Defending Formula One champion Max Verstappen continued his dominant form when he qualified in first place for the sprint race which takes place later Saturday at the Austrian Grand Prix.
The runaway championship leader, who had already secured pole position for Sunday's GP, was .49 seconds quicker than his Red Bull teammate Sergio Perez and .57 ahead of McLaren's Lando Norris. Nico Hulkenberg qualified in fourth place ahead of Ferrari duo Carlos Sainz Jr. and Charles Leclerc.
The shortened qualifying format -- known in F1 as the "sprint shootout" -- set the grid for a 17-lap sprint race later, where seven-time F1 champion Lewis Hamilton starts from 18th place after being knocked out of the first part of sprint qualifying. Hamilton looked pensive as he walked back through the paddock to rejoin his team's garage.
The Austrian GP is the second of six F1 events with a format featuring a sprint race on the Saturday, where the winner gets eight points, and the second driver gets seven, down to one point for the eighth-place finisher. Perez won the sprint race in Azerbaijan, with Verstappen finishing third.
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