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Ferrari winless for a year
By the way: Ferrari has not won a sprint for more than a year. The last triumph so far was Hamilton’s in March 2025 in China. The seven sprint wins since then have been shared by McLaren, Mercedes, and Red Bull.
More on this in this photo series:
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All winners of sprint races in Formula 1
Vasseur dampens euphoria
The Ferrari team principal warns against overestimating Lewis Hamilton’s sprint pole. “For Lewis, this is the ideal start to his home weekend, but we know we have achieved nothing yet,” he reminds.
“Charles is also in a good position, and tomorrow’s sprint will give us important clues for the rest of the weekend,” says the team principal.
“Our goal is to collect plenty of points in the sprint and then immediately focus fully on qualifying for the Grand Prix to achieve another solid result,” emphasizes Vasseur.
Because most points are awarded only on Sunday.
Today 33 years ago …
… Alain Prost won his home race in Magny-Cours. The Frenchman was the first driver in Formula 1 history to break the magical barrier of 100 podiums.
By now, Prost is “only” fifth in the all-time rankings, while Lewis Hamilton leads clearly with 206 podium visits – and will probably experience some more.
You can read all about it in our large database.
The Formula 1 career of Alain Prost
“Frustrating” Friday for Mercedes
Lewis Hamilton will start later in the sprint from pole. The Brit was 0.011 seconds faster than championship leader Kimi Antonelli in qualifying yesterday. “Today was frustrating for us,” says Andrew Shovlin from Mercedes.
“Although we have managed well in recent races to bring the initial setup to a good level, today we felt we had fallen behind,” he admits.
“During the sessions, we made changes to give the car more stability. Even in SQ3 of the sprint qualifying, we still felt the front was too strong. That is not ideal in such gusty wind.”
“Additionally, there is a speed difference that we still need to understand and that cost us a lot of time on the straights,” says Shovlin, who reminds: “We are not allowed to make any changes before tomorrow’s sprint.”
“However, we are working hard to get these problems under control and find a better setup before the Grand Prix qualifying,” he announces.
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Lindblad and Sainz warned
One more note from yesterday’s sprint qualifying: Alexander Albon and Arvid Lindblad received a warning because they were too slow during a cooldown lap.
Albon exceeded the allowed maximum time by 4.6 seconds, Lindblad even by 14.4 seconds. Ultimately, the race stewards settled for a warning in both cases and explained:
“The race stewards acknowledge that the 2026 season vehicles require significantly more active energy management than in previous seasons and accept that this can significantly contribute to exceeding the SC2-SC1 time, especially on a race track like Silverstone.”
“The race stewards therefore acknowledge that the vehicle’s energy management requirements were a contributing factor in this case and consider this a mitigating circumstance.”
Super Saturday
Hello and welcome to a new edition of our Formula 1 live ticker. Today in Silverstone we expect the fourth “Super Saturday” of this season, because there will be a sprint again in Great Britain.
That means: On the schedule in the coming hours are the sprint itself (1:00 PM CEST) and later also the important qualifying for tomorrow’s Grand Prix (5:00 PM).
Here in the ticker we provide you all day long as usual with pictures, information, and voices directly from the paddock in Silverstone.
Ruben Zimmermann will accompany you here throughout the day and for questions, suggestions, or complaints you can use our contact form. You can also find us on Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube.
Here you can read our yesterday’s live ticker again.
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