F1 Austrian Grand Prix LIVE: Sprint qualifying schedule, results and times as Max Verstappen claims pole

Follow live updates from the Red Bull Ring on the third sprint weekend of the 2024 Formula One season

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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.

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F1 AUSTRIAN GRAND PRIX - LATEST UPDATES

• Max Verstappen on pole for the sprint race; Norris 2nd; Piastri 3rd
• Click HERE for the top-10 in sprint qualifying
• Fernando Alonso out in SQ2, also out: Magnussen, Stroll, Tsunoda, Sargeant
• Daniel Ricciardo out in SQ1, also out: Hulkenberg, Bottas, Albon, Zhou
• Max Verstappen fastest in first and only practice; Piastri 2nd; Leclerc 3rd
• RED FLAG! Verstappen stops on track in practice
• Verstappen leads the world championship by 69 points after 10 races

[28 June 2024 12:05 · Kieran Jackson]

“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!

Problems at Red Bull!

[28 June 2024 12:04 · Kieran Jackson]

RED FLAG!

Wow.

Max Verstappen has stopped out on track!

“Engine fault!”

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!

[28 June 2024 11:49 · Kieran Jackson]

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!

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[28 June 2024 11:43 · Kieran Jackson]

Some key changes in Austria!

[28 June 2024 11:40 · Kieran Jackson]

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

[28 June 2024 11:31 · Kieran Jackson]

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.

[28 June 2024 11:28 · Kieran Jackson]

F1 practice at Austrian Grand Prix!

So a crucial one hour of practice this morning at the Red Bull Ring ahead of sprint qualifying later on!

It’s the shortest circuit on the calendar so there should be plenty of laps in Spielberg in the next hour!

Who will set the early benchmark?

[28 June 2024 11:18 · Kieran Jackson]

Daniel Ricciardo on his future:

[28 June 2024 11:10 · Kieran Jackson]

Look who’s back in the paddock!

For just the third time this season, Jos Verstappen is back in the paddock!

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[28 June 2024 11:01 · Kieran Jackson]

George Russell on Mercedes’ resurgence