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Lewis Hamilton's seven title-winning Formula 1 cars are set to be displayed together for the first time at this year's Silverstone Classic.

In addition to the Historic Grand Prix Cars Association and Masters Historic Formula One contests, tin-tops and GTs will be represented in the Masters Endurance Legends, Royal Automobile Club Historic Tourist Trophy and Adrian Flux Trophy for Transatlantic Pre '66 Touring Cars grids. The anniversaries of the launch of the MGB, Austin 7, Ford Cortina and AC Cobra are all also set to be commemorated at the event. The McLaren MP4-23 that powered Hamilton to his first title in 2008 will be in attendance, alongside the six Mercedes cars that have carried him to championship crowns between 2014 and 2020.

Russell finished 11th in FP2, with Hamilton down in 13th as Leclerc set the pace for Ferrari at Albert Park.

“They’re quick again, but on the long run everything was quite stable and nice so I’m happy about that, so we definitely made some good improvements today. It is easy to get things wrong.” We need to try to get on top of things and understand why.” It’s probably the most severe I’ve experienced, but it’s just something we have to deal with for the time being. - Kevin Magnussen (Haas) +2.213 - Lewis Hamilton (Mercedes) +1.543 - George Russell (Mercedes) +1.234 - Daniel Ricciardo (McLaren) +1.225 - Lando Norris (McLaren) +1.164 - Carlos Sainz (Ferrari) +0.398 - Charles Leclerc (Ferrari) 1:18.978 “It was a difficult session.

Ferrari Formula 1 driver Charles Leclerc has refuted suggestions that his winning form in 2022 reflects a transition to a “2.0” version of himself.

"To have more pressure means you're doing something right, and that you are in the right place. "I don't really know where I'm gaining [on Sainz], I guess it's a little bit everywhere. "And this [cost me] massively at the end of the year. And it's great to be back here. "Yeah, I've had a growth from year-to-year that is linear. "This is not the case.

The FIA is planning a clampdown on the underwear that Formula 1 drivers use on safety grounds following talks in Australia.

“There were a few people with some concerns for various reasons that we shan’t go into on TV,” Piastri added. Ahead of the Australian Grand Prix, he reminded drivers in the event notes that wearing jewellery in the car was not permitted due to concerns about safety and extrication from cars. Red Bull team principal Christian Horner said that he heard it was an “entertaining drivers’ briefing yesterday”.

Minute-by-minute updates on Saturday practice for the Formula 1 Australian Grand Prix at Albert Park.

All changes have been made in the hope of increasing overtaking opportunities and creating more exciting races. Final practice for the Australian GP gets underway at 4am BST (1pm local time), followed by qualifying at 7am BST (4pm local time). Over two years on from the cancelled Australian GP due to the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, F1 returns to a revamped Albert Park.

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Wittich has stepped in to help fulfil race director duties, but Hamilton may well feel as though he can't catch a break from those calling the shots. The F1 stud has participated in recent races with a nose piercing visible through his visor, while others drivers are understood to wear necklaces and bracelets. The FIA —the world's governing body for motorsport—has reminded the F1 field of its duty to not wear earrings, piercings, rings and necklaces during on-track sessions.

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.

Lewis Hamilton says nothing that Mercedes does to try to improve its Formula 1 car is working in helping it deliver progress it needs to make.

So we need to try and get on top of things and understand why." "We need to keep digging into the data and understand it. "It's just nothing we change on the car makes a difference at the moment," explained Hamilton after Friday running.

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The 2021 race started at 5pm local time, 15 minutes after sunset. Another option could be to return to Bahrain to user the outer loop layout of the Bahrain International Circuit, which staged the Sakhir Grand Prix at the end of 2020. A similar approach was taken for the pair of races in Bahrain at the end of 2020, when the Sakhir Grand Prix started a few hours later than the Bahrain Grand Prix one week earlier.

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.

Charles Leclerc leads the drivers' standings after two races, with victory at the season-opening Bahrain Grand Prix followed by a second-place finish behind ...

He was just immune to any feedback and even today he has not properly reflected that he did something wrong. “With 15 minutes to go I was in the garage thinking ‘we’re not going to win this’,” he remembers. “You’re almost in neutral, you’re thinking this is an early night, that’s the way it goes. It was the best weekend McLaren have had so far this season with Ricciardo picking up his first points of the campaign and Norris grabbing his highest finish. Toto Wolff’s team have been behind the pace all season and haven’t won a race yet. The former Red Bull driver managed to rise 10 places to give his team a point, moving them off the bottom of the constructors table. It’s going to take a number of races.” “I will be chasing the people in the wind tunnel, the aerodynamic guys, and just looking at every single area,” he said. Lewis does it every day, but you are guy who always seems to know better’. This means there will only be one hour of practice on the Friday followed by qualifying. Their situation is still not quite as bleak as the one at Mercedes, though, who appear hardly any closer to finding a solution to their lack of pace. Reigning world champion Max Verstappen was left bitterly disappointed after being forced to retire during the Australian Grand Prix when his car suffered further issues with its fueling system.

Formula One racing is headed to Melbourne for the Heineken Australian Grand Prix. We'll update qualifying until we've got the full racing grid is set ...

The first 18 minutes will eliminate five drivers and the next 15 minutes will eliminate five more. That will leave the remaining ten drivers competing for pole position in Sunday’s race. The 20 drivers will face off for an hour of racing to establish the fastest time and secure pole position. Driver Driver Max Verstappen was the fastest driver in Q1.

Ferrari's Charles Leclerc took the first Australian Grand Prix pole position since 2019 with a blistering performance at Albert Park – with Max Verstappen ...

