Formula 1: 2021 Styrian Grand Prix qualifying – Full starting lineup
By Asher Fair
Another exciting qualifying session set the starting lineup for the 2021 Formula 1 season’s eighth race, the Styrian Grand Prix at the Red Bull Ring.
Red Bull’s Max Verstappen made the 2021 Formula 1 season his first with more than two pole positions by taking his third of the year for tomorrow’s Styrian Grand Prix at the Red Bull Ring.
This pole position is the sixth of his career, and it continued his momentum from his French Grand Prix victory from the pole position at Circuit Paul Ricard last weekend.
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The points leader took the pole position for this 71-lap race around the 10-turn, 2.683-mile (4.318-kilometer) road course in Spielberg, Styria, Austria by recording a top lap time of 63.841 seconds (151.295 miles per hour) in the third and final round of qualifying for the race.
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Mercedes’ Valtteri Bottas qualified in second place, 0.194 seconds (0.459 miles per hour) slower than Verstappen, but he is set to start on the third row in fifth as a result of a three-position grid penalty he was issued following the second free practice session due to an incident in the pits.
So set to start alongside Verstappen on the front row in second place is third place qualifier Lewis Hamilton of Mercedes. Hamilton was 0.226 seconds (0.534 miles per hour) slower than Verstappen in the final round of qualifying.
Set to share the second row in third and fourth place are McLaren’s Lando Norris and Red Bull’s Sergio Perez, respectively. AlphaTauri’s Pierre Gasly is set to start alongside Bottas on the third row in sixth.
Eighth place qualifier Yuki Tsunoda of AlphaTauri was issued a three-position grid penalty due to impeding Bottas during the final round of qualifying. He is set to start in 11th.
Here is the full starting lineup for the 2021 Styrian Grand Prix at the Red Bull Ring.
Starting Lineup
1st – Max Verstappen
2nd – Lewis Hamilton
3rd – Lando Norris
4th – Sergio Perez
5th – Valtteri Bottas
6th – Pierre Gasly
7th – Charles Leclerc
8th – Fernando Alonso
9th – Lance Stroll
10th – George Russell
11th – Yuki Tsunoda
12th – Carlos Sainz Jr.
13th – Daniel Ricciardo
14th – Sebastian Vettel
15th – Antonio Giovinazzi
16th – Nicholas Latifi
17th – Esteban Ocon
18th – Kimi Raikkonen
19th – Mick Schumacher
20th – Nikita Mazepin
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Be sure to tune in to ESPN at 9:00 a.m. ET tomorrow morning for the live broadcast of the Styrian Grand Prix from the Red Bull Ring.