World champion and Formula 1 championship leader Max Verstappen dominated a damp 'sprint shootout' qualifying for Saturday's sprint race at the Austrian Grand Prix. | Sport24news
World champion and Formula 1 championship leader Max Verstappen dominated a damp 'sprint shootout' qualifying for Saturday's sprint race at theThe defending double champion clocked a best lap in one minute 4.440 seconds to outpace teammate Sergio Perez by half a second with Lando Norris third in his upgraded McLaren."Of course the track was drying so lap after lap you were improving and had to be on the track at the right time. I think we did well.
"I am very happy to be first. It's going to be quite difficult - the race for all the drivers will be quite hard to manage around here." Both Mercedes failed to make progress to the top ten - Lewis Hamilton suffering track problems in SQ1 and George Russell with hydraulics problems in SQ2."It is what it is," said Hamilton.Nico Hulkenberg took fourth place for the sprint ahead of the two Ferraris of Carlos Sainz and Charles Leclerc and the Aston Martins of two-time champion Fernando Alonso and Lance Stroll.
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