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Ferrari suffer qualifying shocker as Bottas takes pole in Austria

Valtteri Bottas stunned Mercedes team-mate Lewis Hamilton by claiming the 12th pole position of his Formula 1 career on a day when Ferrari's worst fears came home to roost. Bottas finished just 0.012secs clear of Hamilton in qualifying for the Austrian Grand Prix, setting a lap record at the Red Bull Ring en route with a time of one minute 02.939s. Article continues under video The duo were half-a-second clear of Red Bull's Max Verstappen, although the Dutchman will start on the medium tyre - he was the only driver to make it into Q3 on that compound - so offering a different strategic variable to those in front of him. In what was F1's first qualifying session for 217 days since the final...
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