Bottas gets the startpublished at 13:05 British Summer Time 9 July 2017
Allan McNish
BBC Radio 5 live Formula 1 analyst
Image source, AFPThat was an absolutely sensation get away from Valtteri Bottas.
Big loser? Max Verstappen.
Summary
Bottas wins, Vettel 2nd, Ricciardo 3rd, Hamilton 4th
Vettel accuses Bottas of jump start - but Bottas is cleared by stewards
Verstappen and Alonso out after crash, Magnussen, Sainz also out
British GP live on radio 5 live and sport website from Friday
Bottas gets the startpublished at 13:05 British Summer Time 9 July 2017
Image source, AFPPostpublished at Lap 2/71
Daniel Ricciardo pushes Kimi Raikkonen wide. Cheeky. The Australian is up to third.
Max Verstappen is limping round the circuit. Disaster. Daniil Kvyat and Fernando Alonso pit. It looks like all three were involved in an early collision.
Postpublished at Lap 1/71
Debris! Someone's lost something as the cars huddle up through the first corner. Was it Max Verstappen?
Meanwhile, what a start by Lewis Hamilton! He's up to sixth from eighth.
Image source, ReutersGo! Go! Go!published at 13:03 British Summer Time 9 July 2017
LIGHTS OUT!!
Superb start by Valtteri Bottas and he has the lead into Turn One!
Postpublished at 13:02 British Summer Time 9 July 2017
Image source, AFPHere we go then. Everyone takes their place on the grid.
Will Sebastian Vettel get a better launch than Valtteri Bottas?
Let's find out...
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Jacques: I expect Vettel to win, will get a good launch at the start and will get past Bottas. Hopefully Lewis can get on the podium.
Kayleigh: Tough one today, I want both Vet and Bot to win! Can it be a draw? Is that allowed?!
This isn't the rugby Kayleigh....
Starting gridpublished at 13:01 British Summer Time 9 July 2017
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Away go the cars on the formation lap.
Everyone in the top 10 is on ultra-softs apart from Lewis Hamilton, who startson super-softs.
Further down the grid is a mixture of ultra-softs and super-softs. Felipe Massa and Jolyon Palmer start on softs.
Alonso in the zonepublished at 12:59 British Summer Time 9 July 2017
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Strategy suggestionpublished at 12:58 British Summer Time 9 July 2017
Andrew Benson
Chief F1 writer in AustriaStrategy? If it’s dry, a one-stop - any permutation is quicker than a two-stop. Most likely start on the ultra-soft and run for around 26 laps before fitting the soft. But a super-soft start and then soft is calculated by Pirelli as quicker - and that’s what Lewis Hamilton is on after doing his Q2 run on the super-soft.
A longer first stint on the ultra-soft then the super-soft is also possible, as is the reverse. All two-stop strategies are slower - and also come with the added problem of having to overtake people.
Listen to live commentarypublished at 12:57 British Summer Time 9 July 2017
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Postpublished at 12:51 British Summer Time 9 July 2017
Andrew Benson
Chief F1 writer in Austria
Image source, Rex FeaturesRomain Grosjean starts sixth - close to his best result in qualifying of the season. Which just underlines the up-and-down nature of the season for the Haas team - his average qualifying position is 12.3 and he was seventh, 14th and 17th in the preceding three races. It’s even better than it looks before his Q3 lap time was set on scrubbed tyres, the car stopping at Turn Three on his new tyre run. Kevin Magnussen was annoyed to suffer a suspension failure midway through Q1 - he qualified for Q2 but could not take part. As he put it: “I’ve been in front of him (Grosjean) all weekend. It’s very annoying and frustrating. Although we were competitive the field is very close, we won’t be a second faster than the guys around. You need that to be able to overtake.”
Postpublished at 12:50 British Summer Time 9 July 2017
Image source, AFPWe've just had the Austrian national anthem, sung by the Vienna boys choir.
The drivers lined up for it, but Sebastian Vettel and Lewis Hamilton kept their distance. Will it be the same on the track?
Postpublished at 12:48 British Summer Time 9 July 2017
Image source, Getty ImagesValtteri Bottas speaking to Jennie Gow on BBC 5 live:
"I'm feeling good, it's nice to be starting in front of everyone and it hopefully makes things more simple.
"If I get a good start it will be ok. I need to focus on my own race and try to win it, that's what's best for the team."
Postpublished at 12:47 British Summer Time 9 July 2017
Image source, Getty ImagesWhat chance of Lewis Hamilton winning the race? History says not good.
The last winner who started lower than third was David Coulthard in 2001, who started seventh.
Hamilton starts eighth today.
Postpublished at 12:44 British Summer Time 9 July 2017
Image source, F1.comSome Red Bulls jets have just completed a flyover the circuit. Cue everyone in the paddock humming the theme to Top Gun.
Postpublished at 12:43 British Summer Time 9 July 2017
Andrew Benson
Chief F1 writer in Austria
Image source, Rex FeaturesWilliams had their best race of the season two weeks ago in Baku but this weekend they have had their worst qualifying since, well, Korea 2013, it turns out, when Valtteri Bottas and Pastor Maldonado were 17th and 18th just as Felipe Massa and Lance Stroll are here.
What happened? Well, chief technical officer Paddy Lowe likened it to Mercedes’ struggles at Singapore in 2015 “not in terms of explanation, but in terms of how it feels”. He did not offer an explanation, saying only: “All our best ideas were already deployed either in FP3 or in qualifying. We'll have to go away and spend a lot more time analysing the situation.”
Felipe Massa was perplexed because the car was quick on long runs, just not on short runs on new tyres. But insiders say the issue was the thorny old one of imperfect tyre management - ie the tyres not in the right operating temperature window.
Your top 10 predictionspublished at 12:41 British Summer Time 9 July 2017
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Williams had a shocker in qualifying as Felipe Massa and Lance Stroll failed to get out of Q1, qualifying 17th and 18th respectively.
That was their worst qualifying performance in four years. Clearly they are in a positive mood with this cheery stat...
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