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F1’s 70th anniversary season was originally due to begin at the Australian Grand Prix in March, but the race had to be cancelled prior to first practice after a member of the McLaren team tested positive for COVID-19. Obviously, I’ve been preparing for this for a long time; it feels so good, I cannot say more than that. Qualifying took place in wet conditions after a 46-minute delay to allow the weather conditions to improve. His team mate Sebastian Vettel didn’t even manage that, the German getting the boot in Q2 – he’ll start Sunday’s race from 11th, albeit as the leading driver with free tyre choice. 1080p, F1TV with SkyF1 commentary. Seb and Charles are ready to challenge Mercedes for pole position . Bottas set an early marker with a new track record, pipping Hamilton after the opening salvos. Formula 1 has been in a holding pattern as the coronavirus pandemic struck the world, but after nearly four months, the cars finally hit the track – and … Austrian GP qualifying as it happened. Race weekend. 1.4m. Up front, Hamilton was the quickest on the first runs, but he was usurped by his team mate Bottas on the seconds, the Silver Arrows in a league of their own as they comfortably occupied the top two spots in the rankings. Bottas, meanwhile, now has three poles in Austria, more than at any other venue. Only Albon opted against a second run, the Thai driver easily progressing in 12th, allowing him to take an extra set of soft tyres into the remainder of qualifying. 26 votes, 17 comments. Austrian Grand Prix Qualifying: 15:00 (UK time: 14:00) Sunday 5th July 2020. 506. Valtteri Bottas of Finland drives the Mercedes-AMG Petronas F1 Team's No. FORMULA 1 ROLEX GROSSER PREIS VON ÖSTERREICH 2020 - QUALIFYING 03 05 Jul 2020 Red Bull Ring, Spielberg. READ MORE: Mercedes DAS system ruled legal as Red Bull protest rejected, F1 TRACKS: Listen to Kylie Minogue's playlist ahead of the Bahrain GP, AS IT HAPPENED: Follow all the action from second practice for the Bahrain Grand Prix, F2: Zhou takes pole by 0.003s for Bahrain Feature Race despite reprimand from stewards, Odds and betting lines for the Bahrain GP – With Hamilton not the favourite for the season opener, © 2003-2021 Formula One World Championship Limited, Qualifying Highlights: 2020 Austrian Grand Prix, Austria Qualifying: Vettel misses out on Q3, ONBOARD: Valtteri Bottas' Pirelli pole position lap in Austria. Norris was on the pace from Q2 and he delivered when it mattered once more in Q3 to secure a career-best fourth on the grid, while Albon and Perez clocked exactly the same time, Albon taking fifth by virtue of achieving the feat first. 19.2k. After the first runs, the eight boxed for new boots and splash of fuel, with the two Mercedes the last two rejoin the fray. Verstappen was fastest on 1m04.024s, ahead of Bottas and Hamilton. Also Read: F1 Confirms 2 More Races to the 2020 Calendar, Set to Race in Mugello for the First Time FP3 and Qualifying sessions in danger of being rained out at According to ‘ The Race ,’ “McLaren Team Principal Andreas Seidl has revealed that Race Director Michael Masi has issued a pre-warning regarding the forecast. Second time around, Verstappen went one step better, improving on his earlier best – after Stroll briefly went top of the pops – with Bottas beating his more decorated team mate, slotting in just under a tenth clear of the Briton. Drivers. Follow the Austrian Grand Prix live with Eurosport. Find race, driver, circuit and team information, as well as news and results. This was Mercedes’ 65th front row lock out, tying Ferrari’s all-time record, and their first since Silverstone almost exactly one year ago. Saturday at 14:00hrs twenty drivers will go head to head to battle it out for pole position at the first Austrian Grand Prix. His first run wasn’t too good, but he improved on his second to go sixth quickest, three tenths above the cut-off. Carlos Sainz was eighth for McLaren, with Daniel Ricciardo making sure Renault had at least one car in Q3 as the Australian completed the top 10. The 2020 Formula 1 season will kick off with the Austrian Grand Prix on July 3-5. It was advantage Bottas after the first runs, the Finn beating Hamilton, ahead of the two Red Bulls of Verstappen and Albon, as Stroll and Ricciardo opted for just one run. — Formula 1 (@F1) July 4, 2020. Max Verstappen, winner of the last two Austrian Grands Prix, was third, albeit it nearly half a second off the pace, but the Red Bull driver will fancy his chances of spoiling the Mercedes party on Sunday, given he’ll be