F1 Chinese GP live commentary and updates - Sprint race
Follow updates for the sprint race in Shanghai at round two of the 2026 F1 season
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This was the first of six sprint races this year: Miami (2 May), Canada (23 May), Britain (4 July), Netherlands (22 August) and Singapore (10 October) are the others.
Norris: "Just not got the pace to fight the cars in front. They can get the tyres to work better and they have a much more stable car. P4 as good as we could achieve today."
How the championship now looks:
- George Russell - 33 points
- Kimi Antonelli - 22 points
- Charles Leclerc - 22 points
- Lewis Hamilton - 18 points
- Lando Norris - 15 points
- Max Verstappen - 8 points
- Oliver Bearman - 7 points
- Arvid Lindblad - 4 points
- Oscar Piastri - 3 points
- Gabriel Bortoleto - 2 points
Verstappen to Sky Sports after finishing ninth: "I've not a lot of words at the moment. Everything that could go wrong, went wrong. Balance all over the place. Probably the highest degradation of everybody out there."
Verstappen holds the sprint race wins record with 13 - 10 ahead of Norris and Piastri in second on that list - but that was the first time he's finished the shortened contest outside of the points.
By: Ed Hardy
