• Russell will share second ​row with Ferrari’s Leclerc

• Norris ‌third fastest ‌but has a 10-place grid penalty

Kimi Antonelli has suffered a run of no little bad luck of late, but the Italian teenager demonstrated it had left him entirely unfazed as he produced a dominant lap to secure pole position for the Belgian Grand Prix.

The 19-year-old’s composure and control at Spa-Francorchamps on Saturday was something to behold as he flew round the circuit in the Ardennes mountains with ease, comfortably beating the Red Bull of Max Verstappen into second place. Notable was the manner in which he did so given Verstappen had benefited from having a tow from his teammate, Isack Hadjar, who willingly sacrificed his laps given he had a 30-place grid penalty to come.

The Booker prize-winning novelist on the art of lying for a living, the cosmic force of love, and gargling loudly

Born in Minna, Nigeria, Ben Okri, 67, spent his childhood in Nigeria and London. He published his first novel Flowers and Shadows in 1980 and won the Booker prize in 1991 with The Famished Road. His subsequent work includes Astonishing the Gods, which in 2019 was selected as one of the BBC’s 100 novels “that shaped our world”. In 2023, he was knighted for services to literature. His latest novel, Waking the Warriors, is published on 16 July. He lives with his partner and their child in London.

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On a train journey to Arcadia many years ago while making a TV documentary.

Maria Grazia Chiuri returns to city of birth with haute couture inspired by kimono shapes and draping the body

“This is a cultural problem, and a political problem,” said Maria Grazia Chiuri before her first haute couture catwalk show for Fendi.

The problem, as the designer sees it, is Italy’s unwillingness to acknowledge fashion’s role in culture by giving it space in museums. To challenge this, Chiuri has bookended her Rome catwalk event with two fashion exhibitions in the city.

Sie wird das neunte Staatsoberhaupt innerhalb von zehn Jahren sein, keines hat bisher die Kriminalität in den Griff bekommen. Nun will ausgerechnet die Tochter eines berüchtigten Vorgängers dies schaffen.

• Russell second; Hamilton third after safety car finish

• Antonelli back in 16th after mechanical problem

The record-breaking crowd at Silverstone may have been unhappy in being denied a grandstand finale, as the British Grand Prix ended in the anticlimax of a flag waved to declare Charles Leclerc the winner under a safety car to a chorus of booing. But worse still, the unedifying finale was not helped by confusion reigning as an expected final-lap showdown turned out to be but the ghost of an FIA software glitch.

Yet, after all of which resulted in a damp squib close to what had been an intriguing race, the result has invigorated the Formula One world championship.

• Mercedes driver holds nerve with Leclerc a close second

• Russell fourth, with Norris and Piastri sixth and eighth

Much as Kimi Antonelli said he admired the British Grand Prix, its challenge and sporting spectacle, the Italian was in absolutely no mood to give a British driver so much as a sniff of a chance of enjoying a day in the sun as he swept to a majestic pole position for Sunday’s race.

Were will alone enough, the huge crowd at the old airfield would surely have powered Lewis Hamilton into the top spot, but their vocal support was not enough. Antonelli took his first pole here with the type of precision driving and commitment required on the high-speed blast that rewards drivers who can find the very edge. He did so with an authority and almost unconscious ease that unsurprisingly left his rivals a little deflated.

Mit 50,1 Prozent fährt Keiko Fujimori einen äußerst knappen Wahlsieg ein. Aus Washington kommen Glückwünsche. Doch ihr linker Gegner will das Ergebnis nicht anerkennen.

• Ferrari driver qualifies first ahead of Kimi Antonelli

• Hamilton: ‘I love this place, I love this crowd’

Lewis Hamilton gave the home crowd reason to roar as he took pole position for the sprint race at the British Grand Prix for Ferrari, beating the Mercedes of Kimi Antonelli into second, with Red Bull’s Max Verstappen in third.

The pole for the short format race to be held on Saturday morning at Silverstone must be considered somewhat against the odds, as Ferrari had been expected to be somewhat on the back foot to Mercedes, at the power dominated track.

Driver has renewed passion and is a force again as he returns to circuit where he has a record nine wins

Smiling and relaxed, Lewis Hamilton cuts the figure of a man savouring being able to do what he does best once more at Silverstone, demonstrating to the naysayers that he remains a force to be reckoned with at this weekend’s British Grand Prix.

In the buildup to Sunday’s race Hamilton is as of old at the circuit that is all but his fiefdom. He has nine wins here since his debut in 2007 – a record for any driver at one circuit – which began a love affair for the meeting that he shares with the fans and has never diminished.

• 55-year-old remains in hospital after Wednesday incident

• Agency says Dettori’s car flipped after being struck

Frankie Dettori sustained several broken ribs and a broken thumb after being involved in a car accident in Newmarket on Wednesday evening.

Dettori’s injuries are still being assessed in hospital. Another vehicle struck the rear passenger side of the car the 55-year-old was driving, according to his management company H Talent Management.

Language commission hails normalisation of te reo Māori after years of work in identifying frequently mispronounced words

For years, Māori placenames have been distorted into nearly unrecognisable sounds by Google Maps in New Zealand. For those with attuned ears, it can be grating or offensive.

Now the Māori language commission – Te Taura Whiri i te Reo Māori – has collaborated with Google to fix it, launching a New Zealand-accented voice for its navigation tool that can correctly pronounce Māori words. It is the culmination of a project that has been years in the making.

• George Russell wins for Mercedes; Ferraris 5th and 8th

• Hamilton says: ‘We have a good car but are down on pace’

Lewis Hamilton said Ferrari’s underwhelming performance at the Austrian Grand Prix represented a reality check for him and the team after the euphoria of his first win with the Scuderia at the last round in Spain.

Hamilton finished in fifth at the Red Bull Ring, after a race where Mercedes’s George Russell took victory from pole position ahead an enormously quick Max Verstappen, whose Red Bull had made great strides with upgrades the team brought to Austria. Hamilton had moved to second in the championship after the last round and was looking so competitive that he was being touted as a potential title contender, but he has dropped back to third, behind Russell and his teammate Kimi Antonelli, the championship leader.

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And we are off on the formation lap.

The hills are now alive to the sound of jet engines, as we get a fly past.

• Mighty lap seals pole amid yellow flags in closing seconds

• Russell confident he can beat championship leader Antonelli

The moment of triumph hung briefly in the balance for George Russell in claiming pole position for the Austrian Grand Prix, but with the British driver bullish and ebullient after what was a mighty lap under dramatic circumstances, for him at least, there was never any doubt.

At the very sharp end of the final moments of qualifying, Russell was hurtling round the track after Max Verstappen when the Dutchman was too hot into turn nine, lost the rear and scythed across the gravel into the wall. In front of them, Charles Leclerc and Lewis Hamilton had finished their laps as the single yellow flags were immediately waved.

Victory in Barcelona shows Scuderia are improving and they are looking at another engine advance after the summer break

Beneath the sweltering sunshine that bathes the Styrian mountains surrounding the Red Bull Ring there is at least a breeze of anticipatory air for the Austrian Grand Prix. After the opening to a Formula One season defined by Mercedes dominance, that Ferrari may now be applying their own heat is welcome, more so given it is Lewis Hamilton firing it up.

Hamilton’s victory at the last round in Barcelona, his first for Ferrari and the Scuderia’s first since 2024, was greeted by driver and team with understandable exultation; the seven-time champion has gone from his worst season last year to a potential championship contender.