Ross Brawn is happy with the progress of sprint qualifying despite a mostly uneventful second trial of the format at the Italian Grand Prix. Apart from an early crash for Pierre Gasly after his AlphaTauri nudged the back of Daniel Ricciardo’s McLaren and sustained front-wing damage, and Robert Kubica spinning out, there was not a great deal of action at Monza. The 18-lap sprint did shake up the starting order for Sunday a little, most notably with Lewis Hamilton due to line up behind both McLarens – but that was due to the World Champion making a bad launch from the grid and he was unable to get back past Ricciardo or Lando Norris. Overtaking moves were far from plentiful as most cars...
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