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In the mix after strong Imola qualifying (Williams)
Carlos Sainz Jnr: ‘This is a high confidence track and I’ve been happy with the car since Friday. The lap in Q2 is testament to that confidence and I went into Q3 wanting to improve even more.’
Eventful qualifying sees George Russell start P3 for Sunday’s race (Mercedes)
Andrea Kimi Antonelli: ‘I really struggled to put everything together in my single laps on the soft tyre and it just did not feel quite right. It was really tricky to get the tyres in the right window; I didn’t quite have enough grip, and I really struggled to get into a good rhythm.’
A disappointing Saturday (Ferrari)
‘It was a very tough day for us and, as was the case in Miami, we were not able to improve our times on the new tyres, doing our fastest lap (in Q2) with the first set from Q1. The tyre situation was strange for everyone today, but it seemed to affect us more than the others and I also think we didn’t execute the session as well as we could have done.’
Sprint race: Crawford in control around Imola (Formula 2)
‘It was quite an easy race I’d say out front. I had a great start and was able to take the lead. From then on it was just about managing the gap, making sure nobody got in my DRS and that’s kind of what I did and just managed the tyres.’
Sprint race: Tramnitz takes victory in Imola as he leads MP Motorsport one-two (Formula 3)
‘The German driver overtook his rookie team mate early in the 18-lap event before controlling things from the front to claim the win, as Nikola Tsolov rounded out the podium for Campos Racing.’
Skid marks, swear jars and an early night: welcome to sport’s nanny state (The Guardian)
‘For some reason the Federation International de l’Automobile, the governing body of global motor sport, has recently sought to cast itself as a sporting administrative version of The Blues Brothers’ Sister Mary Stigmata, the nun who becomes so incensed by the siblings’ fruity language she ends up furiously slapping them about the head with a stick before decrying their ‘filthy mouths and bad attitudes’ and ordering them to ‘get out and don’t come back until you’ve redeemed yourselves’.’
Herta goes into air in scary Indy 500 qualifying crash (IndyCar via YouTube)
Tokyo race one (Formula E via YouTube)
Spa-Francorchamps race one (Formula Regional Europe via YouTube)
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On this day in motorsport
Born today in 1928: Jo Schlesser, who was killed in 1968 when he crashed his Honda in heavy rain during his first world championship race at Rouen in France
Born today in 1967: Heinz-Harald Frentzen – Team mate to Michael Schumacher and Karl Wendlinger in Mercedes’ sports car team; Won three F1 races, with Williams and Jordan; 1997 championship runner-up to team mate Jacques Villeneuve
45 years ago today Carlos Reutemann won the Monaco Grand Prix after pole sitter Didier Pironi crashed
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