Max Verstappen takes his third successive pole position as he is joined on the front row by Lando Norris, while Sergio Perez gives the championship leader additional support in the battle with Mercedes.
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Max Verstappen out-paces Mercedes pair by over 0.5s in final practice for Austrian Grand Prix, as McLaren continues to struggle.
Mercedes has announced a two-year extension to its partnership with Lewis Hamilton, ensuring he will drive for the German team in 2022 and 2023 , his 10th and 11th seasons with the Brackley based outfit.
Daniel Ricciardo admits to being surprised at finishing a lowly 15th in FP2, feeling that he's actually made a step forward.
Having idolised Michael Schumacher, Sebastian Vettel now finds himself mentor to the seven-time world champion's son, Mick.
In terms of qualifying pace, we still haven't found the small step we need in order to be further ahead.
The tyre behaviour is similar to last week and the softer C5 compound, which we have this weekend as the Soft tyre, was working quite well straightaway.
As Honda insists that improved performance is down to hard work and a better understanding, Lewis Hamilton insists that the latest power unit has "something extra".
As expected with the softer compounds, we had some graining on the soft tyre in particular, which suggests that we might see some quite different strategies compared to last weekend.