F1 qualifying

Live coverage of Saturday's Formula 1 qualifying session for the 2022 Spanish Grand Prix in Barcelona.

Mercedes are in a three-team battle for pole at the Spanish GP with Ferrari and Red Bull. Who will come out on top? Watch qualifying live on Sky Sports F1.

Championship leader Charles Leclerc has taken pole position for this weekend's Spanish Grand Prix, and will start ahead of Red Bull's Max Verstappen on ...

In qualifying Hamilton has been the better (winning 3-2 so far), but trails him by 23 points in the standings. Mercedes' encouraging progress continued in final practice, with Russell and Hamilton third and fourth, as opposed to their customary fifth and sixth (at best). Lando Norris, Kevin Magnussen, Valterri Bottas and Esteban Ocon made up the rest of the top 10. In any case, that's all for tomorrow – qualifying is the main focus of today and going by the times in FP3, we can be at least a little hopeful that there is a three-way battle for pole position. Bottas has had a more difficult weekend here than most of his races so far, though he was in the top 10 in FP3 so should expect him to be there in qualifying too. Perez goes fastest of anyone in the first sector, as you would expect. and loses only a few hundredths in the second sector. Russell has a tenth on Hamilton in the first sector... He's half a second up on Magnussen in sector one and a couple of tenths quicker than Sainz... but Russell has the edge again! "The lap was good, the lap was good!" I did a mistake in the first run of Q3 and then I obviously had one lap. A Mercedes on the second row is some form of progress, isn't it?