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Austrian GP: Bottas beats Vettel to pole by 0.042s

Mercedes driver Valtteri Bottas claimed his second pole position in Formula 1, beating Ferrari rival Sebastian Vettel by 0.042s in qualifying for the Austrian GP. Teammate Lewis Hamilton finished a tenth and a half adrift in third and is thus set to start eighth as he will be taking a five-place grid penalty for a gearbox change. Bottas, whose maiden F1 pole had come earlier in the season in Bahrain, crucially led Vettel after the first run of laps in the final qualifying segment, before yellow flags denied the pair and Hamilton the opportunity to improve. The culprit was Romain Grosjean, whose Haas car slowed to a crawl midway through the lap through gearbox issues just as the leading trio...
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