F1 Austrian GP Live Commentary and Updates – FP3 & Qualifying

08:45 Out in Q2: P11 Sainz, P12 Leclerc, P13 Ricciardo, P14 Alonso, P15 Giovinazzi

08:44

The incident involving Vettel and Alonso will be investigated after qualifying but that looks fairly clear-cut. Alonso had to totally back out to avoid the Aston Martin.

08:41 Alonso, on a quick lap, gets held up by Vettel at the final corner, with the Aston Martin driver waiting to start his own final flying lap. That wreck’s the Alpine driver’s lap while Vettel missed the chequered flag to start his lap.

08:39 Final Q2 run time. Ferrari sticking to the mediums for both drivers despite being outside the top 10. Bold.

08:37 Alongside the two Ferrari drivers are Alonso, Ricciardo and Giovinazzi who need to find gains to reach Q3 on the final runs in this session.

08:35 The medium tyre run for Ferrari hasn’t worked out, with Sainz in P11 and Leclerc in P12. They will need to go again on the softs.

08:32

The Perez qualifying show ends as the rest of the Q2 contenders come out, almost in unison.

08:28

Perez has the freedom of the Red Bull Ring, well he does drive for the home team after all, as he begins his first timed lap as the only driver on the track.

08:26 Perez comes out on to the track immediately on the medium tyres. He preferred to use the soft tyre last weekend to reach Q3 so this could be crucial to his strategy for the race.

08:22 Out in Q1: P16 Raikkonen, P17 Ocon, P18 Latifi, P19 Schumacher, P20 Mazepin.

08:21

Ricciardo will be one relieved driver as he has a lap time deleted for track limits right at the end of Q1, but his earlier lap sees him scrape by in P15 fractionally ahead of Raikkonen.

08:19

And Ocon is shuffled out again – improvements from Russell, Tsunoda and Leclerc mean the Alpine driver is pushed back to P17. That’s exactly where he qualified this time last week.