Charles Leclerc has convincingly won his first pole position in F1 career by defeating Sebastian Vettel in Ferrari SF90 for three tenths of a second - watch in which sections of the track he built most of his advantage.

Alexander Albon has set the highest speed in 2019 Formula 1 championship in his Toro Red STR14 with Honda engine and became the first driver to drive faster than 340 km/h this year.

World champion Lewis Hamilton says the 2019 Honda F1 engine is within 10 horsepower compared to Mercedes and Ferrari and expects Red Bull to be more dangerous than last year.

Carlos Sainz will have to use second and last of the two allowed MGU-Ks for 2019 F1 season due to a failure that forced him to retire in the first race of the season in Australia.