Qualifying highlights from the official F1 YouTube. Events of note include:

  • Lots of track limits violations, and many of the stewarding decisions around them taking too long to be delivered, leading to confusion about the leaderboard.
  • Q1 spin at turn 1 from Bottas red-flagged the session temporarily.
  • Q2 sees Perez fail to advance after getting all three fast laps in Q2 deleted for track limits. This is now the 4th consecutive race that Perez has failed to advance to Q3 and qualify in the top-ten, while teammate Verstappen has taken pole at each of those 4 races in the same car.
  • Q3 saw Norris pull a P4 out of a hat. Maybe those McLaren upgrades are working after all.
  • Two hours after the session ended, Verstappen was called to meet the stewards for potentially impeding Magnusson, putting Max’s pole result at risk. Max was cleared though, and his classification at the front of the grid remains.

The grid order was posted already at https://sh.itjust.works/post/601233

Detailed session summary available at https://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/f1-qualifying-results-austrian-gp-pole-verstappen/10489483/

  • @dark_shines11
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    21 year ago

    No way Perez survives if a another constructor catches up. It’s still the same people in charge that got rid of all of Max’s teamates as soon as things got bad.

    Luckily it looks like Max is doing enough for the both of them.

    • @PilotJones
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      11 year ago

      Yeah Max himself can get the constructors championship locked up. Perez can thank his stars for that. Would’ve been out of a seat mid-season if that wasn’t so.