F1 Austrian Grand Prix LIVE: Qualifying updates and times (2024)

Lando Norris reflects on Max Verstappen masterclass after Austria qualifying

Lando Norris said Max Verstappen was “in a league of his own” after the Red Bull driver obliterated his rivals to take pole position for the Austrian Grand Prix.

On Red Bull’s home turf in Spielberg, and cheered on by 40,000 travelling Dutch fans, Verstappen produced a scintillating lap of the shortest track on the Formula One calendar to finish an eye-watering 0.404 seconds clear of McLaren’s Norris, with George Russell third for Mercedes, half-a-second back. Carlos Sainz took fourth, one place ahead of Lewis Hamilton.

The build-up to the 11th round has been dominated by Jos Verstappen’s row with Christian Horner following the former’s withdrawal from a parade of the sport’s legends ahead of Sunday’s 71-lap race.

Full report below:

Kieran Jackson29 June 2024 18:05

Lewis Hamilton optimistic ahead of tomorrow’s grand prix

Kieran Jackson29 June 2024 17:44

Here’s how close Piastri was!

Kieran Jackson29 June 2024 17:17

Oscar Piastri on deleted lap time:

“For me, it’s embarrassing. We do all this work for track limits and I didn’t even go off the track, probably my best turn 6 and it gets deleted. I don’t know why they’ve spent millions on the final two corners and there’s still somewhere you can go off with track limits.

“I was right on the limit of the track, we’ve had so much effort trying to get rid of these problems, there’s no reason this corner should be an issue with track limit when you stay on the track, which I did.”

“Max looked to be on another level, we’ll try our best. We saw in the sprint the tyres were overheating quickly, makes life tough but we’ll try our best.”

Kieran Jackson29 June 2024 17:04

Here’s Charles Leclerc’s moment at the end of Q3!

Kieran Jackson29 June 2024 16:55

George Russell after qualifying third:

“The car feels really good, we’ve got a fight on our hands with Ferrari, McLaren bit ahead, but good progress with us.

“Happy to be in P3, we compromised qualifying a little bit to help the race tomorrow, McLaren have the edge of us. Third race in a row for top three in qualifying.

“Verstappen and Norris were pretty dicey in the sprint race so hopefully I can sneak through on the inside but I think our race will be behind us unfortunately.”

Kieran Jackson29 June 2024 16:43

Lando Norris after qualifying second:

“It’s as much as we could do today, Max in a league of his own today. It’s good enough, I’ll take it.

“When you look at the pace today, we’re going to have to give it a lot and something to go our way. I’ll do a better job this morning for sure, usually we’re better in the races than for qualifying.”

Kieran Jackson29 June 2024 16:31

Max Verstappen on pole:

“The car felt a lot better today, every run was on point, it was very good out there.

“It’s been a while since we were on pole, the car have been working really hard to make the car more competitive, hopefully we can have a good race.

“It’s always nice to race, hopefully will be a good battle tomorrow but very happy with how the car was performing today.”

Kieran Jackson29 June 2024 16:22

TOP-10 IN AUSTRIAN GP QUALIFYING:

1. Max Verstappen

2. Lando Norris

3. George Russell

4. Carlos Sainz

5. Lewis Hamilton

6. Charles Leclerc

7. Oscar Piastri

8. Sergio Perez

9. Nico Hulkenberg

10. Esteban Ocon

Kieran Jackson29 June 2024 16:11

Oscar Piastri loses third place!

Track limits violation from Oscar Piastri and he loses third place!

That puts Russell up to third and Piastri drops to seventh!

Kieran Jackson29 June 2024 16:04