Taking P1 by almost half a second around a lap of Austria is... quite something. 😳 F1 AustrianGP Formula1 MaxVerstappen
Max Verstappen dominated the sprint shootout at the Austrian Grand Prix to start P1 for Saturday’s sprint later in the day.
With rain having fallen heavily in Spielberg overnight and Formula 3 drivers having already driven in the rain on Saturday morning, the track was just about dry enough for the shootout to take place on dry tyres – though SQ1 took place with the drivers beginning on a mixture of slick and intermediate tyres.
Lingering dampness on kerbs and at a couple of points on track meant lap times were several seconds slower than they were in they were to begin with on Friday, but with the track declared wet, the mandatory medium tyre requirement in SQ1 was removed – so soft tyres were fitted on most of the cars through the session when it was dry enough.
At the other end, meanwhile, Lewis Hamilton was the one to fall foul of having his best lap time deleted, which would have been good enough for the top six. The frantic nature of continually putting in lap times continued elsewhere, and it was Alex Albon, Pierre Gasly, Yuki Tsunoda and Nyck de Vries that would fall during SQ2, setting up the top 10 shootout which would take place over eight short minutes to decide the sprint grid for later on Saturday.
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