France GP in the live ticker: heat battle expected!

Schumi Junior hopes for a miracle hat trick

Created: 2022-07-24Updated: 2022-07-24 13:35

By: Florian Schimak

The French Grand Prix takes place in Le Castellet on Sunday.

Mick Schumacher is aiming for the hat trick.

The race in the live ticker.

• French Grand Prix in Formula 1:

  Mick Schumacher

  is aiming for the hat-trick

• Starting line-up in Le Cestellet:

  Charles Leclerc

  on pole -

  Max Verstappen

  beaten

• Lewis Hamilton

  hopes for points at the

  French GP

  : ex-world champion celebrates anniversary

• This

  live ticker

  for the race is continuously updated

Update from July 24, 1:34 p.m .:

Charles Leclerc in the Ferrari is on pole.

A good omen?

Since the return of Le Castellet to the 2018 racing calendar, the driver who started from pole has always won.

The Monegasque got his 16th pole position for the Scuderia, only Niki Lauda and Michael Schumacher did it more often.

Starting grid at the French Grand Prix

Mick Schumacher starts from P19 at the French GP.

© IMAGO/James Gasperotti

Munich/Le Castellet - On Sunday it's not only going to be hot in Munich - also in the south of France.

The Formula 1 French Grand Prix takes place there.

Mick Schumacher wants to celebrate his hat-trick in Le Castellet.

Eighth place in Silverstone and sixth in Spielberg - there's more to come in France, right?!

French Grand Prix: Mick Schumacher hopes for hat-trick

However, the conditions are difficult this time.

The Haas racer has to start from 19th place after his fastest qualifying lap was scrapped.

He had left the track and thus gained a small advantage.

The race director punished this later on Saturday.

His plan for the Grand Prix: "Then we just have to overtake more, that's definitely possible here."

In qualifying, Charles Leclerc grabbed pole position in the Ferrari - ahead of Max Verstappen.

The duel in the World Cup should be continued in France.

Verstappen is 38 points ahead of Leclerc in the overall standings.

That still sounds like a lot, but the Dutchman in the Red Bull was not able to win the last two World Championship races.

On the Mediterranean coast, he will start behind Leclerc, second in the World Cup, and should again fight a close fight with the challenger.

Leclerc comes with a lot of self-confidence, because Monegasse had recently won in Austria and thus reduced the gap.

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Lewis Hamilton hopes for points at French GP

Secretly, Lewis Hamilton had hoped to have a good chance of his first win of the season in France.

But it doesn't look like that, Mercedes is still too far behind and the technical improvements didn't bring the hoped-for result.

The 37-year-old Brit Hamilton was fourth in the hunt for times and finished ahead of stable rival George Russell (6th).

As the sixth driver ever, Hamilton contests the 300th World Championship race of his long and successful career in Le Castellet.