Ahead of today's Sprint (race), the air temperature is 27 degrees C, while the track temperature is 48.7 degrees. As we know, Hamilton starts from pole - if nothing else, the new format requires a whole host of inverted commas - ahead of Verstappen, Bottas, Leclerc and Perez. The whole Sprint format has been sold to fans on the premise that it will shake up the order, hopefully by causing a few surprises for Sunday's grid, though thus far that hasn't been the case, with the usual suspects filling their customary positions. However, the sport's powers that be remain confident that with the possibility of securing a better grid position on Sunday - especially if they lost out in qualifying...
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