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00:00For the sprint it's lights out and away we go and I think Verstappen got a better start than Lewis Hamilton
00:07and he's already ahead, Valtteri Bottas is trying to pressure his teammate as well
00:11but Verstappen in the turn one ahead of Lewis Hamilton, then comes Bottas and then comes Leclerc
00:16and then we've got three Perez and the two McLarens going in the village together
00:20almost contact there between Daniel Ricciardo and Sergio Perez
00:23and at the back there's a spinner and I think it's Nikita Mazepin
00:26For the third time this year Max Verstappen has out dragged Hamilton down to the first corner
00:32now he's trying to break the slipstream into Brooklyn's corner
00:35Hamilton will not get around the outside there because it's too tight, the corner tightens on you
00:40Luffield a long long right hand corner into Woodco and the old pit straight
00:44and down towards Copse we're going to head now on this old pit straight
00:48can Hamilton try and get back ahead of Max Verstappen and he's trying to get a slipstream as well
00:52Hamilton's going to try and dance around the outside, Verstappen stays ahead
00:56British crowd roaring their approval for this duel on the first lap of 17
01:01Fastest man in qualifying yesterday down the straight, Lewis Hamilton
01:05Slowest man, Max Verstappen, he's carrying a lot more downforce
01:09He needs to get out of these corners and actually that sort of half move there of Lewis has cost him ground
01:15Just look now at the distance as we head into Stowe between Verstappen and Hamilton
01:19Bottas third, then comes Leclerc, then comes the fast starting Fernando Alonso
01:23And there goes Sergio Perez on the inside at Stowe getting past the McLaren of Daniel Ricciardo
01:29We can see the start here and those brakes, they're on fire as the lights go out
01:36Look at the flames on the left-hand side, look at how Max Verstappen got away
01:40Yeah, because he put so much temperature in the brakes to give himself front tyre pressure as well and temperature
01:45This is the incident between George Russell and Carlos Sainz, lock up from the McLaren and Russell
01:50Just tapping the Ferrari as it then headed off towards the barriers
01:54This is Nikita Mazepin, oh, tangled with his teammate Mick Schumacher and that's what sent him into a spin
02:00Into Maggots and then Beckets and then, as they have to weave because the corners go right and left and right and left
02:06He just loses it in the ground, Perez is round, Perez is spinning, that's going in the wall
02:10Sergio Perez off and off in a big way, damage to the front wing, he's managed to keep going
02:17Can he limp back to the pits here? Oh, this is horrendous for Sergio Perez
02:21Who nearly gets collected as he makes his way back onto the hangar straight
02:26Well, that's the jeopardy we talked about in this sprint and the last thing that Perez or Red Bull needed
02:33In the turbulent air following two other cars
02:36Lando Norris is ahead of Fernando Alonso, we saw him closing and he managed to make the move
02:43So he is now up to fifth, so making one place from his initial grid spot in this sprint on the Saturday afternoon
02:50It started like a race, it certainly carried on like a race for the first few corners
02:55And then they'll wave a funny little black and white flag and it'll be the end of it
02:59And that is a lovely move from Daniel Ricciardo
03:02The double switch back there and now he can scamper off down the road
03:07He might have to do a little bit of an Alonso weave down there, but of course he's got the DRS
03:11He's got the DRS, Alonso's got the slipstream, who's going to come out on top?
03:15Into Brooklands we go, Ricciardo had the inside line, that certainly helped him there
03:19Fernando Alonso trying to dance around the outside at Luffield
03:23Will switch back and try and move himself, I'm sure, as down the old pit straight we go
03:27And towards Cox, where Fernando Alonso's had some brilliant battles over the years
03:31And he's going to try another one in 2021
03:34And Daniel Ricciardo just keeps ahead of Fernando Alonso
03:38The qualifying sprint on this Saturday goes to Max Verstappen for the fourth race in a row
03:45In 2021, Verstappen's going to be on pole
03:48He sprints home to take the sprint on this Saturday
03:52Red Bull with the victory and three championship points for the championship leader
03:57Hamilton's second, Bottas comes home third
04:00Charles Leclerc for the fourth race this season will start fourth on the grid
04:04And Lando Norris will come home to take fifth
04:07Meanwhile, George Russell still ahead then
04:09Of Esteban Ocon, Carlos Sainz still ahead of Pierre Gasly
04:13It's Alonso from 11th on this grid to 7th on the grid for the Grand Prix
04:18Sebastian Vettel will start eighth ahead of Russell
04:20And then Ocon, Sainz and then Gasly
04:23Kimi Räikkönen are making up places to start 13th for the Grand Prix
04:26And Astrol and Giovinazzi, Sonoda Latifi, Schumacher-Mazepin and Pérez
04:31With a DNF to his name

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