Sprint Qualifying threw up all sorts of surprises, with a late rain shower injecting some extra excitement into proceedings. In the end it was Lando Norris who grabbed pole for the Sprint, the McLaren man fending off the charge of Lewis Hamilton. Those two share an all-British front row, which is just one of a number of interesting facts and stats from Shanghai…
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Norris takes his second career Sprint pole position, having taken the last Sprint pole of 2023 and the first of 2024.
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He is the first driver other than Max Verstappen to take multiple Sprint poles.
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Hamilton’s P2 was his team’s best ever performance in a Sprint Qualifying session.
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Fernando Alonso starts third, a step up from last season when he didn’t start a single Sprint in the top five.
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Verstappen was fourth, having started in the top three in every Sprint last year.
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Carlos Sainz was P5, the same slot the Spaniard started three of the six Sprints in 2023.
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Sergio Perez grabbed sixth, his lowest starting slot this year having been in the top five in the first four Grands Prix.
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Charles Leclerc had to settle for seventh after crashing on his out-lap at the start of SQ3.
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