Here's how the rest of the grid looks:

11. Gutierrez

                           12. Wehrlein

13. Grosjean

                           14. Alonso

15. Sainz

                           16. Perez

17. Magnussen

                           18. Ericsson

19. Palmer

                           20. Haryanto

21. Nasr

                          Pits. Kvyat and Massa

With penalties, this is how today's top 10 on the grid looks:

1. Hamilton

                          2. Hulkenberg

3. Button

                          4. Raikkonen

5. Ricciardo

                          6. Rosberg

7. Bottas

                          8. Verstappen

9. Vettel

                         10. Empty

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Just the nine corners in Spielberg, but the first one will be key. Can Lewis Hamilton and Nico Hulkenberg escape the pack in time to get around the first corner freely?

Keep an eye on Turn Eight - that's where quite a few drivers came unstuck by going wide and going over the yellow baguettes.

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McLaren's Jenson Button, who starts third after grid penalties for Nico Rosberg and Sebastian Vettel, has told BBC Radio 5 live's Allan McNish he is hoping for some rain this afternoon.

"These conditions are always a lot of fun. P5 was on merit and P3 was a bit luck," he said.

"If it's dry the car's pace will show and we'll be a little bit further back." 

BBC Radio 5 Live

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Ed Coleridge: Any team that ditches Jenson Button is mad. He's fast & F1's equivalent of a wise fox. If McLaren don't want him, hello Williams.

Robert Astill: Button needs to stay in F1 he's still got it and demands more respect from McLaren about his future.

Andrew Benson
Chief F1 writer

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Ferrari have spent most of this season not delivering what they believe is the potential of what they say is a quick but "difficult" car and it happened again in qualifying this weekend. This time, it was the fault of the drivers misjudging the conditions and not pushing hard enough on their final laps. 

Sebastian Vettel, who starts ninth on his 29th birthday following his gearbox penalty, was annoyed with himself. "It was a question of how much risk you were taking and when you crossed the line - the later the better," he said. "With hindsight I wasn't taking enough risk. I should have taken more. In these conditions the only reference is the lap before, and taking into consideration that it's drier the next lap, but you don't know how much. It's a bit of a shame we didn't get to see a head-to-head in Q3 with two sets of ultra-softs [per car]. It was looking very good this morning."

And here's the forecast for Graz Airport, which is 50 or so miles away.

It's Sebastian Vettel's birthday today. Happy birthday big man.

I assume you received a big cake from Red Bull Ring management, delivered by ladies in traditional Austrian dress?

No?

Oh.

Awkward.

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Chief F1 writer

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Haas driver Esteban Gutierrez put in his best performance of the year with 11th on the grid and afterwards revealed he has been suffering with an illness for the last month. "After Baku I went back to Mexico and I was in the hospital for one day to make studies from my head to my feet," said Gutierrez, who delivered his best qualifying performance of the season with 11th place in Austria. 

"I had a virus and bacteria… and then obviously with a lot of travelling my body was not recovering quickly. And it was also a bad period because we were kind of hot and cold in Monaco. Then I went to Mexico. Then Canada was cold. Then go fly to Baku, the other side of the world, and it was hot. It was not ideal. But now it has all gone."

Blonde ambition?

Star of Reservoir Dogs Michael Masden is in Spielberg.

Plenty of drivers will be hoping they won't be stuck in the middle of the pack at lights out.

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Allan McNish
BBC Radio 5 live Formula 1 analyst

There is a little bit of standing water. Tyre choice is going to be very difficult. And the track has been cleaned of all the rubber that was laid down by the storms we had overnight.

Andrew Benson
Chief F1 writer

Just as at Ferrari, the Red Bull drivers were disappointed with their qualifying, Daniel Ricciardo and Max Verstappen ending up seventh and ninth, Ricciardo just under 0.2secs faster. These will become fifth and seventh after the various penalties. The Dutchman was fourth in Q1, Ricciardo fourth in Q2 and in the rain they were expecting to be right up at the front. But both felt they had fallen prey to poor tyre management in qualifying - Verstappen by being too early on to the slicks and Ricciardo too late. Still, both teams have a potential ace up their sleeves if it’s dry. They set their fastest times on the super-soft in Q2, which means they start the race on them rather than the ultra-soft of the rest of the top 10. 

Lewis Hamilton said: "That's not a bad thing. I think the ultra-soft is not a good tyre for the race. It’s going to be a struggle to get a lot of laps out of it so the strategy will be interesting. Obviously those guys are starting behind me so I’m hoping I have a bit of an advantage at the start just from being on the softer tyre but… yeah, in practice my tyre lasted for four laps, so I think for Nico it lasted maybe eight? He says five. So it’ll definitely be tricky but we’ll do the best we can with it."

In the wet, both can be expected to be challenged right at the front.

Robin de Vries: Button should move to Williams. Massa out, Vandoorne in for McLaren. Win win.

Cornish Darren Fewins: Button is as physically & psychologically capable of winning races as he's ever been. As a World Champion he also has a certain edge.

Ravi Chandra: Jenson should just concentrate on this race for now.

Some breaking news - Felipe Massa will start from the pits after Williams found damage on his front wing.

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Nico Rosberg would become the first man to win three consecutive Austrian GPs with victory today.

Alain Prost (pictured above, centre), has the most Austrian GP wins, coming in 1983, 1985 and 1986.

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Mercedes drafted their protege Pascal Wehrlein into the Manor team this year with the idea of seeing whether he had the potential to be considered for a seat in the factory team in the future. Until Austria, things had not gone that well; Wehrlein was not generally doing that much better than team-mate Rio Haryanto, who is not highly regarded. But on the Red Bull Ring this weekend, Wehrlein has excelled. 

He was a remarkable ninth fastest in Q1 - 0.8secs up on Haryanto - and has qualified a very strong 12th. Mercedes F1 boss Toto Wolff was impressed. "I'm very happy," Wolff said. "It's the first racetrack he has raced on; he didn't know any of the others. Barcelona he knew from testing, but it's the first time he can call on some experience. When you come to some of these race tracks where you haven't been, it's difficult to be among the best drivers in the world so I'm delighted with his performance. It's the first time this season he has really proved that he is a special boy."

Emma: Great driver, ambassador, gentleman...of course he should stay. Nobody represents F1 better than Jenson Button.

Jason Good: Move to Williams seems best hope for 2017. Sad McLaren seem to value Van more.

Alex Shcnopple: Great to see Button starting 3rd, most certainly deserves a top 5 start, think he'd be good as a coach for young ens. Rosberg sixth eh?

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Amid all the chat about whether these yellow kerbs are dangerous or not, the real debate is what should we call them?

Are you a sausage kind of fellow? Or more of a baguette person?

Both have been used interchangeably throughout the weekend to describe the shape of these troublesome tykes.

Baguette seems to be the consensus, but I'm leaning towards sausage.

Where do you stand?

Add your weight to the heavy discussion over at #bbcf1.

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"Ham baguette fury" screams the Sun on Sunday, which says: "Lewis Hamilton slammed the Red Bull Ring's dangerous 'baguette' kerbs after three crashes in qualifying."

It adds: "Hamilton was unhappy with the new snaggle-toothed traps on the edge of the track."