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George Russell might have a fair old gap to bridge to his Mercedes team-mate Kimi Antonelli in the drivers' standings but he's clearly started as he means to go on.

He's got eight points out of the weekend so far but with changeable conditions on the horizon this weekend, the work does not stop there.

Ferrari and McLaren have looked in fine form at various points so far and with just how bunched up the front of the pack was in that sprint race, we could be in for a stormer of a qualifying session.

Speaking of which, we'll put a pin in this for now. Grab a break. We'll be back to take you through qualifying later today.

Join us at 14:45 BST when we get back under way. Q1 gets going at 15:00 BST.

See you in a bit.

Mercedes driver Kimi Antonelli on his fourth-placed finish: "It's a track where deployment is good. I was ambitious with the battery, after that, it wasn't easy.

1. Kimi Antonelli (Mercedes) - 224pts

2. Lewis Hamilton (Ferrari) - 171

3. George Russell (Mercedes) - 168

4. Charles Leclerc (Ferrari) - 145

5. Lando Norris (McLaren) - 134

6. Max Verstappen (Red Bull) - 112

7. Oscar Piastri (McLaren) - 96

8. Isack Hadjar (Racing Bulls) - 68

9. Liam Lawson (Racing Bulls) - 43

10. Pierre Gasly (Alpine) - 43

Mercedes boss Toto Wolff on George Russell's win: "He had his fair share of bad luck, winning today is a good start to the weekend. It's a good boost of confidence."

On Kimi Antonelli: "I think if you have a scare like he had in that last corner, maybe that's in the back of your mind for the rest of qualifying. He will reset today, he wasn't going to risk it for one point.

"I think everybody is absolutely on it at the moment, the drivers, the mechanics, they push themselves very hard.

"It's always a difficult track to overtake on. Tomorrow, with the pit stops, it will be different."

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George Russell speaking after finishing P1: "Great start to the weekend. If there was one more lap it would have been a very different end to the race, so I was glad the rain came when it did. A really good start. The Ferraris look really fast so it's going to be a tight one this afternoon."

"I knew if there were going to be any overtakes they'd be towards the end of the race I knew I just wanted to manage my tyres a little bit through the high speed corners and have a bit more in the tank come the end of the race. I knew if Charles got past Lando, he'd be fast and as soon as I saw Charles behind me, I dropped the hammer a little bit."

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Charles Leclerc after finishing second in the sprint and on starting with soft tyres: "Always when you are the only one doing something, it's either very right or very wrong. I think it was a good choice in the end. We did our homework. When I was on the grid, you just hope to have made the right choice.

"I knew Lando [Norris] didn't have much deployment on the main straights, so I knew I had to maximise that, breaking point is at the same level. It worked out, which is good. I did not expect to gain position at the end of the race with the soft tyres, if anything it was at the start but I didn't have a great start.

"The car is feeling good which is a good thing to start the second half of the season."

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Lando Norris speaking after finishing P3 in the sprint race: "Not a bad result, not the best. Would have been nicer to be a little bit faster today. Charles was too quick. I don't think it was the tyres, we just lacked pace, we're not quick enough and we have some work to do.

"We're very good in high speed. The car's just not performing to the level it needs to in the slow speed corners. There's not a lot we can do, I think we're optimising a lot of things. It's still a good result, we still have to be happy with the progress we've been making but we need more. We'll see what we can do, the team have been working hard so hopefully we can do a better job."

1. George Russell (Mercedes) - 8pts

2. Charles Leclerc (Ferrari) - 7

3. Lando Norris (McLaren) - 6

4. Kimi Antonelli (Mercedes) - 5

5. Oscar Piastri (McLaren) - 4

6. Max Verstappen (Red Bull) - 3

7. Lewis Hamilton (Ferrari) - 2

8. Pierre Gasly (Alpine) - 1

Marc Priestley
Former F1 mechanic on Sports Extra 3

This is the right way to start the weekend for George Russell, he needs to keep this up over the weekend. A great performance from George which will give him a big confidence boost - exactly what he needed.

George Russell: Nice work today. That would've been a very sketchy last lap if the rain came down.

Toto Wolff: Well done George, ticked the first box of the weekend.

The drivers are sheepishly guiding their cars around the track following that sprint race, with the rain making conditions quite difficult out there.

Does make you wonder what the make-up of this sprint race might have been like had this rain arrived in five minutes earlier than it did.

Kai Bachini
F1 commentator on Sports Extra 3

It's a return to form for George Russell which is exactly what he's needed. He just beats the rain to the chequered flag!

Kimi Antonelli is closing in on Lando Norris in a last lap battle for third place!

But the championship leader can't make his move stick on the McLaren of Lando Norris who holds position in the final few corners.

George Russell's about to win this sprint.

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Charles Leclerc's almost within a second of race leader George Russell, who's probably thanking his lucky stars this sprint's only 24 laps long.

As for the race at large, the top seven are very bunched up but below that, there's it's more spread out.

Marc Priestley
Former F1 mechanic on Sports Extra 3

There are all sorts of clouds in the sky and it's very windy here. The risk of rain is increasing but I don't think it's going to be enough to force anyone in to change tyres. This means that conditions could get tricky and treacherous.

I'm no meteorologist but I think we might not actually see any meaningful wind or rain before the end of this race.

Which will suit Charles Leclerc in second place given he has a set of softs on his Ferrari..

Race engineer: Rain risk is increasing.

We're running out of time in this sprint race, now.

George Russell has 1.3 seconds on Charles Leclerc with less than three laps left.

Kai Bachini
F1 commentator on Sports Extra 3

This is very smart from Ferrari, they've split the strategy between the drivers with Leclerc on the softs and Hamilton on mediums and now they've got all this data for the race on Sunday.