Well the F1 if off to a very late start. Two consequtive weekends of racing in Austria.
Practice saw number of drivers spinning out.
Qualifying results
1/ Bottas
2/ Hamilton
3/ Verstappen
4/ Norris
5/ Albon
6/ Perez
7/ Leclerc
8/ Sainz
9/ Stroll
10/ Ricciardo
11/ Vettel
Daniel Ricciardo was caught out by a late yellow flag. but still qualified ahead of Vettel
Bottas beat Hamilton by about 1/100th of a second.
Verstappen was about 1/2 second off the pace from the Mercs in 3rd.
What was surprising to me was that 10 cars qualified within 1 seconds of Verstappen's time
Vettel (11) qualified well behind Leclerc in 7th position. Vettel did not make it to the final qualifying round.
Red Bull lodged a protest against Mercedes for their new steering system, but the protest was dismissed. There is some suggestion that Red Bull have their own version of the steering system ready to go, but wanted to clear the legality with the protest
Hamilton faced the stewarts for allegedly not slowing down sufficiently under yellow flag during Q3, but video evidence indicated that both yellow and green were displayed at the same time so he was not punished.
There has been speculation that there would be a protest against the pink team (Racing Point) as their cars appear to be copies of Mercedes 2019 cars. Mercedes is not concerned about the similarity and as it is a customer team............ who knows what has been agreed to behind closed doors. Protest has not materialized yet, at least not to my knowledge.
Practice saw number of drivers spinning out.
Qualifying results
1/ Bottas
2/ Hamilton
3/ Verstappen
4/ Norris
5/ Albon
6/ Perez
7/ Leclerc
8/ Sainz
9/ Stroll
10/ Ricciardo
11/ Vettel
Daniel Ricciardo was caught out by a late yellow flag. but still qualified ahead of Vettel
Bottas beat Hamilton by about 1/100th of a second.
Verstappen was about 1/2 second off the pace from the Mercs in 3rd.
What was surprising to me was that 10 cars qualified within 1 seconds of Verstappen's time
Vettel (11) qualified well behind Leclerc in 7th position. Vettel did not make it to the final qualifying round.
Red Bull lodged a protest against Mercedes for their new steering system, but the protest was dismissed. There is some suggestion that Red Bull have their own version of the steering system ready to go, but wanted to clear the legality with the protest
Hamilton faced the stewarts for allegedly not slowing down sufficiently under yellow flag during Q3, but video evidence indicated that both yellow and green were displayed at the same time so he was not punished.
There has been speculation that there would be a protest against the pink team (Racing Point) as their cars appear to be copies of Mercedes 2019 cars. Mercedes is not concerned about the similarity and as it is a customer team............ who knows what has been agreed to behind closed doors. Protest has not materialized yet, at least not to my knowledge.