00:01O'Connor's gone to seventh so let's see what Hülkenberg can do and he's gone ninth the top
00:07three weight in the pits Sainz Piastri and Verstappen they're happy they've done enough
00:11Norris has now done enough even if the team weren't sure yeah just so mate Magnussen jumps
00:17to fifth and Hamilton that's on a new tire and he should be safe with that but he's not happy
00:21with his performance but look at Perez down to 13th now he's gonna be the next big name driver
00:25to start a flying lap but have to pull something out Perez under pressure Albon there and two-time
00:31world champion Fernando Alonso into the drop zone with not a brilliant first sector it is a personal
00:38best but he's looking for an improvement as well the driver at risk is the driver we're looking at
00:42Alex Albon who was out in this stage of sprint qualifying yesterday trying to take a step
00:47forward comes across the line and he improves his time but not his position and can Stroll improve
00:54no he goes to 16th position only four can knock out Albon now Alonso's on a slightly better lap
01:01and then manages to pop it in there he manages to knock Alex Albon out along with his teammate
01:06the pressure is on Sergio Perez he improves to 12th and Alonso found a lap time to get in there
01:13Perez found a lap time to get in there but would you look at the gap from first to 20th
01:19it's under
01:20eight tenths of a second unbelievably close and in the end Alonso just pipped Albon stroll out as
01:27well along with Bottas Sargent and Joe
01:32Walk on post his best lap time of the session so far but it leaves him in ninth and therefore
01:38it
01:38leaves him at risk you have to say with so many pushing on behind with the track at its grippiest
01:43of
01:44every stage of the weekend so far Hamilton goes up to third place Verstappen trying to lower the bar
01:49out front he's just done the fastest first sector of anyone so far loving it around this circuit what
01:54about those in the drop zone at the moment Hülkenberg gets to ninth that's a big effort for the German
01:59driver what about his teammate though full commitment now for Magnussen to try and jump back up into the top
02:0510 blend into the throttle and here we go through the hop of turn 10 that looked pretty quick from
02:11K-Mag is it enough to break the top 10 no 12th position Daniel Ricciardo is close in with Ocon
02:17at
02:18two-thirds distance this is one corner to go for Fernando Alonso Verstappen blitz the field again
02:24out front incredible lap from him as we're watching who gets through into Q3 Alonso won't be part of that
02:30conversation across the line for Ricciardo who's going to just miss out there by 15 thousandths of
02:37a second and now Gasly is the driver trying to book his place there no he misses out Ocon's lap
02:44time
02:44was good enough is he going to run it out to the gravel and well that's not the quickest way
02:51through
02:51there quite obviously and that could well explain why that lap time disappeared Alonso over a second
02:59away from the overall pace he is out in Q2 along with Tsunoda Magnussen Gasly and Daniel Ricciardo
03:08let's see the time on the board for the hot favorite for pole position it's a 104.4 Max Verstappen
03:15bringing a cheer from the crowd can Lando Norris strike back he can't he's three tenths of a second
03:20away but he's ahead of his teammate and he's on the front row with Verstappen once again
03:24as it stands like he was for sprint qualifying yesterday Charles Leclerc trying to get into the
03:30mix and he's ahead of a McLaren he goes to P3 here are the two Mercedes about to put their
03:36efforts
03:36on the board fifth place for Lewis Hamilton and now George Russell who is 8-2 up in the head
03:43-to-head
03:43between these two it was Hamilton who is the lead car on the grid at the Spanish Grand Prix what
03:47about
03:48the Austrian Grand Prix one run to go after this one and George Russell manages to find third position
03:55so Verstappen has a fine fine advantage it's been fine margins but it's a huge buffer that he's got
04:03as he begins his second flying lap in Q3 he has indeed we've only got him in that to the
04:08top left
04:09this is exit of six entry a seven keeps it clean and marginally down on his previous best middle sector
04:17only a 28.7 so when I'm seeing marginally down it's a thousand of a second slower maybe a little
04:25hesitant
04:25in turn 10 let's find out what Verstappen does he's taken it even further away from the other competitors
04:32in the field what a lap from Max Verstappen he's got a margin of nearly half a second when the
04:39others
04:39are trying to post their laps at the end Hülkenberg goes to eighth place if he stays there it's his
04:43best
04:44start of the year what about Oscar Piastri trying to join his teammate trying to exceed his teammate
04:49and he's done so by one thousandth of a second Sainz goes to fourth Lando Norris will need a reply
04:56to get back on the front row here in Austria it's where he was for sprint qualifying not a great
05:03first sector it is an improvement in the middle part of the lap can Norris displace the man who
05:08beat him to second earlier in the sprint the answer is yes at the end he's done it he's done
05:15it when he
05:15needed to he's four tenths of a second away from Max Verstappen but he's the lead McLaren on the grid
05:22uh there's an incident for Verstappen on the pit exit that's the only bad news
05:26oh off in the background and that is over the gravel Charles Leclerc seeing his chance of improving
05:32his time fall away and he finds himself restricted to sixth place Mercedes now first up Lewis Hamilton
05:40finds a clean route through and Hamilton where can he go across the line up to fifth ahead of his
05:45teammate needs a reply from George Russell or is it going to be Hamilton the lead Mercedes on the grid
05:51once again Russell's done all the hard work up through the gears over the line Russell goes to
05:56fourth he goes ahead of signs he goes ahead of his teammate Lewis Hamilton Oscar Piastri's time
06:02is deleted he drops down to seventh position in the order Charles Leclerc wasn't just through the
06:08turn nine gravel trap turn six as well yeah scrappy frustration coming through and uh to compound that
06:15launches it into nine and uh no hope of controlling that yeah I think I broke everything
06:21yeah no one is near Max Verstappen lapsed to savor for the man who has taken a fifth consecutive
06:32pole position around the red bull ring and that was a masterclass
06:37yes
06:37you
06:37you
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