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Formula 1 Emilia Romagna GP
F1 Grand Prix sprint results: Verstappen wins for Imola pole
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 Charles Leclerc.
Charles Bradley
Edited: Apr 23, 2022, 8:58 PM
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Leclerc took the lead at the start when pole-starter Verstappen suffered a terrible getaway.
But reigning champion Verstappen came back at him in the closing stages, and took the lead with two laps to go to grab the official mantle of pole position for Sunday’s Grand Prix.
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2022 Emilia Romagna Grand Prix sprint results
Cla Driver Laps Time Interval 1 Max Verstappen
21 - 2 Charles Leclerc
21 2.975 2.975 3 Sergio Perez
21 4.721 1.746 4 Carlos Sainz Jr.
21 17.578 12.857 5 Lando Norris
21 24.561 6.983 6 Daniel Ricciardo
21 27.740 3.179 7 Valtteri Bottas
21 28.133 0.393 8 Kevin Magnussen
21 30.712 2.579 9 Fernando Alonso
21 32.278 1.566 10 Mick Schumacher
21 33.773 1.495 11 George Russell
21 36.284 2.511 12 Yuki Tsunoda
21 38.298 2.014 13 Sebastian Vettel
21 40.177 1.879 14 Lewis Hamilton
21 41.459 1.282 15 Lance Stroll
21 42.910 1.451 16 Esteban Ocon
21 43.517 0.607 17 Pierre Gasly
21 43.794 0.277 18 Alex Albon
21 48.871 5.077 19 Nicholas Latifi
21 52.017 3.146 Zhou Guanyu
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How the Emilia Romagna Grand Prix sprint unfolded
Making a slow start from pole, Verstappen was easily outdragged off the line by Leclerc, with Norris third and Kevin Magnussen (Haas) – running on medium tyres – holding up the pack and getting a black and white flag for weaving on the straights.
On the opening lap, Alfa Romeo’s Guanyu Zhou crashed out after contact with Pierre Gasly’s AlphaTauri at Piratella, which brought out the safety car.
Leclerc led Verstappen and Norris at the restart on Lap 5. The second Ferrari of Carlos Sainz, who crashed out of qualifying, rose to seventh by passing the Alpine of Fernando Alonso on Lap 7.
Leclerc stayed out of DRS range of Verstappen by pulling out a 1.5s lead. Behind them, Sergio Perez DRS-ed his way past Magnussen for fourth on Lap 8 and Norris for third on Lap 11, while Daniel Ricciardo’s McLaren and Sainz also passed Magnussen. Sainz then wrested fifth from Ricciardo on Lap 14 and fourth from Norris on Lap 19.
Going into the final five laps, Verstappen got into Leclerc’s DRS range as the Ferrari began get encounter some tyre graining. Verstappen grabbed victory on the penultimate lap, DRS-ing past Leclerc on the run to the Tamburello chicane, and then pulling away to win by almost 3s.
Perez finished third ahead of Sainz, Norris and Ricciardo. Alfa Romeo’s Valtteri Bottas passed Alonso and Magnussen to take seventh, with the second Haas of Mick Schumacher rounding out the top 10.
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2022 Emilia Romagna Grand Prix sprint fastest laps
Cla Driver Chassis Laps Time Gap Interval km/h 1 Sergio Perez Red Bull 14 1'19.012 223.667 2
Charles Leclerc Ferrari 11 1'19.044 0.032 0.032 223.576 3
Max Verstappen Red Bull 14 1'19.154 0.142 0.110 223.266 4
Carlos Sainz Jr. Ferrari 14 1'19.251 0.239 0.097 222.992 5
Lando Norris McLaren 9 1'20.030 1.018 0.779 220.822 6
Valtteri Bottas Alfa Romeo 9 1'20.219 1.207 0.189 220.301 7
Daniel Ricciardo McLaren 12 1'20.328 1.316 0.109 220.002 8
Kevin Magnussen Haas 6 1'20.557 1.545 0.229 219.377 9
Mick Schumacher Haas 15 1'20.567 1.555 0.010 219.350 10
Pierre Gasly AlphaTauri 18 1'20.599 1.587 0.032 219.263 11
Fernando Alonso Alpine 10 1'20.639 1.627 0.040 219.154 12
Lewis Hamilton Mercedes 9 1'20.663 1.651 0.024 219.089 13
George Russell Mercedes 19 1'20.756 1.744 0.093 218.836 14
Yuki Tsunoda AlphaTauri 20 1'20.909 1.897 0.153 218.423 15
Lance Stroll Aston Martin 14 1'20.948 1.936 0.039 218.317 16
Esteban Ocon Alpine 14 1'20.995 1.983 0.047 218.191 17
Alex Albon Williams 14 1'21.020 2.008 0.025 218.123 18
Sebastian Vettel Aston Martin 8 1'21.044 2.032 0.024 218.059 19
Nicholas Latifi Williams 16 1'21.437 2.425 0.393 217.007 View full results
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