starting on the more durable medium tyre with everyone else in the top 10 on the softs. F1 Austrian GP 2020 Qualifying Race Results: The qualifying race for Austrian GP 2020 threw some surprises. In Qualifying 1, Alfa Romeo’s Antonio Giovinazzi set the first qualifying lap of the 2020 season. Following the coronavirus-induced hiatus, F1 will finally return to action at the Red Bull Ring in Spielberg this weekend. His team mate Albon made an error on his first run, but fortunately, he had an extra set of tyres to go again – doing enough to go through in third. The best independent Formula 1 community anywhere. Valtteri Bottas upset the odds to beat Lewis Hamilton to pole position for the season-opening Austrian Grand Prix by just 12 hundredths of a second. Verstappen was fastest on 1m04.024s, ahead of Bottas and Hamilton. READ MORE: 'I thought we had more in hand' - Vettel ‘surprised’ by Q2 exit as Ferrari struggle in Austria. ... 2020, 12:48 PM. F1 Nation returns on March 23 - and with an all-new line-up! Norris was impressive, too, the McLaren driver going fourth quickest, ahead of the impressive Racing Point duo and his more experienced team mate Sainz. Formula 1 has been in a holding pattern as the coronavirus pandemic struck the world, but after nearly four months, the cars finally hit the track – and it was Mercedes, running a black livery in a stand against racism – who continued their rampant form in F1 who seized the advantage. 2020 Austrian Grand Prix - Qualifying results Qualifying. Here’s how and when you can watch qualifying in your country. Mercedes continued their vice-like grip on the Austrian Grand Prix weekend, with an emphatic one-two finish in qualifying as Valtteri Bottas escaped an off-track excursion to beat team mate Lewis Hamilton to take the first pole position of 2020. The most eagerly awaited session of the year did not disappoint. Down the other end, there was misery for Alfa Romeo’s Antonio Giovinazzi and Kimi Raikkonen as they couldn’t escape the drop zone, the duo outqualified by a brilliant George Russell in the Williams, who was inside the top 15 after the first runs, only to get bumped down to 17th, 0.073s from the cut-off, which nonetheless was an impressive result. Lando Norris was a brilliant fourth, the McLaren driver recovering from an error on his first run which forced him to back off to put everything together when it mattered in the second runs, edging out Alexander Albon by just 0.024s. googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1526810873155-0');}); Mercedes, running a black livery in a stand against racism. Racing Point had looked strong on Friday, with Sergio Perez confirming that encouraging pace with sixth and his team mate Lance Stroll ninth. #WeRaceAsOne. Get yourself a seat and a spot, cause here you'll find the best place to watch the 2020 Austrian Grand Prix! So it’s advantage Mercedes heading into race day, with Verstappen lurking in the position he managed to convert into victory this time last year. Valtteri Bottas scored his 12th F1 pole position during the 2020 Austrian qualifying session today. The 2020 Formula 1 season will kick off with the Austrian Grand Prix on July 3-5. Intriguingly, Leclerc took seventh with a time that was a massive 0.920s slower than he managed last year, when he took pole position in Austria. It was the 112th pole for Mercedes. If in a minute stream doesn't start please refresh with F5. Verstappen hooked up his Red Bull nicely early doors to go quickest after the first runs, as Hamilton ran wide at Turn 10 and was forced into doing a second run, which popped him up to second. Red Bull rolled the dice with Verstappen in the first runs, bolting a set of the medium tyres while everyone else went straight for the softs in a bid to offset his strategy for Sunday’s Grand Prix. Close. Austrian Grand Prix: 15:10 (UK time: 14:10) Get all the 2020 Formula 1 race weekend times on your mobile device plus test sessions, car launches and more using the RaceFans F1 Calendar. The scene is set. 2020 Austrian Grand Prix - Qualifying Discussion. 2020 Pole lap by Valtteri Bottas with a time of 1:02.9392019 Pole lap by Charles Leclerc with a time of 1:03.003 Mercedes continued their vice-like grip on the Austrian Grand Prix weekend, with an emphatic one-two finish in qualifying as Valtteri Bottas escaped an off-track excursion to beat team mate Lewis Hamilton to take the first pole position of 2020. Who knows who will have the fastest lap this afternoon on the Red Bull Ring! In Qualifying 1, Alfa Romeo’s Antonio Giovinazzi set the first qualifying lap of the 2020 season. googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1526810873155-0');}). Archived. Our team has done an amazing job, we seem to be on our own league.”