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Formula One heads to the Red Bull Ring for round 11 of the 2024 season as Spielberg hosts the Austrian Grand Prix this weekend.
Max Verstappen won for the third time in four races to win last time out in Spain, holding off a late charge from Lando Norris to extend his lead in the F1 world championship standings. He now leads Norris, up to second ahead of Charles Leclerc, by 69 points.
Norris was frustrated with second place in a quick McLaren car in Barcelona, while Mercedes’ Lewis Hamilton picked up his first podium of the season with a third-place finish.
Austria will host the third sprint race of the season this weekend. Verstappen won both races last year and is a four-time winner of Red Bull’s home race.
Follow live updates from the Austrian Grand Prix with The Independent
Lewis Hamilton fastest on hards!
Hamilton now back on top as Mercedes continue to dominate!
His table-topping time of 1:06:254 is a tenth quicker than Russell.
3-10: Verstappen, Perez, Norris, Leclerc, Sainz, Magnussen, Piastri, Ocon
10 to go. Most of the pack will switch to softs now…
Kieran Jackson28 June 2024 12:21
Tsunoda almost crashes into Albon!
“F*** that was so scary, Albon, so dangerous!”
Kieran Jackson28 June 2024 12:11
Max Verstappen back out on track!
Verstappen straight back out on track! Looks like the problem is rectified…
Kieran Jackson28 June 2024 12:09
Session resumes!
Verstappen’s Red Bull is safely in the garage – but I doubt he’ll be back out in this session!
Cars back out on track for the remaining 23 minutes…
Kieran Jackson28 June 2024 12:07
“I only changed the high-speed diff,” he says on team radio.
But that wouldn’t be an engine issue!
His car is now being rolled to the pit lane access gate by the marshals!
Kieran Jackson28 June 2024 12:05
RED FLAG!
Max Verstappen has stopped out on track!
Red flag is out – Verstappen has turned the car off on the start-finish straight and his Red Bull is just rolling down the hill!
Kieran Jackson28 June 2024 12:04
George Russell now quickest!
The younger Brit goes quicker than his team-mate on the hards with a 1:06:386, 0.006 secs quicker than Hamilton.
Verstappen now up to P3, two-tenths down, with Perez P4.
A bit of traffic out on track – but no particular flashpoints so far!
Kieran Jackson28 June 2024 11:49
Lewis Hamilton fastest on hard tyres!
After 10 minutes, it’s a Mercedes one-two – with Lewis Hamilton setting a time of 1:06:925, 0.088 secs quicker than team-mate George Russell! And that’s on hard tyres, with Sergio Perez in fourth on mediums.
Lando Norris is third, also on hards, with Oscar Piastri fifth and Max Verstappen sixth – within half-a-second of Hamilton.
7-10: Gasly, Leclerc, Albon, Hulkenberg
Kieran Jackson28 June 2024 11:40
FP1 underway!
Max Verstappen getting straight on with it as he leads a queue of cars out onto the track!
Verstappen is a four-time winner of this race and is the heavy favourite again this weekend, given his three wins from the last four races.
Kieran Jackson28 June 2024 11:31
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