France GP NOW in the live ticker: heat battle!

Schumi junior attacked

Created: 07/24/2022, 15:23

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

• Heat battle in

  Le Castellet

  !

  Schumi Junior

  attacks after a good start

• Lewis Hamilton

  hopes for points at the

  French GP

  : ex-world champion celebrates anniversary

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10/53 laps:

The two Haas come into the pits early, but each has no good stops.

The traffic was probably too much, so we went in now.

Apparently an undercut is being tried.

Classification at the French Grand Prix

7/53 laps:

Verstappen attacked because Leclerc braked a bit!

The Ferrari driver, however, can initially parry them.

It will be a brutal duel between the two championship leaders.

5/53 laps:

Leclerc has already driven over a second compared to Verstappen, even if the Red Bull has ultra speed on the straight.

Mick Schumacher has made up a few places and is currently in P15.

After all.

1/53 lap:

Very clean start, no big crash!

Leclerc keeps Verstappen in check and defends his first place.

Hamilton makes up a rank, and Alonso also got off to an excellent start.

Ocon and Tsunoda collide slightly, so Vettel has to slow down.

Bitter.

START: The lights go out, the French GP starts!

Update from July 24, 3 p.m.:

It's about to start!

There are 53 laps to complete at the French Grand Prix - we're really hot, in the truest sense of the word.

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Update from July 24, 2:56 p.m .:

What awaits Mercedes in France today?

"It's difficult to make a prediction," says Toto Wolff shortly before the race at

: "It's very, very hot.

We've been getting better and better lately on Sundays, but we'll have to see."

Update from July 24, 2:48 p.m .:

The heat will play a decisive role in the French Grand Prix.

The asphalt temperature is currently 60 degrees.

Wow, this is going to be pretty wild.

Mick Schumacher has to cope with the heat at the French Grand Prix.

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Update from July 24, 2:41 p.m .:

It starts in 20 minutes.

Flavio Briatore can also be found in Le Castellet.

What does he say about Mick Schumacher?

"Better, better," said the former Benetton team boss: "It was a disaster at the beginning, but it was really good in the last two races."

Update from July 24, 2:01 p.m .:

On the subject of heat battles at the French GP: In Le Castellet it is currently a whopping 33 degrees and bright sunshine.

This is gonna be hot.

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.

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.

Mick Schumacher starts from P19 at the French GP.

© IMAGO/James Gasperotti

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.

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.