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/
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There is absolutely no way De Vries is making it past the halfway point this season.
Checo will probably be fine until his contract runs out (as long as he doesn’t affect P1 for constructors standings) but red bull is not going to keep him for a day longer than that.
Even Hulkenberg in a Haas has more Q3 appearances than Checo this season. That’s got to fucking hurt 💀
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.
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.
Track limits were spicy. I wonder how the sprint qualy will go tomorrow. If Perez does this again Horner will be more than a bit annoyed.
Seeing Horner annoyed was the highlight of the session
That was really fun and I’m happy about the policing of the final 2 turns. Fair across the board
I’m hoping the new McLaren upgrades translate to race pace and aren’t just one-lap wonders.
Williams in Q3 again. Let’s go Williams.
Very curious to see how Logan fares once he gets the new upgrades like Albon. Don’t expect him to match up to the latter, but he did put in a really solid lap yesterday. This older spec car just didn’t give him enough pace.
I just want to see him in Q2. This is his rookie season after all.
He definitely reached Q2 once this season, don’t remember which race it was though. He’s got the right minerals, I just think he needs some time and at the very least a marginally better car. If Williams sack him right after this season, I think that would be pretty cruel and unwarranted.
Can someone fill me in why George did so poorly?
Also, is there flair in Lemmy?
No flair as of yet. You’d have to check the devs but they are swamped since the reddit blackouts started.
And no idea why George is losing pace in the car.
The updates don’t suit him the way they suit Lewis?
