Mercedes' Lewis Hamilton and Valtteri Bottas made it a third-straight practice 1-2, while Max Verstappen managed to significantly close the gap in the final session of practice in Austria on Saturday. As they had in both sessions on Friday, Hamilton led Bottas, the former's best effort a 1:04.130, with the latter a further 0.147 seconds back. Evidently, Mercedes are the team to beat heading into qualifying at the Red Bull Ring, but those Formula 1 fans looking for something other than pure Mercedes domination were given some hope by Verstappen's performance, with his best lap in the Red Bull just 0.283s off the lead. Continuing his strong run of form, Sergio Perez was fourth for Racing...
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