow in the race we can be a lot closer, make it hard for them, have a strong race and enjoy it. We saw that McLaren and Alpine have made a step forward, we just didn’t have the pace to do much better. "Compared to yesterday and to the last race, today was a good day for me. After the difficult start to the season, today’s result is a great boost for everyone in the team, both here at the track and back home.

As the sun set around Albert Park, it was Charles Leclerc who shone the brightest as the Ferrari man took the first Australian Grand Prix pole position ...

Leclerc’s team mate Carlos Sainz qualified a surprising P9 after suffering an issue in the pits. Click on the video play above to relive the action from an exciting qualifying session in Melbourne HIGHLIGHTS: Watch the action from a tense qualifying session in Melbourne

Alex Albon has been disqualified from the results of qualifying for the Australian Grand Prix, after his Williams team were unable to provide the FIA with a ...

Alex Albon has been disqualified from the results of qualifying for the Australian Grand Prix, after his Williams team were unable to provide the FIA with a sufficient fuel sample from his FW44. Already with his own three-place grid drop hanging over him (ironically for his crash with Stroll in Jeddah), Albon then stopped out on track after dropping out of Q1 – with Williams later unable to provide the required 1.0-litre fuel sample to the FIA, as dictated by Article 6.5.2 of the FIA Formula 1 Technical Regulations. Albon disqualified from Australian GP qualifying over fuel irregularity