Bottas back on pole in Austria ahead of Hamilton and Vettel Valtteri Bottas succeeded in claiming pole position for the Austrian Grand Prix for the second year on succession. He was 0.019s ahead of his team mate Lewis Hamilton in the final round of qualifying on Saturday afternoon, meaning that tomorrow's race will saw an all-Mercedes front row line-up. Best of the rest were the two Ferraris of Sebastian Vettel and Kimi Raikkonen, with local favourite Max Verstappen fifth ahead of Haas' Romain Grosjean. Current man of the moment Charles Leclerc was only 13th fastest after qualifying, and he will get a five place demotion on tomorrow's grid because of a gearbox change following a failure at...
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