After the song of fire and ice that was the chaos of sprint qualifying, it is finally time to get down to business with the sprint itself at the Chinese Grand Prix.
Lando Norris emerged from the wet and wild session with pole position - having had his fastest lap reinstated by stewards after being found not to have gone wide and exceeded track limits.
This shuffled Lewis Hamilton and Fernando Alonso down to second and third as Max Verstappen took a worst sprint grid position of fourth, having skid wide at Turn 16 himself in SQ3.
But what is in store during the 19 laps of the sprint before grand prix qualifying later in the day?
Let's find out...
Sprint race - Chinese
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