Charles Leclerc failed to set a time in the final segment of Sprint Qualifying at the Red Bull Ring, with an issue on his SF-24 seeing him pull up in the pit lane, before exiting too late to post a lap.
That wouldn't have registered on the radar of Max Verstappen, however, as he claimed pole position for Saturday’s Sprint – but he was pushed hard all the way by McLaren’s Lando Norris, the Red Bull Ring specialist qualifying just 0.093s adrift of Verstappen.
READ MORE: Verstappen pips Norris to Sprint Qualifying pole in Austria by 0.093s
Oscar Piastri, after an off-weekend in Barcelona, looked back in the groove in Austria, taking P3 ahead of George Russell and Carlos Sainz.
Hit play in the video up top to relive the action from Sprint Qualifying at the Austrian Grand Prix weekend.
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