Mercedes opted for two flying efforts, Russell going half a tenth ahead of Hamilton on his first one – with the seven-time champion having made a mistake in Sector 3. That left Alonso 10th – a purple second sector hinting agonisingly at what could have been for the two-time champion. However, there was plenty of time – more than six minutes – for the order to change. Perez, awaiting news of a possible penalty, was 0.372s off pole in a provisional P3. It feels great, and very happy to be on pole tomorrow," said pole-sitter Charles Leclerc. The order however will change as Albon carries a three-place grid penalty for his collision with Stroll in Saudi Arabia. That left the Ferraris third and fourth, Charles Leclerc three-tenths off the pace and Carlos Sainz another tenth away – with Fernando Alonso fifth for Alpine. Alonso’s brilliant run came to a painful end when his Alpine swapped ends at Turn 11, bringing out a red flag with seven minutes remaining. Before Alonso’s unfortunate crash, Leclerc had set the fastest time of 1m 18. They took a provisional 19th and 20th while stewards deliberate. Vettel, having crashed out of FP3, emerged after the red flag thanks to a herculean response from his crew, and managed to jump to P18 with Latifi 19th and Stroll last – piling more pressure on Aston Martin after his FP3 crash – on the provisional grid. Verstappen topped Q1 and Red Bull team mate Perez led Q2 – the Mexican driver under investigation for not slowing for a caution in Q1 – but Ferrari regrouped and it was Leclerc who aced the top 10 shootout with a time of 1m 17.868s to keep Verstappen 0.286s at bay in P2.

Charles Leclerc claimed pole position for the Australian Grand Prix with an exceptional lap for Ferrari in Melbourne to beat Red Bull's Max Verstappen into ...

Various corners have been reprofiled while the chicane at what was turns nine and 10 has been removed, allowing a long run along the lake to the challenging fast chicane at the back of the circuit. It ends a remarkable streak for Lewis Hamilton and Mercedes at Albert Park. Hamilton has taken a record eight poles here including the last six in a row. Stroll however set no time and was in 19th with Sebastian Vettel in 18th. On his first hot runs in Q3 Leclerc, who has looked in fine form all weekend, set the pace with a 1minute 18.239sec time but it was only one-tenth up on Pérez, who had been very competitive throughout qualifying. Overtaking has traditionally been very tricky at Albert Park but there is optimism that changes to the circuit this year should make for a more competitive race. Yet Leclerc had even more, his final lap was immense, clocking 1m 17.868sec to leave his rivals reeling, a full three-10ths up on Verstappen.

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 ...

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Charles Leclerc beat Max Verstappen to pole position in qualifying for Formula 1's 2022 Australian Grand Prix, which was heavily disrupted by red flags ...

As he returned to the pits at the end of Q1, Albon, who will drop three places on the Melbourne grid as a result of his crash with Stroll in the Jeddah race, was ordered to pull over and stop his car ahead of the penultimate corner when Williams detected a problem. On that, only Gasly and Vettel were able to set personal bests, which meant Alex Albon and Kevin Magnussen – one of the most active on the final warm-up lap as he passed the Williams and Ricciardo to head the pack – missing the cut in 16th and 17th behind Schumacher, who out-qualified Magnussen for the first occasion in their time as Haas teammates. As Latifi was passing by, Stroll turned right – possibly to get out of Zhou's way as is the requirement for drivers not on a flying lap – and the pair made contact, breaking the Aston's right-front suspension and sending Latifi spearing into the wall and smashing all the corners on his Williams. Sainz was unfortunate to not complete his first Q3 flying lap just as the red flags were brought out for Alonso's crash and he could not match his teammate's pace in the final minutes. But Leclerc responded with purple sectors in the first and final thirds – Alonso retaining the best time in the middle sector – to post a 1m17.868s and secure his second pole of 2022 by 0.286s. Alonso had just set a then best time in the middle sector when he lost the rear of his Alpine going through Turn 11, the Spaniard saying after he crashed having been sent into the gravel and then into the wall on the outside, that he had "lost the hydraulics" and "could not change gear".

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

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Didn't get it right [with] the visor." "So, it's just a compromise that we have to find. "So then we went for a darker visor.

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It is easy to lose momentum there and that had consequences for Carlos.” “Carlos will see his teammate on top and that’s hard to take as a driver. “Until I go to sleep I will be angry,” Sainz said after qualifying.

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Esteban Ocon was eighth, the first time he’s ever made Q3 in Melbourne. Aston Martin had to repair their cars more times than they can remember, which contributed to ending one of Sebastian Vettel’s proud records, while Lewis Hamilton couldn’t buck the odds and grab a seventh straight pole at Albert Park. Here are some of the best facts and stats from F1’s return to Melbourne… Lewis Hamilton’s fifth is the first time he’s been outside the top three in Australia since 2010, when he was 11th for McLaren.

Melbourne plays host to the third race of the 2022 Formula One season on Sunday morning.

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Australian GP polesitter Charles Leclerc has been summoned by the FIA Formula 1 stewards for driving unnecessarily slowly on an in-lap during qualifying.

You will be informed of the maximum time after the first day of practice.” The notes say: “In order to ensure that cars are not driven unnecessarily slowly on in laps during and after the end of qualifying or during reconnaissance laps when the pit exit is opened for the race, drivers must stay below the maximum time set by the FIA between the Safety Car lines shown on the pit lane map. The article concerned notes that “at no time may a car be driven unnecessarily slowly, erratically or in a manner which could be deemed potentially dangerous to other drivers or any other person”.

Australian Grand Prix poleman Charles Leclerc have been summoned to the stewards for allegedly driving unnecessarily slowly in qualifying.

As a result, the minimum time was slightly breached. “As a result, the minimum time was breached. During the lap, there was heavy traffic and Leclerc took an effort to ensure that he did not impede other drivers on push laps.