F1 2024 Austria Grand Prix LIVE: Qualifying updates, schedule, times and results

Verstappen sets the stopwatch alight with a 1:04:557, 0.439 secs ahead of Carlos Sainz in second!

Hamilton in a slight spot of bother in P8…

Current bottom-five (11-15): Gasly, Tsunoda, Hulkenberg, Magnussen, Alonso

Only four cars out there from the green light but that includes both Ferraris – and Charles Leclerc is first with a 1:05:532, while Ocon and Gasly separate Leclerc from his team-mate Carlos Sainz.

Sainz: “I picked up a lot of bouncing on that lap.”

So we’ve lost both Williams cars, both Sauber cars and the Aston Martin of Lance Stroll as we head into the second part of qualifying.

You feel like there’s work to do here for both Mercedes cars as well as the Red Bull of Sergio Perez… but we shall see!

Fernando Alonso escapes by the skin of his teeth but his team-mate Lance Stroll doesn’t – he’s out!

Bottom-five and out in Q1 (16-20): Albon, Stroll, Bottas, Sargeant, Zhou

Hamilton ended up in P7, on new tyres; “Ah, I’m just slow mate.”

Much like sprint qualifying yesterday, Hamilton in trouble in the first stage of qualifying!

He is now P16 – 0.017 secs off Yuki Tsunoda in 15th.

Current bottom-five (16-20): Hamilton, Stroll, Hulkenberg, Sargeant, Zhou

Hamilton has only done one lap, whereas most of the grid have done two. He’ll have to use their new batch of soft tyres..

Mercedes impressing early on!

Russell, who qualified fourth for the sprint, goes top halfway through Q1 with a time of 1:05:614, two tenths clear of Charles Leclerc in second.

As for Lewis Hamilton? P7

Current bottom-five (16-20): Bottas, Sargeant, Alonso, Gasly, Stroll

Pole-sitter in sprint qualifying and the winner of the sprint race earlier, but not top dog after the first laps in Q1.

Verstappen down in sixth, 0.153 secs off Leclerc up top.

Leclerc first, 0.009 secs ahead of Norris, with Piastri P3 and Tsunoda P4!

Around six cars yet to set a lap – both Mercedes cars have opted not to leave the garage early on.

We’re underway with the first qualifying session under the summer sun in the Styrian mountains!

Max Verstappen the favourite ahead of the McLarens…

1. Max Verstappen – 227 points

2. Lando Norris – 156 points

3. Charles Leclerc – 150 points

4. Carlos Sainz – 120 points

5. Sergio Perez – 112 points

6. Oscar Piastri – 94 points

7. George Russell – 86 points

8. Lewis Hamilton – 73 points

9. Fernando Alonso – 41 points

10. Yuki Tsunoda – 19 points

11. Lance Stroll – 17 points

12. Daniel Ricciardo – 9 points

13. Oliver Bearman – 6 points

14. Nico Hulkenberg – 6 points

15. Pierre Gasly – 5 points

16. Esteban Ocon – 3 points

17. Alex Albon – 2 points

18. Kevin Magnussen – 1 point

19. Zhou Guanyu – 0 points

20. Valtteri Bottas – 0 points

21. Logan Sargeant – 0 points