F1 Starting Grid 2022 Sao Paulo Sprint
Event: Brazilian Sao Paulo Grand Prix
Track: Autodromo Interlagos
Warm-up lap starts at: 16:30 Local | 20:30 CET | 19:30 UK | 11:30 LA | 04:30 Tokyo
Kevin Magnussen drove a near perfect lap around Interlagos to deliver the first ever pole for the Haas F1 team. The Danish driver at first could not believe it when his engineer told him he had done a P1 lap in Q3 yesterday. But nobody could touch the Haas driver, Red Bull driver Max Verstappen made an error, his teammate Sergio Pérez got stuck behind Ferrari driver Charles Leclerc. who was on the completely wrong tyres.
After Mercedes driver George Russell caused a red flag and the predicted rain finally started to fall, it got clear that no driver could improve anymore and the dream result for Magnussen became reality.
F1 Starting Grid 2022 Sao Paulo GP
| Pos | No | Driver | Team | Lap Time | Pole gap |
| 1 | 20 | Kevin Magnussen | Haas | 1:11,674 | |
| 2 | 1 | Max Verstappen | Red Bull | 1:11,877 | +0,203s |
| 3 | 63 | George Russell | Mercedes | 1:12,059 | +0,385s |
| 4 | 4 | Lando Norris | McLaren | 1:12,263 | +0,589s |
| 5 | 55 | Carlos Sainz | Ferrari | 1:12,357 | +0,683s |
| 6 | 31 | Esteban Ocon | Alpine | 1:12,425 | +0,751s |
| 7 | 14 | Fernando Alonso | Alpine | 1:12,504 | +0,830s |
| 8 | 44 | Lewis Hamilton | Mercedes | 1:12,611 | +0,937s |
| 9 | 11 | Sergio Pérez | Red Bull | 1:15,601 | +3,927s |
| 10 | 16 | Charles Leclerc | Ferrari | - | - |
| 11 | 23 | Alex Albon | Williams | 1:11,631 | -0,043s |
| 12 | 10 | Pierre Gasly | AlphaTauri | 1:11,675 | +0,001s |
| 13 | 5 | Sebastian Vettel | Aston Martin | 1:11,678 | +0,004s |
| 14 | 3 | Daniel Ricciardo | McLaren | 1:12,140 | +0,466s |
| 15 | 18 | Lance Stroll | Aston Martin | 1:12,210 | +0,536s |
| 16 | 6 | Nicholas Latifi | Williams | 1:15,095 | +3,421s |
| 17 | 24 | Zhou Guanyu | Alfa Romeo | 1:15,197 | +3,523s |
| 18 | 77 | Valtteri Bottas | Alfa Romeo | 1:15,486 | +3,812s |
| 19 | 22 | Yuki Tsunoda | AlphaTauri | 1:16,264 | +4,590s |
| 20 | 47 | Mick Schumacher | Haas | 1:16,361 | +4,687s |
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