F1 2024 United States Grand Prix LIVE: Sprint qualifying times, stream, schedule and results in Austin

Piastri in P14 with two minutes to go as Sergio Perez puts it together for P7!

Current top-five (16-20): Colapinto, Ocon, Hulkenberg, Bottas, Zhou

This is a quickfire session!

The times keep falling and it’s Lewis Hamilton at the top, less than a tenth ahead of Charles Leclerc in second and Lando Norris in third.

More importantly, the bottom five (16-20) and on the way out as it stands: Ocon, Hulkenberg, Bottas, Zhou, Perez

The Red Bull of Max Verstappen takes us around the first sprint qualifying session – 12 minutes and all the cars on medium tyres!

So it’s our first competition action this weekend and after a chaotic practice session it feels like anything could happen in Austin tonight!

Sprint qualifying will follow the same Q1-Q2-Q3 format, but the session times will be shorter than traditional qualifying: SQ1 (medium tires) will be 12 minutes, SQ2 (medium tires) will be 10 minutes and SQ3 (soft tires) will be eight minutes.

Who will be on pole for the sprint tomorrow?!

Friday: Free Exercise 1 (DONE); sprint qualification (for Saturday’s sprint race)

Saturday: Sprint races (Top eight receive points, order of finish has no effect on the grand prix grid); Grand Prix qualification

• Sprint qualification: 10:30 p.m

• Sprint race: 19.00
• Qualification: 23.00

1. Max Verstappen – 331 points

2. Lando Norris – 279 points

3. Charles Leclerc – 245 points

4. Oscar Piastri – 237 points

5. Carlos Sainz – 190 points

6. Lewis Hamilton – 174 points

7. George Russell – 155 points

8. Sergio Perez – 144 points

9. Fernando Alonso – 62 points

10. Nico Hulkenberg – 24 points

11. Lance Stroll – 24 points

12. Yuki Tsunoda – 22 points

13. Alex Albon – 12 points

14. Daniel Ricciardo – 12 points

15. Pierre Gasly – 8 points

16. Ollie Bearman – 7 points

17. Kevin Magnussen – 6 points

18. Esteban Ocon – 5 points

19. Franco Colapinto – 4 points

20. Zhou Guanyu – 0 points

21. Logan Sargeant – 0 points

22. Valtteri Bottas – 0 points

The FIA, F1’s governing body, has decided to remove the bonus point available for setting the fastest lap for the 2025 season onwards.

The extra point awarded to the driver who sets the fastest lap in Sunday’s Grand Prix (if he finishes in the top-10) was introduced in 2019.

This often results in drivers piling up late in the race for an extra point, especially if it doesn’t affect their top-10 finish.

The sprint format continues in Formula 1 this weekend as the American Grand Prix hosts the fourth sprint weekend of the 2024 season.

The sprint was first introduced in 2021 at Silverstone as a way to make more sessions over the weekend competitive with the aim of generating interest in F1. In 2021 and 2022 there were three sprints per year.

2023 saw a new format. The number of sprint races was doubled to six, while Saturday was designed as ‘sprint day’ – with a new “sprint shootout” qualifying session determining the grid for the sprint race. In addition, the result of the sprint race had no reveal of the Grand Prix on Sunday.

However, the format has been tweaked again in 2024 and we will see it in action for the fourth time this weekend at the Circuit of the Americas: