FP3 - the restpublished at 11:05 British Summer Time 8 July 2017
11) Ocon 12) Hulkenberg 13) Vandoorne 14) Palmer 15) Alonso 16) Stroll 17) Massa 18) Perez 19) Ericsson 20) Wehrlein
Summary
Bottas on pole, Vettel 2nd, Hamilton will start 8th after penalty
Hamilton refuses to shake Vettel's hand when asked by interviewer
Five-place grid penalty for Hamilton after gearbox change
Raikkonen 3rd, Ricciardo 4th, Verstappen spins off on flying lap
FP3 - the restpublished at 11:05 British Summer Time 8 July 2017
FP3 top 10published at 11:03 British Summer Time 8 July 2017
1) Vettel 2) Hamilton 3) Bottas 4) Raikkonen 5) Verstappen 6) Ricciardo 7) Magnussen 8) Grosjean 9) Kvyat 10) Sainz
Chequered flagpublished at 11:02 British Summer Time 8 July 2017
Image source, Rex FeaturesSebastian Vettel finishes quickest in final practice for the Austrian Grand Prix.
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Seconds left of the session and Sebastian Vettel is going to finish quickest. His time of 1:05.092 is two tenths of a second quicker than Lewis Hamilton.
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Postpublished at 11:00 British Summer Time 8 July 2017
Actually, I put the line in about Lewis Hamilton moving on to 67 career pole positions here just to test that people were definitely reading, and not watching the British and Irish Lions against New Zealand.
Honest...
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Allan McNish
BBC Radio 5 live Formula 1 analystRight front disc issues as we noted before. The camera is so close to Hamitlon as he is running up the escape road and there is no disc there. It has exploded completely.
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Replays suggest it was front right brake failure for Lewis Hamilton and with four minutes left that'll be the end of his session.
Not ideal before qualifying...
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Looks like Lewis Hamilton locked up when he hit the brakes going up to Turn Three.
Get involved #bbcf1published at 10:52 British Summer Time 8 July 2017
Stoo G: Of course, Schumacher also had a pole that wasn't a pole, so it probably counts. Sort of. It's all very zen
Postpublished at 10:52 British Summer Time 8 July 2017
As pointed out by Jack Nicholls on the audio commentary, I forgot that Lewis Hamilton's grid penalty means he can't move on to 67 career pole positions today, ruining all the lovely graphics I had ready for if he did.
Speaking of Hamilton, he's just had a spin.
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Image source, F1.comSebastian Vettel and Lewis Hamilton alongside each other on the track. Just like old times.
Fortunately, no shenanigans this time. Both getting on with the job at hand.
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Fernando Alonso hasn't been hindered by a power unit switch. He's 10th quickest, after 1:06.599.
Jolyon Palmer is also going well. The Briton is up in ninth, 0.004s quicker than Alonso.
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Lewis Hamilton puts together an excellent lap to top of the pile with a 1:05.361.
Sebastian Vettel is completing his lap now, is it quicker? No. Two hundredths of second off Hamilton's time.
Bit of heat in the tyres now and Vettel goes again.
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Image source, Rex FeaturesFerrari have finished fiddling with Kimi Raikkonen's car and he's been out on the track for a couple of laps. He's currently fifth quickest.
Just the 14 laps completed in total by both Ferraris so far, compared to 30 for the Mercedes lads.
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Image source, Rex FeaturesLewis Hamilton and Sebastian Vettel have also put on new ultra-soft boots so some quick laps to come.
Meanwhile, Carlos Sainz is up to seventh as he makes up for lost time. A decent 1:06.405 putting him within a second of the pacesetters.
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Is that the end of the qualifying sims? Not quite. Valtteri Bottas is back out on a new set of ultra-softs.
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Lots of complaints about vibrations from drivers, Daniil Kvyat the latest to mention them.
"Lot of vibrations," he observes, sounding like he is sat on one of those massage chairs that is set to maximum speed.
Sainz back outpublished at 10:34 British Summer Time 8 July 2017
Image source, Getty ImagesCarlos Sainz is back out for the first time since coming to a stop on the track in the first couple of minutes of session, so whatever problem he had it appears to have been resolved.
His Toro Rosso is one of five cars out on the track along with his team-mate Daniil Kvyat, the two Red Bulls and the Renault of Nico Hulkenberg.
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Andrew Benson
Chief F1 writer in Austria
Image source, Rex FeaturesWilliams had a great weekend in Azerbaijan two weeks ago - not only did Lance Stroll score a maiden podium, but the points from that made a dent in the team’s already substantial deficit to Force India in the Mercedes privateers’ fight for fourth in the championship.
Williams have a big aerodynamic upgrade for Austria, which was run in the first session but not in the second, but things are not going that well so far.
Felipe Massa said yesterday: "Not good, to be honest. We didn't have a great Friday. We're struggling with the balance in the high speed, so there's a lot to try to understand to make the car more competitive. So I really hope we can do it. At least the engineers said it (the update) should be OK, the numbers and everything. We just took it off in the afternoon just to not damage it – and we had damage in the morning actually! We'll put it back for Saturday, and we should run with the new pieces.”