. The Finn looked immense in the first sector on the second run, but threw it all away as he lost control of the car and bounced across the track before re-joining. 2020 Austrian Grand Prix - Qualifying Discussion. The race starts at 15:00 on 4 July 2020. Formula 1 / Austrian GP / Livefeed . Knocked out: Vettel, Gasly, Kvyat, Ocon, Grosjean. News, stories and discussion from and about the world of Formula 1. Find race results, standings, stats, scores and track info. 8 months ago. News ‘Red Bull are ahead’ – Mercedes concede rivals were ‘class act’ of testing and admit they ‘don’t have answers’ for W12 handling issues F1, Qualifying: live results and updates | 2020 Austrian GP. Qualifying. Lewis Hamilton will start the Styrian Grand Prix from pole position, the second race of the 2020 Formula 1 World Championship season at the Red Bull Ring in Austria. Race sponsor. Finnish ace Valtteri Bottas was the class of the field in qualifying for the first Formula 1 Grand Prix of the COVID-19-delayed 2020 season, as he pipped teammate Lewis Hamilton in a dominant session for Mercedes in Austria. Q1 107% time - 1:23.661 Note - Norris penalised three grid places for overtaking under … In Qualifying 1, Alfa Romeo’s Antonio Giovinazzi set the first qualifying lap of the 2020 season. Everything you need to know about the 2020 Austrian Grand Prix. Knocked out: Magnussen, Russell, Giovinazzi, Raikkonen, Latifi. Q1 Rookie Nicholas Latifi who crashed the Williams earlier today in FP3, was the first to go out. Here’s how and when you can watch qualifying in your country. Hamilton will have seen his team mate run off track, and kept his head down, setting a couple of purple mini-sectors in the middle loop, but he couldn’t find enough time in the first sector to usurp his team mate. Such is the Ferrari struggle that they got out paced by McLaren & Racing point. There was bad news for Ferrari, though, Leclerc just scraped through in 10th, but a scrappy final lap from Vettel meant he wasn’t so lucky, the German ending up 11th to force him out of qualifying. Andrew Lewin 04/07/2020 at 15:10 04/07/2020 at 15:11 Full results from qualifying for the Austrian Grand Prix at the Red Bull Ring, Spielberg, round 1 of the 2020 Formula 1 season. Follow all the action from the Austrian Grand Prix as it happens with our minute-by-minute coverage. Formula 1 Rolex Grosser Preis von Osterreich 2020. Pole-sitter Valtteri Bottas: “I missed these feelings, you know, the qualifying shakes are something special when you push the car to the limit. There was not so good news for Ferrari, though, with Charles Leclerc a disappointing seventh, having just scraped through to Q3 in 10th. 2020 F1 Austrian Grand Prix qualifying results Charles Bradley. Mercedes continued to dominate and locked the front row, however, the surprise came with Ferrari struggle. Also from the main boy smcgill1969: 1080p50, SkyF1HD, 5.4GB (3.2GB quali): Mercedes look like they are in prime position to start their title defence with a one-two, but Verstappen in third is sitting pretty on the medium tyres, and his Red Bull came alive in last year’s race as his car dealt better with the warm conditions. The Austrian Grand Prix kicks off at 1510 local time, which is 1210 UTC. Bottas seemed to have his Mercedes hooked up perfectly as he nailed the opening sequence of corners, only to run wide at Turn 4 and bounce across the gravel. Mercedes seems to be in the best position for now, but Red Bull Racing is a lot closer than on Friday. Race; Race result; Fastest laps; Pit stop summary; Starting grid; Qualifying; Practice 3; Practice 2 ... F1 2020; F1 Mobile Racing; F1 Manager; Live Timing; Tickets; F1® Experiences; Store; Paddock Club; F1® TV; That opened the door for Hamilton to take advantage, the Briton running last on track, and while he did improve on his first effort, he couldn’t quite make the difference, finishing 0.012s off Bottas' pace. It can take a minute to start. The 2020 Formula 1 world championship will finally get underway with the Austrian Grand Prix on July 3-5, having been delayed by several months due to the coronavirus pandemic. He will start from P1 for the 3rd time on the Red Bull Ring during his F1 career tomorrow. Posted by. Verstappen was fastest on 1m04.024s, ahead of Bottas and Hamilton. It was super close, though, with just four tenths splitting fourth and 11th. 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