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For the first time in his career, Kevin Magnussen topped Formula 1 qualifying and will start the Brazilian Grand Prix Sprint race from Pole Position.

With the rain falling at Interlagos in a stop/start fashion, the start of Q3 was dry, with Haas driver Magnussen leading the charge out of the pitlane.

The Dane secured Pole when George Russell spun out and caused a red flag, during which time the rain began to fall meaning the #20 secured P1.

He is officially credited with Pole Position, although to start P1 in the race, Magnussen must win the Sprint race.

He is joined on the front row by Max Verstappen, with Lewis Hamilton in seventh and Charles Leclerc in ninth after a Ferrari strategy blunder.

Full results from qualifying for the 2022 Brazilian Grand Prix sprint race are available below.

Nevertheless, it was a terrific moment for the Danish driver. Dropped by Haas at the end of 2020, Magnussen was recalled by the team at the start of this season, to replace Russian driver Nikita Mazepin after the invasion of Ukraine.

Magnussen has stepped up as if he had never been away, and after 139 meetings finally has a pole position. He and the team celebrated with joyous abandon as Haas also claimed their first since entering the sport in 2016.

They have 143 races behind them and this moment will last long in the memory, finally excising their record for the longest run as a constructor in F1 without claiming pole. It was deserved for all that mother nature played her part. Magnussen had already done superbly to put his Haas into Q3 and then grabbed his chance.

The team put him out first at the start of the final session of qualifying in damp conditions with heavier rain threatening. His team suggested he pit to wait it out, but he instead he set out to lay down a time anyway.

have never ever felt like this in my life,” he said. “I don’t know what to say, the team put me out on track at the right moment. It is incredible. [Tomorrow] is Maximum attack, let’s go for something funny.”

It was a special moment for K-Mag, as he is known, who was almost crying with joy afterwards and celebrated with a viking-esque enthusiasm by leaping on his car and then embracing team principal Guenther Steiner.

“It was not luck, it was deserved from the driver, from the team,” said Steiner. “Kevin putting a lap down when it was needed. When it rains soup, you have to have a spoon and we had the spoon today.”

Russell was lucky in that, despite running off, he retains the third place he held at that point while his teammate Lewis Hamilton was in eighth. Ferrari’s Carlos Sainz was fifth but will take a five-place grid penalty in Sunday’s race because of an engine change.

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The Maranello squad raised some eyebrows for the final shoot-out qualifying element at Interlagos when Leclerc was the only driver to head out on the circuit with intermediate tyres. Although rain was blowing in, the track was dry enough for slicks and that meant Leclerc’s option proved totally wrong as he ended up being slowest out of the 10 runners.

Leclerc was left deeply disappointed by the move, and vowed to speak to his bosses on Friday night to discuss how it could do things better in the future.

“We were expecting some rain which never came,” said the Monegasque driver. “I will speak with the team and try to understand what we can do better in those conditions. But I’m extremely disappointed. The pace was there.”

Ferrari has since explained that the decision to go for inters was made because it felt the best way to secure a spot at the front of the grid, with the weather conditions being on a knife-edge, was to split the strategy across both cars.

It believed if the rain had come in as quickly as forecast, then drivers on slicks could have struggled – and that would have left Leclerc on inters in the perfect spot to grab pole position

the closing minutes of the session, Leclerc would pip the struggling Verstappen by 0.004s to split the Red Bulls, after Ferrari made a late switch to the soft tyres – Carlos Sainz taking fourth, just under two-tenths back.

Mercedes drivers Lewis Hamilton and George Russell were both within a whisker of Sainz in P5 and P6 respectively, despite Hamilton stating that it “feels like the rear is just floating around” and locking up at the start of his soft tyre run.

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Sebastian Vettel put his Aston Martin seventh as his F1 retirement draws ever closer, as Haas driver Mick Schumacher, the Alfa Romeo of Valtteri Bottas and AlphaTauri’s Pierre Gasly rounded out the top 10 positions.

Alpine pair Fernando Alonso and Esteban Ocon made a low-key start to the weekend in respective P11 and P13 spots – neither Alpine nor rivals McLaren running soft tyres in the session – sandwiching Williams man Alex Albon, with the other Aston Martin of Lance Stroll 14th after reporting technical issues.